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Dynamite Smackdown
Ms Dynamite was taken into police custody after getting into an altercation with police while out celebrating her brother's birthday. She reportedly kicked a door and punched a police woman resulting in charges of assault and disorderly conduct. The...
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Coheed & Cambria - Good Apollo I’m Burning Star IV Vol. 1: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
Opera Section Number...What?Many bands have tried their hands at a complete revamping of their sound and appeal but few bands that have attempted let alone securely executed a comprehensive rock opera. Coheed and Cambria have done both of those with...
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Tortoise Rarities & Remixes
Three is Tortoise's magic number this April. Originally titled Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters, the now unnamed box set will contain thirty-three rarities and remixes spread over three discs as well as a DVD. Some of the guest mixers include...
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Lennon via Amnesty International
Yoko Ono and Amnesty International have opened up John Lennon's solo catalogue to a variety of artists for a charity covers album due this April. Featured on the CD will be Black Eyed Peas, the Cure, Snow Patrol, and Maroon 5. A handful of tracks...
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Singer Rawls Dies of Cancer
Lou Rawls died on Friday of lung and brain cancer at the age of 72. Rawls enjoyed a fifty-year career in show business, selling forty million albums and winning three Grammys. Rawls sang in a variety of genres including jazz, gospel, blues, soul and...
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Nellie McKay Dropped From Columbia
Columbia Records has dropped quirky songstress Nellie McKay after arguing over the length of her recent album Pretty Little Head. McKay submitted a sixty-five-minute version while Columbia wanted a simpler forty-eight-minute set. In an effort to...
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Record Sales Down Again
Music sales dropped nearly eight percent in 2005, proving the hopeful four percent rebound of 2004 a fluke. Not one release lasted longer than two weeks at the top of the Billboard 200, plunging down the chart immediately after hitting the top spot....
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Sonic Youth in the Studio
Sonic Youth has gathered in New York to record their next album due this year along with reissues of 1982's Sonic Youth, 1988's The Whitey Album under the name Ciccone Youth, and Thurston Moore's 1995 album Psychic Hearts. ...
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