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| Anand Holla Tweet Rate me.... | Share Share Share Share | Posted On Thursday, February 09, 2012 at 02:07:15 AM | After Akon, Pitbull, Lady Gaga, Tom Cruise and Oprah Winfrey visited the country for ...

Forward Thinking: Music mix and madge
| Item 1: To borrow a line from Public Enemy, who stole the soul and shipped it to New Zealand this month? | Honestly, there's a soul kind of feeling going down in Aotearoa in February. American diva ...

Erykah Badu is sharing her soul
| Erykah Badu is in her songwriting prime so Splore audiences are in for a treat with her as the headline act, writes Scott Kara. | Erykah Badu is "exquisite", thank you very much. Given the hip-hop-s...

Tour news: Guetta hits the decks
| He might be in his 40s, a father of two who's been producing, mixing, playing and releasing records for 22 years. But there's no more influential man in how pop music sounds in 2012 than David Guett...

Album review: Lana Del Rey, Born to Die
| Having a millionaire for a father doesn't make your music good, neither does a controversial back story. And a couple of wobbly talk show performances don't make your music rubbish either. So settin...

Beyonce proves she's already crazy in shape just one month after giving birth to Blue Ivy
| BEYONCE Knowles may have given birth to her daughter just four weeks ago, but you wouldn't know it judging by these red-hot photos. | The 16-time Grammy Award winnermade her first public appear...

Video Premiere: War on Outsider Anthem 'Brodermordet'
| “We just woke up one day and decided to film a video,” says Elias Bender Rønnenfelt, one-half of Danish post-punk project War. “We didn’t know what to do or what to film. So we drove away a...

NY Giants celebrate Super Bowl win with Nas, Chris Rock, other celebs at NYC club
| It was the most play "We Are the Champions" got in nightclubs since Queen released the song in 1977. Late Tuesday night and early Wednesday evening the New York Giants went out on the town...

Carrie Underwood, Tony Bennett to perform at Grammy Awards
| The 54th annual Grammy Awards will air on CBS on Sunday, February 12, 2012. A great line up of presenters and performers has already been announced, including a few big names from country music.&nbs...

Lights Drops Teaser For Banner
| Please try and picture Lights in the middle of the road, with weird apocalyptical Book of Eli style clothing, and a sparkling Crest smile. That’s enough to spike anybody’s interest. Th...

Jay-Z Orchestrates a Historic Night at Carnegie Hall
| “I always wanted to say this in Carnegie Hall,” said last night, midway through the second of his two charity shows this week at the hallowed New York institution. “Is Brooklyn in ...

Rapper-chef Action Bronson brings beats to Austin, will be back for SXSW
| "I'd rather be a chef than a rapper. But it's easier to rap at this point. It kind of just happened, you know?" | It's the kind of statement that will surely infuriate many career backpackers, but A...

Kindness “Get Up” (Video)
| Kindness is all set to drop a debut album via Female Energy on March 19th. The new video, shot by the band’s Adam Bainbridge appears to be a budget, cable access video shoot, but turns out to ...

Jay-Z Orchestrates a Historic Night at Carnegie Hall
| “I always wanted to say this in Carnegie Hall,” Jay-Z said last night, midway through the second of his two charity shows this week at the hallowed New York institution. “Is Brooklyn in the ho...

Grammys '12: Who Should Win the Categories You Actually Care About
| The 54th Annual Grammy Awards are but days away! And, like we said, we'd sincerely love to help you with your office pools and living room side-bets with some sure-thing, professionally insightful, ...

Watch Fred Durst Rap His Own Song at Karaoke
| It looks like Fred Durst has snapped out of the funk of that insane juice cleanse debacle. The Limp Bizkit frontman seemed a sight more encouraged last night as he busted out some pretty ballsy kar...

Dubstep Phenom Porter Robinson on His 'Preposterous' Success
| In April, electro-house and dubsteb wunderkind Porter Robinson will be making his rock festival debut at Coachella, but the 19-year-old producer-DJ didn't initially understand the impressiveness of ...

7 Must-See Moments From Jay-Z's Carnegie Hall Gigs
| "All those lines that divide us, we gonna step on them." That was Jay-Z at Carnegie Hall on Monday night, as quoted by the New York Times, and by all accounts, smashing boundaries was what Shawn Car...

First Spin: Grab Plants and Animals' 'Song for Love'
| During a show at Pop Montreal in September, Plants and Animals introduced a fiery cover of Wolf Parade's "I'll Believe in Anything" thusly: "This is by one of the first bands that ever took us out o...

Alabama Shakes Bowl Over Conan in TV Debut
| The Alabama Shakes were on our list of 30 Acts You Can't Miss at CMJ last fall, and so far they're living up to expectations. Though the Athens, Alabama, blues busters don't drop their debut full-le...

First Spin: Stream Nite Jewel's Slinky 'In the Dark'
| Ramona Gonzalez takes one step further out of the bedroom on the second track released from the L.A. electro-funk singer-songwriter's forthcoming sophomore album, One Second of Love (due out March 6...

In the Studio: The Temper Trap Follow the Sun
| When the Temper Trap buckled down to write last winter, the Aussie expats knew they'd have to get away from London, their comparatively dour home of the past four years. "We had a little studio room...

Q&A: Imperial Teen on Indie Living and Pube Dyeing
| Sixteen years into their career, timeless sugar high Imperial Teen remains one of the most immediate and appealing bands in the alt-rock cosmos. The quartet has never sounded better than on their ju...

Lady Gaga Wants You to Pay Attention to Her Tour News Now
| A full week of nonstop Madonna press seems to have given Lady Gaga the vapors. While the Queen of Pop was on a media blitz promoting new single/video "Give Me All Your Luvin', " her Super Bowl halft...

Cassidy Ft. Big Pun “Do It Big” (Mp3)
| Yesterday marked the 12th anniversary of the infamous Big Pun’s death. You may have noticed #RIPPUN trending on twitter or the many shout outs of respect from various artists, producers, fans ...

Iggy Azalea - Dim Mak Studios - 2/7/12
| Rebecca HaithcoatSee also: Meet Iggy Azalea, the Street Smart Blonde Bombshell Behind "Pu$$y" | Iggy Azalea | Dim Mak Studios | 2/7/12 | The rumbling began in September when Perez Hilton posted the ...

Spielgusher (No 1,203)
| Put a veteran music critic together with an art rocker and a punk, and what do you get? Sixty-three tracks of scatology and skronk Different Spiel … Rock critic Richard Meltzer gushes under a new ...

Rick Ross “Yella Diamonds – Trailer” (Video)
| Rick Ross is about to flex the power of the MMG with the official release of his Yella Diamonds video, later today! Until then, cancel all your plans, scrap your appointments, check out the trailer ...

D-Black To Kickoff Senior High School Hip-hop Tour
Rapper, D-Black is set to kickoff a new and exciting tour in 5 regions, 5 cities and 5 High schools, in pure hip-hop style, under the theme of Drug Abuse Awareness. | Aimed at reaching the masses unde...

Foo Fighters and Deadmau5 to collaborate at Grammys
| Foo Fighters and Deadmau5 will collaborate at the Grammy Awards. | Foo Fighters singer Dave Grohl | The rock group with be paired with the Canadian DJ to perform his remixed version of their track '...

Portishead's Geoff Barrow readies hip-hop album
| Quakers, a side project comprising more than 35 members, will feature contributions by Dead Prez, Prince Po and Aloe Blacc Quakers meeting … Geoff Barrow's hip-hop project gathers more than 35 mem...