May 24, 2013 – When Katy Perry tweeted on Tuesday, "Just heard a new song on the radio called 'I hate being sober' I now have serious doubt for the world,” she was more right than she knew.Ugh. Okay, so "I Hate Being Sober" is a track from Chief Keef's Essential major-label debut, Finally Rich.

May 24, 2013 – If Daft Punk are doing it right, everybody will be streaming them and they'll be breaking records set by corny bands. Also, Mad Men's Ken Cosgrove will be dancing to Random Access Memories' Panda Bear collaboration "Doin' It Right." So we're partway there!Hypebot notes, Daft Punk's Essential new album is on pace for the most streams ever in its first week of release. That would put it ahead of Mumford & Sons' Babel, which holds the current record with more than eight million streams in its first seven days of U.S. release.Whether or not the French dance-pop duo can beat the British folk-rockers, Random Access Memories has already set a slew of social-media records. First single "Get Lucky" had the biggest opening day of streams worldwide since Spotify began, racking up more than 28 million streams globally to date.

May 24, 2013 – American Idol fever — and the drinks — were so strong in one Pennsylvania home that a couple ended up stabbing each other during the recent season finale.According to the York Dispatch (via the Hollywood Reporter), 48-year-old Karen Elaine Harrelson and 57-year-old Gregory L. Stambaugh were watching the show and drunkenly arguing about which of the two finalists should win: Candice Glover or Kree Harrison. At some point, police told the Dispatch, one person grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed the other. Then the stabbing victim stabbed the stabber.Luckily, neither sustained life-threatening injuries. Unluckily, both were hit with assault charges and at last check were in prison pending tens of thousands of dollars' bail.For those who'd like to play this particular Idol drinking game, the couple helpfully told police their beverages of choice.

May 24, 2013 – "U always get the dream that U deserve from what U value the most," Prince (one of our Greatest Alternative Drummers of All Time) declares on "Fixurlifeup," the gnarled funk-rocker he performed with backing band 3rdEyeGirl the same night Miguel crotch-planted on an audience member's head. When the song first surfaced online, what stood out was the Purple One's grungy new sonic direction, but the newly posted video emphasizes the politically charged lyrical content. The clip circulated earlier this week but was taken down almost immediately, and now it's back online — for good, we hope.In it, we see the fancifully attired, ever-eyelinered pop legend in the midst of what looks to be a ferocious performance with 3rdEyeGirl, as lyrics and relevant images flash across the screen, including a few of Occupy-like mass protests — with shades of Thurston Moore's latest Chelsea Light Moving video.

May 23, 2013 – Let's hope Marissa Mayer is reading this. While the Yahoo CEO is betting the company's hugely expensive purchase of Tumblr will somehow pay off better than Rupert Murdoch's hugely expensive purchase of MySpace, Twitter's new music-discovery app is showing the shortcomings of big companies buying online startups with uncertain revenue models.As Hypebot points out, Twitter #Music recently dropped out the top 100 free music apps for Apple mobile devices. As we type this, it stands at #117, between apps for Metallica's Orion Music + More Festival and upstate New York's Mountain Jam festival; it's also behind something called Cat Piano. But the month-old music recommendation service is already updating its features.

May 23, 2013 – Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has spoken out on the tornado that killed at least 24 people, including nine children, this week in the suburbs of his hometown Oklahoma City.Speaking to the Daily Beast from the United Kingdom, where the band was performing behind Essential new album The Terror, Coyne extolled the strength of Oklahoma's people, reflected on his own experiences living in Tornado Alley, and emphasized the big-picture view that we should be helping each other even when it's not a time of disaster.Coyne said he heard about the tragedy while in a London hotel room recovering from the flu, and he was able to confirm that his friends and loved ones were okay. "Even though the city suffered a tragedy, I'm still standing tall and thinking, 'Yeah.

May 23, 2013 – Not touring is central to Andrew Cedermark's upcoming album, Home Life (due out July 16 on Underwater Peoples). "The thought is that you're on the road being an artist," the former Titus Andronicus guitarist told SPIN. "But when you're on tour and you're driving around, going from town to town, you're not really engaging with the stuff of life and everything that makes your art relatable to other people.

May 23, 2013 – Generationals' new album Heza, the follow-up to 2011's Actor-Caster and 2009's Con Law, is out now on Polyvinyl. The strummy New Orleans indie-pop outfit have released a video for Heza's bittersweet jangler "Spinoza," which shows frontman Ted Joyner running outdoors through his city. It's an evocative and charming introduction to the record, and it comes as Generationals have added new dates to their tour with fellow Big Easy band Brass Bed, among others.

May 23, 2013 – PSY's "Gangnam Style" video was been watched well more than one billion times, but in a way he's still as unrecognizable as Daft Punk. An unidentified guy who doesn't even look that much like the South Korean pop singer donned sunglasses and managed to con his way into the Cannes Film Festival by pretending to be PSY.According to the Hollywood Reporter, the fake PSY was seen all over the French town, and he managed to fool not only partygoers who posed for pictures with him, but also the Getty Images celebrity division FilmMagic. Actress Naomi Harris also tweeted a photo of herself with not-PSY.The real PSY eventually caught wind, tweeting from Singapore, "Seems like there's another ME at cannes ...

May 23, 2013 – Goats and house producer Todd Edwards aren't the only ones remixing Daft Punk's Essential, chart-friendly Random Access Memories. As MTV points out, the French duo's Thomas Bangalter told BBC Radio 1's Pete Tong he and partner Guy-Manuel de Homem Christo will also be remixing tracks from the new album themselves."We're working on some mixes ourselves," Bangalter said. "So, yes, there will probably be Daft Punk mixes of Daft Punk.