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| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 05:28 PM PDT  Game's 'R.E.D.' Album Lives Up To The Hype It's been more than five years since the Game and 50 Cent severed their G-Unit ties, which put a strain on Game's working relationship with Dre. But the estrangement was good. It forced Game to work hard to establish himself independent of Aftermath and G |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:51 PM PDT  Nick Ashford - Profiles in Soul I wouldn't blame you for thinking that someone must be out there killing songwriters. After all, only mere hours after the announcement regarding Jerry Leiber, word came over that Nick Ashford had also died.Unlike all those hack organizations where they k |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 04:14 PM PDT  Alan Jackson To Play Washington D.C. On 9/11 Even if Alan Jackson happened to not be one of country music's most successful artists overall, he'd still have a place in history solely as the composer of the song that moved a nation after the events of 9/11/2001. ... |
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| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 03:36 PM PDT  The Bronx Fears Crazed Metallica Fans Will Start Heavy Metal Riots Apparently, these folks didn't get the memo that heavy metal fans are surprisingly well behaved: The 161st Street Business Improvement District, a non-profit organization "committed to improving" the Bronx, are worried that |
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| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 02:21 PM PDT  Play Now: New Florence + the Machine, OK Go's Muppet Video, and a Lady Gaga Remix Florence + the Machine are back with a taste of their as-yet-untitled November LP, the gloriously dramatic "What the Water Gave Me." Pitchfork reports the Paul Epworth-produced disc is due November 7th in the U.K. and sometime that month in the |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:43 PM PDT  China Hates Our Pop Stars, Blacklists Songs By Lady Gaga and Katy Perry China's Ministry of Culture has a long history of trying to prevent our devious Western music from infiltrating their citizens' ears. It took 50 years for Bob Dylan to perform in the strict country, and when he finally did last year, it was in front of |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:43 PM PDT  OK Go And The Muppets' First Video For "The Green Album" Classic Muppet comedy with OK Go and the gang doing "The Muppet Show Theme Song"... We dare you not to smile |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 01:06 PM PDT  Michael Jackson Fans Lobby to Cancel Tribute Concert Coalition of fan clubs write angry open letter to organizers |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:27 PM PDT  Michael Jackson Fans Beg for Cancellation of 'Doomed' Tribute Show In news that should continue to surprise nobody, even Michael Jackson's biggest fans believe Michael Forever: The Tribute Concert, the unauthorized extravaganza scheduled to take place October 8th at the U.K. ... |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 12:27 PM PDT  Motown Songwriter Nick Ashford Dead at 69 Ashford wrote "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" with wife Valerie Simpson |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 11:11 AM PDT  Amy Winehouse's Family Says Her Death Wasn't Caused By Illegal Substances "Illegal substances" did not play a role in the July 23rd death of Amy Winehouse, the singer's family said in a statement today, citing a still-unreleased coroner's report. ... |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 11:10 AM PDT  Amy Winehouse Toxicology Report Shows No Illegal Drugs Still unknown if alcohol contributed to singer's untimely death |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 10:31 AM PDT  'Jeggings' Makes Oxford English Dictionary, 'Cassette Tape' Does Not Four hundred slang terms joined the dictionary last week, including "gastric band," "woot," and "mankini" -- a trio that truly defines our times. |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 09:15 AM PDT  Can Hardly Wait: The Replacements Maybe But Probably Not Considering Reunion It's been 20 years since the Replacements broke up, so naturally -- with so many of our alt-rock heroes catching reunion fever -- people are beginning to wonder whether Paul Westerberg and his Minnesota crew would ever consider getting back together. Surp |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 08:36 AM PDT  Beware of Snoop Dogg's Twitter Today Snoop Dogg has reached 4 million Twitter followers and to celebrate, he is attempting to punish the rest of us mightily today by staging a Twitter takeover. "I want to show the world how powerful and influential social media and my fans are, which is |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 07:20 AM PDT  Tom Waits Will Release a New Album Even Though the Internet Ruined His Surprise In just over two months from right now, we'll have a new Tom Waits album. Waits' long-rumored Bad as Me became a reality today as the album's title track started popping at MP3 stores, and then Waits himself revealed |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:40 AM PDT  Motown Songwriter Nick Ashford Dead at 70 Nick Ashford, one-half of the powerhouse Motown songwriting team Ashford & Simpson, has died in New York after a battle with throat cancer. He was 70. ... |
| Posted: 23 Aug 2011 06:01 AM PDT  Songs About Interracial Love There is no doubt that America has come along way from our slavery embracing past to electing our first black president, but there is still a lot more work to be done. Want proof? Spend some time with an interracial couple, and take note of the dirty look |
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