MTV.com News — Shortly before his death in 2003, the Man in Black talked about death, drugs, and hearing from fans.By Kyle Anderson, with reporting by Kurt Loder Johnny Cash talks to Kurt Loder in 2003 Photo: MTV News The great country legend Johnny Cash... more info

Chorus.fm — *Motion City Soundtrack* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/artists/showlink.php?l=1530) will be covering *Nine Inch Nails* (http://www.absolutepunk.net/artists/showlink.php?l=2528) at Hoodwink this year. A message from the band can be seen in the replies.... more info

Guardian Music — The troubled diva recently gave a car-crash concert in Australia. She should stop performing until she can deliver something worthy of her nameWhitney Houston has a problem. In fact, she seems to have a lot of problems. According to reports from Mond... more info

Guardian Music — A Facebook group for lovers of cured cucumbers has gained more fans the knuckle-dragging Canadian crew. It's like Rage Against the Machine and Joe McElderry all over againCanadian band Nickelback, the gravelly paragon of what's known as "modern rock"... more info

MTV.com News — Black Eyed Peas, Vampire Weekend and John Mayer also set to perform at Ireland's largest music festival.By Jayson Rodriguez Eminem and Jay-Z (file) Photo: Activision Eminem and Jay-Z will be among the marquee acts participating at the Oxeg... more info

My Old Kentucky — It's been a while since we trotted out Two For Flinching, largely because there have been so few flinch-worthy releases finding their way to my mailbox. Maybe it's holiday hangover, or the economy or the terrorists really have won. Whatever the reaso... more info

Guardian Music — If Darth Vader was in a band, then this would be his chosen instrumentWhat is it? In our previous column, we looked at synthesisers that pretend to be guitars. Now we take a look at the keytar's evil 1980s twin-synthesisers pretending to be guitars. ... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — For the first time since college (and that was quite some time ago…) I had a snow day yesterday! New York is absolutely covered with snow. It was beautiful yesterday, of course by now it’s a disgusting pool of black slush and mud. Yum. Anyway, to... more info

Guardian Music — As the tiny Wisconsin studio that recorded every major band of the grunge era prepares to shut up shop, its proprietor reminisces"Suddenly everybody wanted a remix with that edge, or Butch and/or Smart's name on it," says Steve Marker, ­talking ab... more info

Live Daily — In creating their latest album, "In This Light and on This Evening," the UK's Editors [ tickets ] walked the fine line of using synthetic instruments while maintaining a "human feel"--but, according to drummer Ed Lay, the use of keyboards and drum ma... more info