According to NME, Adam Yauch is writing and directing a short film about the making of the Beastie Boys' "(You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!)." It's called Fight For Your Right Revisited,…   Read Story »

As Jessica noted a few weeks ago, Lykke Li's new single"Get Some" is tougher than might be expected from someone who recently put together a short super8 film inspired by "major heart break and a…   Read Story »

Last time we heard from Lykke Li, she was making scorching desert films to get over "post-tour depression" and "a major heart break." "Get Some" doesn't show the signs of either depression or a…   Read Story »

Lykke Li sent out an email to her mailing list today announcing a small handful of dates in Europe, plus one show at New York's Le Poisson Rouge on December 1. She also included a link to a short…   Read Story »

There could not have been a more apt ID3 than that of Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke Of Genius," the MP3 that launched this decade's most fitting musical legacy. Parts of two or three or thirty…   Read Story »

The Academy has selected 63 songs that will contend for Best Song nominations for next year's ceremony, and among them are songs not written by Randy Newman. Paul McCartney and U2 -- "you may have…   Read Story »

Whoops, looks like two cultures just got shocked. Obviously that headline is a joke! Except that maybe it isn't? Rumors had been swirling about Thom Yorke and Bon Iver penning songs for the The…   Read Story »

Their looks may have become a problem (or at least the envy of Chris Martin and Thom Yorke), but KoL's songs still speak to many, including Pharrell, Mark Ronson, Linkin Park, JT, and Ms. Li, all of…   Read Story »

If you weren't talking about the weather in Grant Park this weekend, you weren't in Grant Park this weekend. And really that would've been a shame. It was oppressive at times, but despite -- or as…   Read Story »

When APW presented its inaugural festival last year, we weren't alone in taking issue with the experience: lack of food options, a fair but generally recycled undercard which played more like "a…   Read Story »