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| Posted: 18 Nov 2011 02:01 AM PST X Factor Rapper Astro Dedicates 'I'll Be Missing You' Cover To Hip-Hop I know Common is giving The X Factor teen rapper Astro props for his cover of Diddy's "I'll Be Missing You" that pays homage to hip-hop in the same metaphoric way Common's 1994 classic "i used to love h.e.r" did. This 15-year-old Brownsville, Brooklyn native born Brian Bradley flipped the song and concept so well [...] |
| Posted: 18 Nov 2011 12:28 AM PST Big Sean On Kanye: 'People Sit Around And Call Him An A**hole, I Just Think He's Funny.' In the final segment of my three-part interview with Big Sean, he explains how he managed to get Kanye West to take him on as a protégé, why Kanye isn't an a—hole, and what the Detroit rap scene was like during his come up. Big Sean met Kanye West by chance during the summer before [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 07:12 PM PST 'X Factor' Top 10 Results: This Season's First Shocker On Thursday night's results show, "The X Factor" experienced its first real shocker of the season, when the two contestants that many pundits (including myself) assumed would be most at risk were actually the first two contestants sent to safety by host Steve Jones--before the first commercial break had even aired. |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 05:41 PM PST Don't Tell Anybody But I Actually Like A Lil B Song: 'I Got AIDS' I don't think another rapper has done a better job of stirring up controversy. Lil B has said that he would rape Kanye West if he didn't work with him. He's released an album called "I'm Gay," and now he's put out the track "I Got AIDS." I've been thinking that I liked Lil B [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 04:57 PM PST Chart Watch Extra: Gaga Album Sparks Policy Change In May, Lady Gaga's Born This Way became the first album in more than six years to sell as many as 1,108,000 copies in one week. But the tally was inflated by hundreds of thousands of copies by AmazonMP3's decision to sell the album for just 99 cents on two separate days. |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 04:12 PM PST Durbin Interview, Part 2: Sing Along with James! WATCH PART 1 OF DURBIN'S INTERVIEW Fans of James Durbin eager to hear more snippets of his debut album, Memories Of A Beautiful Disaster, should truly enjoy part two of my chat with of the "American Idol" rocker, as he quite frequently randomly breaks into song throughout our conversation. It's obvious just how enthusiastic he [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:28 PM PST X Factor, The Day After: Top 10 Show Dish This Wednesday, "The X Factor" hosted its "rock" night. Please note the quotation marks in the previous sentence. Because precious little about this week's Rock Night top 10 episode actually rocked at all, other than Josh Krajcik's solid Foo Fighters cover and Marcus Canty's surprisingly unembarrassing attempt to embrace the rock genre with a Janis [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:28 PM PST Lady Gaga's Platinum Cheat Inspires Chart Changes In May, thanks to an Amazon MP3 Store deal that sold Lady Gaga's 'Born This Way' for 99 cents, the album sold a million copies in the week it was released. Going platinum in one week is an almost-impossible feat in these days of leaks and illegal downloading, but Gaga managed to accomplish it solely [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:28 PM PST The Very Best Space Related Songs It's time to wrap up our series of space-related playlists. For this final list I thought I would look back and pick the very best songs from the playlists posted over the past week, as well as picking songs from other space-themed playlists we've published over the last four years or so. |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST There Will Be No Rick Ross Album This Christmas Now that Drake's 'Take Care' was released this week, there was one more big hip-hop album still on the schedule for 2011: Rick Ross' 'God Forgives, I Don't'. However, because of the Teflon Don's recent health scares, the rapper — or at least his label, Island Def Jam — has pushed the new LP from [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Dia Frampton Debuts New Music Video, Hair Extensions "The Voice" runner-up Dia Frampton has just released her first post-show single, "The Broken Ones," and I must say the lovely folk-pop power ballad is growing on me--just like Dia's hair seems to have grown about 22 inches since "The Voice's" April finale, judging by her appearance in the song's new video. |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Check Out Four Demos From Smashing Pumpkins' 'Gish' and 'Siamese Dream' Reissues 2011 is the Year of the Reissue thanks to deluxe re-releases of Nirvana's 'Nevermind', U2's 'Achtung Baby', and the entire Pink Floyd discography, and two more can't-miss reissues, Smashing Pumpkins' 'Gish' and 'Siamese Dream,' are due out on November 29th. Both 2CD/1DVD packages offer the entire remastered album plus B-sides, unreleased tracks, alternative mixes, and [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST If You're Suing Justin Bieber, Don't Send Incriminating Text Messages to Money-Hungry Friends The legal faux pas keep on coming. Yesterday it was an unearthed guilt-packed radio interview with C.C. DeVille that could wind up costing Poison millions, and now some text messages have emerged which seem to cast more doubt on Mariah Yeater's claims that Justin Bieber is her baby's daddy. As The Amp noted yesterday, even [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Finally! Beyonce Reveals Her Wedding Dress from 2008 Nuptials Better late than never! Beyonce and Jay-Z's posh April 4, 2008 wedding in NYC was one of the most closely guarded celeb nuptials ever -- with few details and no photos emerging from the big day. PHOTOS: Beyonce's amazing baby bump style Over three years later, however, Beyonce (now expecting her first child with her [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Google Music: Lots of Potential, Lots of Work to Do After months of beta testing, and a day after iTunes Match ignited, Google Music finally launched yesterday with both a free 20,000-song digital locker and a refurbished music service in their Android Market. Google finished third behind Amazon and Apple in the race to the cloud-based streaming technology, so at this point you know what [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Michael Stipe and Kermit the Frog Make a Terrible 'Password' Team Michael Stipe has plenty of time to hang out on late night shows now that he's not in a band anymore. The former R.E.M. singer stopped by 'Late Night With Jimmy Fallon' yesterday to play a quick game of 'Password' with Martin Short, Kermit the Frog, and Miss Piggy. Short and Piggy made a formidable [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST 'X Factor' Top 10 Recap: Rock 'N' Roll is Dead This week's top 10 show on "The X Factor" was originally supposed to be Lady Gaga/Madonna Night. But at the last minute, Simon Cowell changed it to Rock Night. As it turned out, the switch made little difference. Rock Night just didn't really, well, rock. Of course, with a top 10 cast of mostly R&B, [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST James Durbin Talks Haters, Hair Bands & "Holy Diver" Being a rock singer, particularly a hard rock singer, transitioning from the "American Idol" bubble to the real rock 'n' roll world is no easy feat, since rock purists tend to turn up their pierced noses at what they consider to be just some fluffy, credibility-killing karaoke show. James Durbin, arguably "Idol's" first full-fledged, full-throttle [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Week Ending Nov. 13, 2011. Songs: Taylor & Kenny Taylor Swift has the three highest debuting songs on this week's Hot 100. Does she have a new album coming soon? No. These are songs that were previously available only on a deluxe CD edition of her 2010 album Speak Now, available only through Target. Now the songs are available digitally. |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Prepare Yourself for the Michael Jackson Biopic File this under "Too soon?": The executors of the Michael Jackson estate have reportedly approached Montecito Picture Company about a biopic about the King of Pop. That's right, the studio that gave us 'Road Trip,' 'Euro Trip,' and 'I Love You, Man' is the frontrunner to bring Jackson's life story to the silver screen. |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Big Sean On Drake: 'They really tried to create a beef between me and him.' In Part 2 of my three-part interview with Big Sean, the "My Last" rapper discusses the impact Kanye West's debut album "College Dropout" had on him, and explains that he's never had a beef with Drake, despite rumors. Big Sean was in the 10th grade in 2004 when Kanye released "College Dropout." The Detroit rapper [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Saturn Songs Saturn is a fascinating planet, and personally, I think it's the second most beautiful in our solar system after Earth, because of its huge, shimmering rings. Saturn is a large gas giant, second in size only to Jupiter in our solar system. If you could open Saturn up, you could stuff 760 Earths inside! |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Whoops: The Radio Interview That Might Cost Poison a Few Million Dollars We'll admit, we had our doubts when an old hair band called Kid Rocker waited 25 years to sue Bret Michaels and Poison over the authorship of their hit "Talk Dirty to Me." Considering that Poison guitarist C.C. DeVille was once a member of the Kid Rocker offshoot Screamin' Mimi's, you'd think it wouldn't take [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Gorillaz Coming Out With New Shoes and New Song If Damon Albarn's cartoon band Gorillaz decide they're not breaking up after all, we all have sneakers to thank for it. There were the break-up rumors, then just last month, when the animated group announced they were releasing a greatest hits disc just three albums (and a free iPad LP) into their career, many perceived [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Snoopy Stars in Greatly Improved 'Party Rock Anthem' Video The Internet is very much like a 1,000 monkeys working at a 1,000 computers -- sometimes it is "the blurst of times" but occasionally we're treated to a brilliant fever dream out of someone's fertile imagination. An intrepid YouTuber created a much improved video to LMFAO's inescapable "Party Rock Anthem" starring (for unknown reasons) Snoopy [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Charts: Mac Miller Slides Right Into Number One Who's Number One: As promised, Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller stormed to the top of the Billboard 200 as his debut album Blue Slide Park sold 144,000 copies in its first week, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That's slightly less than the 180K copies that were initially projected, but more than enough to give Miller the first [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Week Ending Nov. 13, 2011. Albums: From "Donald Trump" to #1 Just five months ago, Mac Miller was best known for a novelty rap hit about, of all people, Donald Trump. This week, the 19-year old rapper has the #1 album on The Billboard 200. Blue Slide Park enters the chart higher than the hit-studded Now 40 and the latest Twilight soundtrack, which boasts a big [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:27 PM PST Michael Jackson's Deathbed No Longer for Sale Strike one item off The Amp's Christmas list: The headboard from Michael Jackson's deathbed has been taken off the block after the Jackson family protested its inclusion in an auction of all the artwork and antiques in Michael's 100 Carolwood Drive mansion. "We want to maintain a good relationship with the family and we don't [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:26 PM PST Justin Bieber Is Not a Teen Dad, Paternity Suit Dismissed (UPDATES) Update: Maybe Bieber hasn't dodged his DNA test just yet. WGN Chicago is reporting that Mariah Yeater's suit has been withdrawn over "death threats," but that she has switched legal representation and still believes Bieber fathered her baby. Jeffery Leving, a Chicago-based paternity lawyer representing Yeater, said that the accuser's lawyers are still negotiating with [...] |
| Posted: 17 Nov 2011 03:26 PM PST Supernova Songs We would not exist if it were not for supernovae -- massive explosions that happen at the end of a star's life. A star is born when its core becomes dense and hot enough to start fusing hydrogen, and when two hydrogen molecules are fused together, they form a helium molecule. |
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