Pop Justice — The heart-stopping combination of Pixie Lott, Nicole Scherzinger and Cee Lo Green all did stuff at The Royal Variety Performance in Manchester last night. (Daily Mail) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2070431/Royal-Variety-Performance-20... more info

Stereogum — When Loutallica met with director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) in the Bay Area last month, they were supposed to shoot a video for “Iced Honey.” Instead they made a video for single “The View.” Not that it matters if you watch ... more info

Stereogum — It’s become clear that basically the entire world actively despises the Lou Reed/Metallica clusterfuck Lulu. So obviously we’re all going to want to own a box-set edition of this thing, right? Imagine all the contrarian points we’ll score! As t... more info

ContactMusic — Johnny Depp and his singer girlfriend Vanessa Paradis have teamed up to record a duet for a Serge Gainsbourg tribute album The couple has covered Gainsbourgs 1971 track Ballade De Melody Nelson for From Gainsbourg to Lulu a compilation disc put toget... more info

Stereogum — The legendary French singer/libertine Serge Gainsbourg is a man worth honoring, and a new tribute album called From Lulu To Gainsbourg does just that. Gainsbourg’s son Lulu put together the tribute and sings about half the songs, but he also brough... more info

Stereogum — Fine, sure, everybody hated Lulu. But maybe we were just listening to it wrong! As Exclaim! points out, Lou Reed has just released his own line of signature Klipsch earbuds — a steal at $399.99 — and maybe those headphones’ increased fidelity w... more info

Metalsucks — We give Metallica a lot of shit ’round these parts. A LOT of shit. As if anyone could blame us after Lulu… but I digress. Today we’ll take a breather from our morning dose of haterade with a video of the Metallicats actually earning some points... more info

Metalsucks — The way metalheads describe him, Lou Reed is some sort of excavated relic from the Paleozoic era. Yes, I know you don’t like Lulu, but for fuck’s sake, the guy isn’t just some hobo Lars Ulrich found on the street begging for change and warning ... more info

Metal Injection — This is Lou Reed/Metallica two-in-one post. First off, the band performed on Later… with Jools Holland yesterday, and if you are really into torturing yourself, or staring at train wrecks that you can't look away from, then this clip is for yo... more info

Metalsucks — Lulu was originally announced as a “secret recording project,” and I thought that the use of the phrase “recording project” meant that we would never, ever have to hear this shit live.” Unfortunately, I was incorrect, ’cause Loutallica pe... more info