ContactMusic — New York star Lady GaGa has retained the UK number one spot with Poker Face for a second week.The singer - real name Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta - scored ... more info

411 Mania — New single from Death Magnetic, plus the band's entire catalog going digital... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Kravitz/FilmMagic We caught soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Metallica’s surprise SXSW performance, then hung out with James Hetfield to talk Guitar Hero. Plus, the heavy metal gods announced more tour dates, released a “Broken, Be... more info

Rolling Stone — Metallica have debuted the video for their Death Magnetic cut “Broken, Beat and Scarred” on their official Website (it’s not embeddable just yet, so click on over to get a look). Directed by music video vet Wayne Isham and filmed at a pair of D... more info

Idolator — Bruce Springsteen and Co. just completed two hometown rehearsal shows, and some superfans are grumbling about setlist selection. It's not that the shows are bad; it's that the setlists are rather stale. The Boss has a huge catalog with tons of deep... more info

Perez Hilton — Spotted: Rihanna at nightclub Les Deux in Hollywood on Wednesday night. WITHOUT Chris Beat Her Down. Yay! more info

NME - Pinglewood — Tom Courtenay stars in the new video for CFCF's You Hear Colours, but not the current 72-year-old knight of the realm, it's the lean, brooding 25-year-old from Tony Richardson’s classic 1962 adaptation of The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner.... more info

Perez Hilton — We hope Rihanna and Chris Beat Her Down are still on their break, cuz you know RiRi deserves so much better! On a positive note, Rihanna has been house-hunting in Los Angeles. Without the douchebag! Yesterday, RiRi and some friends went on a house-hu... more info

Idolator — The twitchy, bewitching Baltimore three-piece Celebration has announced that it's releasing all of its music for free going forward, saying that the band is moving "past the piles of broken CD cases and badly scratched polycarbonate rainbow discs" (a... more info

WFMU's Beware of the Blog — Eefing (sometimes spelled eeefin' or eephin', among other variations) is a jarringly weird hillbilly vocal tradition that traces its birth back to at least the 19th century. Sometimes described as sounding like a wheezily rhythmic asthma atta... more info