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Posted: 13 Mar 2012 12:21 AM PDT


The Best New Band Yet!
Hello and greetings from Austin, Texas--that marvelous city which once a year hosts the exciting South By Southwest Multi-Media Something-Or-Other Conference, where I am currently ensconced, preparing for a week of marvelous music, marvelous interviews and exclusive performances, and marvelous opportunities to toss a few down in the spirit of our marvelous music industry!

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:25 PM PDT


'The Voice' Battle Rounds Pt. 2, or The Reason This Show Should Have Wild Cards
"The Voice's" Battle Rounds continued this week, with 12 very able-throated singers entering the show's garishly neon-lit boxing ring and only six walking away unscathed and on to the live semifinals. For all you "Voice" newbies, the Battle Rounds are to "The Voice" as Hollywood Week is to "American Idol" and the Judges' Houses are [...]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 03:30 PM PDT


Whitney Houston's Sister-In-Law Speaks Out About Stacy Francis Skirmish
Tenth-place finalist Stacy Francis certainly courted controversy throughout her run on "The X Factor," and months after leaving the show, she has found herself in the spotlight again, regarding a mysterious heated altercation she allegedly had with Whitney Houston at a pre-Grammy party two days before Whitney's shocking death. This past weekend, Whitney's sister-in-law and [...]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:57 PM PDT


'Hunger Games' Album Aims to Reinvent the Soundtrack Game
Maybe you were expecting the Hunger Games companion album to bear some similarities to the Twilight soundtracks… aggressive-sounding, and aggressively youth-oriented, no? Think again. The track listing for The Hunger Games: Songs from District 12 isn't the stuff that movie blockbuster souvenirs are usually made of. Take a look at the artist lineup—chock full of [...]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:57 PM PDT


The British Are Coming! One Direction Set To Conquer America
Groups didn't fare too well on the American version of "The X Factor" last year, but in Britain, it's been a whole other story. A girl group called Little Mix won "The X Factor U.K." last season; Season 5's JLS is huge overseas; and now One Direction, a made-for-TV boy band that came in third [...]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 01:10 PM PDT


Shanice's Daughter's Girl Group Amazes With A Capella Adele Covers
Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. Nineties pop singer Shanice is getting into the girl group business. On Sunday, she tweeted a link to a new tween female quartet, the Gurlie Gurlz, covering Adele's "Set Fire To The Rain" and "Rolling In The Deep." The group includes Imani, Shanice's daughter with husband Flex Alexander, her cousin, [...]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 12:22 PM PDT


Train, Framed
Is it daylight savings time already? Yep — but it sure as heck ain't laughter savings time! Welcome to Framed, the internet's premier "funny captions" website! Every week, readers from around the globe flock to our URL to enjoy a music video and, better yet, the very amusing captions we write for the video.

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 12:22 PM PDT


Chart Watch Extra: Got A Quarter?
Remember when Lady Gaga took some flak last May because digital copies of her then-new album, Born This Way, were sold for just 99 cents for two days at Amazon's MP3 store? The album sold more copies in one week than any album had in more than six years, but because some of them were [...]

Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:10 AM PDT


The Rock's Backpages Flashback: The Grateful Dead hit Europe in '72
It is 40 years since the Grateful Dead — the ultimate tribal hippie band — brought their psychedelic Americana to Europe for a first tour of the continent. Underground legend Mick Farren filed this heady report for International Times in April '72——Barney Hoskyns, Editorial Director, Rock's Backpages * "The trouble with a lot of kids [...]