I didn’t write this week’s Album Of The Week piece on R. Kelly’s Black Panties, but I agreed. And here’s why: For all the obvious hilarity at work, and all the smooth craftsmanship, there’s an honest desperation at work. Kelly is making jokes and being willfully ridiculous, but he’s bal...

Dev Hynes has been kicking around the indie-sphere for the better part of a decade, leading disparate projects like Test Icicles, Lightspeed Champion, and, most recently, the woozy and Princely bedroom-R&B alter-ego Blood Orange. Lately, though, he’s high-stepped hard into the zeitgeist, leading major-label refugee collaborato...

OULU, Finland (Reuters) - American Eric "Mean" Melin was crowned air guitar world champion on Friday after his fierce rendition of alternative rock band Weezer's "Hash Pipe" impressed judges at an annual competition in the northern Finnish city of Oulu. Melin narrowly beat compatriot Doug "Th...

LONDON (Reuters) - Singer Louis Tomlinson of boy band One Direction has signed for English Championship side Doncaster Rovers on a non-contract basis and could play for their development squad this season, the club has announced. Tomlinson 21, heartthrob to millions of teenaged girls around the world, has also been given squad number 28 which qu...

A pair of prolific lifechampions joined forces last night, when J and Questo and the rest of the Roots jammed on a series of bumpers, walk-on songs, and covers (Daft Punk’s “Get Lucky,” Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs”) on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. There was a Dinosaur Jr jam thrown in, a...