Like all print music magazines in these troubled times, indie rag Under The Radar wants your advertising money. Well, maybe not your advertising money, unless you own a record label. But they want advertising money. And even with the competition getting thinner every day, UTR still has to find...cre...

Unsurprisingly, U2 topped Billboard this morning, with No Line on the Horizon selling 484,000 copies — 21k less than Britney's Circus did in its first week. As Idolator chart guru Chris Molanphy put it in an email (which I hope he won't mind me quoting here): "That's either terrible compared t...

If you aren't averting your eyes out of queasiness at this point, here is the latest round of news relating to the ongoing fallout from the domestic violence incident between Chris Brown and Rihanna. "Here" meaning after the jump. Deep breath. Brown's manager, 20 years his senior, is now rumored to ...

I really have no idea if Marky Ramone is as big in Mexico as Miley Cyrus is everywhere there are tweenage girls. Perhaps south of the border the former Ramones drummer and his current band still cause aging ladies to fling underthings onstage and young men to rend their garments in awe. But I guess ...

This year's Eurovision contest, that annual international circus of lunacy where countries from all over the planet compete for cheeseball pop supremacy, is being held in Moscow. And Georgia has already learned the hard way that Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin doesn't take kindly to snotty lit...

Despite the fact that today's youth seem nonplussed about the band and its history, there are still plenty of Nirvanaphiles, young and old alike, who were holding out hope for a Makaveli (or even Dick's Picks) style backlog of unreleased tunes. Bassist/Washington political advocate/lanky dude Krist ...

Back in 1987, reviewing a book by Julian Schnabel, cantankerous art critic Robert Hughes wrote, "he has set some kind of a record for premature retrospection." Hughes added the caveat, "at least among artists," given that American culture was already quite sodden with celebrity tell-alls by the late...

Hey, it's a list! Let's argue about it? Esquire has published an "unranked, incomplete, yet highly tasteful and informative" rundown of 75 long-players that "every man should own" with the usual bite-sized commentary the magazine devotes to these sort of lists. (Symphony No. 5 is "Beethoven at his m...

Like Ebeneezer Scrooge, but with a much fouler mouth and tendency to expose breasts, Lil Kim has been visited after dark by ghosts. And like the infamous miser, at least one of Kim's late-night visitors is a specter from her past. Except this ghost is a big fat guy who wrote "Juicy." So what has the...

Ladies clothing chain Forever 21 was spied selling this T-shirt that uses the logo to Minor Threat's 1983 all-time classic Out Of Step, a fact that should immediately set off alarms for anyone familiar with the general politics of the band and the record label that administers its back catalog and a...