Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros

I've always been fond of continuity with album titles. Read More

Edward Sharpe came out of nowhere in 2007 (well, bandleader Alex Ebert came from the band Ima Robot) and quickly conquered festivals and TVs everywhere with the smash hit "Home." Cynics were quick to shy away from the hokey, happy hippie vibe, while those less jaded flocked to the quasi-messianic figure. Read More

When you've lost your voice entirely, news on the work front is going from bad to worse and 9pm starts meaning 'almost bed time' to you when it used to mean something utterly, excitingly different, it takes a really good song to pull you out of that funk. Read More

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros ' recent collaboration with the Flaming Lips -- an understated folk hymn with not-so-understated title of "Helping the Retarded to Know God"-- concludes with a two-minute coda wherein Wayne Coyne repeats the words, "I am trying/ To know you," with increasing desperation at each pass. Read More

Easily one of the better performances during Sasquatch! this past weekend came from New York band The Walkmen. Read More

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros look like an escaped band of art students, and their sound does nothing to dissuade that perception. Read More

It's a shame this album comes out today. Read More

They may not look like it, but the two guys in LMFAO are descendants of pop-music royalty. Read More

When the Flaming Lips set out to break Jay-Z's world record for most live concerts in multiple cities in 24 hours as part of MTV's O Music Awards on June 27th , it will probably look like a scene straight out of "The Magical Mystery Tour." Lips frontman Wayne Coyne tells Billboard that the upcoming eight-city trek across the Mississippi Delta will be a road trip like no other for fans who want to join them on their bus along the way. Read More

Did you know you could sync up Dark Side of the Moon to... an actual solar eclipse? Read More