Blake Griffin is one of the five or six best players in the NBA and certainly the funniest which you know if you've seen the deadpan ads he does with sidekick (and bunkmate) Jack McBrayer from 30 Rock The 25-year-old forward for the Los Angeles Clippers grew up in Oklahoma...

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Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme drops by Portlandia this week playing the slobbish brother and to quote Portlandia's blog 'disappointing gay man' of Carrie Brownstein in the new clip above The Best Musical Moments From Portlandia With boyfriend Nick Swardson in tow Homme plays the Guest Who Wouldn't Leave bringing in his dog Rambo...

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Less than a week after Courtney Love helped celebrate the induction of her late husband's band Nirvana at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame the singer has posted a YouTube video as part of her "Love on Love" series offering up her opinions on another Hall of Fame inductee Bruce...

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Tom Scharpling the former host of WFMU's beloved The Best Show has become something of a music video auteur over the past few years directing clips for indie rockers like Aimee Mann Ted Leo and the Pharmacists the New Pornographers Kurt Vile Wild Flag Ben Gibbard and more He's back at it...

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The Kickstarter campaign to fund Neil Young's PonoMusic player reached its goal of $800000 less than 10 hours after it went live Now the campaign has ended after earning nearly eight times that figure It is officially the third highest-funded campaign in Kickstarter history Watch 10 stunning videos from Neil Young's...

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In the wake of Facebook's $19 billion purchase of messaging service WhatsApp the social network's recent $2 billion acquisition of Oculus VR — makers of the virtual-reality gaming headset the Oculus Rift — feels like a real bargain How exactly Mark Zuckerberg and co will integrate fully-immersive virtual reality or...

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Tears of all sorts flow freely in the world of Oprah Winfrey and the water works once again opened up during a recent interview with Pharrell Williams This time though they were tears of the happiest kind Check Out Pharrell and Other Top Performers and this Year's Coachella Festival In the clip...

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Nirvana's Krist Novoselic has said in a post on his blog that Joan Jett was his first choice for the group's performance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and that Dave Grohl "ran with the idea of having all women lead" The group's surviving members felt that having...

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Ethereal harmonies once again take center stage on the Secret Sisters' sophomore album Put Your Needle Down Muscle Shoals-bred siblings Laura and Lydia Rogers share vocals on a 12-track collection that like their debut album takes the listener back to a time when vocalists valued purity over production But this...

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Something's afoot in the first trailer for David Fincher's upcoming mystery thriller Gone Girl an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's novel of the same name The new clip finds Ben Affleck as Nick Dunne reeling in the aftermath of the disappearance of his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike) amidst search parties candlelight...

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"I mean the guy is a fucking Komodo dragon but he has the bangs of Ken Burns?" The whole table laughs and Billy Bob Thornton smiles knowing he's just nailed it The subject is a hired killer; specifically the horrible Moe Howard-ish bowl haircut that this professional hit man sports...

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Devo had been on the road pretty much non-stop for five years when they secured a spot on Don Kirshner's Rock Concert in October of 1979 and by that point they were one of the best live acts on the planet The Ohio new wave group performed on Saturday Night...

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On BBC America's cult hit sci-fi series Orphan Black Tatiana Maslany stars as scruffy English con artist Sarah Manning an unwitting product of a sinister cloning experiment But as you might expect in a show about clones there's more Maslany 28 also took on the roles of a Canadian soccer...

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Antemasque the group featuring former Mars Volta frontman Cedric Bixler-Zavala guitarist Omar Rodríguez-López and drummer Dave Elitch show off their chilly acoustic side in "Drown All Your Witches" a track off their forthcoming self-titled debut due out July 15th The video offers a glimpse at the making of the song...

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Brad Pitt will star and produce the film adaptation of journalist Michael Hastings' 2012 book The Operators The Wild and Terrifying Inside Story of America's War in Afghanistan which gave a behind-the-scenes account of the recalcitrant General Stanley McChrystal from when Hastings was researching his award-winning Rolling Stone article "The...

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The giant square jaw of illegal music downloading belongs these days to Kim Dotcom the German former hacker whose Megauploadcom allegedly enabled sharing of $500 million worth of copyrighted material Two years after the US Department of Justice raided his New Zealand mansion indicting him for building up $25 million...

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It’s pretty easy to get lost in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum these days On Tuesday the institution will more than double its size with a $100 million 210000-square-foot expansion that will be unveiled in a ceremony featuring performances by Vince Gill Lee Ann Womack Ricky Skaggs...

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For most adults in the year 2014 the age before iPhones and Shazam and Spotify conjures a warm glow of nostalgia For most elementary schoolers it sounds like a time of cruel and unusual punishment In their latest installment of their "Kids React" Youtube series TheFineBros assemble their gang of...

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After their Coachella appearances Muse will begin work on their seventh album next month "We're going to go back in May and start working on some new stuff so I think we'll start recording it this year" drummer Dominic Howard told KROQ over the weekend "If we can get something...

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Mutants blast fire slide on ice and jump through portals in a clip from X-Men Days of Future Past that Ellen Page – the movie's Shadowcat – premiered during the MTV Movie Awards The one-minute teaser shows a snippet of the movie's opening battle which includes a lot of running...

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Alicia Keys is a songwriter not a superhero But the music video for "It's On Again" – her track for the upcoming soundtrack for The Amazing Spider-Man 2 – conjures a Spidey-like level of drama "There's no day off for heroes" Keys belts into the camera between sweeping images of the New York...

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"Hey great job with Kiss up there man! " Peter Gabriel told Tom Morello backstage at Brooklyn's Barclays Center on Thursday shortly after Gabriel was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Gabriel sat down for a quick five-minute interview about the honor his next album and the remote...

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"I don't know what to call what I do" says Kevin Gates of his rise as a leader of Dirty South striver's rap The 28-year-old Baton Rouge Louisiana artist raps sings and harmonizes often alternating between vocal modes within a verse exuding a gritty earthiness that sets him apart from...

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The Black Keys drop their eighth studio album the Danger Mouse-produced Turn Blue on May 13th and now the blues-rock heavyweights have shared the LP's title track a slow-burning slice of psychedelia "When the music is done and all the lights are low" sings frontman Dan Auerbach over a breezy...

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Arcade Fire closed out Coachella 2014 with a little help from a New Wave icon as Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry jumped onstage to sing her band's 1978 smash "Heart of Glass" tackling the vocals in messy unison with Régine Chassagne  Blondie A Day in the Life at SXSW Their collaboration isn't seamless littered with...