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| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:48 PM PDT  Why Lil Wayne's 'Carter IV' Outsold Jay-Z and Kanye's 'Throne' The numbers for Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV came in this morning, and they were staggering: 940,000 copies sold in the first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan, placing the album firmly atop the Billboard 200 chart. |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:59 PM PDT  Don Henley: Record Companies 'Not Going to Roll Over' on Copyright Issue 'My hope is that artists understand what's at stake and what their rights are,' he says |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 05:21 PM PDT  Week Ending Sept. 4, 2011. Songs: Adele's Back On Top Adele's "Someone Like You" vaults from #19 to #1 on the Hot 100. I wasn't sure that Adele would ever have another #1 hit. Hits as massive as "Rolling In The Deep" can be very hard to follow. |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 04:41 PM PDT  Heavy Poison Rock and roll and poison go way back. Most music historians believe that the legendary bluesman Robert Johnson was murdered after succumbing to strychnine poisoning at the hands of a lover's jealous husband. ... |
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 03:23 PM PDT  The Bronx Picks the Absolute Worst Time to Have an 'Anthrax Day' On September 14th, heavy metal's Big Four -- Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax -- will invade Yankee Stadium for one night only, despite |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:44 PM PDT  Miranda Lambert Reveals Album Art For 'Four The Record' How does a girl top off a week in which she's been nominated for two Country Music Association awards (and her husband for five!)? Well, if you're Miranda Lambert, you keep the momentum going and reveal the album art for your wildly anticipated fourth rel |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:43 PM PDT  Madonna Is Not Legally the Material Girl, Is Free to Hate Hydrangeas A judge is telling Madonna that singing the lyric "I am a Material Girl" and going by the nickname Material Girl does not make her an actual, legal Material Girl. ... |
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| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:43 PM PDT  The Rock's Backpages Rewind: England Shakes to PJ Harvey PJ Harvey is the first artist to win the coveted Mercury Prize twice, and she's done it with a remarkable concept album about her homeland - and its wars abroad. ... |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:06 PM PDT  Five 9/11 Memorial Concerts Anyone who was conscious after 9/11 remembers the somber mood that permeated the country. ... |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 02:06 PM PDT  No Tigers Were Harmed Making Stephen Malkmus' 'Tigers' Video There's a new sitcom on FX called Wilfred about a dude who has a pet that's really just another guy in a dog suit. It stars Elijah Wood from Lord of the Rings and it's on the same night as the Louie CK show. ... |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 01:27 PM PDT  Musicians (But Not Rockers) Will Dominate 2011 Kennedy Center Honors The Kennedy Center Honors have paid tribute to rock royalty over the past four years -- Brian Wilson in 2007, Pete Townshend and Roger Daltry in '08, Bruce Springsteen in '10, and Paul McCartney in '10.... |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:30 AM PDT  The Last Days of Buddy Holly On his 75th birthday, friends remember the rock & roll pioneer's final concerts — and musicians salute his lasting influence |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:30 AM PDT  The Rolling Stones' Ed Sullivan Performances Coming to DVD The Beatles' first visit to the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 marked the unofficial moment the British Invasion conquered America and one of the most iconic TV performances ever, but lost in all that music history is the fact that the Rollin |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 11:30 AM PDT  The Rock's Backpages Flashback: Apocalypse Then One rock writer's spontaneous statement of shock and despair at the belief-defying events of 9.11. ... |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 10:51 AM PDT  Man Breaks Into Celine Dion's House, Runs a Bath Montreal police have arrested a man for breaking into the Laval, Quebec home of Celine Dion -- where he drew a bath and raided her fridge, the BBC reports. |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 10:12 AM PDT  Who Charted? Lil Wayne's 'Carter IV' Falls Just Shy of A Milli Who's Number One: Lil Wayne is officially the most leak-resilient artist ever. His long-anticipated Tha Carter IV hit the streets early and still sold 964,000 its first week in stores, according to Nielsen SoundScan, easily winning him |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 09:32 AM PDT  Watch Jeff Tweedy's Epic Recitation of 'My Humps' When Wilco named their last disc Wilco (The Album) -- first single, "Wilco (The Song)" -- it became apparent that lead singer Jeff Tweedy had developed a sense of humor after a decade of looking and sounding morose all the time |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 08:52 AM PDT  Meet Yasiin, the Artist Formerly Known as Mos Def When the clock strikes midnight January 1, 2012, Mos Def will cease to be Mos Def. "I'm retiring the Mos Def name after 2011," he told MTV's Sucker Free (via |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 07:32 AM PDT  Arcade Fire, Eddie Vedder, Beck Lead Neil Young's 25th Bridge School Benefit Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit Concerts have been the live highlight of autumn for a quarter-century now, and for the gigs' 25th anniversary, Young has really booked the big guns: Arcade Fire, Eddie Vedder, Beck, and Neil himself will play Cali |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:52 AM PDT  Man Busted for Breaking Into Celine Dion's Mansion, Snacking, Bathing A man named Daniel Bedard has been arrested for breaking into Celine Dion's Montreal mansion, eating dessert, and running himself a bath. According to the AP, the 36-year-old suspect gained entry to the singer's house |
| Posted: 07 Sep 2011 06:12 AM PDT  Week Ending Sept. 5, 2011. Albums: Weezy Does It Lil Wayne's Tha Carter IV sold a whopping 964,000 copies in its first week. That's the second biggest one-week sales tally of the year. It trails only Lady Gaga's Born This Way, which sold 1,108,000 copies in May. |
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