Risa Binder has just released her debut album Paper Heart this week, and recently took the time to stop by with her band for a performance and interview. The Columbia, MD native, who moved to Brooklyn, NY around eight years ago, started writing songs about the things going on in her life at the age of nine. She grew up a pop music fan, but totally fell in love with country music while attending college. She was going to appear in a show about women in country music, and while doing research on Loretta Lynn, discovered how incredible she was.More With Risa

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Candy hearts, flowers, and champagne are all just details, there’s one thing that makes Valentine’s Day actually work, and that’s music. Last.fm has broken down worldwide music plays to see who’s listening the most to songs with the tags “sex” and “romance,” and they’ve put it all together in a handy map for you to plan your future travels. Turns out you might want to go to Caracas and, um, Fresno?more

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Year after year after year I recall going to work the Monday following the GRAMMYs and talking about how once again, alt-rock was snubbed, yet again. But this year, I feel like we had some bright spots worth talking about. Foo Fighters, Adele, Skrillex and Bon Iver made me feel like our voices are at last being heard. (Although Adele is now considered a world-wide sensation, she was first embraced by alt-rock radio.)

Foo Fighters taking home a whopping five GRAMMYs is pretty frickin’ huge.

This year’s GRAMMY alt-rock winners

Deer Tick wraps up their studio session for us with a rocker from the Divine Providence album, “Walkin Out The Door.”Deer Tick Do The Walkin

Deer Tick give Last.fm Presents another live studio exclusive. Here they are playing “Something To Brag About” from the lastest album Divine Providence.Deer Tick Get Bragging Rights

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OK Go is known for releasing intricate videos that are imaginative and break the mold of the more mundane video fodder offered by other bands. Their latest video released over the weekend continues that tradition. Parts of the video were seen in a Super Bowl ad for Chevy. Billboard.com reports OK Go goes stunt driving “through a two-mile obstacle course in a car fashioned with retractable arms, which pound upon different instruments set up across the course. Chimes are thwacked, guitars are destroyed…”Remember ‘The Treadmill Video’? See OK Go’s New Video Here

Another Deer Tick performance from the Last.fm Presents studio, this time “The Bump.” It’s another song from the new album Divine Providence.Click To Bump

Last.fm Presents is spotlighting the GRAMMY nominated artists who have been featured in sessions and interviews over the last few years for us. Mumford & Sons, Thompson Square and Eric Church are all hoping to take one (or more) home, as are we. Click thru to see their sessions and the GRAMMY’s they are nominated for.Spotlighted GRAMMY nominees

Last.fm Presents were happy that Deer Tick were able to take time out of their schedule while in NYC recently to settle in and play songs off the new album Divine Providence. What started as a solo project for John McCauley, has obviously become a full-fledged main project. Four albums have been released since September of 2007. Start off today by watching them perform the first of four songs from Divine Providence.Deer Tick Doing Main Street

It’s time for Alex Maas of The Black Angels to sit down and chat with us to tell us about the Austin, TX band and give us a lowdown about the band, how they separate themselves from the rest of Austin bands and how important Last.fm is to them.The Word of Alex