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Our listeners this week the writer of the revamped Retronomicon in the Games Zone, Stewart Lange , taking on the man behind The Savage Animal Mikey MiGo ! All right, enough of the introductions and rules...let's hop to it! Stewart Lange: SELL I didn't get into this at all.

Is it fair to call Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt Austin's first family of folk music? I'm not talking A Mighty Wind kind of folk, but music for the people presented in an intimate and endearing way.

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy " Mars Attacks! ," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital.

MGMT are an American psychedelic rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden.

Here's a little something to help kick your hump day up a notch. Serena Ryder stopped VH1's offices and brought us a " Sex and Candy " performance.

"The Voice" winner Danielle Bradbery poses with Blake Shelton, left, and Cher, right, pose after Bradbery won season four of "The Voice" on Tuesday June 18, 2013.

Many have mourned the loss of Palisades Amusement Park since it closed its doors in 1971.

It's summertime and Cody Simpson has just the song and video for you because he's just that thoughtful.

Now, this writer "hated" this band's previous album; their third release seems to recover nicely, surmounting the "sophomore slump," Vampire Weekend flared with the white light of a buzz band comet with its 2008 debut: Decorous, dashing, somewhat droll and all straight-collared stylish; complete with its quirky, effervescent blends of literate ... (more)

For Humdrum's latest EP, the band booked time with Steve Albini in his Chicago-based Electrical Audio studio.

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Once there was a subculture of people who shaved parts of their head and brightly dyed their dreadlocks.

Jay-Z's partnership with Samsung for his new album, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," is another sign of how musicians are finding new ways to push, sell and promote their music, and how the multiplatinum performer -- who famously rapped "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man" -- continues to leverage his enduring popularity into a successful brand.

Police Arrest Man On The Roof Of Rihanna's Home Posted by Joseph Lee on 06.18.2013 A scary situation... The Los Angeles Times reports that a man has been arrested after being found on Rihanna's roof in the Pacific Palisades near Rivas Canyon Road and West Sunset Boulevard.

Let's get one horrible-yet-informative pun out of the way right off the bat: On Friday night at the Barclays Center, the newly reunited Postal Service delivered.

While you're waiting for Jason Mraz to release some new music, you can check him out this week in an unexpected place: a new album by country star Hunter Hayes , best known for his hit "Wanted."

Kanye West released his latest album, Yeezus , today and as Big Sean would say, "Oh Gaaaaawd!" Fans and Christians alike have been scratching their heads at the album title since it was revealed weeks ago.

We've probably all heard of the motto that proclaims, "Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse."

"People ask me what happened at 96X," said James Steele, who ended a 6-year run at WROX-FM on April 22. "I tell them, 'Radio happened.'

As you might have noticed, Kanye West's feverishly anticipated Yeezus arrives today.