It’s been a really good year for black metal, and especially so for American black metal. San Francisco’s Deafheaven have claimed the lion’s share of the attention (and deservedly so), but I feel like I’m hearing new records every week worth getting excited about, and they’re coming from bands at...

By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of late pop star Michael Jackson, was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Wednesday after an apparent suicide attempt, her mother said, but her family later reported she is "physically fine." "Paris is physically fine and is getting app...

By Eric Kelsey LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Paris Jackson, the 15-year-old daughter of late pop star Michael Jackson, was rushed to a Los Angeles-area hospital on Wednesday after an apparent suicide attempt, her mother said, but her family later reported she is "physically fine." "Paris is physically fine and is getting app...

Vampire Weekend already got plenty of attention for “Diane Young,” the frantic first single from their truly great new album Modern Vampires Of The City, when they burned a couple of Saabs in the lyric video. And now they’ve made a proper video for the song, setting it at an anarchic dinner party and filling [...]

No sooner had Carrie Underwood played the final notes on her Blown Away Tour (which concluded last week in Abbottsford, British Columbia), then did she turn her attention to her home state of Oklahoma