Easy Music Guides

<!– –> <!– –> WINNER OF THE WEEK: Adele. Remember last week, when we suggested after a day’s worth of data that the only star receiving a post-Grammy sales bump was Whitney Houston? Turns out our estimates were on the conservative side! Adele dramatically eclipsed an average week, selling a ridiculous 730,000 copies of 21, [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> In this week’s slate of Rolling Stone reviews, Rob Sheffield hails Sleigh Bells’ second album, Reign of Terror, which “flattens you with its cartoonishly over-modulated, into-the-red guitar sound.” Also, Jon Dolan says that Gorillaz, Andre 3000 and James Murphy’s “DoYaThing” is a “zippy future-freak soul summit,” and Jody Rosen dismisses Katy [...]

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Bon Iver and frontman Justin Vernon were already winners before last night’s Grammys telecast began, taking home the award for Best Alternative Music Album for Bon Iver. But Vernon’s biggest moment came in the ten o’clock hour, when the band won the award for Best New Artist, defeating J. Cole, Skrillex, The Band Perry and [...]

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Will Adele sweep? Will Bon Iver or Skrillex take the Best New Artist category over established star Nicki Minaj? Will this Beach Boys/Foster the People/Maroon 5 performance be a total train wreck? Find out the answers to all of this and more as Rob Sheffield Live-Blogs the Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 12th. The festivities [...]

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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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<!– –> <!– –> The pop duo Karmin broke big last year with a string of clever, immensely sassy covers of hits by acts such as Lil Wayne, Nicki Minaj, Foster the People, Katy Perry, Chris Brown, Lady Antebellum and LMFAO. Their videos became viral smashes on YouTube, which led to several television appearances and [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Madonna packed some serious spectacle into her twelve-minute halftime show for Super Bowl XLVI. Ushered in on a golden chariot pulled by a phalanx of centurions, Madonna opened the set with her 1990 hit “Vogue,” flanked by dancers dressed to match the set’s Roman-fantasia theme. As “Vogue” segued into 2000’s “Music,” [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Madonna’s new single “Give Me All Your Luvin” will debut at 9 a.m. this morning simultaneously across Clear Channel’s various media outlets, including its satellite and terrestrial radio stations and its iHeartRadio mobile app. The video for the song, which was teased on American Idol last night, will also be broadcast [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Madonna’s new single “Give Me All Your Luvin” will debut at 9 a.m. this morning simultaneously across Clear Channel’s various media outlets, including its satellite and terrestrial radio stations and its iHeartRadio mobile app. The video for the song, which was teased on American Idol last night, will also be broadcast [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> BET has reportedly banned Nicki Minaj’s video for “Stupid Hoe.” The video, which was directed by music video legend Hype Williams, includes a flashing image of a naked Barbie doll with an expanding backside along with colorful images of cars, jungle cats and the rapper in a variety of wigs and [...]

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