Persona Sauna — When you're only 16 years old, it's always smart to have a fallback plan and not just as the Queen-Bee of your imaginary high school. Gossip Girl might have finished their season last week, but that's not stopping Taylor Momsen from invading a city ... more info

MTV.com News — Actress/singer is putting the finishing touches on an album with her band, Pretty Reckless.By Jocelyn Vena, with reporting by Tim Kash Taylor Momsen Photo: MTV News It seems like everyone on "Gossip Girl" has caught the music bug. Leighton... more info

Stopcryingyourheartout.com — The full setlist for Rock Band Unplugged, the PSP version of Rock Band, has been confirmed to us by Harmonix & MTV Games this morning.Rock Band Unplugged Full Track List:2000s• AFI - "Miss Murder" *• All-American Rejects - "Move Along"ââ... more info

Guardian Music — Forget wah-wah pedals, smooth saxophones and Barry White, it's time to examine the science of sexy signifiers in musicHaving whipped through the kinky end of things last week, this time we take a look at the technical side of getting music bumping an... more info

Rolling Stone — Someone needs to give newly engaged rocker Trent Reznor his own talk show. After blasting Chris Cornell’s Timbaland-produced album Scream on Twitter in March, and even staging an elaborate April Fool’s hoax at the former Soundgarden and Audioslav... more info

Guardian Music — New wave oddballs Devo used to warn that consumerism was crumbling. Now they're back to say we told you so. Pat Long tips his funny hatOf the items on the list of Things That Were Big In The 1980s – apartheid, the very real threat of impending... more info

Rolling Stone — Seattle is famous for Starbucks, the Space Needle, and, of course, grunge, the early-Nineties movement responsible for producing rock icons like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden. For his new book, Grunge is Dead: The Oral History of Seattle Rock Mu... more info

Pop Tarts Suck Toasted — A while back I listed what I felt were the top ten album closers of the '90's so I think it's only appropriate that I finally give that list its obvious brother - the top ten album openers. After listening to these tunes, I think it's a pretty solid ... more info

XFM.co.uk — Chris Cornell says he wishes he'd attended the partial Soundgarden reunion and refuses to "count anything out" more info

Chicago Tribune — With Timbaland by his side (as producer), Chris Cornell has stepped away from his Soundgarden-screeching, Audioslave-rocking days and into a more pop-oriented sound on his latest solo CD "Scream." The ladies still swoon at Cornell's dark tresses a... more info