Kesha peed in the sink. Kesha says it’s just being an animal. No doubt is all relevant,Kesha (Ke$ha)hasjust released her album titled “Animal” earlier this month. Uh-oh, but peeing in the sink?Is that too wild or not? I think I would faint if I saw someone peeing in the sink, wouldn’t you? But then again [...]

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The Jersey Shore have signed on for a second season. MTV ordered 12 more episodes of debaucherous fun with all cast members returning. While usmagazine.com won’t get into how much each cast member is making, it was rumored all last week and the week before that cast members were squabbling for an extra $5,000 an [...]

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Nicole Richie is upset people thought she was anorexic. Remember back in the day — pre babies — when Nicole Richie literally weighed about 80 pounds? Well, she claims all those tabloid accusations of her battling an eating disorder were hurtful and untrue.

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Is Taylor Swiftdating Cory Monteith?Taylor and Corywere spottedthe other night having dinner together by a couple readers of Zack Taylor’s blog. He was nice enough to give us the heads up.

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Los Angeles trio the Delta Mirror say they’re of a mind with bands like the Big Pink and Fuck Buttons, acts bent simultaneously toward shoegaze and electronics. But the DM is less expansive and less noisy, respectively, than those acts: Their debut LP Machines That Listen is downcast and down-tempo, heartfelt and brooding, immersive and swirling. It’s also gorgeous and incredibly repeatable. The beats are savvy. They glitch and break unpredictably, tricks the trio’s Craig Gordon and David Bolt no doubt picked up while working in their hip-hop project prior to this one. Lyrically, each song takes place in a different room of a hospital; it’s an emotional and conceptual palette that mirrors the Antlers’ Hospice. There are three voices at play, including bassist Karrie K’s, but it’s a gothy baritone that pushes most of the songs, registering like Interpol’s Paul Banks discovering IDM and M83. You should hear the whole record, but start with the gem “He Was Worse Than The Needle He Gave You.” You can grab it below, along with the premiere of its beat-flipped, upticked remix which, true to the band’s hip-hop roots, is filed by anticon dude Alias. And cap it all with a listen of “A Room For Waiting,” patiently post-rock in its piano-tinkling, exquisitely textured, a good example of the Delta Mirror’s ability to blend beats to phrases that become scenery-setting mantras: “You tell me to be patient because I’m not the only one but tell me how many were before me / how many were before me tell me how many were before me…” Great stuff:

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Goldenvoice now insists that you buy in for all three days of its Indio fest, saying “single- and two-day people are clogging up the hotels and making it so people who want to go for three days can’t find a hotel.” On the flip, camping prices are down. (At least all three days look great this year.) More at LA Times.

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