According to Billboard.com, there's a new band that exists on earth called Tinted Windows featuring former Smashing Pumpkin James Iha, Cheap Trick drummer Ben E. Carlos, handsome Hanson brother Taylor, and Fountains of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger.I am looking at my calendar right now. It is not April 1. A couple things while my mind is stil...

Van Morrison is getting ready to release Astral Weeks: Live at the Hollywood Bowl, which was recorded during a couple shows last November in which the classic rocker played his 1968 LP front-to-back for the first time ever. The record comes out February 10 on Morrison's EMI imprint, Listen to the Lion. By most accounts, the shows were a satisfyi...

It'd be unfair for anyone to expect B-town to repeat the choreographic cross-cultural moment of "Single Ladies" so quickly. So why not take a page from sunglasses mannequin KanYe West's playbook. Venetian shades? Meet Sasha's drapes. Two new clips from Beyoncé's Fierce LP popped this morning: a low contrast vid for the balladic "Halo," which sp...

Photo by Kathryn YuJust in time for Winter Wonderland dances the world over, the folks at Mute Records will issue five M83 albums-- the self-titled debut, 2003's Dead Cities, Red Seas & Lost Ghosts, 2005's Before the Dawn Heals Us, last year's Digital Shades Vol. 1, and this spring's exquisite Saturdays=Youth-- on vinyl come November 25....

Whatever you think of new Kanye West tune "Love Lockdown", he's sure done an innovative job of making sure you hear it enough times to get the Auto-Tune hook and tribal rhythms melded to your noggin. West premiered the song at MTV's VMAs, posted a studio version on his blog, posted another studio version, and then this week debuted the video on ...