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• Lil Wayne will serve as musical guest for the season premiere of Saturday Night Live on September 13th. Swimmer Michael Phelps will host.
• Former Death Row Records kingpin “Suge” Knight was arrested yesterday on drug and assault charges after...
• Listen to AC/DC’s “Rock N Roll Train”
  

  
  

  AC/DC’s “Rock N Roll Train,” the first single from their upcoming Black Ice, is set to debut on radio stations today. Or, if you don’t feel like waiting patiently for your DJ to air it, you can just click play on the video above....

• Death Cab at the DNC: Hillary’s Speech and the Real Trick She Pulled Today
  

  On the stereo: “Gamma Ray,” Beck

  Last night’s speech from Senator Clinton was very good. It felt competent and sincere; it was well delivered; the move to distribute white “Hillary” signs to the floor, the text in her handwriting, was brilliant. It was about 85 percent...

• Decade of the Dude: How “The Big Lebowski” Became a Cult Sensation
  

  

  Ten years after the Coen Brothers’ The Big Lebowski hit theaters (and flopped), Rolling Stone’s resident Dude expert Andy Greene looks back at the movie that would become the most worshipped comedy of its generation. Click above to catch an interview...

• On the Breaking Blog: The Enemy
  

  This week’s featured artist on the Breaking blog is the Enemy, a trio of socially conscious hook-minded punks from Coventry, England. Their angsty, sugary three-chord jumps borrow liberally from the Buzzcocks and the Clash. Click below for more on the Enemy, including exclusive...

• Tour Tracker: Chromeo, Wire and the Horrorpops
  Photo: Getty Chromeo continues teaching some Fancy Footwork, Wire raise the pink flag with an October run and the Horrorpops get ready for Halloween with an autumn tour. Follow the jump for the full set of tour dates. Chromeo October 1 - Boston, MA @ Paradise October 2...
• Kings of Leon False Advertise With New “Sex On Fire” Video
  

  Behold, the new video for the Kings of Leon’s “Sex On Fire.” Despite the song’s title, the video sadly features no sex, no fire and definitely no sex on fire. The clip does have plenty of chickens, sweat and exorcisms, if...

• Photographer Mark Seliger’s Music Springs to Life With Haunting Videos
  Most people know Mark Seliger as the famed photographer who shot some of Rolling Stone’s most memorable covers over the last three decades. (That one of Jerry Seinfeld posing as an Elvis impersonator? That was him.) But for the last few years, Seliger has also...
• On the Breaking Blog: Download Of Montreal’s “Nonpareil of Favor”
  

  Athens, Georgia theatrical pop weirdos Of Montreal have a new album called Skeletal Lamping that comes out on October 7, but the Breaking blog has a first taste of this excellent new record. Head on over there to download “Nonpareil of...

Photos by Eirik Lande; Above: Sufjan Stevens

The tiny village of Moi, Norway saw a significant temporary population increase as the Kamerad og Spelemann festival-- put together by Moi-born Serena-Maneesh frontman Emil Nikolaisen-- took over a NorDan window...

Live Music on T.V. this week:

Monday, August 25:

NBC: Late Night With Conan O'Brien: the Hold Steady
NBC: The Tonight Show With Jay Leno: Juliana Hatfield

NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Lupe Fiasco (rerun)
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson:...

Photo by Rebecca Smeyne

Touring like mad continues this fall for Athens, Georgia bajillion-piece Dark Meat. The band just announced a North American jaunt starting September 17 in Chattanooga.

The tour is in support of Vice's Universal Indians reissue...

Photo by Chrissy Piper

John Darnielle and the Mountain Goats are being a little coy with this "Last Happy Night of Your Life" tour of theirs. By adding two dates in San Francisco, they've made it that much harder to tell just...

Regulars at New York City's Bowery Ballroom will almost certainly recognize Frank Bango. For a decade, Bango has served the Bowery both as a musician and a bartender and bar manager. Tomorrow night, August 26, the Bowery will give back to Bango via...

Following complications from a brain hemorrhage he suffered last month, producer Jerry Finn passed away Thursday, August 21, according to Billboard.com. He was 39. Finn's noted productions include Morrissey's You Are the Quarry, Rancid's ...And Out Come the Wolves, and Blink-182's Enema of the...