July 9, 2012 – James Murphy's suggestions to improve public transportation a few months ago were only a preview of the myriad activities the ex-LCD Soundsystem frontman has been exploring since breaking up his band with a farewell show at Madison Square Garden last spring.

July 9, 2012 – Beyoncé's father and ex-manager Mathew Knowles has decided to rile up Destiny's Child fans in a new interview with the Huffington Post, in which he claims that there's some unreleased material from the girl group that launched his very successful daughter's career on the horizon. "In November, we’re putting out two Destiny’s Child catalog records with new material," he casually mentioned in a conversation about his now 20-year-old label, Music World Entertainment, finding a way to discuss the group he managed until their split in 2005. He added that a reunion tour "in the next five years… would be incredible," though it won't happen, due to planning challenges, for at least a year. Or maybe ever, considering that the comments about Destiny's Child are coming a little over a year after Beyoncé fired her father as her manager.

June 29, 2012 – The third iteration of MTV's stunt-focused O Music Awards in under two years went down yesterday. Over the whopping (totally live-streamed, with three cameras) 24 hours it took to get through the ceremony, which celebrated "the best of the Web" and took place on the tour bus that toted the Flaming Lips around the country on their Jay-Z-beating, Guinness record-breaking mini-tour, 23 main awards were doled out, including one which will probably be the only thing Frances Bean Cobain and her "biological mother" Courtney Love will ever share again, for Most Intense Social Spat, and one for Best Artist/Digital Entrepreneur, La Sera/Vivian Girls' "Kickball" Katy Goodman.

June 29, 2012 – As if she hasn't given the world over 9.3 million gifts already, Adele has shared via her official blog that she and boyfriend Simon Konecki are expecting their first child. "Im [sic] delighted to announce that Simon and I are expecting our first child together," she writes, conveniently right around the time the news day ends in the U.K. "I wanted you to hear the news direct from me, obviously we’re over the moon and very excited but please respect our privacy at this precious time. Yours always, Adele xx." The singer's comment about hearing the news "direct from her" probably stems from all the leakage that has happened from sources around her in the past year and a half since 21 blew up. Konecki is the 36-year-old CEO of clean-water charity Drop4Drop, so we're guessing the baby will either be ridiculously talented or ridiculously philanthropic — or both.

June 29, 2012 – One of these days, the world is going to stop being forced to hear about Gotye's ridiculously popular (and inexhaustibly parodied) "Somebody That I Used to Know." Today, however is not that day, due to news that the ubiquitous song is still somehow unrecognizable to a lot of people: Since being uploaded almost a year ago (July 5, 2011, to be exact), it has become the most Shazam'ed song of all time, having been "tagged," or identified, over 11 million times on the musical-recognition mobile app. According to the Hollywood Reporter, that's not all, either. "Somebody" also is the first song to rack up one million tags in one week and has been purchased by a whopping 8 percent of Shazam users — that's overall, not just people who have tagged the Kimbra-assisted song.

June 29, 2012 – Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe was arrested yesterday in Prague on charges of manslaughter stemming from a 2010 altercation with a Czech fan who came onstage during one of the band's shows and later died from injuries he sustained in the scuffle. Czech news outlet Novinky reports (via Blabbermouth and MetalSucks) that the as-yet-unnamed fan jumped on the relatively low stage during the May 24, 2010 show at a venue called Abaton, and that he and Blythe got into a physical fight. Though there is still seemingly no video evidence of the altercation online (you can watch Lamb of God performing "In Your Words" at the show in question below), it is rumored by "those who know the band" that the fan might have been hit in the head with a microphone before being forcibly removed from the stage by security. "Randy Blythe was falsely accused," reads a statement from Lamb of God's reps.

June 29, 2012 – The LAPD officers suspected of leaking photos showing the injuries Rihanna sustained at the hands of her then-boyfriend Chris Brown the day before the 2009 Grammy Awards have been let off the hook — officials say prosecutors failed to provide enough evidence to pursue a trial, so the two will face no criminal action. The L.A. Times reports that the prosecution's extensive searches of computer hard drives, phones, and e-mail accounts couldn't prove that TMZ bought the photos from rookie officer Bianca Lopez and "award-winning" patrol officer Rebecca Reyes, the latter of whom admitted to having snapped a photo of the police photos lying on a desk and e-mailing it to her personal account, but denies ever selling it.

June 28, 2012 – If the fact that he is very interested in sci-fi thrillers hasn't been made abundantly clear by his band's last two X-Men-esque music videos, M83's Anthony Gonzalez just drove the point home with his most recent announcement.

June 28, 2012 – Love early Weezer albums and hate the high seas? You're in luck: fans who were skint (or sea-squirmish) around the time Weezer cruise tickets went on sale last year may now enjoy the emo-Caribbean jaunt's musical accoutrements, which revived the band's 2010 Blue Album-and-Pinkerton tour in a double performance of the albums, beyond these YouTube fan videos.

June 28, 2012 – As if to solidify what SPIN's Brandon Soderberg just said about Bruce Springsteen's worldwide universality, the Recording Academy's MusiCares Foundation announced this morning that the Boss will be honored as its 2013 Person of the Year. "Bruce Springsteen is a truly gifted and Renaissance artist of our time, a national treasure, and an exemplary humanitarian," said Academy president and CEO Neil Portnow of the Boss' philanthropy, which have been largely dedicated to homelessness- and hunger-fighting organizations (particularly the New Jersey Food Bank), but has also included contributions to workers' unions internationally and an appearance at that star-studded Haiti earthquake benefit in 2010.