• Ty Segall Band to Release 'Live in San Francisco' Album in January, Share Live Track [LISTEN]

    Garage rock wizard Ty Segall has announced the release of a new live album called "Live in San Francisco (that's the cover up above)." The album is set for release Jan. 26 through Castle Face Records and was recorded with the Ty Segall Band, whom Segall recorded with for his 2012 fuzz-rock masterpiece "Slaughterhouse." Segall records most of his other albums by himself.According to "Pitchfork," the album is the latest in Castle Face's "Live in San Francisco" series, all of which are engineered by labelhead John Dwyer, who is also the singer and guitarist of psychedelic garage band Thee Oh Sees. The Ty Segall Band's "Live in San Francisco" was recorded at the Rickshaw Stop venue.

  • Cosmic First: Philae Lander Touches Down on Comet But Harpoons Are Not Properly Secured to Surface

    A European spacecraft robot named Philae made history today as the 220-pound lander successfully touched down on the surface of a comet, as both hurled through space at 41,000 mph. Philae had separated from Rosetta, the mothership, and researchers spent seven extremely tense hours waiting for a signal indicating that Philae had reached its destination. The European Space Agency's celebration was short-lived, though, as it became apparent that there might be a problem with the landing.The plan was for Philae to gently set itself down on to the comet's uncertain surface and fire two harpoons into it, securing the lander so it could successfully complete a variety of scientific experiments.

  • Prince Took His First Selfie Today, Without a Cellphone

    Prince has officially decided to try out the latest 2014 trend, albeit with a 2008 MySpace twist. Today, Prince decided to try his hand at taking selfies and used his SLR camera, not a cellphone, as has been in vogue lately. An ode to the days of MySpace bathroom mirror pictures, Prince took a mirror selfie but upped the ante with the nice camera and spotlighting on him, according to Business Insider.His publicist released a statement to the Huffington Post about the selfie: "Prince used an old-school camera because he doesn't own a cellphone. He jokingly says, 'We ban their usage anywhere around Us because We're allergic 2 lithium and Everybodyelsies."

  • Zola Jesus Announces 2015 North American Tour Dates

    Synthpop artist Zola Jesus has announced a string of North American tour dates for 2015, which you can check out below. According to "Consequence of Sound," the tour kicks off Jan. 8 in Seattle, Washington, and reaches the east coast before finishing up Feb. 6 in Phoenix, Arizona.These tour dates come in support of Zola Jesus's latest studio album "Taiga," which was released Oct. 6. "Taiga" is Zola Jesus's fifth studio album, her first since 2013's "Versions." Two singles have been released so far from Taiga: "Dangerous Days" and "Go (Blank Sea)."

  • Randy Spelling Lives a Normal Life, Isn't Very Close to His Attention-Seeking Sister Tori

    While Tori Spelling has managed to keep herself working in the entertainment industry, one way or another, her younger brother has taken a completely different path in his adult life.Randy Spelling did an interview recently for Oprah: Where Are They Now?, and it seems he has really embraced a more normal lifestyle. While Randy was raised in a 123-room mansion known as Spelling Manor, his scaled-back, normal life in Portland, Oregon, seems to suit him just fine these days.Randy explained to Oprah:"My life is really different from how I grew up. It's definitely more quiet and more simple. I am a husband, I'm a father of two amazing girls. We do a lot of cooking. I mean, 90 percent of the food that we eat is all home-cooked. Would it have been nice to have been left a whole lot of money? Yes, things happen the way they need to, and my life right now might look very different if I had $10 million sitting in the bank. So, I had to get my wings burned a little bit and fall to learn how to just live rather normally."He also works as a popular life coach, which is more than a little ironic considering his sister's need for drama and chaos. Randy appears to be the more fully evolved of the two, and while he explains that he and Tori are not as close as he would like them to be, he manages not to say an even slightly negative thing about her. Randy simply points out that his sister is juggling four kids, a husband and a career in the spotlight and how it is a lot for her to handle.

  • WATCH: Calvin Harris, Ellie Goulding Go "Outside" Bad Relationships in New Music Video from 'Motion'

    In April 2013, Calvin Harris and Ellie Goulding were newfound lovers and as happy as ever in the music video for "I Need Your Love." Now, just a year and a half later, things have taken a turn for the worse for the two pop stars... at least in their music video storylines. Today (Nov. 12), Harris and Goulding teamed up again to release the official visual for their new Motion single "Outside," and their relationships have crumbled apart.

  • Bobby Shmurda Wants You to Shmoney Dance with New #ShmoneyGram App

    Bobby Shmurda goes back to the well that keeps on giving. The Shmoney dance has not died out yet, and Bobby and his team are taking full advantage of that fact. As reported by MTV, their latest move is to create an app where you can upload a picture of yourself to a website and your face will be superimposed onto one of several different people doing the Shmoney dance, like Shmurda himself, a soldier, Drake, James Harden and others.The app, titled the "#ShmoneyGram," allows you to upload a photo of your choice and creates GIFs of some of the most memorable Shmoney dance moments. It compiles them into a Shmoney dance GIF gallery, where you can see everyone else's Shmoney dance next to yours. The site clearly links to his single "Hot Nigga" and to his new EP "Shmurda She Wrote," which was released Monday, Nov. 10.

  • Tyga Reveals 'The Gold Album' Release Date

    Although his upcoming album "The Gold Album: 18th Dynasty" was originally set for release Nov. 18, Tyga's recent troubles with his label Young Money have caused the album's release to be delayed. But the 24-year-old rapper took to his Twitter account today, Nov. 12, to confirm the album's new release date: Dec. 23.Check out Tyga's tweet here:#TheGoldAlbum dec 23! — T-Raww (@Tyga) November 12, 2014Back in October, Tyga went on a Twitter rant to assure his fans that The Gold Album was finished but that Young Money was holding the rapper "hostage."

  • Bruce Springsteen Criticized for Singing Anti-War 'Fortunate Son' at Concert for Valor [WATCH]

    Bruce Springsteen is finding himself in a bit of trouble this morning following his performance at the Concert for Valor, the free Veteran’s Day concert held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Along with Dave Grohl and Zac Brown, Springsteen performed a rendition of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 classic “Fortunate Son,” whose anti-war message rubbed plenty of people the wrong way, with many feeling it was an inappropriate song choice at a concert honoring our nation’s veterans.In an editorial on conservative website "The Weekly Standard," Ethan Epstein wrote that Springsteen, Grohl and Brown's performance of "Fortunate Son" was "tone deaf" and a "terrible choice given that [the song] is, moreover, an anti-draft song, and this concert was largely organized to honor those who had volunteered to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq."Plenty of viewers also took to Twitter — of course — to voice their outrage, which you can check out below:

  • Jay-Z's Made in America May Cost Los Angeles Public $170,000

    The taxpayers of Los Angeles may be souring to Jay-Z and his Made in America festival. According to a report from the "Los Angeles Times," the city could be on the hook for $170,000 of the total bill for the festival.Aides to the mayor tell the "Times" that Live Nation, the promoter for the festival, was required to provide $500,000 to pay for police patrols, street closures, trash removal and other city services. The total bill for the festival is expected to reach close to $670,000, leaving the city to close the funding gap.Mayor Eric Garcetti was a big proponent in bringing the festival to Los Angeles and, according to "Billboard," "Says it shows L.A. is capable of hosting a huge outdoor concert."According to Carol Schatz, head of the downtown-based Central City Association, the economic impact cannot be simply measured in strict dollar amounts.
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