Leigh Belz

Elton John and Lady Gaga open the show. Photographer: Michael Caulfield / WireImage.comIf my friends' Twitter and Facebook updates are any indication, a lot of people tuned in to the Grammy Awards last night....

Broken Bells -- the new collaboration between The Shins' James Mercer and producer/performer extraordinaire Danger Mouse -- have just released the video for their first single "The High Road," directed by Sophie Muller, on MySpace. The...

Hopefully everyone caught some of the amazing musical performances on Friday night's Hope for Haiti Now telethon and donated whatever they could to this important cause.I was impressed by all of the honest, heartfelt performances,...

Tonight at 8 p.m. ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, CNN, BET, the CW, HBO, MTV, VH1, TNT, Comedy Central, E!, Bravo, and other cable channels will simultaneously broadcast "Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for...

On Tuesday night, Irish duo-turned-group (more on that in a second), The Swell Season played a nearly two-and-a-half-hour set before a sold out crowd.Leaving few songs from their self-titled debut and just-released Strict Joy out,...

I've written a few times about the organization To Write Love On Her Arms, which is an online community dedicated to an open discussion about depression. Education, treatment, and suicide prevention are all major goals...

California pop-punk trio Blink-182 announced yesterday that they'll be selling a new Blink charity t-shirt for $15 through their website. One hundred percent of the proceeds will be donated to The Red Cross to help...

We go through a lot of sticky notes at Teen Vogue. (Think about it. We produce roughly eighty stories an issue and are working on at least three issues at the same time. Supplies are...

Brooklyn art-pop rockers MGMT have just announced that they're auctioning off the monster costumes and props from their video for "Kids." The proceeds of bidding will go to the Children Art Foundation.To see the "Kids"...

A month or so ago, an album landed on my desk called When Everything Breaks Open. As is my normal pattern, I uploaded it and put it on while I was working. The abnormal part...

Better late than never--right, MusicBlogger readers? Over the holiday break, I did some serious thinking about the music of 2009 and what I loved and what I only kinda liked and came up with the...

On December 24th, Irish music luminaries Bono, Glen Hansard (The Swell Season, The Frames), Damien Rice, and Mundy took to Dublin's Grafton Street to do a charity performance. The all-star buskers were raising money for...

Around midnight on October 6, the crowd inside Fendi's biannual O' party at the VIP Room theater in Paris was buzzing. Fashion and cultural elite, including Karl Lagerfeld and Prince, were waiting for the girl...

I'm looking forward to the third album from The Whigs, out in March.Stereogum.com recently posted a list of their '69 Most Anticipated Albums of 2010.' The list includes artists like Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Andre...

Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix topped many "Best Of" lists.Do you have your 'Best of the Year' list together for 2009 yet? Me neither. But I'm working on it... (Check back at the very start of...

It was recently announced that one of the biggest concert events of the late 90s, Lilith Fair, is being revived in 2010. The girl-power tour was initially concieved to promote female artists and expose fans...

Last week, I had the pleasure of sitting down for coffee with Chairlift's Caroline Polachek. Besides being absolutely interesting and lovely, she told me about her background in art and film. Her studies have been...

Never Shout Never steers the ship out at the Highline Ballroom on Dec. 17th.The name of singer-songwriter Christofer Drew's band, Never Shout Never, makes a lot of sense to me after seeing them play last...

Looking for a cute stocking stuffer? Check out Paul Frank's recently unveiled seasonal iPod/iPhone/iTouch silicone cases--featuring classic Frank characters like Julius the monkey and Skurvy (wearing a winter beanie!).The cases retail for $29.99 and are...

There's a war on across the pond, but it's probably not the one you're thinking of. This war is, oddly enough, between Simon Cowell and some disgruntled enemies of his pop reality empire (who also...

We're smack-dab in the middle of the holiday season and I'm scrambling to get the last few presents for those on my Hanukkah-and-Christmas lists. (In the Belz house, we grew up celebrating both.)There are a...

Tori Amos at SPINhouse live on Tuesday, December 8th. Photographer: Ben RowlandLast nights, in the foyer of SPIN magazine's Tribeca offices, multi-platinum singer Tori Amos performed a set of six songs --many off of her...

Who has two thumbs and wants Kings of Leon to win all four Grammy awards they're nominated for? This blogger. (Imagine I'm pointing to myself as you read this.)The 52nd annual Grammy award nominations were...

You want the new rock? You got the new rock. Free of charge. The fine gentlemen of Athens, Georgia trio The Whigs are offering two tracks from their upcoming third album, In The Dark, for...