Like A.C. Newman's take on "Take On Me," Department Of Eagles' Elvis cover is part of Starbucks' Valentines Day-approved Sweetheart compilation. Sip your morning Frappuccino while you listen at Hype Machine.

With Heart On in their pockets, Eagles Of Death Metal just kicked off a whirlwind tour taking them to 42 venues in nearly half as many countries. The Los Angeles show is always a special EODM stop though, that's where you can count on member-in-vision but not-on-the-road Josh Homme to add some muscle to their cheeky crotch rock. Homme made his ...

Bay-area avant-rockers Deerhoof appear on a very special three-part episode of "Juan's Basement". In Part 1, they blast through "Tears and Music of Love" and "Fresh Born", both from their latest LP, Offend Maggie, and then go on to discuss how they formed the band and getting heckled by irate fans. In Part 2, they reach back into the catalogue a...

Photo by Drew KatchenTuba-voiced depressive Bill Callahan used to call himself Smog, but he's been going by his given name ever since 2007's Woke on a Whaleheart. That change in moniker was supposed to signal a transition to happier music (or, at least, to less cripplingly bitter music), but in the time since Whaleheart, he broke up with Joanna ...

Refresher: Starbucks is a company that is in the business of selling cups of coffee. Starbucks is also a company that is in the business of selling music. Basically the best business plan imaginable in 2009, good job guys. Starbucks will soon fill their diminishing inventory space with another Sweetheart compilation, asking some noteworthy arti...