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| Posted: 25 Aug 2011 12:16 AM PDT  Prince Poppycock Spreads His Wings in 'AGT' Comeback Performance Bedecked in splendiferous plumage, the good Prince strutted the stage like a gorgeous white peacock, and it was nice to see my old feathered friend again. Poppycock-a-doodle-doo! |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:28 PM PDT  Songs About Dying Young Unfortunately, rock and roll stars have a storied history of living fast and dying young. ... |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:50 PM PDT  Week Ending Aug. 21, 2011: Rolling To A Record It's only August, but Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" has already sold more digital copies than any other song has in any calendar year. Adele's song has sold 4,825,000 copies since the start of the year. |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 05:11 PM PDT  OneRepublic Singer to Franchise NYC BBQ Chain Ryan Tedder has signed on to open 10 locations across the U.S. |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 04:32 PM PDT  Soul Legend Syl Johnson Angry Over 'Watch the Throne' Sample Says he was not properly credited on Jay-Z and Kanye West's album |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:16 PM PDT  Lil Wayne's Brilliant Plan to Release 'Tha Carter IV' After VMAs Ruined by Leak On Wednesday, Lil Wayne and his Cash Money Records hatched a release strategy for Tha Carter IV that was so genius, they claimed it would "change the game." |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 03:16 PM PDT  Sunset Junction Festival Officially Canceled City of Los Angeles denies permits for cash-strapped street fair |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT  John Rich Wants YOU To Be His Neighbor! Hey, so how would you like to be neighbors with a real, live Celebrity Apprentice? Well, if you've got the money, you now can! This year's Celebrity Apprentice winner, John Rich, is putting up the first home he owned in Nashville for sale--and he really d |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT  MTV Comes Up With Groundbreaking Way to Promote VMAs (Really!) It is so incredibly easy to mock MTV's Video Music Awards. But then the network goes and does something genius that makes us ooh and ah. |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:58 PM PDT  Video: YoYo's School Of Hip Hop Summer Program To Celebrate 83 Grads West Coast female rap pioneer YoYo launched this summer the YoYo's School Of Hip Hop in partnership with Community Build in Los Angeles. I recently visited the 7-week program that teaches kids aged 8 to 17 how to use hip hop to write lyrics and essays as |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:58 PM PDT  Kenny Chesney Changes Tour Date Due To Hurricane Warning The tragic string of storm-related disasters at outdoor concerts this summer has apparently made an impression on Kenny Chesney, who isn't taking any chances with the last weekend of his Goin' Coastal tour. Due to a hurricane warning affecting his August |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 01:58 PM PDT  Annoying Gallagher Brother Drops Lawsuit Against Other Annoying Gallagher Brother Liam and Noel Gallagher may hate each other, but the acrimonious bros sure do love making headlines. Just days after Liam sued Noel for falsely telling journalists that Oasis broke up in 2009 because Liam showed up hungover for what turned out to be their |
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| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 12:41 PM PDT  Do People Honestly Like This James Blake and Bon Iver Song? This is a serious question because we are pretty sure we are having an Emperor's New Clothes moment. Do people seriously find the new duet between Bon Iver's Justin Vernon and U.K. dubstep artist James Blake, "Fall Creek Boys Choir |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 12:02 PM PDT  George Harrison Hits the Screen in Scorsese Doc Epic new film illuminates the inner life of the most enigmatic Beatle |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 11:23 AM PDT  Broken Homes, Prostitution, and HIV: Lil Wayne's Feel-Good Video of the Summer As if The Amp couldn't despise Lil Wayne's smooth jam "How to Love" enough, Weezy has now released a music video that is so painfully heavy-handed, it makes us want to riot like angry Metallica fans. Maybe that was Weezy's goal, to pair his unbearable son |
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| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 10:44 AM PDT  Who Charted? Jay-Z and Kanye West Still Own Billboard's Throne Who's Number One: Jay-Z and Kanye West (a.k.a. the Throne) are spending a second week atop Billboard's Top 200 with another 177,000 copies of Watch the Throne sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan. In two weeks, the LP has moved 613,000 |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:24 AM PDT  Bill S. Preston, Esq. Making a Napster Documentary The story of Napster, the file-sharing program that revolutionized how songs are distributed and nearly killed the record industry, is about to get the full-on documentary treatment thanks to Bill from Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 09:24 AM PDT  A Few Quick Questions With The Eli Young Band The Eli Young Band are no doubt enjoying their summer, as it's been a particularly great one for the group of Texas boys. Their fourth and newest album Life At Best--which was released August 16--debuted at No. 6 on the Billboard 200 albums chart this wee |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:44 AM PDT  Simon Cowell Does Very Bizarre Things to His Body Simon Cowell is a weirdo. That is the point of Chris Heath's excellent GQ profile on the famously cantankerous American Idol judge and soon-to-be head honcho on the American version of The X Factor (the story is title |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:44 AM PDT  Taylor Swift Welcomes Famous Friend On Stage In L.A. Guess who decided to make a surprise appearance at Taylor Swift's gig in Los Angeles Tuesday night? None other than her good friend (and fellow teen heartthrob) Justin Bieber! |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 08:44 AM PDT Week Ending Aug. 21, 2011. Albums: Adele's "Massacre" Album sales aren't what they used to be, but evidently no one told Adele's fans. 21 tops the 3 million mark this week. This is the earliest in the year that we've seen a 3-million-seller since 2005. |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 07:25 AM PDT  Watch the Samples: Kanye and Jay-Z Forget to Clear 'The Joy' With Syl Johnson Instead of watching the throne so aggressively, Kanye West and Jay-Z should have maybe also checked to see if all the samples on their new album cleared. ... |
| Posted: 24 Aug 2011 06:45 AM PDT  MTV Makes 'No Duh' Decision to Honor Amy Winehouse at VMAs Since MTV's Video Music Awards will be paying tribute to Britney Spears for no apparent reason this Sunday night other than the fact that she continues to exist at age 29, it only makes sense to honor a singer who actually died this year. ... |
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