-- They returned from nowhere to release an EP last year, and now 90s alt-pop survivors the Rentals have a big year-long project going on through their website. It's called "Songs About Time". Once a day, Matt Sharp's post-Weezer project put up a new photo. Once a week, they'll post a new black-and-white short film with an original soundtrack ...

Reuters - Since Franz Ferdinand's emergence in 2004, it has owned the field of smart, energetic dance-rock epitomized by singles like "Take Me Out." Rumblings that its third studio album, "Tonight:

-- On February 17, Rapster Records, the company that brought us the stuff-Daft-punk-sampled compilation Discovered, will release Protected, a compilation of stuff that Massive Attack has sampled. Somehow it's not all old Horace Andy reggae songs; rather, it features tracks from Al Green, James Brown, Isaac Hayes, Rufus & Chaka Khan, and ...

Willie Nelson & Asleep At The Wheel will release Willie And The Wheel in stores and digitally on February 3, 2009

Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, loves doing covers. In fact, you could argue the guy's addicted to them. Our last few posts on MH have dealt with his takes on Nick Cave's "Right Now I'm A-Roaming," the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," and the truly coverable "Little Boxes." Now we have ourselves some Willie Nelson: Houck...