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Fab four rhythm guru Ringo Starr recently performed for a packed house at the House of Blues in Los Angeles. Check out our photos of the ex-Beatle preforming new tracks from his latest album Liverpool 8 along with a few mop top classic. Click here to check out the full coverage.

A late gift for all prog-rockers out there, here's a slideshow of Mars Volta's secret show in Los Angeles. Click here to check our recap of the entire event!Check out our photo slideshow from the Spice Girls reunion tour! View the whole recap here .

It's not who we'd like to meet. It's who we've met. We're just cool like that. Here's some of our favorites:

RIHANNA: Admitted she didn't like "Pon de Replay" at first. Yeah, neither did we. Then we couldn't get it out of our heads for three months.

WILLIAM SHATNER: Poked fun at Trekkies with us. And actually used the phrase, "It's all good."

RHYMEFEST: Called Kanye West an asshole. In a friendly, respectful way.

HENRY ROLLINS: Said he still hasn't washed off all the slime from too many meetings with TV executives.

LUDACRIS: Got the keys to Atlanta and was bummed he couldn't use them to sneak into hot ladies' homes.

For more interviews and other cool stuff, go to our What's Hot page.

Music:


Don't miss Tyler Ramsey's top 10 list of must-have CDs!

Click here to check out our interview with underage rockers Black Tide

Click here to read our interview with the up and coming indie band Vampire Weekend

Click here to read out interview with Snoop Dogg!

Don't miss our full stream of Raheem Devaughn 's latest album Love Behind the Melody !

What YOU like (cuz we know what you want): Nelly Furtado, Gnarls Barkley, Ne-Yo, 50 Cent, Eminem, Black Eyed Peas, Pussycat Dolls, Rihanna, Green Day, Mariah Carey, The Rolling Stones, Fall Out Boy, T.I., My Chemical Romance, System of a Down, Sean Paul, Kanye West, Bow Wow, D4L, Gwen Stefani, Kelly Clarkson, blink-182, Pretty Ricky, Madonna, Destiny's Child, Ying Yang Twins, Ciara, Rihanna, Nickelback, Nelly, Linkin Park, Young Jeezy, Britney Spears, R. Kelly, Rage Against the Machine, Ashlee Simpson, Hilary Duff, Usher, Akon, Ray J, Coldplay, Simple Plan, Lindsay Lohan, T-Pain, James Blunt

What WE like (cuz we're music snobs): Beck, Josh Rouse, Boards of Canada, James McMurtry, Paul Westerberg, My Morning Jacket, Brazilian Girls, Dresden Dolls, Band of Horses, Ulrich Schnauss, The White Stripes, Spoon, The Hives, Black Eyed Peas (yeah, we like them too), Kanye (ditto), Gwen Stefani (okay, we're not as snobby as we pretend to be), k-os, Pinback, Ivy, Scissor Sisters, Feist, New Pornographers, Sarah Lee Guthrie, MIA, Go! Team, Sage Francis, Crooked Fingers, Bassnectar, The Kills, Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Replacements, Teenage Fan Club, Talking Heads, The Beautiful South, Van Morrison, Soul Coughing, Stevie Wonder, The Who, Lemon Jelly, The Jayhawks, Chicago, Led Zeppelin, Tegan & Sara, Bebel Gilberto, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bob Dylan, Belle & Sebastian

Movies:

Who needs 'em...we've got viral videos .

Television:

Who watches that? We're YouTube addicts.

Books:

What are those? We read magazines, though. Those guys over at Filter are pretty cool. And Teen People. Wanna know what the next big thing is gonna be? Read Teen People. Seriously.

Heroes:



My Blog

The Montreal quartet Plants and Animals let us in our their favorite albums

The genre-bending quartet Plants and Animals are the latest band to emerge from Montreal's seemingly unending avalanche of inspired indie acts. Despite their shared geographical roots with The Arcade ...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Fri, 09 May 2008 03:21:00 PST

We interview Flo Rida, Floridas hottest rap export!

You knock on enough doors and eventually someone has to let you in. Flo Rida, the newest edition to Florida’s rap high council, should know. Early in his career, he came out to Los Angeles witho...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 01:07:00 PST

Get down to our interview with dance music titans Justice!

Through a plume of cigarette smoke, one half of Justice, Xavier de Rosnay, exhales and muses, "This venue looks like Indiana Jones. I feel like we’re playing Disneyland. It’s cool, though...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 11:53:00 PST

Check out our interview with Southern indie rockers Ha Ha Tonka!

The Ozarks might strike you as the last place to look for indie’s next buzz band, but up-and-comers Ha Ha Tonka prove that hipster approved rock can turn up in the most unlikely places. Emerging...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:17:00 PST

Interview: Liela Moss of The Duke Spirit sits down for an interview!

Let’s face it: the female musicians that are in the limelight right now are only there because they are doing something bad... Britney, Amy, who knows who will be next. It’s long overdue t...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 11:03:00 PST

We talk with Xiu Xiu’s enigmatic front man Jamie Stewart

Xiu Xiu is music as primal scream therapy. The group tap into a subcortical layer of emotion through their distorted cacophonies and lead singer Jamie Stewart's lyrical tantrums. It's a deeply persona...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:38:00 PST

Video Interview: We talk with electronic music icon Moby!

ARTISTdirect conducted an exclusive video interview with electronic music icon Moby. In the below video, he discusses everything from his latest techno epic Last Night (April 1st Mute) to scoring Sou...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:07:00 PST

Video Interview: We chat with pop princess Ashlee Simpson on the eve of her CD release

 ARTISTdirect got the chance to sit down with pop mega-star Ashlee Simpson at the world famous Roosevelt hotel for an exclusive video interview. Below, are two angles of our time with the singer...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 02:23:00 PST

Three Inches of Blood let us in on how to be a Goatrider in our latest interview

Raise up the devil horns and pound your fists, because Vancouver's 3 Inches of Blood have released one of the most "metal" records that the Great White North has ever seen. The band is so "metal" in f...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:15:00 PST

Dont miss our interview with broadway/pop star Idina Menzel!

Talent is being able to make a green-skinned, so-called wicked witch into a character so sympathetic that she wins you a Tony award. That's exactly what the multi-talented performer Idina Menzel was a...
Posted by ARTISTdirect on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:00:00 PST