Brooklyn supergroup Girl Crisis -- made up of an ever-changing line-up of members with another foot in Au Revoir Simone, Class Actress, Chairlift, Apache Beat, and more -- covered Kurt Cobain's wounded anthem, "Come As You Are." The cover lifts the sodden song out of the '90s slurry grunge but

If aliens had invaded the earth during the electronica loving era of 80s one-hit-wonders and formed a multilingual a cappella group, than the result would have been Barcelona natives The Pinker Tones’ fourth and latest album Wild Animals. In the summer of 2001, The Pinker Tones, (Salvador Rey and

Take a 1957 Kishore Kumar, give him a Beatles-y shag, slap a bright blue kameez top on him, and hand him an ittie-bittie guitar. Oh, and throw him in your old

Seventeen years after the end of apartheid and South Africa is a wild place to be. It has modern booming cities and endless shantytowns. It has strong traditional cultures, and jet-setting generation of tech-savvy, fashion-forward young people making strides towards the future. It has a huge

New York City's Boshra AlSaadi performs her occasionally reggae influenced electro pop under the name Saadi. At The Living Room on the Lower East Side, the Syrian-born artist accompanied herself on the electric drums and a small keyboard with samples and beats triggered by Tim Wagner, her

The lead singer of Melbourne, Australia band The Temper Trap Dougy Mandagi, has a stunning voice. Dude has pitch perfect pipes, nuanced and aching with an upper register challenging that of an 18th century castrati’s -- and he’s proud as a peacock about it. When Mandagi hit the stage for his set at

When American Idol contestant John Park first caught our eye, it wasn’t because he was adorable (he is) or because he has a distinctively deep, tremulous voice (he does). It

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Dorm rooms don't seem like the best places for creative inspiration. But it was in one at the University of Virginia that Tim Be Told recorded their first LP, Getting By. Having written nearly 50 songs before he got to the University of Virginia, the band's frontman, pianist and vocalist Tim

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Cyzo, the Japanese equivalent of a tabloid, is reporting that Arashi's Ninomiya Kazunari and Nagasawa Masami have ended their five year relationship. They met in 2005 on the set of the Fuji TV show Yasashii Jikan (A Kind Time「優しい時間」.

JYJ has been spotlighted as Billboard’s Release Of The Week! The page includes three tracks from their first album, The Beginning, along with information about the album. The article also mentions that Warner Music has a United States CD release planned for late 2010 or early 2011.

Cheb Khaled's 1996 hit, Aicha sparked a deluge of covers. The Danish hip-hop band Outlandish created an English version of the original Arabic song in 2003.

Big Bang announced their comeback with “Love Song” and “Stupid Liar,” a few days ago and now the YGe Shop has opened pre-orders for Big Bang’s Special Edition album. Their cover along with pre-order information was revealed through the store.

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