With help from a keyboard and a drum machine, Charli made the song all her own giving it the same synth-pop feel of her recently released full-length debut, True Romance. She slowed things down and took a darker approach to the love song, making lines like “But we are two worlds apart/Can’t reach to your heart” sound much more desperate and heartbroken than BSB ever did.

But the writer of Icona Pop’s “I Love It,” who described herself to Radio.com as “Wednesday Addams meets Winona Ryder in Beetlejuice meets Baby Spice,” kept things fun. She whispered lines of the chorus, handled the five-part harmony all on her own, and even threw in a little giggle before launching into Nick Carter’s epic solo. She then ended her rendition with a very sincere shout-out, “Big up to the Backstreet Boys.”

She did warn us in “I Love It” that she’s a “’90s b****.” Check out Charli’s version of “I Want It That Way” below.

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Vampire Weekend’s latest is their second No. 1, following 2010′s Contra. The album’s sales numbers are the band’s career best, slightly topping Contra‘s 124,000 in January 2010.

According to Billboard, the album is the 19th independently-distributed record to reach No. 1 on the chart since SoundScan data was first recorded in 1991, and the first such album in 2013. The album was released on XL Recordings and distributed by Warner Music’s Alternative Distribution Alliance. The last indie to top the charts was Jason Aldean’s Night Train last fall.

Related: Watch Vampire Weekend Plays The Game Of LIFE

The band’s success follows an acclaimed appearance on Saturday Night Live, on which the four-piece performed “Unbelievers” and “Diane Young,” the album’s lead single, which has peaked so far at No. 17 on the Alternative Songs chart, the band’s best-ever chart showing. They’ve been on a promo tear as of late, particularly in the commercial radio world, where the band is slowly making in-roads (they played KROQ’s Weenie Roast last weekend, for one thing).

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On Wednesday, we talked about a burglar who, during a police chase, stopped to get a beer, Barbara Walters’ daughter, and how she was arrested for DUI, and then we took calls, asking you to fill in the blank: “I know a chick is crazy if she does ___________ on her Facebook/Instagram/Twitter page…”

Full Show:

Show Opener:

News:

Sports:

Pop Trash:

Calls:
Fill In The Blank: I know a chick is crazy if she does ___________ on her Facebook/Instagram/Twitter page.

Pop Quiz:
Big boobs vs. small boobs:

Arguably, Lillywhite is best known for his work with U2, spanning from their albums Boy, October, War and How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb, to songs on the infamous Joshua Tree and more.

Lillywhite worked with what he describes as “the bad mullet band” U2 when they were on the verge of blowing up and swiftly rose to success in a time when music made unfathomable amounts of money.

How did Lillywhite manage to work with such a pivotal band at an early point in his career? Though he’s been working in the “vacuum” of the studio since age 17, the producer joked with KROQ’s Kevin & Bean in an interview Tuesday (May 21) that he has to “thank Ian Curtis [of Joy Division] for dying.”

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The emotional rant, which has since been deleted, even went so far as to ask fans if SOAD should consider making an album with a different singer. The following is Odadjian’s unedited message in its entirety (via Loudwire):

“ok….. Ill come clean.. Its not us (meaning Daron,John Or Shavo!! Its Sej, who doesn’ want to do a new album!!!! so please stop harassing us about it!!! We are just waiting for SERJ! Now He might hate me for exposing the truth but i Had too.. Sorry folks!!! we’re trying to get a new album out, its just not passing Serj’s RULES! . Kinda funny, since we started the band and now he’s holding us back!! I think we should should release another album again??? As for me.. I’m ready to release one with someone who wants to be the singer of SYSTEM. not soeome we have to beg to be a part of SYSTEM!! So with that in mind, what do you guys w should do? Just remember, Hes been holding us back for 7 years so far.. wanna wait another $-5 years? or shall we release a record without Serj? u tell us?????

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From the booth at Williamsburg, Brooklyn, nightclub Output, the 73-year-old spins a tale of recording “Love to Love You Baby” with Donna Summer, kicking everyone out of the studio and dimming the lights so she would feel inspired enough to moan just right.

And soon enough, he says the words that so many on the floor came to hear: “My name is Giovanni Giorgio, but you can call me Giorgio” (just slightly different than how he phrases it on the record). With that, the beat for Daft Punk’s “Giorgio by Moroder” drops, and the staggeringly brutal sound system at Output carries Giorgio Moroder into the future.

On the eve of Random Access Memories’ release, it seemed odd to be celebrating an Italian producer whose connection to the record was at most tangential, if influential. But his influence on disco and funk (and subsequently, Daft Punk) is undeniable, evidenced by the rousing cheers for his spin of the aforementioned Donna Summer classic.

The party that hosted Giorgio is called Deep Space, a Monday night jam hosted by Paradise Garage and Studio 54 veteran Francois K that’s become a fixture in Manhattan’s West Village. This particular event was put on by the Red Bull Music Academy, and the crowd skewed young — a room filled with twenty- and thirtysomethings gawking at a senior citizen who made the records their parents got wild to in the discotheques. The music had transcended generations.

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One year ago at UFC 146, Velasquez TKO’d Silva in the very first round… However Velasquez says he still isn’t taking it lightly.

Listen below to hear exactly what he had to say:

Coachella promoter Goldenvoice has announce the first annual First City Festival at the Monterey County Fair & Event Center. The two day festival, Saturday, August 24 and Sunday, August 25 will feature performances from Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Neko Case, Beach House and more.

The festival will also include a carnival with rides and games as well as and local craft beers, wine and food vendors. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 31 at 10:00 a.m. via FirstCityFestival.com. 2-day general admission is priced at $149.50 while VIP passes run $279.50. A “layaway” option is available.

Full Lineup – Alphabetical

Akron/Family
The Antlers
Avey Tare’s Slasher Flicks
Beach House
The Black Angels
Bleached
Blitzen Trapper
Capital Cities
Civil Twilight
Deerhunter
Delta Rae
Delta Spirit
Devendra Banhart
The Dodos
Dr. Dog
Electric Guest
Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reed
Father John Misty
Generationals
Guards
Guy Blakeslee (Entrance)
The Hold Steady
Jeffertitti’s Nile
Light Fantastic
Lucero
MGMT
Modest Mouse
Neko Case
Okkervil River
Passion Pit
Purity Ring
Quadron
Seventeen Evergreen
Tennis
Toro y Moi
Washed Out

- Bradford Hornsby, LIVE 105/San Francisco

“Chad [Petree, guitarist/vocalist] and I have been chasing storms since we were 16,” Dawson told Radio.com today (May 21) in an interview. “With my birthday falling on May 19, normally what I do every year is fly home and spend two or three weeks out in ‘Tornado Alley’ chasing storms and working with local emergency management people. But we got hired on to work on The Voice, so I was not able to go this year.”

Instead, he was in Los Angeles on the morning of his birthday when he received a call from his father in Shawnee, Oklahoma, to let him know that something was brewing in the atmosphere back home.

“I looked online to check the upper air readings, and they were extremely bad,” Dawson explained. “My day was done. All I did for the rest of the day was sit in the studio and watch radar. The tornado did this thing called a hook echo, where it begins to wrap inside itself. I ran a scan on it, and the trajectory point was right towards the city of Shawnee, a little tiny town where my dad is sitting in a wheel chair and Chad and I grew up. Sure enough, an EF-4 class tornado drops down, five minutes later a twin tornado drops down behind it, both heading straight for Shawnee.”

(The National Weather Service would go on to elevate the twister’s status to category EF-5, which is the most severe of all tornadoes with winds of at least 200 mph.)

Dawson is a storm-chaser. Watch him in action at Radio.com.

The director, Josh Hegard, and management coordinated with their casting director, who had access to hundreds of actors and actresses. “In the breakdown we made sure to use the phrase, ‘looking for hip East LA chick who can rock the morning after look,’” Hegard said to Radio.com.  “We saw over a hundred girls that day, so what was in the video was actually a small portion of the turnout. It also didn’t hurt that we were shooting a music video for Pepper. Chicks dig Pepper. Needless to say, we got what we were looking for, and then some.”

The audition footage was so good that the band turned it into a lyric video.

In an interview with Los Angeles radio station KROQ, lead singer Bret Bollinger explained, “The writing process behind ‘FKARND’ was another first for us. Instead of whipping out some individual demos and not getting the chance to collaborate with each other, ‘FKARND’ is the sonic antithesis of that.”

The whole song was based around Pepper “reminiscing on old band stories and laughing.” It was so easy for the group to do that they recorded it that afternoon.

Pepper hits stores July 16 on Law Records.