The Terror, the dark and anxious new album from the Flaming Lips, is already out overseas, and it arrives here in a couple of weeks. Last night, the band brought "Look... The Sun Is Rising" and their…   Read Story »

This is the week that the music universe finally woke up from its long holiday nap, and there were a lot of fun music videos out this week. There were so many, in fact, that I couldn't find room for…   Read Story »

"Die Young," the lead single from Ke$ha's forthcoming sophomore LP Warrior, has been in pretty heavy rotation in the Stereogum office. Right now, it's topping my list of 2012's best singles --…   Read Story »

"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 »

Ke$ha's clip for "Die Young" features our hero as a cult leader, partaking in ceremonies with orgy implications and flashing scores of Illuminati icons. Basically, she's back! Watch it…   Read Story »

The career of Ke$ha has been a strange one so far, as emerging via the infectious (or unbelievably irritating, depending on who you talk to) single "TiK ToK," a song many discarded as novelty. But,…   Read Story »

Fresh off their work with the cast of Fraggle Rock, the newly reunited Ben Folds Five last night performed with another unlikely set of collaborators: Wayne Coyne and Ke$ha. The Five were joined at…   Read Story »

Speaking of the Flaming Lips and Record Store Day, one of today's most anticipated releases was the collaborative LP The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends. You've heard cuts featuring Bon Iver, New…   Read Story »

The Flaming Lips roped a whole ton of collaborators into their forthcoming Record Store Day album The Flaming Lips And Heavy Fwends, and none of those collaborators was more unlikely than the…   Read Story »

Last month, we reported on the existence of Chimes Of Freedom, Amnesty International's massive and mind-boggling new Bob Dylan tribute compilation. The album includes four CDs and 75 covers, and its…   Read Story »