MTV.com News — Online news outlets obtained a probation officer's report filed before Brown's sentencing.By MTV News staff Rihanna and Chris Brown in 2008 Photo: Frank Micelotta/ Getty Images Just hours after Chris Brown was formally sentenced to five ye... more info

Altsounds — **KISS** announced today that **SONIC BOOM**—the band’s highly anticipated CD, and its first new material in 11 years—will be released in the UK and Europe through **Loud & Proud/Roadrunner Records** on 5th **October 2009 *... more info

Robert M Edsel, Author of Monuments Men. Matthew Hawthorne MORE... Add to my: Blog this on: As World War II raged, Adolf Hitler retained an ambition to build the world's finest museum in his hometown of Linz, Austria. He planned to call it the FÃÃ... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — As many of you may be aware, Liam took to his private Twitter page yesterday to apologise for Oasis not being able to play at Sunday's V Festival and quash tabloid trash about it being the last ever Oasis UK gig:"The voice may of disappeared but I'm ... more info

Time — In his new book Monuments Men, Robert Edsel tells the stories ofthe men and women dedicated to rescuing the world's greatest artworks fromthe Nazis during World War II more info

Stereogum — This past weekend the Josh Homme/Dave Grohl/John Paul Jones supergroup Them Crooked Vultures did two festival gigs in Europe, including the "surprise" set which surprised nobody at Belgium's Pukkelpop. We're still waiting on the trio to stop playi... more info

Here Comes The Flood — Kraftwerk live in Stockholm - photo: Andréas Hagström To coincide with the 35ht anniversary of the electro classic Autobahn all eight Kraftwerk albums are released in various formats, most notably as eight disc box set named 12345678 The Catal... more info

Roadrunner Records — KISS announced today that SONIC BOOM—the band’s highly anticipated CD, and its first new material in 11 years—will be released in the UK and Europe through Loud & Proud/ more info

Sky News — One lucky Italian punter has scooped a record £127m in what Italy claims is Europe's biggest lottery jackpot. more info

Altsounds — Fresh off tours in the United States and Europe and welcomed by 5,000+ at his own homecoming party, Montreal’s pioneering beat maker, Poirier, is unwilling to slow down. Run The Riddim, his second, and latest, EP installment (the first being... more info