Starring: Ashton Kutcher, Cameron Diaz, Queen Latifah, Lake Bell, Zach Gali... Review: People around me actually laughed at a preview screening of this alleged romantic farce. I couldn't join in. I kept seeing the strain on the faces of Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher, playing New York strangers who meet and marry in Vegas — it's the booze — and find their annulment delayed when he hits a $3 million jackpot on the slots using her quarter. If you don't see where this is going, you've never seen a movie. Sorry it had to be this one. >> Watch Peter Travers' video review of What Happens in Vegas. >> Watch every episode of our weekly Peter Travers video podcast by subscribing via iTunes here (when prompted, click ?Launch application?). Every Friday, a new episode featuring clips from the week's newest movies will be delivered to your iTunes. [If you don?t have... Rating: 1.5 Stars

Starring: Emile Hirsch, Nicholas Elia, Susan Sarandon, Melissa Holroyd, Ari... Review: Fun for the whole family: not exactly a phrase you associate with the films of Andy and Larry Wachowski. Before the brutal complexities of the Matrix trilogy, they gave us Bound, a kinky lesbian crime caper that showcased the hand as a sex organ. But that wimpy PG rating on Speed Racer is no mistake. The Wachowskis wanted to make a movie that their nephews and nieces could see without falling prey to existential angst. And Speed Racer — reportedly budgeted at $120 million, what with the mix of live-action and computer effects — is the hyperkinetic result. In terms of coherence, the movie is a mess, a relentlessly adrenalized take on the 1960s TV cartoon series about a racing family that feels the need, the need for speed. Even the target audience of 10-year-olds might get jimmy... Rating: 2 Stars

Artist: The Last Shadow Puppets Review: As the leader of Britain's Arctic Monkeys, Alex Turner creates spiky neo-post-punk that avoids any revivalist fuddy-duddyism. But Turner's new side project, a collaboration with Miles Kane of Merseyside indie-poppers the Rascals, is a shameless nostalgia trip — and it's still compelling. Their debut pays homage to the moody symphonic sound of early David Bowie, Lee Hazlewood and other stars of the late Sixties and early Seventies. While reverb-swathed acoustic guitars churn in minor... Rating: 3 Stars

This week, Trent Reznor did some spring cleaning and decided to give his fans Nine Inch Nails’ new album The Slip for free. The announcement was a surprise, as was Beck’s revelation that he had a new disc coming this summer. Madonna and Coldplay both revealed massive world tours, while we were front row at Radiohead’s [...]

Widespread Panic released their tenth studio album this year, Free Somehow, a record of riff-heavy jams and howling psychedelic ballads. But the band has never been defined by albums, but their endless touring and cult of loyal fans. For more than 20 years they have lived on the road, performing up to 250 shows a [...]

Britney Spears discovered Radiohead’s In Rainbows, Jack White got gussied up for the Met’s fancy costume gala and Pete Doherty got sprung from jail. Click here to check out those photos and others, including John Mayer, the Edge, Devendra Banhart and more. [Photo: WENN]

Three bands, three new albums to promote: Spiritualized take Songs in A&E on the road, Stereolab return with Chemical Chords and My Brightest Diamond ready their second set A Thousand Shark’s Teeth. Full tour dates for the trio of treks, after the jump. Spiritualized July 20 - Chicago, IL @ Union Park July 21 - Nashville, TN [...]

“I would compare it to starting over,” the Academy Is… singer William Beckett says of working on the band’s third full-length album. “The way we felt on [2005’s debut] Almost Here.” Beckett, along with drummer Andy Mrotek, bassist Adam Siska and guitarists Mike Carden and Michael Guy Chislett entered a New York recording studio [...]

Tokio Hotel came to our office today, and even though they spell Tokyo incorrectly (well, the German way), it got us thinking about songs with cities in their titles. Therefore this week’s Rock List is an ode to tracks that serve as homages to big metropolises, small towns and other places you can find on [...]

Last year Atlanta music manager Josh Rifkind brought Rolling Stone’s Top 500 Songs Of All Time to life over the course of an epic 10-night concert. This year he’s staging the 500 Greatest Sing-Along Songs, with all the proceeds again benefiting the 500 Songs For Kids Foundation. The event — which wraps tomorrow at Smith’s [...]

Each week on MTV’s Rock the Cradle, the sons and daughters of musical icons compete for the sort of exposure they would have received anyway on the basis of their DNA. Rock Daily sorts through the nepotistic wreckage. Children’s Story: We finally arrive at our last live episode, which opens in rapid fire fashion with Crosby [...]

• News Ticker: R. Kelly, Dave Grohl, Foxy • Springsteen Plays Rare Theater Show • Jason Castro Overthrown on “American Idol” • Trey Anastasio Shreds at Jammys • Tour Tracker: My Morning Jacket, Tina Turner • News Ticker: Neil Young, Diddy • Madonna Preps World Tour • News Ticker: Amy Winehouse, Coldplay Top stories from the last three days: • Ask a Rock Star: [...]

R. Kelly’s lawyers filed a motion yesterday to delay the start of Kelly’s child pornography case due to the publicity it has received. Prosecution has until today, when jury selection is slated to begin in Chicago, to respond to the request. Dave Grohl has written an open letter to Metallica, requesting they not release [...]

In this week’s video review, Peter Travers takes a look at two very different options for this weekend’s trip to the cinema. Click here for the Rolling Stone film critic’s take on the colorful car fantasy Speed Racer and the Ashton Kutcher/Cameron Diaz comedy What Happens in Vegas. Watch every episode of our weekly Peter [...]

My Morning Jacket prepare to spread Evil Urges across the country, Tina Turner readies her first tour in seven years and, umm, Backstreet’s back, alright? Full dates for all three jaunts await you after the jump. My Morning Jacket June 20 - New York, NY @ Radio City Music Hall August 16 - Louisville, KY @ The Great [...]

What It Is: Earphones that deliver the power and intimacy of those iPod earbuds without damaging your ears. Who It’s For: Anybody who wants to enjoy music at maximum volume without going deaf. Why It’s Worthy: AirDrives use something called InAir technology, a patented system that places the speaker on the outside of the [...]

Every week RollingStone.com takes a look at what bands bloggers are going ga-ga over and what the bottom line is. This week’s spotlight is on Brazilian electro maniacs CSS, dreamy Brits South and venerable Canadian power poppers Sloan. Click here for this week’s Hit or Hype column, and be sure to check out the other [...]

At a recent New York club date, the Australian singer-songwriter Paul Kelly opened with a song about the end of things, “You Can’t Take It With You” — from a 1989 album with his old band the Messengers — then showed how far he is from done with a long set of true grit and [...]

Saves the Day frontman Chris Conley says Two Tongues, his side project with Saves the Day guitarist Dave Soloway and Say Anything’s Max Bemis and Coby Linder, is going to have its premiere this summer. “We’re going to try to get a record deal sometime soon,” he tells Rock Daily. “But we want to have [...]

It’s unclear exactly what motivated Bruce Springsteen to perform his Darkness on the Edge of Town and Born to Run albums in sequence last night at New Jersey’s Count Basie Theater. Maybe it was the fact that fans bid a minimum of $1,000 for tickets (the proceeds of which went towards refurbishing the theater) and [...]

• Jason Castro Overthrown on “American Idol” • Trey Anastasio Shreds at Jammys • Madonna Preps World Tour • News Ticker: Amy Winehouse, Coldplay Top stories from the last three days: • Ask a Rock Star: Paramore • On the Charts: Madonna • Win I’m Not There on DVD; Exclusive Clip • Breaking Artist: These New Puritans • Rev Theory Burn Their Way Across [...]

So close, but no cigar: All four members of Phish all showed up last night to accept their Lifetime Achievement prize at the 2008 Jammy Awards ceremony, at the WaMu Theater in Madison Square Garden. But bassist Mike Gordon and drummer Jon Fishman just talked; guitarist Trey Anastasio and keyboardist Page McConnell played earlier in [...]

There will be no more easy-going, dreadlocked vibes on American Idol this season, as Jason Castro was shown the door on last night’s show. He was the most jubilant Idol reject in history, smiling like a goofball and shrugging as if to say, “I’ve been phoning it in for weeks and deeply miss my gravity [...]

After giving her old label Warner Brothers one last going-away present with the number one debut of Hard Candy, Madonna is ready to make good on her ten-year contract with Live Nation by launching her Sticky and Sweet Tour. The trek will kick off in Cardiff, Wales, on August 23rd, spin through Europe and then [...]

Amy Winehouse was released on bail after being arrested yesterday on suspicion of drug possession. A police spokesperson confirmed the arrest was related to the footage showing Winehouse allegedly smoking crack that circulated earlier this year. Rapper DMX has been arrested on suspicion of racing on a highway and several other charges after [...]

When we caught up with Paramore at the Bamboozle festival last weekend, we matched them up with their most challenging interviewers yet: their rabid fans. Click above to see Josh Farro, Jeremy Davis, Zac Farro and Hayley Williams discuss breakup rumors, touring with Jimmy Eat World and whether or not Williams is open to marriage [...]

• On the Charts: Madonna • Win I’m Not There on DVD; Exclusive Clip • John Mayer Pairs With Judd Apatow for Video • News Ticker: Beck, Neil Young • Panic at the Disco: No New Album in ‘08 • Sebastian Bach Talks Velvet Revolver, Axl • News Ticker: Paul McCartney, Jonas Brothers Top stories from the last three days: • Radiohead Kick [...]

Makin’ Music with John Mayer on FunnyOrDie.com The latest installment in John Mayer’s quest to become a viral video superstar (which include running around in a Borat thong, a bling-flaunting “In the Studio” clip with Kanye West and a VH1 TV special) pairs the part-time comedian with producer-of-the-moment Judd Apatow, actress Kristen Bell and others for [...]

Todd Haynes’ strange and wonderful Bob Dylan essay film I’m Not There earned critical accolades and an Oscar nomination for Cate Blanchett. The film hits stores this week on a two disc DVD full of deleted scenes, alternate takes, audition tapes, commentaries and a tribute to star Heath Ledger. Click above to check out the [...]

Beck confirmed a report earlier this week that he will release his new, Danger Mouse-produced album this summer. The still-untitled set will contain ten songs. Neil Young will finally unleash the first volume of his long-awaited Archives on Blu-Ray as the discs provide better audio and visual quality and can be updated over the Internet. The [...]

With only four Idol hopefuls left, the competition is getting ugly. Literally. From Syesha Mercado’s teary make-up-running interview to Jason Castro’s dreads a’flyin’ rendition of “I Shot the Sheriff,” nearly everything about last night’s homage to the 500 songs that shaped rock (as deemed by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame) was in poor [...]

“Every time we say anything, we have to [go back] and say ‘No, that’s not what we meant,” laughs Panic at the Disco’s Ryan Ross, referring to recent reports the band had enough material for a third album to come out later this year. “We have some songs,” he clarifies. “But who knows if they’ll [...]

Artist: Tokio Hotel Review: It's official: these guys are the greatest German bubblegum-neo-glam-goth-emo boy band. Ever. On their English-language debut (they're already huge in Deutschland), the four fresh-faced lads from Magdeburg unveil a genre-and gender-bending act that justifies superlatives. Much of the credit goes to lead singer Bill Kaulitz, an 18-year-old androgyne whose stupendous electroshock hairdo stands a good six inches taller than Tina Turner's Eighties coif. Kaulitz is a technically limited vocal... Rating: 3.5 Stars

In the current issue, Evan Serpick profiles Emmanuel Jal, an MC who grew up in Sudan and became a soldier in the country’s vicious civil war at age seven. After escaping five years of battle and unimaginable atrocities (he details how child soldiers ate the fallen to stave off starvation on “Forced to Sin”), he [...]

Since we last spoke to Gym Class Heroes about the recording of their third LP, the band has embarked on a college tour to debut songs from their new album The Quilt, due this July. When we caught up with the band this weekend at Bamboozle, frontman Travis McCoy and drummer Matt McGinley talked [...]

My Bloody Valentine finally announce the all-too-brief U.S. tour, Sigur Ros set up four June dates and the Sunset Music Festival brings Hot Hot Heat, Cypress Hill’s B-Real and more to L.A.’s best venues. Full dates and performers after the jump. My Bloody Valentine September 19-21 Monticello, NY @ Kutshers Country Club September 22 - New York, NY [...]

The Police held a press conference in Times Square today to announce its “last ever concert” will be held in New York City this summer. Besides New York mayor Michael Bloomberg mentioning that the show will probably be held indoors, the remainder of the details were kept under wraps. The band also announced a $1 [...]

Steely Dan’s Walter Becker recently talked to Rolling Stone’s Austin Scaggs about his love of Jamaican music, the future of Steely Dan and his new solo album Circus Money. Click here for the full interview, including the world-premiere stream of “Somebody’s Saturday Night.” • Q&A: Walter Becker [Photo: Getty]

Every Tuesday Single Minded highlights new tracks hitting stores (or the Web) this week. On Fridays, come back for rarities, remixes, mash-ups and more. Neil Diamond, “Pretty Amazing Grace” [Official] Rick Rubin and Neil Diamond return, with a record that sounds very polite. We like this, and we appreciate the effort, but we kinda wish “serious” didn’t [...]

Bruce Springsteen was among the inaugural class of twenty-five inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on Sunday. Springsteen was on hand to accept the honor at Newark’s Performing Arts Center, alongside novelist Toni Morrison, Yankee cathcer Yogi Berra and retired General Norman Schwarzkopf. “Rise up, my fellow New Jerseyans. We are all members [...]