The State vs. Radric Davis, the major label debut album from Atlanta cult-hero rapper Gucci Mane, hits stores today via So Icey/Asylum/Warner Bros. But the album is just the tip of the So Icey iceberg. Over the course of 2009, Gucci has released mixtape after mixtape, including the three-in-one-day Cold War series. And now, genre-hopping DJ Diplo has announced plans to remix the Cold War series for his own mixtape, enlisting some of his producer buddies to help out. Given Gucci's insane...

Photo of Rivers Cuomo's tour bus crash via Weezer's website

According to an update on Weezer's official site, frontman Rivers Cuomo suffered "internal injuries includ[ing] both a small cut on his spleen and a small puncture in his lung" when his tour bus fell eight to 10 feet into a ditch near Albany, New York on Sunday morning. But he's doing well and should be able to recover without surgery.

The update, which was posted yesterday, states: "Tomorrow the doctor says it will be time to see if Rivers can stand up again. If that goes well and his vital signs remain stable and improving, he will get to go home pretty soon!"

Weezer's December tour dates have been...

The Smashing Pumpkins have released the first track from the band’s upcoming “album,” Teargarden By Kaleidyscope, which will span 44 songs over the course of 11 (!) discs. “A Song for a Son” finds front man Billy Corgan crooning and snarling over piano, guitars, and 19 year-old Mike Byrne’s...

"Pursuit of Happiness" is the spacey, downbeat song that Cleveland-born, Brooklyn-based rapper Kid Cudi made with Ratatat and MGMT for his debut album Man on the Moon: The End of Day.

Neither duo shows up in the video, which takes place at a party where Cudi is the only person not moving in slow motion. But we do get to watch Drake spraying champagne on girls, so that's something! Also, there's a part at the end where it looks like Cudi's about to barf, but the clip fortunately cuts off before any actual barf makes an...

The Big Pink photo by Tim Saccenti It had to happen. As winter turns to spring, two of the finest current practitioners of swagger-drenched, ear-bleeding noise-pop-- the sort of thing that used to see heavy rotation on "120 Minutes"-- will cross North America America together. London's the Big Pink and New York's A Place to Bury Strangers like their guitars dangerously loud, their drums mechanistic, and their hair elaborately messy, so this pairing just makes sense. I'm betting the Jesus and Mary Chain's Automatic will stay on repeat in the tour bus. The tour will kick off March 10 in San Francisco. Before it starts, both bands will tour...

Fans of comedian Aziz Ansari know the guy loves hip-hop. (For example, see his spoof of the Jay-Z/Kanye song "Hate".) And now he's putting out a rap mixtape under his blowjob-obsessed hip-hop comedian guise, Raaaaaaaandy (as seen in Funny People). TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek is producing it along with L.A.'s the Have and Baltimore's DJ Granwizerd. For fans of comedy, rap, and life itself, this is amazing news.

pagebreakAccording to Sitek, the as-yet-unnamed tape is due in February and will feature "all original music and guest MCs," who will be named soon.

According to Raaaaaaaandy, "All your punkass needs to know right now is: 1. Y'all ain't ready. 2. Motherfuckers need...

This much we know: The new album from delightfully freakish rock boundary-pushers Liars is called Sisterworld and it's coming out early next year on Mute. UPDATE: The Mute Twitter says Sisterworld is out March 9.

And now you can hear a song from it called "Scissor", via the Sisterworld website. (Thanks to We All Want Someone to Shout For for the heads up.) The song starts off all nice and mellow, and then snaps your head off. Whiplash rock.

Stream/download "Scissor" below.

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MP3:> Liars: "Scissor"

"Costco Zones"

Deep inside the freak labs at Olde English Spelling Bee some serious Frankenstonian tweaker shit is going down. Besides expanding its web presence/digital footprint to its new blog/site, the higher ups at the perpetually zonked label are also set to issue another set of killer records this week, specifically a limited edition vinyl reissue of Grippers Nother Onesers (At Slimer Beach), which you may recognize as Lamborghini Crystal's 1992 Cool Runnings Holiday, which you may attribute to a certain dude who releases about 15 albums a year. Dedicated to Richard Ramirez, the vibe on Grippers is transmitted via a possessed transistor radio hell bent on...

Welcome to 5-10-15-20, where we talk to artists about the music they loved at five-year interval points in their lives. Maybe we'll get a detailed roadmap of how their tastes and passions helped make them who they are. Maybe we'll just learn that they really liked...