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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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WINNER OF THE WEEK: Kelly Clarkson. Her people pulled all the right levers over the past month and a half to launch “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You)” to the top of this week’s Billboard digital songs chart, where it sold 225,000 copies – and hit Number One on iTunes, overtaking even Adele’s “Set Fire to [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Adele will make her return to the stage with an appearance at the 54th Annual Grammy Awards on February 12th at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The singer, who has been recuperating from surgery on her vocal cords, is nominated for six awards, including Record of the Year and Song [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Will.I.am has revealed that LMFAO will make a guest appearance during Madonna’s performance at the Super Bowl next weekend. “I’m going to the Super Bowl this year to see my group LMFAO perform with Madonna,” the Black Eyed Peas rapper told Capital FM. “Check that out, Will.i.am Music Group is pretty [...]

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