Blog Posts by Tiffany Lee

dovesDecades in the making, Britpop band Doves were coming off their second consecutive UK #1 album when they made the pilgrimage to SXSW in 2005. Flooding the stage with expansive rock and shimmering pop, Yahoo! got the exclusive on the band's highly anticipated performance!

Watch Doves play their hit single "Black & White Town" at La Zona Rosa in Austin, TX:

Back when they were still tearing up night clubs and underground venues, Bloc Party set foot on one of the many SXSW stages in 2005 just after the release of their critically-acclaimed debut album Silent Alarm. The raucous indie group's album shot up the charts, was certified platinum and deemed "Album of the Year" at the PLUG Awards and NME.

Watch the UK band perform their North American breakthrough single "Banquet" at Stubb's BBQ in Austin, TX.

Wait, what? Hard-partying connoisseur Andrew WK has been named the face of feminine products company Playtex's new Fresh + Sexy wipes. Because nothing says so fresh and so clean like the long-haired, flailing, sweaty man who's most recognizable when covered in blood. (*Gasp* is that why Playtex thought of him?)

But seriously, this is a real thing.

Who would've thought that Nine Inch Nails mastermind Trent Reznor could be so pop friendly? A mash-up of Reznor's "Head Like A Hole" and Carly Rae Jepsen's diabetes-inducing monster hit "Call Me Maybe" has been making the internet rounds this week to the groans of hard rock fans and LOLs of well, most everyone else.

Soundcloud user pomDeterrific took Jepsen's contagious track and replaced the vocals with Reznor's lyrics ever so effortlessly. If one somehow never heard either song before, "Call Me A Hole" (ick) could totally pass under the humor radar. The mash-up is such a violation to both pop and hard rock purists, but it's just... so good!

When singer Ellie Goulding hints at a secret show, people will listen.

The enchanting English songbird dropped that gem to her 1.2 million Twitter followers a day before her exclusive pop-up performance for Yahoo! Crash Concerts at Los Angeles’ most Instagrammable location: LACMA’s "Urban Lights" exhibit, a cluster of 202 antique street lamps that have become the museum’s defining image. We'll save you the Lights puns.

Emerging from the electric forest, Goulding appeared in a hot pink fuzzy sweater, leather pants and her signature white-blonde hair to greet the packed courtyard that extended to the facing balconies. Fans cheered and passersby excitedly took to their phones to share their shock at coming across the singer’s first ever surprise show. Considering the appearance was bookended by

It-musician Claire Boucher, a.k.a. Grimes, has recently released designed a capsule collection for Saint Laurent Paris in collaboration with the label's Creative Director and photographer Hedi Slimane. The short series of mens t-shirts featuring serpentine birds and trippy tribal masks were inspired by Yves Saint Laurent's original 70s "love posters" and a few re-purposed drawings that Boucher had previously sent to Slimane for a Vogue Japan editorial.

Photo Courtesy: CSU Archives/Everett Collection

Classical pianist Van Cliburn has passed away on Wednesday morning at his home in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 78. Cliburn, whose talent triumphed over the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, was diagnosed with advanced bone cancer six months ago. He is survived by his longtime friend Thomas L. Smith, with whom he shared his home.

In the midst of the Cold War, a Julliard-trained 23-year-old Cliburn took first place at the inaugural 1958 Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow. The victory was widely regarded as not just an American victory, but on a grander scheme a victory over the Soviet Union. The pianist was lauded upon his return to the U.S. with a New York City ticket tape parade, a Time magazine cover saluting him as "The Texan Who Conquered Russia", and pop star-level fame.

Signing to RCA Victor, Cliburn's recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concert No. 1 was the very first classical album to go platinum, eventually went triple-platinum, and earned the pianist

Photo: FacebookRapper Kenny Clutch has been identified as the shooting victim from Thursday morning’s fiery Las Vegas strip drive-by. Three people were left dead along with another three injured after a black Range Rover pulled alongside the rapper’s moving Maserati and fired into the car, hitting Clutch and his passenger.

After shots were fired, Clutch’s car swerved into oncoming traffic, hitting several vehicles and crashing into a taxi. The taxi to burst into flames and eventually exploded, killing the taxi driver and passenger. Clutch’s passenger was hurt, but not killed.

The tragic death of the 27-year-old rapper, whose real name is Kenneth Cherry Jr., is eerily reminiscent of Tupac Shakur’s murder in Las Vegas in 1996. Fights preceded both murders earlier in the night.

Police are still searching for the gunmen.

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