After he wraps up Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Disney Channel alum and Transformers star Shia LaBeouf may be tackling a far less family-friendly role: The 21-year-old hopes to play horror-core rapper Cage in a biopic that should make Eminem's 8 Mile look like Mary Poppins.

Many claims to Robyn's greatness are made in "Curriculum Vitae," the spoken-word intro to her new album: "World-record holder with a high score of two gazillion in Tetris…she split the atom, invented the X-ray… choreographed the fights for Bruce Lee in Enter the Dragon…" But the most improbable boast of all?

Last winter, MGMT began to think the world might end. So Andrew Vanwyngarden and Ben Goldwasser did what any reasonable neo-hippie music majors would do: They decamped to a desolate sliver of Brooklyn and concocted some seriously freaky songs. "Something's about to go down," explains Goldwasser, a paisley headband keeping his brown curls in place.

"Welcome, Canadians!" Even at soundcheck, Bruce Springsteen treats a New Jersey venue like his home, and Arcade Fire's Win Butler and Régine Chassagne are honored guests. "Did you guys finish your tour?"