You guys made some very educated guesses about what Vampire Weekend's been counting down to all day. Some of them were even right! (The rest of you will just have to wait for a VW clothing line.) At the strike of zero, ithinkuracontra.com swiftly redirected to vampireweekend.com (again), where the band is offering up this free download of Contra...

Reuters - Van Morrison hates the fame game so much that he would have abandoned his music career 40 years ago if one of his early albums had made him a superstar.

Heavy metal legends Iron Maiden have abandoned plans to quit after their next album

Nickelback singer Chad Kroeger has abandoned his appeal against a drink-driving conviction.

Before BET cancelled Rap City, unbearable goofball host Q45 spent an entire episode wandering around Harlem asking random passers-by if they'd seen Cam'ron anywhere. This was more than a year ago, and other than a few brief glimpses (including the better-than-anyone-realized 2007 mixtape Public Enemy #1), the absurdist drug-rap prince has rema...