Happy MLK Day, everyone. We're out of here, so as we go please enjoy this '65 European performance of a peaceful personal fave by the Coltrane quartet. If you'd prefer something a little more...

LOL OMG @ script kiddies taking down the RIAA's site over the weekend and installing links to the Pirate Bay and error messages that read "FTW"! Surely these pranks will make people around the world...

The Rolling Stones, still pissy over Guy Hands' proposed changes to the old way of flushing money down the toilet business at EMI, are now looking into moving their post-1971 back catalog to Warner...

Watching the beachy video for Bruce Springsteen's "Girls In Their Summer Clothes" on an 18-degree day might not be the best idea, given that it's full of young ladies in...

Some behind-the-gold-and-platinum numbers from Ken Barnes' RIAA reality check: The Jonas Brothers, despite seeming damn nigh inescapable, have only just gone platinum with their latest...

The Telegraph profiles Guy Hands, the man who's charged himself with attempting to make the record company act more like an actual business: "About a third of the artists who sign with EMI never make...

Today's bit of Grammy-related news that isn't related to the writers' strike: The lead singer of the Plain White T's has a date to the Feb. 10 awards show, and it's none other than the titular lady...

Dave Mustaine will not stand for the funky fretwork of Mike Huckabee. In fact, when asked to critique Huckabee's bass playing for Good Morning America, the worm-infested Megadeth frontman called the...

Beyonce may not be as willing to show up and put on a show at the Grammys as her father thinks, according to a pal who spoke to the New York Daily News: "'Beyoncé was not aware her name was going to...

The next issue of Blender will reportedly feature Britney Spears on its cover, with whatever poor sap who was contracted for the story spending "a month on a Britney safari, following her actions and...

Because people just couldn't wait two days for the official announcement (coming in just hours), news rumor broke over the weekend that Portishead are "officially" headling the West Coast fest and...

As the Writer's Guild of America strike drags on and the writer-free Grammy broadcast shapes up to be tremendously boring/tremendously terrifying, musicians are being forced to decide whether or not...

• So we put this little year-end poll thingee together, just in case you wanted to know what 452 pop critics thought about 2007. • We also asked 33 of our bestest pals to put together...

ARTIST: Paula Abdul TITLE: "Dance Like There's No Tomorrow" WEB DEBUT: Jan. 18, 2008 ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: In a dizzying bit of American Idol synergy, Paula Abdul's new single--which will appear...

Is the Coachella lineup being announced Monday in Mexico City--with the city's location being the festival's way of celebrating increased participation from Latino artists? [sopitas.com (translated);...

Guys, I hate to finish out the week with some sad news, but Nate Dogg is paralyzed on his left side after the stroke he suffered during the holidays. The silver lining? MTV reports that "the...

As Britney continues to stain her legacy and the heavy flow of faux-scandalized gossip items continues to numb us to the dangers of her now-monthly cycle of brief periods of sanity followed by...

It is no secret that Idolator loves Scritti Politti, the U.K. post-punk-into-pop group masterminded by once frosted, now bearded political theorist Green Gartside. (Many "OMG!"-grade text messages...

Long thought to be so entrenched that it was impervious to the rise of MP3 and CD-R culture, critic Dave Stelfox writes in the Guardian that the seven-inch vinyl single is now "completely extinct" in...

The American Idol audition episode that "discovers" Irish singer Carly Hennessy, whose album Ultimate High was a famous flop back in the early part of this decade, will air on Tuesday. But you can...