New-Wave News

Varse Sarabande Records will release the Stuck in Love - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack digitally today, May 21st and on CD and vinyl June 11, 2013.

KITTEN Fronted by precocious 17-year-old Chloe Chaidez, Kitten is aptly named. The band's electro-punk attack is more New Wave than riot grrl, and Chaidez's impressive vocals trend more toward a breathy purr than the lioness roar of Karen O, though both extremes are well within her range.

Quite a few rockers are in the running for some big awards at this year's Billboard Music Awards, taking place Sunday night at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

The bolt of lightning that lit up Stokesay Castle just before Christmas in 1991 was invisible to everyone except the first-time visitor who experienced it.

Summerfest is one of the first and only shows on the books for recently reunited hometown band Violent Femmes, celebrating the 30th anniversary of its debut album.

Star-studded collaborations are on tap for Sunday night's Billboard Music Awards, airing live on ABC from the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.

The mighty Maharajas' latest single "Black Box" , perhaps a teaser for their upcoming new album, is a winner.

Lincoln High School's Class of 2013 will graduate in commencement exercises at 7 tonight, Friday, May 17 in the Fort Morgan Middle School auditorium.

One could say Carly Rae Jepsen got her start when Justin Bieber signed the aspiring singer to his record label after catching her debut single "Call Me Maybe" . But she would never have recorded the single if it weren't for Canadian Idol , which won her a third place trophy - and lots of fans.

QUIZ TAKER: Sharon Tohline, 32, English instructor at Southern University and player for the Red Stick Roller Derby's Capital Defenders.

"The HTC First, or 'Facebook phone' as many prefer to call it, is officially a flop.

On Wednesday, May 22 at 7pm, the St. Thomas Aquinas High School music department will perform their Spring Pops Concert.

Known for her covers and medleys on YouTube, Victoria Justice gives us an acoustic version of fun.

You: long dark hair, pink sweater and I could have breathed you in all night...... you were definitely feeling good & having fun but then you disappeared when I went to buy us... Five months ago, I married the man of my dreams.

On Tuesday night at 7 p.m. at Casco Bay High School , Oak Point Associates will unveil some preliminary designs for renovations - or in the case of one facility, a replacement - of five of Portland's schools.

Aretha Franklin announced Monday she has cancelled performances which were scheduled for next week in Chicago and Connecticut due to "treatment". She was supposed to perform at a special Corporate Night fundraiser with the Chicago Symphony on May 20 and at Connecticut's Foxwoods Resort and Casino May 26.

Phoenix's new album Bankrupt! is a more complicated record than it may seem at first glance.

Gogol's government inspector was a figure of fun. Russia's new government inspectors are anything but funny.

The Royal Ballet 's artistic director Kevin O'Hare has started with a splash: He's recruited a prima ballerina who was previously the pride of Moscow's Bolshoi .

Song #20 on the Popdose Top 100 Covers list is "Der MKmmissar", originally by Falco and covered by After the Fire.