Who to believe, who to believe. As you know, Guitar Hero 5 features a playable Kurt Cobain avatar which you can unlock to have the Nirvana icon cover Bush, stunt like Flavor Flav, and roll over in his grave. Everybody's coming down on Courtney Love for licensing this atrocity, so Courtney Love very calmly took to Twitter to call out Activision a...

New Black Lips album 200 Million Thousand, which Pitchfork's Jason Crock awards a 7.3 today, veers off into echoey oddness just when you might've expected the Atlanta garage-rockers to take their critical acclaim and start cruising toward Main Street. As the Byrds-tinged "Short Fuse" shows, though, Black Lips still have a way with catchy songs t...

Original Liz Phair photo by Kirstie ShanleyLiz Phair has made this point so many times in so many ways over the years: She may have recorded one of the greatest indie rock LPs of all time, but she is not indie rock people. She is not going to front like she's too cool for anything. Writing music for the lame-ass revived "90210"? Recording with ...

On Friday we looked at Axl Rose's Q&A with fans on a Guns N' Roses message board. The next day the reclusive rocker answered more queries from fans in the chinesedemocracy.com forum. (His username and avatar is Dexter.) Among the revelations was that Axl would participate in a GN'R reunion for a charity cause "if it feels right" and if the m...

Sudanese hip hop artist and former child soldier Emmanuel Jal will be featured in the upcoming part-concert, part-documentary film, "Call and Response: Concert to End Slavery." Filmed at New York's legendary Avatar Studios last May, Jal performs two songs with Moby and Five For Fighting