June 15, 2013 – Happy Father's Day, Papa 'Ye! Kim Kardashian gave birth to a baby girl, her first child with boyfriend Kanye West, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, California at 1:30 a.m. Saturday (June 15). According to X17, Kim wasn't due until July 11, and though mother and daughter are doing fine, the baby is being kept in an incubator. Her name hasn't yet been revealed.Sources conflict on whether the baby was delivered naturally or through C-section. West was present for the entire thing, TMZ reports, and canceled an appearance at a Yeezus listening party in Los Angeles Friday night when Kardashian started contractions.It's been a productive few days for West, whose masterful sixth album Yeezus leaked a day earlier, to rapturous praise, after the Chicago MC made stops in New York and Switzerland to preview the album.

June 12, 2013 – Even during their '80s heyday, the Replacements were an unpredictable live entity. And though footage exists of the group at their explosive peak, that was 30 years ago. Still, the Paul Westerberg-led indie-punk icons are "reuniting" as the headliner for Riot Fest 2013. The three-city engagement marks the 'Mats' first billed performance in 22 years; they last performed in Chicago's Grant Park on July 4, 1991.In a statement, founding bassist Tommy Stinson contended that the band never broke up despite the hiatus. No word yet on who will replace guitarist Slim Dunlap (replacement for original guitarist Bob Stinson), who suffered a debilitating stroke in 2012. In June of that year, Stinson let slip that he and singer Paul Westerberg were working together on a tribute album — what later became the auction-based Songs for Slim EP and split 7-inch series.

May 21, 2013 – Portland soul-futurist Natasha Kmeto wears two hats as singer-songwriter and electronic producer on dazzling new song "Idiot Proof." Holding court over a galloping dance-floor rhythm, the recent Best New 5 alumna booms like a freestyle diva: "It's been awhile / I need peace." Jolts of synth call back to '90s house while Grimes-like whispers root "Idiot Proof" firmly in the present. The track hails from Crisis, her sophomore solo album (due June 18 on Dropping Gems) following her 2010 full-length debut, Expressor, and two era-straddling EPs. Enjoy the new one below.Natasha Kmeto's Crisis track listing:1. "Crisis" 2. "Idiot Proof" 3. "Brushstrokes" 4. "Last Time" 5. "Morning Sex" 6. "Take Out" 7. "Vodka Diet" 8. "Buried" 9. "Deeply 10. "Prideless"

May 17, 2013 – Where has she been hiding this one? A welcome reprieve from overwrought period-drama soundtracks, Lana Del Rey's Motown-referencing "Queen of Disaster" demo has leaked online. No word yet on the origins of the song or what she plans to do with it (a rep couldn't immediately be reached for comment), but the track's chiming, charming '60s feel is right in line with her self-released covers of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel Chelsea No. 2" and O.G. Nancy Sinatra's "Summer Wine." "Queen of Disaster" is very much an original Lana Del Rey joint, stickered with all her usual motifs: beauty, bad boys, ballerinas, and oh so much spinning. This time around, though, she ditches the doom and gloom for a pop-radio-friendly tempo. Enjoy it below.

April 28, 2013 – Internet cockteases Boards of Canada added more gas to the album speculation fire with a what-else-but cryptic commerical that aired on Cartoon Network last night (April 27). As Pitchfork points out, CN's vice president of strategic marketing and promotions Jason DeMarco confirmed on Twitter that the spot was in fact the real deal.That the ad exists at all is the real news here; the commercial doesn't offer much in revelations. Super-8 footage of dusty desert roads and decaying buildings roll by — a south western atmosphere befitting the rumored Spanish-language BoC album title, Cosecha. Around the 0:48 mark, Boards of Canada-like musical tones play before a mechanical voice speaks "699742," and a title card with that familiar series of X's and dashes appears.

April 28, 2013 – Atoms for Peace bros Thom Yorke and Nigel Godrich DJed French radio show Nova Club Saturday night (April 27), and debuted new track "Magic Beanz" during the 50-minute broadcast (via TKOL Part 2). Yorke tweeted this morning to clarify early reports that the "new song floating about is called Magic Beanz. the Z is v important. I'd find u a link but I'm still in bedzzz".The sometimes Radiohead frontman can continue to rest his weary head; an industrious fan as ripped the song and popped it onto YouTube. Somewhere between Radiohead's "Like Spinning Plates" and The Eraser's "And It Rained All Night," "Magic Beanz" hears Yorke taunt from far away, "None of this is ever gonna end." Overlapping idiophonic rhythms scrape like helicopter blades until frothy synth washes over it all, and the song eventually steers into clattering chaos. Hear it below.

April 22, 2013 – When Matador announced that Sonic Youth power-couple Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore were separating after 27 years of marriage in late 2011, the label kept the circumstances of the split private. A year and a half later, with the divorce not yet finalized, Gordon has revealed what caused the dissolution of one of music's most extraordinary unions, and, sadly, it was one of the ordinary ones.Opening up to ELLE, Gordon explains, "We seemed to have a normal relationship inside of a crazy world. And in fact, it ended in a kind of normal way — midlife crisis, starstruck woman." The musician, painter, and mother to a college-aged daughter with Moore, explains it simply: "Thurston was carrying on this whole double life" with another woman, someone who had orbited the band for a time, and whom Moore continued to see even after he and Gordon sought marriage counseling.

April 22, 2013 – As lush and haunting as it is fittingly jejune, "Young and Beautiful" — Lana Del Rey's The Great Gatsby soundtrack contribution co-written with Rick Nowels — is just what you'd expect from the singer who fetishizes another literary master work, Lolita. Del Rey, in devotional child-bride pose, prays over funerary bell tolls and swollen strings, "Dear lord, when I get to heaven / Please let me bring my man." The titular question, "Will you still love me when I'm young and beautiful?" speaks to Daisy (played by Carey Mulligan), for whom Gatsby constructed his artificially lavish West Egg lifestyle. Like the character, Del Rey has often, tragically, cast herself as the doomed fantasy object of an enigmatic man. Is his love real and enduring, a thing written in the stars? Or will it expire, alongside her youth and his power? Born to die, indeed.The Great Gatsby hits theaters on May 10.

April 18, 2013 – With Great Gatsby soundtrack cuts slowly trickling onto the web, a cover of "Summer Wine," Nancy Sinatra's 1967 duet with songwriter Lee Hazlewood, was the least likely thing Lana Del Rey would release right now. And yet, here we are. Barrie-James O'Neill, singer for Scottish alt-folk band Kassidy and LDR's IRL boyfriend, in true Sonny & Cher fashion, steps in alongside the Paradise chanteuse, and together the two breezily remake the song with handheld footage of crashing Santa Monica waves and canoodling. Cute."Summer Wine" follows Del Rey's reverently reserved cover of Leonard Cohen's "Chelsea Hotel No. 2" last month. 

April 14, 2013 – Explain why it took Saturday Night Live so long to book Miguel, please? The pint-sized, Grammy-winning R&B sex machine, and this generation's closest incarnation to Prince, conquered Studio 8H last night (April 13), with two hard-rocking transformations from his Best Album of 2012 Kaleidoscope Dream. The first was his go-to late-night single (and No. 6 Best Song of 2012) "Adorn." In Prince-like fashion, Miguel stripped away the album cut's bass throb and replaced it with wailing electric guitar and live drums.For his second act, "How Many Drinks" left remix partner Kendrick Lamar at home, and took the rock-revisionist approach one step farther. Miguel slowed it down, singing out like a preacher peddling repentance over undulating synth and snickering guitar, before cracking it open with an epileptic punk-rock freakout.