Snoop Dogg has masterminded a new remix album of songs by Johnny Cash.

On Marianne's latest, 22nd album, she went for the Johnny Cash-grab and covered a whole bunch of other artists. Nick Cave joined her in giving "The Crane Wife 3" a slight Triple A rock lilt, but really your enjoyment hinged on the lead vocal swap: Colin's nasality for Faithful's aged rasp. KR said "Her brokedown voice adds even more character to...

Spectacle host and Jenny Lewis BFF Elvis Costello is following up last year's Momofuku in early June with the mostly acoustic Secret, Profane & Sugarcane. It was produced by Robert Plant and Alison Krauss' pal -- and, more importantly, King Of America and Spike knob-turner -- T Bone Burnett during a three-day session in Nashville. A handful ...

Virgil Griffith is a 25-year-old grad student at Caltech, and in his spare time he makes elaborate charts comparing people's SAT scores to their tastes in music and books. And you know what that means: Caltech grad students have way too much spare time.That's the main thing I've learned from Music That Makes You Dumb, Griffith's latest viral in...

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