Mick Fanning won the 2009 ASP World Title Sunday, December 12, after good friend Joel Parkinson wasn’t able to get past Kauai’s Gavin Gillette in round three of the Billabong Pipeline Masters, according to TransWorld Surf: Mick Fanning wins the 2009 ASP World Title For the entire Behind the Scen… Continue

Hip hop don Danger Mouse has teamed up with The Shins frontman James Mercer for a new album. Danger Mouse is fond of collaboration. The producer with the big hair found fame after the internet led success of 'The Grey Album' - a mash up of The Beatles and Prince. Since then the producer has fo… Continue

Put on your freak mask and grab your fake guitar! Harmonix and MTV Games have announced three Slipknot songs to be available for download in the Rock Band Music Store starting next week. Available as a three-pack or individually, the original master recordings of “Duality” from the band’s 2004 Pla… Continue

The ubiquitous Marley nominations head the Best Reggae Album category of the 52nd Grammy Awards, which is scheduled for January 31 in Los Angeles, California. Given the success of the Marleys in this category, it should come as no surprise that Awake by Julian Marley and his brother Stephen Marley's… Continue

Andy Cato and Tom Findlay, better known together as Groove Armada, will release their sixth studio album, Black Light, February 23, 2010 in the U.S. The album, which features an impressive list of guest artists, represents a bold new phase in the duo’s artistic evolution, while maintaining a signatur… Continue

The U.S. team will show up in Vancouver looking pretty laid back. Burton has come up with something that looks like it could lying under a pile in a dorm closet. "There's nothing more American than blue jeans," says Burton, "and this time around we wanted something that spoke more to snowboarding, a… Continue

Rapper Busta Rhymes will have to pay $75,000 to a man who was allegedly assaulted by the New York rapper at a concert in 2003, this according to reports by the New York Post. According to Alex Duncan, the man assaulted, following the concert Busta Rhymes splashed water in his face and threw bottles at… Continue

Forthcoming British film 'The Boys Are Back' is set to resonate with the music of Icelandic post-rock group Sigur Ros. The strange world of Icelandic music seems perfectly suited to film work. Seminal band The Sugarcubes were formed by a group of artists and film makers, giving the… Continue

Absinthe Films releases the second edition of the their Flipside Webisodes. Click to check out the insane footage from Cale Zima, Bode Merrill, Romain DeMarchi, Gigi Ruf, Dan Brisse and more. Continue

The truth has always been stranger than the fiction that surrounds Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty. Whether throwing money into the crowd at a Chipping Norton rave back in 1989, machine-gunning the audience with blanks at the Brit Awards and turning up with a dead sheep at the after-party, or, as… Continue