Stereogum — After kicking things off with the "Secret Agent Man" video, the men of DEVO launched into their debut LP Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, 3-D glasses in place. They didn't stop until the album was done -- tonight it's Freedom Of Choice, as both... more info

411 Mania — Eddie Vedder whips it good... more info

Rolling Stone — • News Ticker: Casablancas, Mary Travers • Rihanna Confirms Slash, Jeezy Guest on LP • This Is It Extends Run After $101 Mil Week • Pearl Jam Dress Like Devo for Epic Philly Gig • Weezer’s Cuomo on Lambert Team-Up • Green Day Perform as... more info

Rolling Stone — In honor of Halloween, our weekend Rock List was devoted to haunting Ghost Songs — or songs that just have the word “ghost” in the title. We counted the votes, and Johnny Cash’s terrifying retelling of “(Ghost) Riders in the Sky” beat out... more info

Stereogum — While you were out drinking as vampire Sarah Palins and slutty John McCains (research for this post conducted in 2008), musicians were celebrating Halloween in myriad ways their own: Phish covered Exile In Main Street in Indio; Titus Andronicus di... more info

Rolling Stone — Pearl Jam capped their four-night, sold-out stand at Philadelphia’s Wachovia Spectrum — the final concerts in the arena before it’s razed — by dressing up in Devo’s famed jumpsuits and “energy dome” hats and launching into the band’s ... more info

Rolling Stone — New York-based photographer Michael Lavine was on the frontlines as grunge music took hold in the late 1980s. His new book, Grunge, featuring a foreword from Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore, collects hundreds of photographs of iconic bands like N... more info

Stereogum — They've enlisted the NSA to uncover records detailing how loud music is used as an interrogation tactic. Previously unearthed documents suggest NIN, Drowning Pool (they're flattered), and RHCP were blasted along with the Meow Mix jingle. More here. more info

411 Mania — "It's anti-American, period." more info

Perez Hilton — They had no idea and they are pissed!!! Famed musicians, such as R.E.M. and Pearl Jam have filed a series of Freedom of Information requests, asking the government to declassify documents that would reveal which artist's catalogs were used in severa... more info