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If you call yourself a seasoned nightlifer I'm sure at least one of the units from Native Instruments' Kontrol series has caught your drunken gaze. Sitting on the sideline of your favourite DJs setup, the brands first un...

A Danbury, Conn., station is offering comfort and playing specialty songs (including a Lifehouse track that features clips from President Obama's speech) for listeners in close proximity to the Friday tragedy. read more

For a man who's worked with Danny Brown, the guy who must have three clones of himself to manage all the work he put in this year, Detroit rapper/producer Black Milk has been as quiet as a mouse on X-Mas. Since putting o...

The owners of the Indianapolis Colts and the Indiana Pacers pledge to donate $750,000 to the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra.

Moby calls for stricter gun laws following massacre which left 26 dead

After premiering the first set of visuals from latest project, #AwkwardMoments back in September, Queens rapper Julian Stephen revisit his recent mixtape with the recent unveiling of a set of visuals for the stando...

Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett team up again for a jazz rendition of "You And I." It's no secret that Lady Gaga is a style chameleon, capable of slipping in and out of literally any type of fashion at the drop of a (meat) ha...

The band's fourth album is set for release in March of next year

Following the Rolling Stones' mobile site snafu last week, another missive misfire leaks unconfirmed news of the festival's lineup. read more

The HMV Poll of Polls also features Jack White, Tame Impala, Grimes and Grizzly Bear

Lady Gaga has been targeted in another campaign my animal rights activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) after reportedly purchasing several fur coats in Russia.

This will be safe for work: Tomorrow, December 19 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern, Pitchfork.tv on YouTube will livestream performances by Sub Pop labelmates Metz and King Tuff, webcast straight from Pitchfork.tv's Brooklyn office...

Lisa Loeb, the singer-songwriter and bespectacled pop star, discusses what she was doing on the Upper East Side turf of "Gossip Girl."

Those Usual Suspects are an Australian group made up of Mark Kwong, Wei-Shen Mak and Atridge D'Costa. The trio first saw success in being signed to Bob Sinclar's Africanism All-Stars Project in 2007, and in turn ha...

Cody Simpson turns Frank Ocean's "Super Rich Kids" into his own "Super Beach Kids." Covering Frank Ocean seems like the obvious choice these days because, well, Frank's songs are the effing best. And while you might e...

It's the holiday gift you have been waiting for-- a $60 Trash Talk coffeetable book. The West Coast hardcore fixtures have partnered with Dovecote Records to release Book 2, which collects over 400 pages of phot...

The Epic Records chairman will receive the President's Merit Award at the annual event, to be held Saturday, Feb. 9. read more

A$AP Rocky's LongLiveA$AP, which is no doubt one of the most anticipated albums of the new year, is set to arrive on January 15. After dropping the tracklist last week, everyone was eager to hear "1 Tra...

Rihanna poses makeup-free (and clothed!), is still stunning. We'll keep this one short and sweet because, well, we're not sure we wanna spend all day talking about how gorg Rihanna looks without makeup (our jealousy i...

The director of "Les Miserables" will receive the Sonny Bono Visionary Award, and the composer of "Life of Pi" will receive the Frederick Loewe Award for Film Composing. read more

Band say high price is a protest at current musical climate

Since publishing her National Book Award-winning memoir Just Kids in 2010, Patti Smith's embarked on several literary endeavors-- including another memoir, 2011's Woolgathering-- but now she's confirmed that a foll...