Blog Posts by Tiffany Lee

Although plenty of people would wish it so, you'd be hard-pressed to avoid the unbelievably catchy pop phenomenon that is Canadian singer Carly Rae Jepsen's "Call Me Maybe." With a danceable rhythm, lyrics that will sear themselves into your brain, and backing from superstar Justin Bieber (and his powerful friends), it looks like the international chart-topper is positioned to be the song of summer 2012... Maybe?

Garbage has returned! The 90s-defining alternative rock band has made a triumphant reunion seven years since their last album to release their fifth record, "Not Your Kind Of People." Yahoo! Music's resident rocker Dave DiMartino sat down with the band in a studio in San Fernando Valley, CA to chat the past, present and future of Garbage, plus we've got an exclusive live performance! It may have been a while, but the bands raging guitars, quaking drums and Shirley Manson's snarling vocals are as dark, sexy and electrifying as ever.

Watch Garbage talk about creating music in the digital revolution, dealing with labels and why they waited so long to make their fifth record:

During the seven years between albums, the Garbage members pursued their own projects since going on an indefinite hiatus in 2005. Manson recorded an unreleased solo album and even delved into acting, landing a recurring role on Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles. Drummer and producer Butch Vig worked on

[Photos: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images; Rick Diamond/Getty Images for BMI]Pop singer Kelly Clarkson is reaping both the rewards and downfalls of no longer being "just me, myself and I." The 30-year-old singer, who rarely ever talks about her private life, opened up to Zap2It that her current boyfriend Brandon Blackstock is "ruining [her] creativity" when it came to songwriting! But it isn't a lack of inspiration that's plaguing the "Duets" star. Clarkson said, "I'm trying to write a tough song and I can't; it's coming out all butterflies and rainbows. It's killing me."

Looks like her fans won't be expecting another single ladies anthem anytime soon—but instead they can maybe expect a slimmer, toner Clarkson!

Missed our live stream of PHILM's performance at TRI Studios? Watch videos of our favorite moments and the show in its entirety!

If you're looking for the standard demonic vocals and titanium-shredding guitars that made Slayer a metal mainstay, keep on walking. But if you're looking for a band with a unique sound to please both music snobs and life-long metal heads, LA-based PHILM delivers. Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo brought together bassist Pancho Tomaselli of War and singer/guitarist Gerry Nestler of Civil Defiance to form a genre-spanning power trio. The band integrates metal with elements of heavy 60s rock and modern psych topped off with endlessly impressive riffs and eye-gouging drums to create a sound Lombardo describes as "rhythmic emotion."

"The band's sound is channeled through the many different influences of drum and bass, expressionism, and underground, that ranges via ancient and indigenous to street," said Nestler. Given the background of each band member, their

[Photo: Courtesy of Lady Gaga]Who can forget the piece of prime cut couture that Lady Gaga unveiled at the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards? Well, turns out the concept hasn't been put out to pasture just yet. Lady Gaga tweeted a photo of herself, taken by infamous fashion photographer Terry Richardson, performing in a similarly themed, but shorter and tighter meat dress at her Born This Way Ball show on May 10 in Tokyo, Japan. To garnish it off, the superstar performed her song "Americano" while flanked by pretty fake-looking, albeit shudder-inducing animal carcasses.

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Tom Gabel, popular punk rocker and lead of the band Against Me!, has announced plans to live as a woman.

Gabel, 31, grew up with gender dysmorphia, a condition in which one feels trapped in the wrong gender's body.

Gabel, who is considering gender reassignment surgery, has started taking female hormones and has undergone electrolysis.

"I'm going to have embarrassing moments, and that won't be fun," the musician says in the June issue of Rolling Stone (which hits newsstands Friday).

"But that's part of what talking to you is about — is hoping people will understand, and hoping they'll be fairly kind."

[Related: Gaslight Anthem, GLAAD Support Tom Gabel Coming Out as Transgender]

The rocker will go by the name Laura Jane Grace (Gabel has a "Grace" tattoo) and will remain married to wife Heather. The two have a daughter, 2.

"For me, the most terrifying thing about this was how she would accept the news," Gabel says about Heather. "But she's been super-amazing and understanding."

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What could be more anticipated: The triumphant return of seminal grunge band Soundgarden or the upcoming multi-hero'd "Avengers" movie? Well, for buffs of both music and movies, there's no need to make an executive decision. The super and the sonic have clashed in Soundgarden's "Live to Rise" video.

[Related: 'Marvel's The Avengers' on Yahoo! Movies]

The video combines the simplicity of an intimate band performance with some seriously action-packed scenes from the movie that's hitting theaters May 4. With a ridiculously A-List lineup of stars, including Robert Downy Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Mark Ruffalo and Chris Evans to name just a few, it's no wonder Soundgarden re-emerged 15 years after their last original recording to write a song just for the Joss Whedon-directed film. With New York City getting destroyed by robots, mutants, aliens, sexy ladies and what have you (can you tell I don't know much about the Marvel world?), Soundgarden's hard-rocking riffs and

[Photo: Neilson Barnard/Getty Images]Courtney Love is running out of fingers to count her losses on. The Hole singer and erratic tweeter has reportedly lost all publicity rights to her late husband Kurt Cobain's image. According to The Fix, sealed documents state that her 19-year-old daughter Frances Bean Cobain (whom Love lost custody of in 2009) now holds any rights to Kurt's name, likeness and appearance. Unless Love can pay back $2.75 million loaned out from Frances' trust fund, she's out for good.