• Willow Smith Drops New EP 'Interdimensional Tesseract' On SoundCloud [LISTEN]

    Willow Smith released a three-track EP (aptly titled 3) on her 14th birthday last year, and now she's back with another three-track offering called Interdimensional Tesseract. All of the songs were produced by Chaotic, and each has its own experimental, cosmic vibe. Having previously released the song "Heart," she debuted the piano-laced "Vibration" and the synth-and-bass-driven "See You Dance." The effort is streaming free on SoundCloud.

  • Bad Habits: Lady Gaga, Nicki Minaj, Gwen Stefani and More Performers with Nun Imagery in Music Videos

    Fifty years ago featured a very special guest appearance on NBC's Tarzan, as The Supremes stopped by. Fortunately even network executives and scriptwriters in those days weren't dumb enough to put the Motown stars in potentially offensive roles so the trio of vocalists was cast as a group of nuns. It was, in short, the most politically correct portrayal of nuns on this side of The Sound of Music. Many musicians have donned habits for music videos and very few of them took as kindly to the sisterhood as NBC did.

  • Death Cab for Cutie Talk New Album 'Kintsugi': Record Will Be First Without Guitarist Chris Walla [TRACKLIST]

    The title for the new Death Cab for Cutie album is "Kintsugi." According to an interview with "Rolling Stone," the album's name is a Japanese artform that captures where the band is currently. After 17 years, guitarist Chris Walla left the band in 2014, and now Ben Gibbard and Co. have to find a way to move forward without forgetting their humble past."It's a Japanese style of art where they take fractured, broken ceramics and put them back together with very obvious, real gold," bassist Nick Harmer said. "It's making the repair of an object a visual part of its history. That resonated with us as a philosophy, and it connected to a lot of what we were going through, both professionally and personally."Walla announced his departure from the band in September, playing his final gig with Death Cab the following month."In the West, if you break an heirloom, you either throw it away or you make the repair as invisible as possible," he added. "But there's this artistic movement in Japan where the repair of it, the damage of it, is more important as part of the history of something than repairing it to its original state."

  • Buffalo Bills Hire Rex Ryan as Head Coach, Prepare for Signature 'Enthusiasm'

    Sometimes people fall in love because they are the only ones left at closing time. That seems to be the case for the Buffalo Bills and new head coach Rex Ryan, who reportedly coveted jobs in Atlanta and San Francisco before coming to the realization that the team for him was residing in the Northeast."Following an extensive search, we are pleased today to announce that Rex Ryan is our new head coach," Bills owner Terry Pegula said in a statement this weekend, via ESPN. "Rex brings a wealth of experience and enthusiasm to the position that we feel will be a tremendous benefit to our players and the entire Bills organization."According to the (New York) "Daily News," via syracuse.com, the former New York Jets coach had the open Atlanta Falcons job in his sights, but after failing to secure a second interview with the organization, he turned his sights to San Fran.Ryan's request for a second interview out west was also rebuffed, so he decided to move forward with a second Bills interview Saturday, Jan. 10. There, he reached an agreement on a five-year, $27.5 million contract to coach in Buffalo.

  • Secretary of State John Kerry Defends Not Traveling to France Until Later This Week

    The U.S. has found itself under heavy criticism for not sending any senior officials to Paris for its Unity March and Rally that had more than 1 million supporters Sunday, Jan. 11. The relationship between French and U.S. officials is thought to be solid, so it came as a surprise to many that while 40 world leaders were on hand to support the French people after last week's terrorist attack, no one was there to represent the States.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry happens to speak fluent French and visits the country often — in fact he will be heading there later this week to meet with leaders and pay tribute to the 17 victims of last week's attacks. When asked why the U.S. did not send a senior official as a show of support, Kerry insisted that our country has been in constant contact with the French government from the moment it became clear it was under attack. Kerry himself has also been criticized for delaying his trip to France, and he addressed the issue this morning."As everybody knows, I have been here in India for a prior planned event. I would have personally very much wanted to have been there but couldn't do so because of the commitment that I had here and it is important to keep these kinds of commitments. That is why I am going there on the way home and to make it crystal clear how passionately we feel about the events that have taken place there. I don't think the people of France have any doubt about America's understanding about what happened, about our personal sense of loss and our deep commitment to the people of France in this moment of trial. I want to emphasize that the relationship with France is not about one day or one particular moment. It is an ongoing, longtime relationship that is deeply, deeply based in the shared values, and particularly the commitment that we share to freedom of expression," explained Kerry.

  • Andy Cohen Confesses That the 'Housewives' Series Was Almost Canceled Immediately

    Who doesn't love Andy Cohen? He is the mastermind behind the "Real Housewives" franchise on Bravo and he also hosts "Watch What Happens: Live" each night. Aside from his obvious chops for business, he comes across as a really likable guy, and that makes him the perfect one to ask all those tough, interview questions. Cohen started at CBS as a producer and found his way over to Bravo after about 10 years in the business. He recently did an interview for "Entertainment Weekly" that revealed some pretty interesting details.Like the fact that "Watch What Happens: Live" is styled after Dick Cavett's old talk show and how Cohen taps into the old stuff to help guide his development decisions at Bravo now. He also talked about how many shows on the network have started off slow and picked up momentum by the end of their first season. Very rarely has there been an instant hit and, believe it or not, the "Housewives" franchise almost never existed!Cohen explained that there were so many production problems and other issues after filming the first season of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" that it was almost canceled as soon as the season finished airing. Had it been killed, then we would have never met the ladies from New York City, New Jersey, Atlanta, Miami and Beverly Hills. Maybe Teresa Giudice would not have gotten so greedy and she would not be locked up right now ...Check out the clip here with Cohen dishing some behind-the-scenes info.

  • Lil Wayne Reveals Tentative 'SFTW2' Mixtape Cover; New Song To Be Released Today

    Lil Wayne is making the best of a pretty bad situation. He is still snared in a public and fractious fight with Birdman over the control of his upcoming album Tha Carter V, which is signed to Cash Money, the label Birdman started. Not to let such business get in the way of the music, Weezy has decided to make sure he is still delivering new content to his fans and announced a new mixtape, Sorry For The Wait 2, the follow up to his previous mixtape, Sorry For The Wait that preceded the extensively delayed Tha Carter IV. Now a tentative cover art has been released for the mixtape, as well as the news that a song from SFTW2 will be released today (Jan. 12) in celebration of the Green Bay Packers' win over the Dallas Cowboys yesterday. See tweets from Rahim The Dream an Instagram video by Mack Maine previewing a Mike Will Made-It produced track.

  • Stream Marilyn Manson's New Album 'The Pale Emperor' via SoundCloud a Week Before It Drops [LISTEN]

    Marilyn Manson is gearing up to drop his ninth studio album, The Pale Emperor, on Jan. 20. The shock rocker has made the record available to stream on SoundCloud, giving anxious fans everywhere an early taste of the new material. The effort is a step in a new direction, musically, for Manson, who incorporated aspects of blues and dance-floor funk into the tunes, keeping it on the dark side with his signature industrial-metal blend.
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