So Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal were on American Idol last night mentoring the final eight.

Rolling Stone had this to say of their appearance, "Jimmy Iovine brought No Doubt's Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal to help mentor the contestants. I have no quibble with Gwen or Tony, but if I must, they were Nineties, right? But who cares! Gwen and Tony should be on this show forever."
The Hollywood Reporter weighed in on the couple's dynamic: " Jimmy Iovine recruited No Doubt's Gwen Stefani and Tony Kanal, who barely uttered a word while Stefani did all the talking."More »

​So last week Long Beach/OC band Two Guns had their song "Land and Sea" featured on MTV's Jersey Shore, which airs Thursdays at 10 p.m. (You can also download the song for free on the show's website!)
Tonight, there'll be another song on the show--"Until We Part," from the album Far People in Far Places. Two Guns has been featured on Jersey Shore's soundtrack pretty regularly since 2010, when their song "Heavyheads" was featured on the show's season finale. If you don't feel like watching guidos muscle it out just to hear the song, listen to it after the jump instead.
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​If the MTV VMAs appearance, a Morrissey endorsement and a string of sold-out shows across the country weren't enough to prove that Irvine boys Young the Giant have made it, a spot on Fox's hit show Glee should do the trick.

"Cough Syrup" will be featured in the opening scene of Glee's winter finale. Episode 314 entitled "On My Way" will be on Tuesday, Feb. 21, 8 p.m. on FOX. Apparently, it's the soundtrack to the choir the New Directions going head to head with the Dalton Academy Warblers at Regionals.

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​LA Philharmonic's dashing music director Gustavo Dudamel is guesting on PBS' Sesame Street on Monday, Feb. 6 for the first time ever. Dudamel and Elmo are going to play together by "conducting a sheep playing a violin, an octopus playing the drums and a chorus of penguins singing opera."

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​Dave Grohl is reportedly executive producing a sitcom about a rock band in crisis. According to NME, the Foo Fighters founder is working with comedian Dana Gould on the project for FX.

Gould will write and star in the project, which will "focus on a band on the verge of megastardom who fall out, and in a last ditch attempt to stay together, seek professional therapy. Unfortunately they end up with a misanthropic couples counsellor who is on the brink of divorce."

How funny would a Dave Grohl-produced sitcom be? We've put together the funniest Grohl bits on the Interwebz--you be the judge.More »

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​Steve Carson, Echo Echo's frontman, said the band was well aware of the show using their  name. In a phone interview he said, "The producers of the show contacted us to asked permission to use our band name last year and permission was granted.  I'm not sure if they are planning on featuring the "supergroup" Echo Echo again but if they do that's fine by us.  It's bringing extra traffic to our sites and possible sales to iTunes... We've actually had quite a few comments from Portlandia fans stoked to find out that there is an actual band called Echo Echo."

The real Echo Echo formed in 2003 under the name Steve Carson Band, because Carson was the primary singer/songwriter. As they evolved, the band decided to change their name by drawing words out of a hat. When two band members drew the word "Echo" at the same time, it was a done deal. The band is currently promoting its latest EP, Dripping From The Undercoat, and will be performing at DPS Event Production's Backstage event with Alex Mercier on Feb. 9.

So what if Mercer, Meloy and Tucker do start a band using their name? "That would be very strange," Carson allows.

Original post, Jan. 30, 2012, 10:44 a.m.: Should the Santa Ana indie rockers be worried? Spinner reports that another band called Echo Echo--made up of James Mercer of the Shins, Colin Meloy of the Decemberists and Corin Tucker formerly of Sleater-Kinney--appeared on the IFC show Portlandia in a comedy skit called "Deuce Hotel."

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Snoop Dogg is reported to play a dad on a multi-camera family sitcom that's being developed by Don Reo (creator of My Wife and Kids and The John Larroquette Show), according to Deadline.

The project has been set up at Warner Bros TV but hasn't been pitched to the networks, so it could be a while before it actually makes it to the small screen.

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​Today, it was announced that Christina Aguilera agreed to be on NBC's new reality show The Voice as a singing coach, with music producer/performer Cee Lo Green and Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine. Carson Daly will host the series, which debuts April 26. More »

​Forget all those other Internet memes: even though Charlie Sheen's quotables have been used on everything from New Yorker cartoons to superheroes, bunnies, cats and baby sloths, it's obvious Sheen's diatribes are best digested in piano-ballad form, as illustrated by Apollo Run's  "Charlie Sheen's Got Tiger Blood, Man." Watch it after the jump.

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​One night last week on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel brought up the idea of National Unfriend Day. As Facebook cheapens the idea of friendship ("Remember five years ago when no one was on Facebook and you didn't know what the guy you took high school biology with was having for lunch?"), Kimmel says we should just keep the definition of friend as "someone you have a special relationship with. More »