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April 20, 2012 9:15 AM ET “This guy looks like he was created by Wes Anderson,” says Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach as Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker gambols across the stage. It’s a couple of hours before the duo’s show on the first night of this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, and Auerbach and [...]

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Jan 9 2012         2:58 PM EST Only a few days old and young Blue Ivy Carter has already clocked in a duet with her big poppa. On Monday (January 9), Jay-Z dropped “Glory” featuring B.I.C. on his Life and Times blog. Over a simple but soulful loop, Jay dedicates his bars to he and Beyoncé‘s newborn daughter. “The [...]

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August 12, 2011   04:37:22 GMT Rocker Jani Lane has passed away at the age of 47. The former Warrant lead singer, who wrote the ’80s glam rock band’s hits “Cherry Pie” and “I Saw Red”, was found dead at a hotel in Los Angeles on Thursday evening, August 11, TMZ reported. His body was discovered [...]

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Aug 1, 2011   12:00 PM ET Similar to how he brought in his last album Thank Me Later with “Over“—a cut that didn’t scream “pop smash!” but was a quality tone-setter—Canadian rhymer Drake dropped the first single from his forthcoming sophomore album Take Care this weekend. The cut, “Headlines,” is a menacing beginning for the [...]

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Fri Jul 29 01:20pm EDT Something tells me there are going to be a lot of people in a lot of places talking about Lily Anderson this weekend. Watch as the brave 10-year-old sings the national anthem before Thursday’s Atlanta Braves game at Turner Field — and then receive what Braves reliever Peter Moylan(notes) describes [...]

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24 July 2011   06:54 ET Amy Winehouse joins iconic stars who died aged 27 The death of singer Amy Winehouse, after her long battle with drink and drugs, means the Londoner joins a significant number of troubled musicians to die at the age of 27. The list of stars who have died at this early [...]

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Jul 11 2011 5:27 PM EDT Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael Todd was arraigned Monday (July 11) in a Massachusetts court, one day after he was arrested for allegedly robbing a Walgreens pharmacy just hours before his band was set to open a show for Soundgarden. Todd appeared in Attleboro District Court, where the charges [...]

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03:33 PM ET, 06/30/2011 Lil B, the Berkeley, Calif.-born rapper who released the surprise hit “Vans” while part of hip hop group the Pack in 2006 and has won solo stardom through MySpace hits like “Wonton Soup,” just dropped a new album, and it’s won us over at BlogPost in more ways than one. Post [...]

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June 24, 2011 Florence Welch possesses a voice of such fullness and power than it has only taken a bit more than a year for people to stop trying to find comparisons to describe her and start using her as a reference for other singers. The Florence + The Machine frontwoman’s voice worked quite well [...]

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Thu Jun 23, 2011 2:50pm PDT Between 1997 and 2005, Missy Elliott put out six studio albums, never pausing for more than two years between LPs. But it’s been six years since The Cookbook, and though the innovative rapper/producer guested on a handful of tracks including Ciara’s “Work” and kept up with fans via Twitter, [...]

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June 23rd, 2011  09:53 AM ET The results show for “The Voice” was only an hour on Wednesday night, but I swear there were more surprises packed into those 60 minutes than all the previous shows combined. The results show started off with the eight remaining contestants singing George Michael’s “Freedom.” Nakia and Vicci Martinez [...]

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June 22, 2011 | 12:39 pm Glen Campbell has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, the 75-year-old country singer, songwriter and guitarist and his wife, Kim, have told People magazine, a condition that has prompted him to describe a new album coming in August as his final recording. “Glen is still an awesome guitar player and [...]

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8:39 AM on 22nd June 2011 Schoolgirl singer Anna Graceman wowed the America’s Got Talent judges with her huge voice as she performed a stunning rendition of an Alicia Keys song. Cutting an unassuming figure amongst the other bizarre and outlandish acts of the night, the youngster stunned the auditorium with her astonishing voice. The [...]

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Jun 22 2011 6:53 AM EDT I often tell people the first cassette I bought with my own money was the Beastie Boys’ License to Ill. This is, of course, a lie: It was actually “Weird Al” Yankovic‘s 1986 album Polka Party!, which featured classics like “Living With a Hernia,” “Addicted to Spuds” and “Toothless [...]

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May 24, 2011, 12:34 pm EDT Grammy Award-winning singer and actress Jill Scottreleases her new album The Light Of The Sun out June 21st, moved up one week due to overwhelming response. Featured in TIME Magazine’s Top Summer Music list, the eagerly awaited fifth studio album releases on Warner Bros. Records. Bringing The Jill Scott [...]

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Jun 172011  01:37 PM ET Glee standout Naya Rivera, who plays the feisty and sexually confused Santana on Fox’s musical hit, signed a record deal in early June, and it seems that the busy-busy star is wasting no time before taking a crack at working on it. As soon as she gets done with the [...]

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18 June 2011 Last updated at 23:24 ET Clarence Clemons, the saxophone player in Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, has died, aged 69, a spokeswoman for the band has said. Clemons was taken to hospital about a week ago after suffering a stroke at his home in Singer Island, in the US state of Florida. [...]

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Jun 17 2011 5:37 PM EDT Since the release of his mixtape Nostalgia, Ultra this past February, Frank Ocean has gone from a relatively unknown songwriter to the Internet’s best-kept secret, and now he may be poised to be music’s next big thing. But with Ocean choosing to do very little press, his appearance in [...]

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June 17, 2011 12:03 pm ET One of Michael Jackson’s sister’s, La Toya Jackson has written a book, and in  the new book, the King of Pop’s sibling writes about his passing, and how she  feels as a result. According to various reports, an excerpt of the book  discusses the state of Jackson’s room after [...]

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Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:17pm EDT NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) – Rebecca Black is getting her 16th minute of fame now that the teen starlet’s infamous “Friday” video has been pulled off YouTube by her lawyers. The singer enjoyed tremendous viral success in March with a song that was so silly and simple (“Everybody’s lookin’ [...]

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