The success of the horrendously lazy Eminem/Dr. Dre/50 Cent single "Crack a Bottle" has been making the radio a whole lot less listenable in recent weeks, but it looks like it'll have at least one potentially great side-effect: Eminem's album now has a release date!On May 19, Relapse, the first Eminem album since 2004's puzzlingly awful Encore...

McSweeney's has a new book out, Be a Nose!, anthologizing some of the private sketchbook drawings of Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comics artist. In addition to showcasing some of Spiegelman's visuals, this animated clip also features a mordant psych-groove instrumental backing by Pat Carney of the Black Keys. Vintage-sounding break...

Toyota Yaris and Urban Outfitters may be running the Free Yr Radio campaign due to a good-hearted commitment to underground radio, or they may just be doing it to look cool. OK, whatever, maybe they just want to look cool.But when those two gigantic companies are teaming up to bring us a compilation of new songs from bands we like and then sell...

Up until now it's been touch and go for San Francisco art rock trio Sholi, who've released a few scattered singles for various imprints but hadn't yet found a label to call home. Turns out it will still be Touch and Go for Sholi, as in Touch and Go sister label Quarterstick, which has signed the guys and will issue their debut LP next year.Sholi...