Canadian band set for May gigs

Citing "all the bad news about the economy and the layoffs," Virgin Mobile has rebranded its fourth annual American music festival the Virgin Mobile FreeFest, and has reduced its price of admission from a lot of dollars to no dollars at all. An exec for the company tells Billboard they were just trying to "put a smile on people's faces." With th...

Whether they came up with "Chrysler Dodge Jeep: We're building a new car company" before or after the recent bankruptcy shifts the tenor of the slogan dramatically. Hint: If you want to sell cars in the Heartland, maybe you shouldn't hire bands named Holy Fuck to soundtrack your advertisements. (Thanks for the tip, Chadwick.) In the spot, "Lovel...

Photos by Mike WhiteBetter put those NIN stickers back on your cars. First Trent Reznor's Nine Inch Nails followed the ambitious Ghosts I-IV with the satisfying The Slip, both in the same year-- and in the latter case, the music was as noteworthy as the business model. If you saw Reznor rehearsing The Slip's numbly thrashing "1,000,000" on Pitch...

(Photo from last year's Rachael Ray SXSW party by Tyler Grisham)Last year, TV chef Rachael Ray bugged a whole lot of people out by throwing a party at the annual Austin indie feeding frenzy South by Southwest, and then by booking the Holy Fuck to play it. This forced us to consider the inevitability of Rachael Ray saying or thinking the words ...