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<!– –> <!– –> 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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<!– –> <!– –> The producers of the BRIT Awards have issued an apology to Adele, whose acceptance speech for the Album of the Year award was cut short to make time for a closing performance by Blur. Adele, frustrated in the moment, raised her middle finger to the cameras as she was forced off [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> The British arm of Kellogg’s has produced a limited-edition box of cereal called Totes Amazeballs based on a Twitter suggestion by Tim Burgess, frontman of the long-running Britpop band the Charlatans. “I heard someone use the expression ‘totes amazeballs,’ and it sounded like something from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” he [...]

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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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<!– –> <!– –> Sean “Diddy” Combs announced today that he has partnered with Comcast to launch Revolt, a new cable music network. According to Combs, Revolt is “the first channel created entirely from the ground up in this new era of social media. We’re building this platform for artists to reach an extraordinary number [...]

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Rihanna celebrated her 24th birthday over the weekend by debuting a pair of remixes in which she teamed up with her ex-boyfriend Chris Brown, who was convicted for felony assault after beating her before the 2009 Grammy Awards. Here is the remix for Rihanna’s track “Birthday Cake,” which features a verse by Brown in which [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Sugarland’s attorneys have issued a statement blaming fans at their doomed Indiana State Fair show last summer for sustaining injuries during a stage collapse, claiming they failed to take steps to ensure their own safety. The statement is a response to a civil suit filed by survivors and families of the [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Sinead O’Connor at her best is pure emotion and passion. Whatever your opinion – and everybody had one – of her famed Saturday Night Live incident, there was no denying her conviction. And that’s what made her a great artist. Other singers might have been able to deliver a fine vocal performance [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> Codeine is primed for a noisy spring. The heavy, turgid Nineties rockers have reunited in support of the rerelease of their influential catalog and will hit the road on an American and European tour. Pitchfork reports that the New York trio – whose aggressive yet glacial songs inspired scores of rockers [...]

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<!– –> <!– –> February 22, 1976: Florence Ballard of the Supremes diesTalented, tragic Florence Ballard never got her due. As a founding member of the Motown sensations the Supremes, Ballard had the indisputable knock-out voice of the group; recording legend has it that she was made to stand almost 20 feet away from her [...]

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