Last night, Brooklyn indie-rockers Grizzly Bear had a little problem with the pipes in their Yellow House... they were leaking all over the place! Their album Veckatimest—which has a release date of May 26—hit the net in a glorious 128kbps rip, which is essentially the equivalent of a My...

First, she flubbed a lyric from her paparazzi-baiting single "Fly On The Wall" during a British TV appearance, prompting the country's scandal-happy press to flip out just a little bit; then, Miley Cyrus' Twitter—which the pop sensation seems sort of addicted to—got hacked by some pranks...

As 2008 recedes in our collective rearview mirror, the headlines trumpeting bad news are still there: record sales are lousier than ever, the economy sucks, record executives are still trying to flog the Pussycat Dolls. But there are still reasons to be excited by what's to come in the probably cont...

Oh, sure, the phenomenon of "rickrolling"—in which an unsuspecting Web browser is led to an online rip of Rick Astley's Stock/Aitken/Waterman-penned hit "Never Gonna Give You Up," for the sole purpose of bringing lulz—originated in 2007. But it wasn't until 2008 that shocking people with...

The digital-mix sharing site Mixwit is shutting down at the end of the month because it's “between a rock and a hard place," which I think is code for "about to get rung up for a big bill from those majors who still have enough money to send their legal departments after infringing Web sites." [Mi...

The five most ridiculous "no, see, the Internet is actually a bunch of references to sex" lyrics in Akon's new single "MP3 U Me," which attempts to do for the online world what R. Kelly's "The Zoo" did for the animal kingdom: 5. "Straight from your hard drive / Into your software / Gotta let you kno...

Have you ever felt like the 90-word capsule reviews that pass as "music criticism" these days were too, like, long, man? Or thought that the slavishly press-release-ready writeups proffered by music bloggers didn't get to the thumbs-up/thumbs-down point quickly enough for you to figure out whether o...

Remember those halcyon days when we came to know and love ADiehardFOBFan as the grand wizard of all Jonas Brothers-directed malice? Well, according to MTV News there's a new anti-JoBro sheriff in town. And its name is Hundreds Of Angry Tokio Hotel Fans. The two groups apparently became enraged when ...

Of all the disastrous MySpaces I've seen, Coldplay's current page does not exactly merit a second thought. It's simple, tasteful, professionally designed, and easy to read. Perhaps the only thing remarkable about it is how good it looks for a MySpace. Yet New York Times media critic Virginia Heffern...

When I think about slow news days, or the ever-diminishing cultural potency of music, I moan (well, IM-moan) to my friends about starting a new feature called "Does Anybody Give A Crap About Music Anymore," in which I examine concerning developments from my RSS reader. Today's YouTube music-videos c...