Barely 24 hours before this year's Grammy Awards ceremony began, Whitney Houston, a woman who'd once seemed like a cyborg engineered to win as many Grammys as possible, was found dead in a Los…   Read Story »

Did you know Coldplay's Mylo Xyloto came out this week? The band played Letterman and Colbert and Today and Jools and Ellen and we threw a party in their honor. The launch celebration continues…   Read Story »

A few weeks ago, Willie Nelson covered a Coldplay song for a Chipotle online video. That was pretty weird! Now, Yeah Yeah Yeahs leader Karen O has covered the classic Willie Nelson/Waylon Jennings…   Read Story »

Willie Nelson covers Coldplay for a Chipotle ad -- why not, I guess? But "The Scientist" does sound pretty good in Nelson's signature twang so I'll take it. The ad itself, well, that's another story.…   Read Story »

Matthew Houck, aka Phosphorescent, loves doing covers. In fact, you could argue the guy's addicted to them. Our last few posts on MH have dealt with his takes on Nick Cave's "Right Now I'm…   Read Story »

Stephen Colbert's very special Christmas Special, the one for which Fountains Of Wayne's Adam Schlesinger is writing all the songs, just got a little more Special. The CC Insider (via Videogum)…   Read Story »

Snoop's Grand Ole Doggy cowboy song "My Medicine" -- dedicated to "real American gangsta" Johnny Cash -- has a cowboy video co-starring fellow bong-rocker Willie Nelson. Snoop looks alright in a ten…   Read Story »

Willie Nelson turned 75 on April 30th. Happy belated b'day, Willie. To honor the occasion, Columbia/Legacy is releasing One Hell Of A Ride, a 4-CD, 100-song box set spanning 1954/5-2007. (It opens…   Read Story »

In the video for "You Don't Think I'm Funny Anymore," Jessica "Daisy Duke" Simpson, Owen Wilson, and some dude in drag join Willie ("Uncle Jesse") for a good ol' fashioned mower race in Luck, Texas.…   Read Story »

Looks like our favorite pot-smoking Dave Matthews covering Countryman learns his 9/11 conspiracies from Las Vegas, telling Alex Jones on live national radio, "I saw those towers fall and I've seen an…   Read Story »