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<!– –> <!– –> Gang members in England used stolen credit cards to purchase their own music on iTunes and Amazon as a scam to earn royalties, the BBC reports. Five gang members from Kent, Derby, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, England have been jailed, with one other sent to a youth offenders institution for the elaborate [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Madonna released MDNA, her 12th studio album, earlier this week. It’s the latest addition to a discography that extends three decades and includes a truly staggering number of massive era-defining hits. Our question for you this week is: What is the best Madonna song of all time? You can vote here [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> “I thought it would be best to talk to my fans,” Madonna told Jimmy Fallon on Saturday, explaining why her Facebook chat with the Late Night host is the only live press she’s doing for her new album, MDNA. Taped in front of an audience and live steamed through Madonna’s Facebook [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s 2012 induction ceremony will be held in Cleveland, Ohio on April 14th, and this year class includes Guns N’ Roses, the Beastie Boys and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. One band that won’t be there, however, is KISS, who haven’t been voted in since [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> WINNER OF THE WEEK: Having spent the morning listening to New York pop band Fun.’s second album Some Nights, which hit Number Three this week, selling 70,000 copies, we feel confident in saying the album (warmed-over Queen) isn’t as good as the single. “We Are Young,” co-starring the great Janelle Monae, [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Just eight weeks after playing the minuscule Greenwich Village club the Cafe Wha?, Van Halen returned last night to their natural habitat: Madison Square Garden. The arena is roughly 80 times larger than that basement club – and they filled it with confetti cannons, ludicrously oversized flags, one of the biggest [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Joining Madonna at her Super Bowl halftime show was a dream come true for LMFAO, the dance-pop duo formed by rapper-producer Redfoo (born Stefan Gordy) and his nephew Sky Blue (Skyler Gordy). “If Michael Jackson is our number one, Madonna is the number-two inspiration for everything LMFAO does,” Redfoo tells Rolling [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Robert Dewey Hoskins, a man who was convicted of stalking Madonna in the Nineties, is back in police custody after having escaped from a mental health facility in California on February 3rd. CNN reports that Hoskins was caught in Long Beach, California. Police have described him as highly psychotic and potentially [...]

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<!– –> Madonna’s newly announced world tour will take her to one hallowed venue: New York’s Yankee Stadium. The pop star, who just performed at the Super Bowl, will perform at the New York sporting landmark on September 6th. The show will mark the fifth stop on the North American leg of her tour, which [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> In this week’s slate of Rolling Stone reviews, Jody Rosen pans Madonna’s “dashed off” new single “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” on which the pop icon comes off like “a stressed-out party host” desperate to show her guests, M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj, a good time. Also, Will Hermes says that Paul [...]

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