There's no topping the twerk – or at least not in Brooklyn After a controversial 2013 ceremony at New York City's Barclay Center MTV is relocating the VMAs back to the West Coast for the 2014 edition which will air live on Sunday August 24th from The Forum in Inglewood...

---

Peter Gabriel has never been an artist that's spent much time looking backwards but in 2012 he decided to hit the road and play his 1986 landmark album SO in its entirety even reforming the original touring band from the era and recreating much of the staging "This is the...

---

HBO just became a little less exclusive The network has finalized a licensing deal with Amazon Prime's Instant Video streaming service bringing over classic series like The Sopranos Deadwood Six Feet Under and The Wire to their new streaming home base The first batch of content will hit Amazon Prime on May 21st  The Shocking 16 TV's...

---

Sly slick and perpetually sexed-up Prince embodied the Clinton era like few other artists Here's a collection of brazen come-ons and scandalous kiss-offs from the sexiest MF on the FM

---

With its many beheadings battles and betrayals Game of Thrones has fast become the most anticipated hour of television for millions of Americans each week The new issue of Rolling Stone – covered by actor Kit Harington who plays the show's long-haired steely-eyed hero Jon Snow – goes behind the...

---

Thanks to Mystery Science Theater 3000 laughing at terrible movies has become a pop-culture institution Now 15 years after its last cancellation the series might be revived for a new generation of snarky critics with an "online incarnation" In Wired's recent MST3K oral history creator and original host Joel Hodgson hints at a possible...

---

Anyone making a movie about a member of the Grateful Dead would naturally gravitate toward Jerry Garcia But director Mike Fleiss best known for co-directing the 2011 doc God Bless Ozzy Osbourne had other ideas “I wanted to give Bob [Weir] his moment to shine” Fleiss says “I wanted to...

---

Iconic Latin music label Fania will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year with decade-specific digital compilations of its greatest hits and the first Latin music app for Spotify It has also teamed with SummerStage in New York City for a series of concerts dance performances and film screenings including a...

---

"The game is changing" a yellow-eyed Lily Allen declares early in the colorful video for her latest single "Sheezus" which will appear on the album of the same name next month Now she's ready to join the pantheon of pop divas who have established themselves since she put out her...

---

The great 20th-century economist John Maynard Keynes has been widely quoted as saying "When the facts change I change my mind What do you do sir?" Sadly in their quest to concentrate economic and political power in the hands of the wealthiest members of society today's Republicans have held the...

---

"You look right at home" David Letterman joked as he welcomed his successor Stephen Colbert to Late Show With David Letterman Tuesday night Colbert's appearance on Letterman marked the first time the two have been seen together publicly since Letterman announced his retirement earlier this month Why Stephen Colbert Is a Smart 'Late Show' Pick In...

---

Two days after being hospitalized and missing last weekend's Coachella set Chance the Rapper's team has posted an update on his condition and revealed the cause of his illness to be "a combination of the flu virus and tonsillitis" Chance the Rapper on Staying Independent "It's a Dead Industry" "Upon rising on...

---

Producer and singer Boots saved a Beyoncé-sized surprise for the last track of his Winter Spring Summer Fall mixtape a duet with Beyoncé titled "Dreams" The track is a slow-building strangely hypnotic and of course dreamy five-minute love song that finds Boots professing his lifelong love for someone A strong...

---

President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama have shared a letter offering their thoughts and prayers to the friends and family of Chicago house pioneer Frankie Knuckles who died earlier this month FACT reports Check Out these 5 Defining Tracks from Frankie Knuckles "Frankie's work helped open minds and bring people together blending...

---

Ronnie Milsap Mac Wiseman and the late Hank Cochran will receive country music's highest honor later this year induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame The 2014 honorees were announced Tuesday at a press conference inside the downtown Nashville landmark's rotunda which houses the bronze plaques of its 121...

---

Courtney Love won't release her double A-side single "You Know My Name"/"Wedding Day" until May 4th but the vicious chugging "You Know My Name" has already premiered on Steve Lamacq's BBC Radio 6 show You can check out the track above which finds Love in full beast mode wracking up...

---

For their latest album Mind Over Matter Young the Giant told us they were demonstrating "democracy at work" "Sometimes you can think about higher things and the social implications of what you're doing but at the end of the day just being and existing as a group together getting in...

---

EDM festival Electric Zoo will return to New York City's Randall's Island this summer with increased security and health measures following the drug-related deaths of two attendees last year The 50 Most Important People in EDM A press release outlined the new security measures which include drug-sniffing dogs stationed at all entrances...

---

This year marks not only the 50th anniversary of the Who but also the 50th anniversary of the Brighton Beach battle between mods and rockers immortalized in Quadrophenia To mark the occasion England's University of Sussex is holding a weekend-long symposium on both the album and the film from July...

---

Unfortunately the cast of Friends will not be there for you — Courteney Cox put a blunt end to any dreams of a possible reunion in the near future telling David Letterman on The Late Show Monday night "It's not gonna happen" Check Out Our List of 17 TV Shows that Lasted Way...

---

When the four members of U2 first began gigging around Dublin as Feedback in 1976 they barely knew how to play their instruments let alone write original songs That meant their show was devoted entirely to the hits of the day which meant covering Peter Frampton the Bay City Rollers...

---

George RR Martin addressed the controversial rape scene in last week's episode of Game of Thrones — spoilers of course ahead — explaining how the relationship between the recently reunited siblings/lovers Jaime and Cersei Lannister had a completely different dynamic in the show than in his Song of Ice and...

---

Lorde has canceled an eight-date Australian tour after coming down with "a nasty chest infection" and "general ill health" the budding pop star wrote on Twitter Find Out Where Lorde's 'Pure Heroine' Ranked on Our List of 2013's 50 Best Albums "[I] am so gutted to have to do this but my...

---

Police recently took producer Chauncey Mahan into custody for allegedly attempting to extort $100000 from Jay Z in exchange for master recordings containing some of the rapper's biggest hits Mahan has been holding onto the tapes – which were made between 1998 and 2002 and provided the foundations for the...

---

For the past 25 years former Culture Club frontman Boy George has embraced dance culture and embarked on a second career as an in-demand DJ So it's fitting that for his latest album 2013's This Is What I Do the UK singer has commissioned five official remixes for album closer...