Lady Gaga will be delivering the keynote address at this year's South by Southwest Festival The festival's organizers announced late last night that the 27-year-old pop queen will be giving her speech as part of a conversation led by John Norris of Fuse on Friday March 14th at 1100 am...

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Madonna's got something in the works with Avicii The material girl announced an upcoming collaboration with the EDM star on Friday night over Instagram sending out a photo of herself cleaning her bathroom while dressed in black fishnets with the caption "Doing some house work after 4 hours of sleep...

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President Obama will introduce Cosmos A Spacetime Odyssey when the reboot of the beloved science series makes its TV debut on Sunday night the Los Angeles Times reports Obama had been treated to a preview of the 13-part series when Fox and National Geographic presented it last month during the first...

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The March 1st 1984 edition of Rolling Stone (issue No 416) included articles ranging from a William Greider defense of Walter Mondale (the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination) to an in-depth investigation of the irregularities surrounding the death of Jerry Lee Lewis's fifth wife Ten other highlights 40 Years Ago...

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Once the black sheep of the Toronto indie-rock scene Fucked Up are now its keenest social conveners As if double albums 17-minute-long singles 12-hour concerts and grandiose rock operas weren't evidence enough of their boundless ambitions the band are also the chief curators of the always eclectic always excellent Long Winter...

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Chipotle filed a lawsuit against Frank Ocean on Friday claiming that the singer backed out of a deal to record a song for an advertising campaign after taking a fee for the work According to The Hollywood Reporter the Mexican fast-food chain claims in the suit that it struck a deal...

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Contrary to rumors Tool have not completed a new album The band has issued a statement exclusively to Rolling Stone explaining how a misunderstanding between the band's guitarist and a fan led to speculation that the group had completed the album and intended to release it this year See Where Tool's Adam Jones Ranks...

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Next month Santigold will release her latest project a new limited edition makeup collaboration with Smashbox Cosmetics which features brightly colored eye palettes snaky nail strips gilded lip glosses and a magical Swarovski snake ring with a tiny mirror and lipstick inside Inspired by the 2012 apocalypse and featuring original...

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Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has offered up "Thanks for the Line" the first uh whiff of his hard-rock side trio the Birds of Satan If the track is any indication of what's to come then the group's eponymous album will be a hard-hitting gritty rocker that owes a debt to...

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"Sin City is where you go in with your eyes open – or you don't come out at all" So says Johnny (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) during the trailer for Sin City A Dame to Kill For the long-awaited sequel to Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez' acclaimed 2005 noir-thriller Though barely over a minute...

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Happy thirtieth birthday to This Is Spinal Tap which licked the world's love pump this week in 1984 It remains the funniest truest most emotionally honest movie ever made about rock & roll and the people who live for it Can you trace the influence of this film through pop...

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In real life Fred Armisen is a musician a bandeader on Late Night With Seth Meyers and a man of impressively varied music taste But on his IFC comedy series Portlandia he's absolutely clueless when it comes to hip-hop history In this sketch from Thursday's episode partner-in-crime Carrie Brownstein wants Armisen to join...

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Queen announced an American tour this week with their new frontman Adam Lambert "This is the closest that you'll ever get to see Queen as it was in our golden days" Queen guitarist Brian May told Rolling Stone "But it's not a reproduction" Q&A Queen Adam Lambert Talk New Tour Pressure...

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Now that alt-rock icon Morrissey is in the studio working on his first record since 2009's Years of Refusal he has announced its title World Peace Is None of Your Business The record will come out "provisionally" in a release period between late June and early July according to the...

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U2 are reportedly delaying the release of their next album until 2015 so they can schedule new recording sessions with producers Ryan Tedder and Paul Epworth according to Billboard There were reports in 2013 that the album would come out last fall but by November industry sources were saying a spring release was more likely...

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Former Hüsker Dü and Sugar frontman Bob Mould is still on tour to commemorate the 1989 release of Workbook his first solo album after leaving Hüsker Dü but the singer has announced a June 3 release of 11th album Beauty & Ruin Mould described the 35-minute new album his second for Merge...

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Calling Neil deGrasse Tyson America's best-known astrophysicist isn't just recognizing his excellence and prominence in a fairly specialized field; it's in no small part due to his ceaseless efforts above and beyond his work at the Hayden Planetarium and the American Museum of Natural History appearing everywhere from Jeopardy! to...

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Rapper Future told Rolling Stone last month that he "got to relive the Eighties" on his track "Move That Dope" So it's fitting that the video for the song which will appear on his forthcoming second LP Honest is a period piece Future's 'Honest' and the 27 Must-Hear Albums Coming Out...

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Still riding the success of his global hit "Happy" Pharrell Williams is partnering with the United Nations Foundation to celebrate International Day of Happiness on March 20th Established in 2012 by the United Nations General Assembly the day acknowledges that "the pursuit of happiness is a fundamental human goal" and recognizes...

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"I'm a reviewer but I don't review food books or movies" says Forest MacNeil "I review life itself!" MacNeil is the creation of comedian Andy Daly and the main character of Comedy Central's latest show Review (which premiered last night at 10 pm EST) an everyman who gives star ratings...

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In the early Nineties animator John Kricfalusi cemented his name in cartoon and comedy lore by creating The Ren & Stimpy Show a Nickelodeon hit buzzing with madcap energy that featured a very excellent song about Canadian kilted yaksmen among other deranged delights As of late the artist has been...

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In the months and weeks leading up to Arcade Fire's undertaking a full tour in support of Reflektor the band made appearances on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live as well as a went on a run of smaller shows in Australia and select US dates All of which is to...

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A new documentary about the making of Bruce Springsteen's latest album will air on HBO next month a few days before his group the E Street Band receive a special award at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame The half-hour film Bruce Springsteen's High Hopes will detail the making of...

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UPDATE A spokesperson for Iggy Pop released the following statement to Rolling Stone "Iggy was never given an opportunity to participate on the album He found out about the project in December of 2013 after it was rejected by an Australian label"  When Iggy Pop decided that the Stooges would take 2014 off guitarist...

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Shortly after Outkast confirmed that that they would be headlining Coachella they announced plans to make appearances at 40 festivals this year Over the last few months those dates have trickled in and so far the group has booked more than 20 appearances according to Consequence of Sound The most...