411 Mania — From his review of Girl Talk's New Years Eve Bash in Chicago to the Soundgarden reunion, new Nine Inch Nails music, Bow Wow drunk-driving and Tweeting about it, Congress honoring Michael Jackson's "Thriller" video, and Elton John helping Eminem with ... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — photos by Graeme Flegenheimer Who needs a traditional ball drop when countless rolls of toilet paper are unfurled into the crowd? Continuous streams of white tissue were one of the festive components that helped Girl Talk ring in the New... more info

MTV.com News — Gaga's Miami show is one of the hottest bills in the country.By Gil Kaufman Lady Gaga Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage It's fitting that MTV's Woman of the Year is going to cap off a tremendous 2009 by playing one of the most anticipated New Y... more info

Stereogum — There could not have been a more apt ID3 than that of Freelance Hellraiser's "Stroke Of Genius," the MP3 that launched this decade's most fitting musical legacy. Parts of two or three or thirty tracks mixed into one supersong? What better than mashup... more info

Rolling Stone — Mark your calendars: the dates for the 2010 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, have been confirmed. An announcement on the fest’s lineup is still being sorted out, but Coachella will be going down April 16th-18th. A... more info

Altsounds — It’s been over three years since the release of *Girl Talk’s Night Ripper*, the groundbreaking album that ultimately launched *Gregg Gillis’* frenzied career and brought him to the attention of so many. Finally, tomorrow, D... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The lineup for this year's Bamboozle Festival already contains Girl Talk and Weezer, and, as the 20 artists they announced for the fetival today confirm, it's probably just downhill from there. That said, Tickets are on sale (@ noon).... more info

I Guess I'm Floating — I got a chance to check out the "Brooklyn-via-Providence" electronic duo Javelin twice in November-- the first with The Very Best in Boston's tiny Great Scott venue and the second at a RISD/BrownU show in Providence with Yeasayer. The show with TVB ... more info

411 Mania — Little Richard has hip surgery, Stevie Wonder is a messenger for peace, Ron Wood is the not a messenger for peace, the government won't let Steve Albini be Santa Claus, Rivers Cuomo stops partying, Girl Talk talks reissues, Garfunkel and Oates rework... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Girl Talk @ Pool Party Summer '09 (more by Tim Griffin) Girl Talk's label Illegal Art is offering all of the Girl Talk albums, and their entire catalog, as pay-what-you-wish downloads. Not all of the label's back catalog is up,... more info