Drake isn’t into distractions, an intruder is caught at Rihanna‘s house, and Lil Wayne adds clarity to a recent controversy.

• In an interview with Vogue, Katy Perry reveals that she hasn’t spoken to ex-husband Russell Brand since he announced he was ending their marriage — via text. The pop singer also said she’s still deeply in love with John Mayer, but she doesn’t think they’ll fully rekindle their relationship. [E!]
• Drake likes to stay focused, so he’s willing to forego sex to make sure he’s at the top of his music game. [Huffington Post]
• A trespasser was reportedly caught walking on the roof of Rihanna’s Los Angeles home. The man apparently is still in police custody, initially detained by security guards. Rihanna wasn’t at the home since she’s on the European leg of her tour. [TMZ]
• Lil Wayne responds to claims that he trampled on the American flag, saying that he didn’t realize he was walking on the stars and stripes during his video shoot. [MTV]

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Pantera legend Rex Brown and former Skid Row frontman Sebastian Bach joined the hosts of That Metal Show for their 100th episode!

Hear hits from both bands (and many more) with this week’s That Metal Show playlist on Spotify. And tune in to next week’s episode Saturday at 11 p.m. ET on VH1 Classic.

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Today is the day Hunter Hayes fans have been waiting for. The country music star takes the stage for MTV’s Artist To Watch Live, streaming online from New York City!

Also make sure to check out the latest episode of For The Love Of Music and head to Hayes’ Artist Platform page.

It’s here! Kelly Rowland‘s much anticipated new release Talk A Good Game is officially in stores and online today, and if Twitter were a small town Ms. Rowlegend’s latest LP would be the talk of it. Her bestie, and VH1 fam, LaLa Anthony tweeted early this morning, “Lets go!!!! Support my bff @kellyrowland and get that album NOW!! U won’t be disappointed!” And she wasn’t the only one.

In fact, as part yesterday’s kick off to K-Row Week on VH1, Kelly called for fans to show off their fiercest Talk A Good Game pose. We grabbed our favorite Rowland Stones snaps along with  messages from a few famous supporters of the “Gone” star. See what everyone had to say in the gallery above.

Check back here all week where we’ll be giving you exclusive interviews, photos and more all week long to celebrate the release of Kelly Rowland’s album Talk A Good Game in stores now.

[Photo Credit: Lauren Weissler]

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Let’s get one horrible-yet-informative pun out of the way right off the bat: On Friday night at the Barclays Center, the newly reunited Postal Service delivered. Big time. We were initially skeptical. A stadium tour based around just one (admittedly brilliant) album? Sounds fishy. And there’s an awful lot of nostalgia crammed into those ten songs. Sounds dangerous.

For those of you not born in the ’80s, the Postal Service’s sole release -2003’s Give Up- was our Dark Side Of The Moon, our Rumours, our Frampton Comes Alive. Yet unlike the Thrillers or the Sgt Peppers of the world, this record wasn’t really on everyone’s lips -just everyone’s stereo. For a time, it seemed like every alternative-minded teen had the album, and played it the background to make pre-calc homework bearable. In this low-key way, it became a major part of our adolescent soundscape. We might not know the names of all the songs, but we will know every damn word forever.

It’s been a decade since Death Cab For Cutie frontman Ben Gibbard teamed up with Dntel’s electro-production wizkid Jimmy Tamborello for the one-off collaboration. They worked independently, sending each other tracks on CD-Rs through (you guessed it) the U.S. Postal Service. The finished product was certified platinum last October, but the number of burnt copies handed out to friends during study hall is incalculable. Now in honor of the 10th anniversary reissue, the duo has joined forces once more to take their act on the road, including two nights at the Barclays Center.

It felt positively weird to think that this innocent music seemingly designed to be heard while sitting cross-legged on your bed was about to be played in an 18,000 seat arena. Could this possibly be the first steps towards The Great Cooperate Nostalgia Cash-In for our Millennial generation? Is this what it feels like for fans who first saw the Stones at a seedy London bar for the cost of a beer? Is our past being taken and sold back to us at a premium?

We’re not sure. But on a practical note, we were concerned about the band filling the massive venue. Maybe one night, but two? But the place is indeed packed to sold-out capacity. We’re surrounded by a very specific demographic of late 20-somethings, not terribly far removed from their younger Hot Topic-wearing selves. The scale of the crowd knocks us back. Prior to that, we assumed that the Postal Service was merely our thing. And that’s their gift: No matter how popular they became, they always felt like your private underground secret.

There’s no warning as the house lights abruptly dim. A soft synthesizer prelude gently wraps its way around the space, and for a brief moment we wonder if we accidentally wandered into an Enya show. Then the floor starts to shake with the familiar ultra-low bass tones opening “The District Sleeps Alone Tonight,” and the place predictably goes insane.

The audience apparently has an unspoken agreement to not “troll” the ludicrously over-earnest Gibbard, who greets the crowd like a rockstar Richie Cunningham with a cheery “Hiya, Brooklyn!” His wide-eyed enthusiasm is impossibly endearing. “Thanks for coming to this tiny venue and listening to us play music from ten years ago. We’re called the Postal Service and we have no fixed address,” he cracked. He jogs in place on an imaginary treadmill as he strums his Fender guitar. Tamborello stands on a riser behind him, lost in a sea of Macbook Pros and drum pads. They are joined by Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, who provided backing vocals on the original records, as well as Laura Burhenn of the Mynabirds rounding out the group on keyboards and harmonies.

The band kicks into “We Will Become Silhouettes,” and we feel like we’re smack in the middle in the most epic indie movie preview ever. Gibbard takes a seat at a vacant drum kit on the edge of the stage and plays a passionate break over the organ solo. Lewis tosses her Nets cap into the crowd, who sing along to the wordless clock-tower chime chorus. The room feels lighter. We feel lighter. It’s as if the gradual accumulation of years has been lifted off our backs, and we remember what it feels like to be young. Not a child, but truly youthful and vibrant. It’s a nerdy white-boy gospel revival.

To our surprise, the music does not seem so out of context in this gaudy sporting complex. Actually, it sounds incredible! An electric guitar squealing with feedback turns “Clark Gable” into an awesome piece of arena rock. Jenny and Ben tango together in center stage like a Mick and Keith with (more) sexual tension. And the bass beat is absolutely killer, with the Barclays’ domed roof essentially turning the venue into a gigantic sub-woofer. A tasteful fog machine and rather elegant light-show sets an almost rave-y vibe, encouraging the crowd to get on their feet. And they dance. They dance with abandon, as if every demon from our awkward teenage years has just been exorcised. Maybe growing up doesn’t have to exclusively suck, after all. We’re a room full of people who (likely) didn’t get laid in high school, suddenly getting a second shot at acceptance.

“Let this be a lesson to you budding musicians,” Gibbard says from the stage. “What you do is: make a record. Then you don’t do anything for ten years. And then you wind up at Barclays!” That’s a bit unfair to their musical day-jobs, but there is a grain of truth to that. Considering the vast majority of the crowd have never seen the Postal Service live, the concert is like opening a musical time capsule.

It’s impossible to talk about the Postal Service outside of the past tense, because that’s so clearly where their music resides. It wasn’t like they could surprise us with challenging deep cuts. There simply aren’t enough songs! You can’t help but know them all. Becoming a Postal Service Super Fan happens almost by accident. They obviously played Give Up in its entirety, and reached for their few B-sides (“A Tattered Line Of String” and “Be Still My Heart”) to pad out their 16-song set. They also performed “Our Secret,” a cover from the group Beat Happening, which Gibbard refers to as “the greatest band that ever lived.” Sure, they played their newly recorded “Turn Around,” but even that track had the air of a backward glance.

Eyes start to get wet towards the end of their set, as electronica-tinged love song “Such Great Heights” echos up to the box seats. The rapid beats are around the same tempo as a seventeen-year-old’s heart rate while asking a date to the Winter Snow Ball. Hell, the tune was practically the unofficial prom theme for our graduating class. We still remember how to play it on piano from that time we learned it to impress a girl (spoiler alert: it didn’t work). It means something. That song is what being in love sounded like at a very specific age, during a very specific time. And if you weren’t a part of it, that’s OK, too. It’s still a gorgeous song.

The band choose “Natural Anthem” to finish their set before kicking off an encore with “(This Is) The Dream Of Evan And Chan,” the 2001 Dntel track that featured Ben Gibbard and got the whole collaboration started in the first place. They close out with “Brand New Colony,” leaving us in a swirling echo of Gibbard and Lewis’ intertwined voices chanting “Everything will change.” It was a fitting benediction for an evening steeped in nostalgia. Things already have changed, but maybe it’s not all bad. 18,000 of us are joined together listening to the songs that got us through adolescent isolation and confusion. 18,000! Really makes your inner angsty teen feel less alone, huh?

Check out the complete set-list on the next page!

[Photo: Christiana Cefalu/VH1]

Kanye West released his latest album, Yeezus, today and as Big Sean would say, “Oh Gaaaaawd!” Fans and Christians alike have been scratching their heads at the album title since it was revealed weeks ago. The title, a verbal mash-up of Jesus and West’s nickname, Yeezy, begs the question: Does Kanye think he’s divine?

If anyone deserves some slack, it’s Kanye. After all, talented musical risk takers don’t come around often. So rather than debate the validity of his divine psyche, we inserted him into notable passages from the New Testament to see how the son of Donda stacks up to the Son of God.

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Born Sinner and Yeezus have arrived officially. Today’s the day for the real thang, early leaked illegal downloads aside. And with all the talk of born sinners and Kanye as Jesus, we may need to attend tomorrow’s Wednesday night Bible Study.

Kanye West and J.Cole aren’t the first and won’t be the last to dig through the religious scrolls for a clever album title. Jay-Z upstaged both his artists last night with his announcement of Magna Carta of the Holy Grail (July 4). Did every rap artist attend a revival conference last year we don’t know about? But long before Jay-Z or Kanye or Cole there was U2‘s The Joshua Tree in 1987. Even hip-hop greats have donned themselves God’s Son like Nas did in his 2002 release. What the countless God-themed album titles says about any of the artist’s beliefs is between them and their higher power. Maybe it’ll at least disprove the Illuminati theories. As an ode to J. Cole and Kanye (may the best man sell the most records) we’ve gone back, way back, to find some memorable albums titles with a little bit of holiness.

Album: Yeezus
Artist: Kanye West
Released: June 18, 2013

Album: Born Sinner
Artist: J. Cole
Released: June 18, 2013

Album: Babel
Artist: Mumford and Sons
Released: September 21, 2012

Fresh off their performance at the 2013 Hangout Festival, The Mowgli’s (pronounced: “Moe-Glees”) chat with VH1 Top 20 Video Countdown host Jake Shearer about their upcoming performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago, IL.

The group tells Shearer that fans should expect to hear new music from their upcoming major label debut, Waiting for the Dawn.

“We have a lot of jams we never played before,” says Katie Jayne Earl. “And we are really excited to share them with some of our favorite fans in Chicago.”

The Mowgli’s show is also expected to be full of tons of energy and fun, something they demonstrated at Hangout Fest in May. In case you missed it, check out their performance of “San Francisco” from the 2012 self-released album, Sound the Drum:

The Mowgli’s perform on Sunday, August 4th at 3:20 p.m. Be sure to check them out and tweet @VH1 with the hashtag, #BestLollaEver, if you spot any red wine-colored fannypacks on stage.

Related: Tegan And Sara “Thrilled To Take The Stage At Lollapalooza

Did Walmart accidentally release the title of Mariah Carey‘s next album? Robin Thicke faces pushback over his lyrics, and Mac Miller gets an interesting surprise as he comes home.

• Los Angeles police investigated an accident involving Justin Bieber and a photographer. Bieber allegedly hit the paparazzo when leaving a comedy venue and the photog stepped into the street trying to snap a picture. Bieber claimed he didn’t see the man as he drove and was cleared of wrongdoing. [TMZ]
• Mariah Carey’s camp has officially unveiled the name of her next LP, but it looks like Walmart may have spilled the beans ahead of time. The retailer hosted a pre-order page for The Art Of Letting Go before the title actually went public. [Spin]
• Robin Thicke has a bonafide hit with his single, “Blurred Lines,” but now critics are charging that the song includes “rapey” lyrics. [The Hollywood Gossip]
• And if you want to peep a clip from Mac Miller And The Most Dope Family, check out a scene where Mac accidentally walks into the house in the middle of a photo shoot.

[Photo Credit: Splash News]

Kelly Rowland keeps teasing us before her album drops, Pink Floyd‘s catalog is now on Spotify, and Drake prepares for a massive North American tour.

• Rapper Lil Wayne is raising eyebrows with his new track, “God Bless America.” It seems the song’s video might feature Weezy stomping on a U.S. flag, pretty much viewed as desecration to many Americans. Will be interesting to see how this plays out. [Huffington Post]
• Is the anticipation for Kelly Rowland’s new album driving you a little crazy? Well, June 18 will soon be upon us and we’ve got a little tidbit to keep you sated until tomorrow’s release. Peep the clip below.

• Pink Floyd fans now can happily stream songs from one of rock’s greatest bands via Spotify. The digital music service challenged users to pass the million-listen mark on the band’s classic, “Wish You Were Here,” offering up availability of the full catalog as a prize. [Rolling Stone]
• Just as you come down from your summer music high, Drake, Miguel, and Future will be headed to a town near you. Better make sure you save some energy for the fall. [Idolator]