War Child's latest covers compilation is shaping up to be the second best charity album of the year. Which is not that impressive since it's only January, but Heroes is still something to be excited about. Over the last few weeks we've highlighted contributions from Lily Allen, TV On The Radio, and Hot Chip. Now you can hear a faithful rendition...

-- The Killers and Coldplay will play a benefit concert together in front of 2,000 people at London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on February 18. These are bands that can regularly draw crowds ten times that size on their own; this is a special show. The two world-conquering entities are getting together in the name of humanitarian organization War ...

Usually, when rappers work with rock bands, they out their own bad---- or at least totally pedestrian-- tastes. Witness, for example, Q-Tip enlisting Korn for a collab, or Coldplay's Chris Martin and his bizarre evolution into some sort of Nate Dogg 2.0. So it's heartening to see a young rapper pairing up with a great rock band, especially when ...

We mentioned War Child's Heroes and offered a listen to the contributions from Lily Allen and Hot Chip. Remember the concept behind the compilation: 15 "ultimate icons" chose a song from their own back catalogs and chose a new act to cover it. David Bowie chose TV On The Radio to take on the collection's namesake. If you recall, he sang backing ...

If TV on the Radio have heroes, it's pretty clear David Bowie is one of them. The Brooklyn band's apparent debt to Bowie's late-1970s work with Brian Eno is well-documented, and Bowie himself sang on my favorite TV on the Radio album to date, 2006's Return to Cookie Mountain. Such reverence is evident in TVOTR's cover of Bowie's legendary "Heroe...