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Filed under: News , New Music , Exclusive When Courtney Love was working with Linda Perry on the album that would eventually become 'Nobody's Daughter' -- though not the version produced by Perry -- the Hole singer wanted to put an all-female band together. As someone who's worked with a who's who of female artists including Pink , Christina Aguilera and KT Tunstall , Perry is the first to support woman rockers, [...]

Dave Sitek. That name may not roll off the tongue of the average music listener. If you're not aware of who he is, shame on you. The man has only been a major driving force in the New York sound in the last decade. Beginning with his own band, a little known outfit named TV On The Radio, then take a quick look at the work he's done in the producer's chair and you can see the man has done a little bit of work over the last ten years. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs... Liars...Telepathe...Scarlett Johansson (Let's forgive him for [...]

• Maximum Balloon - Tiger

Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio's new project Maximum Balloon will have appearances from Little Dragon, Theophilus London, David Byrne, Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone, Karen O, Holly Miranda and Ambrosia Parsley (Kill Bill's Shivaree - 'Goodnight Moon' ). The single 'Tiger' featuring Aku Orracu-Tetteh which is the soundtrack to this naughty NSFW Daisy Lowe video , which sort of makes it sound strip club friendly, gets a video next week. A track-by-track guide is here . 'If You Return' is the best track I've heard thus far and it features Little [...]

David Andrew Sitek is a busy boy. When he not producing/playing many instruments for his band TV on the Radio he's off making a new solo album called Maximum Balloon . Sitek is gearing up to release this solo album of his with the help of some close friends. You've got Kyp Malone and Tunde Adebimpe from TVOTR, Karen O from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Talking Heads' David Byrne on this record to name a few. You probably wanna know what this bad boy's gonna sound like now, don't ya? [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Knowing that Ebony Bones , art-pop priestess, used to be Ebony Thomas, child actress, it's tempting to accuse her of playing a character, a sort of Day-Glo art-pop diva -- Karen O by way of Grace Jones . It's simply not the case, Bones tells Spinner, insisting that her musical persona is a reflection of her true personality. "A lot of artists have others who are creating their sound, their music, [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive Had Ebony Bones listened to label execs and recorded with big-name producers, her debut album might have wound up sounding like the "beige" radio pop she so despises. Instead, the eccentric Londoner opted to go it alone, a decision that yielded the vibrant, genre-busting 'Bone of My Bones,' due out this spring. "I don't believe in democracy when it comes to music," Bones tells Spinner. A former child actress who counts Prince [...]

It's about that time once again, Suede-heads! Another year has passed and I'm going to share my favourite records of the year that just passed us by. 2008 was a wonderful year and put a halt to the overwhelming mediocrity and crapitude we had been subjected to in recent years. 2009 upped the ante by introducing us to some note-worthy new artists and some brilliant returns to form from a veteran or two. With that said... Never mind the bollocks, here's Billy Suede's best of 2009. Part one! [...]

Filed under: New Music Is it wrong to think of sex when you hear the name Amanda Blank ? Well, that depends. There's no doubt that the Philadelphia-bred rapper is perfectly at ease with the sexually explicit party songs she's been making since her late teens. "When I first started rapping I was pretty young and I was boy-crazy, and it was fun for me to rap about fooling around with boys and going to parties," she tells Spinner. "I'm private about certain things, but that's [...]

Sort of. Here's the deal. There's a category in The Grammy's for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media Field. Be that as it may, Miley Cyrus ' tween-adored track, The Climb , was a contender for the award, until this morning. It was initially reporthted that a previously nominated track was “disqualified.” That track [The Climb] which appears on the soundtrack to Hannah Montana: The Movie , was removed from consideration, leaving the nom open for the song with the next-highest vote [...]

• Karen O - (My!Gay!Husband! Glory Days Club Edit)

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , New Music , Exclusive At around 2PM on Thursday, there was already a line waiting to get seats at Hollywood's Nike Sportswear on Vine St. for the Flaming Lips ' not-so-secret, secret MySpace show later that evening. This week marked the release of the Oklahoma psych-rockers 12th studio album, 'Embryonic,' which features appearances by MGMT and Karen O of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs . On the second floor, already open to the public, was the band's [...]

You gotta love you some imeem , right? Listen to Karen O's soundtrack for Spike Jonze's upcoming film, Where the Wild Things Are (October 16th), below. Highly recommended if you're having a bad day and don't mind kid choruses... [...]

From the 9/29 soundtrack of Where The Wild Things Are comes "All Is Love," the first single from Karen O & The Kids. It became available for download just a couple of days ago on iTunes and the soundtrack features other original tracks by Karen O, or so says the cover. This track was penned with the help of Nick Zinner and exemplifies the rapture of the Arcade Fire's "Wake Up" in the second trailer ( here ). It seems that Karen O and Spike Jonze ( WTWTA director) were by all accounts an item at the [...]

The film Where The Wild Things Are is expected to be a major hit at the movies. Not just with kids and adults who remember the children's book but with indie-rock kids as well. The soundtrack is was done by Yeah Yeah Yeahs lead singer Karen O and "The Kids" which consists of other indie-rock superstars from bands like The Dead Weather, Liars, The Bird and The Bee, Deerhunter and more. Down below, you can check out the first single from the soundtrack called "All is Love" which features an upbeat kids choir [...]