If Lea Michele's album proves one thing, it's that she can hold a note for a really, really long time.

Louder started streaming for free on iTunes on Tuesday (February 25), and at first listen, it seems like the "Glee" star took her flair for drama to the studio. What I mean is, it sounds a bit like Rachel recorded this album.

With pounding piano chords, cinematic strings and a blizzard of synths, the production itself embodies Michele's theater kid alter ego, starting off slow, building to a frenzy and ending with a bow. The tempo never pushes past moderato (that's a music nerd term), with ballads dominating the 11-track album.

As for Michele's vocals, expect strong support underneath those notes. I imagined Lea in a well-sound-proofed recording room, a foot away from the mic, just letting loose. Each syllable is enunciated to absolute consonance-iness (not a music nerd term). Take the first track, "Cannonball," for example, where she sings "Like a can-nawn-baw-oh." Imagining her back in the studio, I could see her carefully planning out her breath for effect, making her high school vocal coach proud. Or should I say "prow-u-duh."

So does the album live up to the "emotional dynamism" its iTunes blurb preaches about? That all depends on if you choose to listen to it in context.

If you choose to take in Louder while searching for hints about Michele's relationship with the late Cory Monteith, — like 99.9 percent of listeners — you'll find yourself cruising through a story filled with unconditional devotion and betrayal.

In "On My Way," she sings, ...

Kim Kardashian has the cute baby, a superstar fiancé and now a wedding in Paris to look forward to. But unlike the elaborate proposal fans saw on "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," the reality star says her next walk down the aisle will be ... low-key.

Kim called into Ryan Seacrest's radio show on Tuesday (February 25), and talked about her and Kanye's wedding plans.

"As we are going along, we realize we want it to be smaller and more intimate than people are imagining and thinking," Kardashian explained. "And I'm excited; it's exciting."

Not, however, as exciting as divvying up the wedding responsibilities. The E! star admitted that she and Kanye — who just wrapped up the U.S. dates on his Yeezus Tour — are both very involved. But there are certain things that the rapper is completely leaving in Kim's hands.

"Certain things I'm like, 'I know you're going to hate the seating chart, so I'll take care of this,' Kim said. "And then there's some things that are really important to him, [but the] seating chart is like death."

When the couple isn't planning for their upcoming "I do's," they've been busy taking care of their 8-month-old daughter, North.

"She's the sweetest, she's the calmest and all she does is laugh," Kim revealed. "She'll laugh at anything. I'll put my toe right near her and she'll crack up. She's the sweetest, happiest baby I've ever seen."

And although her pregnancy wasn't the easiest, Kardashian said she's "loving being a mom" and plans to expand her family in the ...

All hail the king of the monsters for he has returned! After an enticingly teasing first look at the upcoming reboot, a new trailer for "

The latest American adaptation of the radioactive lizard king looks to dash away the remaining shame of Roland Emmerich's 1998 abomination. And thankfully, 2014's "Godzilla" looks and sounds more like the classic monster that first stomped his way across the Tokyo skyline 60 years ago.

It also doesn't hurt that Godzilla has a troupe of A-list actors to potential squash. Future Avengers Aaron Taylor-Johnson and Elizabeth Olsen lead a cast that also includes Bryan Cranston, Juliette Binoche, Sally Hawkins, David Strathairn and Ken Watanabe.

Right now, you're probably thinking to yourself, "Hey, those are all exceptionally good actors who don't just take any role." You're thinking that's because you're right, and all of the sudden "Godzilla" starts to sound like more than just another monster movie.

Director Gareth Edwards is another important factor to consider. His breakout indie hit — called "Monsters" not coincidentally — covered some similar territory. Edwards kept the story's focus on his human characters, rather than the CGI aliens... which he created himself... on a laptop.

Suffice to say that "Godzilla" is in safe hands, and based on the newest trailer, monster movie fans will no longer be haunted by the memory of Matthew Broderick set to the sound of Diddy, then Puff Daddy, sampling Led Zeppelin come this summer.

"Godzilla" opens in theaters on May 16, 2014.

There's already a ton of music in the New York City subway — bucket drummers and buskers included — but former LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy wants to put even more tunes in the tubes. He wants to make music an intrinsic part of the system itself.

According to a website set up to state his case, Murphy has been trying to move forward with a project for 15 years that would nix the jarring beep of the MetroCard turnstiles and replace it with music.

"Each turnstile emits its own beep, all of which are slightly out of tune with one another, creating a dissonant rubbing-styrofoam-on-glass squeak in stations all around New York City," Murphy wrote. "It's kind of horrible."

According to The Wall Street Journal, the musician thinks the time is right for a solution, as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority is undertaking a multi-year plan to improve passenger flow as well as a project to replace MetroCards with devices embedded with electronic chips, like smartphones.

Murphy hopes to implement his plan during this reorganization, a plan for which he developed notes for each station that could play whenever someone uses the subway turnstile. Instead of sounding a jarring beep, every passenger would contribute to a unique symphony of sorts. Those notes would also play when subways arrived at their stations.

"I think that in the years to come, if this system is implemented, people who grew up with these sounds will hear a piece of music at an opera, or on an ad, or in the background of a ...

If you were expecting Schoolboy Q to drop some sort of good kid, m.A.A.d city follow-up, then you don't know Q.

On Tuesday (February 25) Top Dawg Entertainment released their second major-label album through Interscope. After Kendrick Lamar's Grammy-nominated, platinum-selling masterpiece, Oxymoron is something much different.

"F--k rap, my daddy's a gangsta," says Q's toddler-aged daughter Joy at the top of the album opener "Gangsta."

Q continues the conversation, beating his chest unapologetically and repeating "gangsta, gangsta, gangsta" in a menacing, child-like taunt. More than just street-empty bravado, Schoolboy spends the majority of the project laying out his story.

On "Hoover Street," Schoolboy explains his loss of innocence, first rapping about Sega Genesis and Nintendo video games and then spitting about his grandmother's pistol and drug-addicted uncle's fall from grace. " 'Cause he been trippin' now/ He sweats a lot, he's slimming down/ I also noticed moms be lockin' doors when he's around," a wide-eyed Q spits.

Schoolboy isn't the first rapper to tell this particular coming-of-age story — not by a longshot — but it's the details that Q sprinkles throughout Oxymoron that make the LP captivating. When rapping about his uncle, the Black Hippy MC recalls helping him cheat on a drug test as a child.

"He used to give me whiskey to piss in cups/ Knockin' on the door to tell me to hurry up. He's in a rush/ I gave it to him and got my ass for doin' it/ Moms used to tell me like, 'n---a, know who you dealing with,' " he rhymes on "Hoover Street."

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Man on the Moon III doesn't arrive until 2015, but in the meantime Kid Cudi is filling the gaps between projects with his latest album Satellite Flight: The Journey to Mother Moon, which dropped suddenly on iTunes Monday night.

Cudder promised that the album would arrive without an advance release date, and so it did. On the title track which originally debuted in December, he continues his storyline as a young man who, "will come and save the universe from the forces of evil." And over the course of nine additional tracks, he pours out his feelings, sometimes only with the help of instrumentals.

The opening song "Destination: Mother Moon," is free of vocals, letting the grandiose instrumentals do all the talking, before he later begins to rap.

On "Internal Bleeding" he battles with heartache that he can't stop despite his best efforts, while the sensual cut "Balmain Jeans" with Raphael Saadiq, finds him getting pretty uncensored about undressing and tasting his girl. On "Too Bad I Have To Destroy You Now," he targets the people who trash talk him, and won't look him in the eyes when he walks into a room.

"In My Dreams 2015" is another instrumental break on the album, leading into "Return of the Moon Man," although we don't think the Moon Man ever really left. The beats on this project are as spacey and trippy as last year's Indicud, with Cudder handling productions on both albums himself.

"[Satellite Flight] starts where Indicud left off perfectly, and takes you right into MOTM III.Cudi told ...

Well, that was certainly a surprise.

On Tuesday, (February 25), at the stroke of midnight, Ulaanbaatar time — because why not? — Coldplay shocked fans with the release of a brand-new song, an atmospheric, amniotic electronic track aptly titled "Midnight."

The song — which, presumably, is taken from Coldplay's upcoming sixth studio album — is a markedly minimalist departure from the sonic wallop of the band's last album, 2011's Mylo Xyloto, beginning with chiming electronics and Chris Martin's plaintive, thoroughly treated vocals (recalling Bon Iver, as many fans have begun pointing out), then gradually building to a thumping, synth-heavy crescendo before eventually fading away. And the track takes it's time, too, slowly spreading over the span of five-plus minutes.

"Midnight" was accompanied by a moody, black-and-white video, directed by Mary Wigmore, who made the band's "The Hardest Part" clip and is also the godmother of Martin's and actress Gwyneth Paltrow's daughter, Apple.

That's about all the info we've got at the moment — there's still no word on who produced "Midnight," or if it is, in fact, the first single off Coldplay's album. When reached for comment, a rep for the band would only tell MTV News that there are no additional details about either.

But according to some reports, Coldplay's new album is due in May or June, and will apparently harken back to their massive A Rush of Blood to the Head record. Last year, Coldplay wrote a new song, for the "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" soundtrack.