(Photo: Facebook/Mark Zuckerberg)

The day after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg officially became a multi-billionaire via the most anticipated IPO ever, he wed his girlfriend of more than nine years. In a private ceremony in Palo Alto, California, Zuckerberg married his college sweetheart Priscilla Chan. Chan, who graduated medical school last week at University of California at San Francisco, has dated Zuckerberg since his dorm room days prior to the launching of Facebook. Her character was absent from the film The Social Network in favor of a more dramatic dating story.

The guests all thought they were coming to celebrate Chan’s graduation but were told after they arrived that the event was in fact a wedding. “Everybody was shocked,” one guest told the AP. Zuckerberg made the nuptials public when he updated his status to Married, which garnered 800,000 Likes by Sunday evening.

According to the Mercury News, a special performer was brought in to entertain the guests; Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong sang a few acoustic tunes including “Tell Me When It’s Time To Say I Love You.” In a TMZ video, with audio slightly obscured by passing cars, Billie can be heard dedicating a song to the newlyweds. “This song is one I wrote for my wife of 18 years… uh… it better be for her or I’d be in trouble. This song’s called ‘Last Night On Earth.’”

Watch a live version of ‘Last Night On Earth’

Linkin Park (Photo by Cody Black)

In an interview with Ted Stryker just prior to a dress rehearsal for a small group of fans, Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda shares some insight into the creation of their latest album, Living Things.

The band calls the new record a “developing journey” and one where they had a discussion about “getting real with who they are.” For Shinoda, that meant co-producing the album with Rubin, although he deems the word co-production a “technicality.”

“Rick comes in about once a week and he does a few hours with us where he hears it with fresh ears and gives us the Rick Rubin take,” Shinoda explains.

“There are a couple misconceptions with a band writing a song,” Shinoda continues. “One is that you think of a song, you like dream it up, and then you make it. And that’s not how it works for us. Another thing is people think maybe a band jams and then they write a song and then they go into a studio and then they record it and then when they’re done recorded they go mix and master and then the put it out.”

Shinoda says the writing process is weird.

Linkin Park (Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Last night’s Billboard Music Awards attempted to differ from other awards shows in that producers focused less on the awards and more on the performances. With an audience comprised of thousands of Las Vegas music fans packed in the MGM Grand, acceptance speeches were shorter and the pace of the show was seemingly faster. Despite being dominated by acts like LMFAO, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, Rihanna etc., it was still one of the most watchable award shows for rock fans.

Coldplay did the most damage in the rock category, taking home Top Rock Artist, Top Alternative Artist, Top Rock Album and Top Alternative Album. U2 stole Best Touring Artist from the hands of Bon Jovi and Taylor Swift while Adele kept the gold statues out of the hands of Beiber, LMFAO, Perry, Gaga and Lil Wayne in the Hot 100 and Hot 200 categories.

Coldplay won four awards at last night's @Billboard Awards! Info at coldplay.com/newsdetail.php… A—
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Linkin Park’s performance stood out from the seemingly endless supply of teen-soaked pop. Chester Bennington and crew brought the heat with “Burn It Down,” the first single from their upcoming album Living Things.

Watch Linkin Park’s performance.

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Dragonette – “Let It Go” (Laidback Luke Remix)
Afrojack – “Take Over Control” (f/ Eva Simons)
Duck Sauce – “Barbra Streisand”
The Crystal Method – “Keep Hope Alive”
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Walk The Moon (Courtesy RCA Music Group)

Most would agree that remixes rarely add or transform the original song into something better. All too often we hear “I like the original better.”

Rarely does a remix come along that evokes a positive emotion from the band’s most loyal fans. This may be one of those rare instances.

Known as Trouble Productions, the duo of The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. and producer Gus Oberg, give Walk The Moon’s “Anna Sun” a smooth, sultry yet bold electronic make-over. Hammond is a respected rock figure, but what about Oberg? Among the names Oberg has engineered sessions for are greats like Strokes, Neil Young, Postelles and Moby.

In an interview with Rolling Stone, lead singer and humble Ohioan, Nicholas Petricca couldn’t hold back his excitement, “We’re psyched about how quickly “Anna Sun is spreading and how positive the response has been! Also, our heads exploded a little when we think of Albert and Gus remixing the track. Huge honor!”Listen to the remix and find out who Anna is.

U2's Bono (Photo by Alexandra Wyman/Getty Images)

As Facebook went public today, reports are calculating that Bono’s investment company, Elevation Partners, stands to make up to $1.5 billion off of the IPO. According to Inc.,

Elevation owns 1.5 percent of Facebook’s shares. What percentage will go to Bono is unknown, but as a co-founder of the company, he likely stands to make a considerable profit. That’s especially good news for the U2 frontman, who was once referred to as “the worst investor” in America: one of Elevation’s notoriously bad investments was in Yelp, which has since been plagued with class-action lawsuits and extortion accusations.Which singer does Bono bump down the wealthiest list?

Rise Against (Photo by Alex Rauch)

In 2009 the State of Arizona passed the highly controversial immigration bill known as SB 1070. A public backlash ensued.

Known for being outspoken on human rights issues, Rise Against stood in solidarity with those who supported the Sound Strike movement. Sound Strike was a collection of artists who swore off playing live concerts in Arizona. The goal was to raise awareness for the injustices they believed the law would bring against immigrants.

Recently, that ban has been lifted and artists are inking deals with venues all over the state. Rise Against has announced that they’ll Flagstaff and Tempe as part of their North American tour. According to the band, 100% of the proceeds from the Flagstaff show will be donated to the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. The organization’s mission is to assist those detained by Immigration and Customs in Arizona.

Rise Against will set out on tour beginning September 11 in Quebec, head down into the Mid-West, turn around to go back up the West Coast before ending the tour in Edmonton, Canada in October. Tickets go on sale Thursday, May 24th at 10am PDT via Ticketmaster.

Tour support will include The Gaslight Anthem, NOFX and Authority Zero on various dates.Get Rise Against’s tour schedule.

Linkin Park (Photos by Cody Black)

In an interview with Ted Stryker just prior to a dress rehearsal for a small group of fans, the band recollected the early Hybird Theory days of their career–the days of dog collars and jelly bracelets–and how it compares to twelve years later in the Living Things stage of their musical journey.

Shinoda told a funny story, about two years into their career, when Bennington was hungover and had to get through an airport security line with all his rock and roll metal.

“There was a day when he was wearing a dog collar, he had the metal in his ears, he had the metal in his lip, he had spike bracelets from his wrist to his elbows, he had a belt that had metal all over it with like a chain, and metal in his boots and he goes to the airport with us,” says Shinoda. “And we see him, we get to the airport, we’re in the security line with this guy going, ‘Ummm, there’s like two people in front of you and we don’t say anything to him because clearly he was hungover.”

Continue with Shinoda’s funny memory.

M83 (Photo by Faith-Ann Young)

Mysterious Spanish-French musician Anthony Gonzalez is the genius behind M83′s lush, atmospheric indie pop. Gonzalez’ double-disc 2011 album Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming, modeled after the Smashing Pumpkins’ Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness was named by many music critics to be one of the best albums of 2011; his single “Midnight City” (which includes a saxophone solo by Fitz and the Tantrums’ James King) peaked at an enviable number five on the Billboard alternative charts.

M83 @ Red Bull Sound SpaceThroughout all this popularity and his breakthrough into mainstream radio and across genres, Gonzalez has maintained an elusive aura punctuated with interesting explanations into his bohemian creative process.

At M83′s performance at the Red Bull Sound Space at KROQ, Gonzalez talked with Nicole Alvarez about how a childhood spent in beautiful south of France inspired his music, how his family has been a huge part of his art, and whether he prefers In-N-Out hamburgers over Fatburger.

Watch them perform ‘Reunion’ and ‘Midnight City.’

M83 @ Red Bull Sound Space