The A.V. Club’s Undercover series, in which bands cover unlikely songs, is reliably fun, but it’s not reliably this fun. On the most recent episode, art-metal monsters Gwar, in full costume, wedge themselves into the A.V. Club’s tiny studio to knock out a sloppy, punked-up take on Kansas’s Camaro-rock clas...

By acting fast, Stephen Colbert is beating Coachella to the festival-on-a-boat thing. In just over a week, he’ll have a seriously impressive lineup of artists playing on the World War II aircraft carrier U.S. Intrepid. The show’s lineup: The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, Santigold, Grandmaster Flash, and Fun. That’s p...

So the afterparty for last weekend’s SNL season finale looks like it was pretty fun. The Foo Fighters, who’d just helped out host Mick Jagger on the show, ended up playing a set of covers in the middle of Rockefeller Center under the goofy-joke cover-band name Chevy Metal. They played the Rolling Stones’ “...

Finland's STRATOVARIUS have issued the following update: "While the band is searching for the new drummer, Timo (Kotipelto/vocals) decided to play some poker. Challenge him, Jani Liimatainen (ex-SONATA ARCTICA) and some other Finnish celebs in an online poker tournament on Thursday, April 26th at 20:00 CET (2:00pm EST). You can...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Their name is fun. and their anthem to carefree youth, "We are Young", is the best-selling song so far of 2012. The catchy single featuring soul singer Janelle Monae has propelled the New York-based indie trio to mainstream success, and now fun. is hitting the road in the United States and Europe boosted by their sixth we...