"This is a lot of Alpha energy to wrangle," Guster's Ryan Miller said in testament to Alex Levy and the Cabin Down Below Band's work last night. "This is a hard thing to organize." And that's…   Read Story »

[Please welcome Michael Nelson to the Stereogum News Desk! Michael has served as the Editor-In-Chief of Long Island Press and Invisible Oranges, and you can find his tweets at @MPN666. Check out his…   Read Story »

Last night's MTV Movie Awards yielded, among other things, a musical performance by the Black Keys that featured Johnny Depp accompaniment on guitar. Sure, kind of random, but at the very least it's…   Read Story »

Earlier today we saw Johnny Depp in facepaint (playing Tonto in the Jack White-soundtracked Lone Ranger). Later today we hear Johnny Depp collaborating with some facepaint. We've come full circle! It…   Read Story »

Paul McCartney recently put out three new videos for his single "My Valentine" featuring Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman signing the lyrics. Some could say he gets by on a little help from his (VERY…   Read Story »

The legendary French singer/libertine Serge Gainsbourg is a man worth honoring, and a new tribute album called From Lulu To Gainsbourg does just that. Gainsbourg's son Lulu put together the tribute…   Read Story »

Vedder, Smith, and Depp were in Little Rock, Arkansas last night for a benefit for the West Memphis 3, the three now-adults convicted of killing three children in West Memphis, Arkansas in 1993,…   Read Story »

Here's the promised "alternative" to the various Haiti relief charity singles released since that country was torn asunder. Even though the front page news has shifted on to how the womens' skiing…   Read Story »

Like I said the other day, in times like these we judge not the artists who are joining to make whatever difference they can in reconstructing Haiti via their art, we just celebrate that it's…   Read Story »