MTV.com News — Season-seven 'American Idol' finalist raves about writing with new judge Kara DioGuardi.By Gil Kaufman Jason Castro performs on 'American Idol' season seven Photo: Fox To Jason Castro fans, this week's news that the dreadlocked "American I... more info

All About Jazz — The set times for Coachella have been posted and it looks like the Ghostland Observatory set will be quite ghostly indeed. The freaky computer soul purveyors from Austin, Texas, have the misfortune to be cast into the Sahara tent during Leonard Co... more info

JamBase — By: Jim Welte Chris Darrow by Steve Cahill Ben Harper first started playing guitar when he was 18, spending countless hours toiling away at the Folk Music Center, the music shop owned by his grandparents in his hometown of Claremont, California. ... more info

L.A. Times - Entertainment — The festival lineup is full of bands they've influenced. Morrissey will perform Friday. For a gathering that's mostly about new music, this weekend's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Fe... more info

The Vinyl Villain — This was originally posted on Thursdau 29th March 2007 during a short series looking at Compilation CDs.Some of my favourite performers have been the subject of tribute albums, the results of which have, to put it mildly, been mixed. There was a grea... more info

MTV.com News — Debut to feature collaboration with 'American Idol' judge Kara DioGuardi.By Gil Kaufman Jason Castro Photo: Gary Gershoff/ WireImage Almost a year after he flubbed his way out of the top four on "American Idol," dreadlocked singer Jason Ca... more info

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JamBase — BROOKLYN TRIO SET TO BUST OUT OF UNDERGROUND IN '09 "The group utilizes elastic rhythms and dark subject matter that gives its songs a slow burn resonance. Fans of Feist should be head over heels in no time." -Spin.com "The self-assured Elizabeth a... more info

All About Jazz — "No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive," the actor and filmmaker John Cassavetes once said. Cassavetes, who died at age 59, never really got to test out his assertion. Leave it to ... more info

All About Jazz — What to say about the grand lion of singer-songwriter-dom except that it's always great to have Leonard Cohen back onstage? If you can't catch his set at Coachella, here's your next best occasion to hear "Hallelujah" and the rest of the slivers fr... more info