Timbaland

LONDON CALLING

Alunageorge play Bowery Ballroom

Forget Justin Timberlake and Destiny's Child -- Timbaland and Pharrell Are Back!

So, Justin Timberlake and Destiny's Child dropped two singles over the weekend, and people who mostly grew up in the last decade rejoiced. Everybody else was like, "What the hell is this all about?" Both these major pop entities haven't dropped new music in a long while. Timberlake, who hasn't rele ... More >>

Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon

VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>

Pop Chat: Our Critics Discuss Demi Lovato's Unbroken And The Uneasy Transition Away From Radio Disney

Demi Lovato, not pleased with her advance copy of our thoughts on her new record.​ In the span of months, Disney star Demi Lovato, only 19, has gone from ugly tabloid stories—many probably false, but still—about cocaine, eating disorders and regrettable parties to releasing her third ... More >>

Soundgarden

Chris Cornell

No, Timbaland Did Not Try To Commit Suicide

​TMZ with the scoop re: a disturbing "possible suicide attempt APB" put out yesterday on Timbaland, reportedly distraught over the theft of his $2 million Jacob & Co. watch. (!!!!?) They found him, the cops talked to him, and "after the evaluation, paramedics determined Timbaland was not a thr ... More >>

LET'S DANCE

Björk spins at a dance party benefit for Haiti

Dirty Projectors

The Blueprint 3 Springs a Leak

​Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 seems to be arriving a little ahead of schedule: the Kanye-featuring/Kanye-produced "Hate," "Thank You" (also produced by Kanye), and "A Star Is Born," featuring J. Cole, have all burst out onto the internet in the last few hours, and there are intimations of more to come ... More >>

Timbaland Will Leak Your Songs, Rappers: Jay-Z's "Venus vs. Mars"

​The mind boggles at the torture and ritualistic maiming that must be underway inside Timbaland's lab, as the producer managed to leak all three of the tracks he produced for Jay-Z's Blueprint 3 within about 48 hours of one another. Jay: you might think about retaliating, and just pull all of ... More >>

The Next Contestant on That Blueprint 3 Screen: Jay-Z and Drake's "Off That"

​ At the fancy liberal arts college where I went to college, there were two major social groups: the impossibly wonky kids for whom learning things and being able to function as human beings were mutually exclusive possibilities, and the impossibly wealthy and dynastic kids whose reality was s ... More >>

Chris Cornell

New Sex Jam: M.I.A. Says "Hit That," Internet Confused

Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Jazmine Sullivan's "Need U Bad"

Madonna's Hard Candy

A half-centenarian provides more porny pop excellence

Jay-Z's New Timbaland Track: It's 1998 Again

Why Would Musicians Use Steroids?

The VMAs: A Running Diary

Justin Timberlake and Timbaland Need to Take a Break

Timbaland, Reconsidered Again

Status Ain't Hood Interviews M.I.A.

M.I.A.'s New Album Kala: A Preview

Live: Nelly Furtado Can't Dance

Bjork and Timbaland: Together at Last

Odes to Mother Earth

Ripping off the planet without clearing the samples

Status Ain't Hood's Quarterly Report: The Year's Best Singles

Preview: Timbaland's Shock Value

Scott Storch is an Idiot

Ancient Maneaters of the Future

The year's best-selling album made mass culture sound vapid; the year's hottest auteur made vapidity sound transcendent

Timbaland Gets Richer

The Quarterly Report: Best New Albums

The MTV Video Music Awards: A Running Diary

Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSound: Pop Album of the Year?

Nelly Furtado: Mutating Like Avian Flu

Pulling the White Strings

Light-skinned acts ride hip-hop’s changing tide with dark-skinned Svengalis

Do-Gooders Do Good

The most commendable political compilation of a watershed year for official liberalism

Gandalf Gets Swivey on the Wheels

Cool out, it's only Ringo and his three friends, doing the same stuff they've always done

Eyelash kisses in the Canuck electro-soulboy dreamhouse

Ain't No Beauty Queens in This Locality

MLK Fever

Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

The Riddims Method

Jamaican dancehall has arrived—secure in its identity, preposterous in its syncopation

Mix This

Young South Asians' Love-Hate Relationship with Hip-Hop's New Indian Beats

Less Is More

Backstabs in the Material World

It’s All in the Past Now; Money Changes Everything

Up Jumps Da Meme

That next bitch

That Next Bitch

Beat-itude

Tim’s Brio