The Brits must have a secret factory on the outskirts of London where they take young girls and force them to listen to jazz and blues standards, read celebrity gossip, and sing like Billie Holiday. Adele is the latest...

New York's best-dressed band brought a truckload of style to the UK for last weekend's Reading Festival. (Actually, Carlos D's new hipster "silent movie villain" look is still up for debate.) The cats from Interpol don't jump...

Informants advise us that the identity of The Screaming Pelican's is Dylan Von Wagner. Wait till you hear his story. Raised in Belarus, he worked as a child for his father in the Minsk division of the KGB. After his family...

Our favorite monkey-faced front man, Ian Brown, continues his post-Stone Roses solo career with a new album, The World is Yours, out late September. We got our first look at the potentially controversial video for Illegal...

There aren't that many women of South Asian extraction making beat-driven music for the Western world, but M.I.A presents a compelling package: model looks, a Sri Lankan heritage, a Tamil Tiger father, and a great sound. Her...

Debbie's looking a little Enja-like in this video with the soft focus and all, but then again, she is fifty...hrumph...ahem. Bottom line, our favorite blondie looks and sounds swell, and the first track off her new LP, "...

The 23 piece (they've lost a few since the last record) rock choir are back in black. Apparently signifying a turn in a more rock direcion, the group have ditched the flowing white/colorful robes for much more austre noir...

Natasha Khan, the beautiful and mysterious singer and multi-instrumentalist who’s the driving force behind UK act Bat For Lashes, lives by the sea and writes haunting songs that come to her in dreams. Bjork, Thom Yorke, and...

Along with other Dance To the Radio labelmates Forward Russia! and current NME faves The Pigeon Detectives, UK DJ duo Yes Boss have been getting some extra ink these days, so we thought we'd resurrect the tres cool clip for...

In 2004, The Mooney Suzuki became the darlings of the retro rock establishment with “Alive & Amplified.” Since then, they’ve been dropped by Columbia and saw their subsequent label V2 shut their doors. At last, the New York...

This could be the anthem of the summer. My Chemical Romance brings down the high school gym with a rockin' singalong that's lot more pop than their previous emo offerings. We love the hints of mid-70s Kinks, early '80s...

Green Day's cover of the moving John Lennon song 'Working Class Hero' gets the full video treatment from legendary music video director Samuel Bayer ("Smells Like Teen Spirit," "American Idiot"), who adds interview footage...

No one expected much when Scott Weiland, Slash, Duff and the two other guys, bored with waiting for Axl Rose to come out of his rubber room, put together the Guns & Pilots Lite band, Velvet Revolver. Three records in, however,...

Poison are back, baby! The original line up of Bret, C.C., Bobby and Ricki, who rocked to the top of the charts in the late ‘80’s only to get swept under the rug by the juggernaut of flannel that was grunge (and a swimming...

This new version of "You Only Live Once" by Lucasfilm alum Warren Fu debuted on the revamped Strokes Web site last week. It features the New York hipsters in a time capsule video aboard a crashed spaceship. The original video...