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Miley Cyrus' Controversial Photos Spark Fierce Debate Among Fans, Parents

You'd have to be living under a large gray blanket for the past few days not to hear about Miley Cyrus' photo spread for next month's Vanity Fair, shot by the renowned Annie Leibovitz. But despite Cyrus' quick apology, the impact of MileyGate is still being felt as hoards of teens and parents alike have been forced to consider the rights and wrongs of the 15-year-old "Hannah Montana" star's risqué photos.

Coldplay Indulges Experimentation On Fourth Album

Coldplay lets its creative flag fly on its fourth studio album, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," due June 17 via Capitol. "We're still obsessed with making songs that can be sung to the rafters," frontman Chris Martin says. "We just wanted to present them differently."

Alicia Keys: Unlocked

In order to find herself, she had to leave the music industry, take a trip down the Nile and learn how to tear down the walls she’d spent most of her life building.

It's early Friday evening in Copenhagen and Alicia Keys is about to emit some deeply bizarre sounds. These trills and jabbers will loosen her vocal cords, exercise her diaphragm and guard against any accidentally bizarre sounds when she takes the stage at the Falconer Salen, an ultramodern concert hall carved into a boxy luxury hotel. Her valet, a skinny guy named Francis, enters her dressing room, adjusts the height of an electric Yamaha keyboard, then disappears to get his boss some potato-spinach soup. The decor suggests a mail-order catalogue called Diva Comfort Depot: Floral-printed scarves enshroud floor lamps; scented candles glow atop ottomans draped with light-purple fabric; dainty white ramekins cradle dried fruits; and in the corner, a humidifier puffs out little steam clouds of calm. The tableau is a portable monument to mood. On tour, every night, this is where Keys goes “to get my head right.”

Which is why she’s kicking Blender out. “You,” she says bluntly, “need to leave now.”

In The Studio: Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand go for a “dry sound” à la “’70s Ike and Tina records” for their third album.

Dear Superstar: Stephen Malkmus

The frontman of ’90s indie-rock heroes Pavement on feuding with Billy Corgan, spending time in the clink and what it would take to get his old band back together.

Who Does Adam Duritz Think He Is?

The Counting Crows singer takes an "absolute fruit salad of medication" and has Astroturf in his apartment. Is that why he "disgusts people"? Turn that frown upside down and tell us...

Explain your self-portrait.
It’s me, hanging myself on my own big mouth. There’s a game of Hangman in which I can’t get the U, which is typical of me: I only get to me, I never get to you. It says, WHY CAN'T I EVER J_ST SH_T THE F_CK _P?

Beatle Bob: The World's Most Obsessive Fan

Rock stars invite him onstage, but he can't sing. He's been to more than 5,000 live shows in 11 years, but he may have nowhere to live.

On a cold, clear Friday night in November, a 55-year-old man in a blue pinstripe blazer, a red paisley shirt and black pants ducks into the cramped lobby of a nightclub called Off Broadway.

Almost Famous: The Teenagers

Meet the horniest band in indie rock. The Teenagers—a Paris-born, London-based trio—have conquered the blogosphere with their libidinous (yet oddly sweet) synth-pop ballads. “Starlett Johansson” is about bagging a certain American movie star,” says guitarist Dorian Dumont: “I’m lucky my mom does not speak English.”

Taylor Swift: Little Miss Perfect

Sorry, TMZ: Music�s newest superstar is 18, writes her own songs, hasn't kissed a boy in two years and still lives, happily, with her mom and dad.

20 Biggest record company screwups ever

They Never Even Recouped Their Aqua Net Expenses
#20 As grunge dawns, one label bets on hair metal
In 1989, with hair metal reaching its zenith, the A&R department at MCA Records finally decided to get in on the act—by tossing a rumored $1 million at L.A. band Pretty Boy Floyd, who at the time had played only eight shows. The band’s debut, Leather Boyz With Electric Toyz, peaked at No. 130 on the Billboard charts, and the Floyd blew another mil or so of MCA’s money before the label finally dropped them in 1991 … right around the time the suits blew a chance to sign a fledgling Seattle outfit called Nirvana.
Unintended consequence Around 1992, the Sunset Strip pizza-delivery scene gets a fresh infusion of talent.