Dave Grohl will be the official ambassador of this year’s Record Store Day on April 18. Grohl follows Jack White and Chuck D, previous Record Store Day ambassadors, and will release Songs from the Laundry Room—a four-track 10″ EP featuring unreleased material by Foo Fighters—to celebrate the annual day dedicated to vinyl. (AV Club) Barry Manilow will get permanently off…

Rolling Stone digs into Bob Dylan‘s long speech accepting his MusiCares Person of the Year award, but even they can’t understand why, after thanking many artists, Dylan chose to dis Merle Haggard by saying “Merle Haggard didn’t think much of my songs…I love Merle but he’s no Buck [Owens].” The remark seems inexplicable, since Dylan and Haggard…

Although Kanye West stopped short of actually yanking the Best Album Grammy out of Beck‘s hands, he still thinks it should have gone to Beyoncé—and what’s more, he thinks Beck should hand the statuette over. “When you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of…

Bob Dylan accepted the annual MusiCares Person of the Year award on Friday night with a long speech that started with an acknowledgement of John Hammond—the legendary A&R man who signed Dylan to Columbia Records—and went on to thank many of the artists who helped popularize Dylan’s work, including Peter, Paul & Mary, Jimi Hendrix, and Joan Baez. Dylan also…

Gary Glitter, born Paul Gadd, has been convicted in London of several sex offenses against very young girls in the 1970s. Though Glitter’s 1972 song “Rock and Roll (Part II)” has remained popular as a jock jam, repeated revelations of sex crimes and child pornography have effectively ended his career as an active artist. The sentence for…

Sean Lennon is being sued for $10 million dollars by his next-door West Village neighbors, who just happen to be the parents of actress Marisa Tomei. Gary and Addie Tomei say that a “stink tree” owned by Lennon is damaging their foundation with its ever-growing roots, and that Lennon refuses to do anything about it. (Stereogum) Fresh of…

Prince and 3RDEYEGIRL played a surprise two-hour show in London on Monday night. The private show, in support of the charity Autism Rocks, included 34 songs including “When Doves Cry,” “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “FUNKNROLL,” and “U KNOW.” (NME) Now, will he show up at the Grammys on Sunday—and if so, what will he do? No one…

Saturday Night Live will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a three-hour show on Feb. 15. In addition to numerous past cast members and hosts, the show will feature musical guests including Paul McCartney, Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, Taylor Swift, and Paul Simon. (Billboard) Speaking of Sir Paul and Kanye, they have a new music video—with Rihanna. (Local Current) For just $20,000, you can…

Jamie Hewlett, the comic artist who co-created Gorillaz with Damon Albarn, posted new artwork on Instagram and confirmed that the virtual band will soon return, as Albarn indicated last fall. Gorillaz’ most recent album, The Fall, was released in 2011. (Billboard) Katy Perry satisfied fans with a Super Bowl halftime performance that included several of her hits. Perry was accompanied…

Are you one of the people who’s sick of hearing Journey‘s “Don’t Stop Believin'”? Sorry, but you’ve been disagreed with over 20 million times by Pandora users who have made the 34-year-old anthem the single most-liked song on the streaming service. Rounding out the top five most-liked songs are Drake‘s “The Motto,” Imagine Dragons‘ “Radioactive,” Mario‘s “Let Me Love You,” and Goo Goo…