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Chris Brown’s new track with Aaliyah has just received the visual treatment, and the deceased singer makes more than a cameo in the video for “Don’t Think They Know.” Brown plays peacemaker in the clip, bringing together rival gangs (an apparent reference to the Bloods and Crips) in Los Angeles and quelling the violence for a [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers are playing Bonnaroo on Sunday night. We don’t know exactly which songs he’ll play, but his recent run of theater shows in New York and Los Angeles have focused on deep cuts from his long catalog. “I would rather develop an audience around the quality of [...]

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Kanye West added a new dimension to his Yeezus video projection project on Friday night with a short film inspired by American Psycho. The clip, which was projected on the outside wall of Milk Studios in Los Angeles during a listening party for the new album, according to Rap-Up, recreates a scene from the 2000 [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> “It’s not a little bit different,” Mayer Hawthorne says of his forthcoming album, Where Does This Door Go. “It’s a lot different.” For his latest effort, out July 2nd, the neo-soul singer tells Rolling Stone he threw out all of his previously self-imposed rules. The result is a radical left turn [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Billy Joel surprised an assembly of students at the Frank Sinatra School of the Arts in Queens on Thursday when he showed up to answer questions and perform a pair of songs on different pianos at the school for 400 students.  Joel appeared with Tony Bennett, who opened the school through [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> To celebrate their 21st anniversary together, Hanson have officially launched their own beer. The Oklahoma trio’s new brew, Mmmhops, was created in partnership with the craft beer company Mustang Brewing and will debut in the fall along with the band’s sixth studio album, Anthem. Last week, the band shared the brew’s [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Quadron looked to honor Michael Jackson in their new song “Neverland,” but the soulful duo wanted to put a fresh perspective on their tribute track. “[Singer Coco O. and I] are both huge fans of Michael Jackson and we wanted to write a song about that, but from a different angle,” [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> The split between the Stone Temple Pilots and former frontman Scott Weiland has escalated into a legal feud. The Associated Press reports that the band filed a lawsuit accusing Weiland of misusing the band’s name in to advance his solo work and asked a judge to block him from using the band’s [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Fans of Latin funk and lush Afro-Cuban grooves remember the Seventies with glee, when the New York salsa explosion made Latin music appear as edgy and unpredictable as rock roll. At the core of this movement was Fania, the Motown of salsa, a record label bold enough to mastermind the ultimate [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> John Fogerty will give a rare, one-off performance at Los Angeles’ El Rey Theatre on May 28th to celebrate both his birthday and the release of his new album, Wrote a Song for Everyone. A limited number of presale tickets for members of Fogerty’s fan club will be available starting on May [...]

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