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1 hr ago | 411mania.com

411 Music Buy or Sell 06.2013: Came Back With Blurred Lines

Our listeners this week the writer of the revamped Retronomicon in the Games Zone, Stewart Lange , taking on the man behind The Savage Animal Mikey MiGo ! All right, enough of the introductions and rules...let's hop to it! Stewart Lange: SELL I didn't get into this at all.

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Related Topix: Raekwon, Hip-Hop, Entertainment

2 hrs ago | The Austin Chronicle

Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt Sell Out

Is it fair to call Carrie Elkin and Danny Schmidt Austin's first family of folk music? I'm not talking A Mighty Wind kind of folk, but music for the people presented in an intimate and endearing way.

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Related Topix: Danny Schmidt, Folk, Carrie Elkin, Wyldwood, TX, Entertainment

6 hrs ago | Christian Science Monitor

Slim Whitman, a country singer, had a distinctive high-pitched yodel

Country singer Slim Whitman, the high-pitched yodeler who sold millions of records through ever-present TV ads in the 1980s and 1990s and whose song saved the world in the film comedy " Mars Attacks! ," died Wednesday at a Florida hospital.

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Related Topix: Slim Whitman, Country, Entertainment

10 hrs ago | Staffordshire Newsletter

MGMT hits Wolverhampton

MGMT are an American psychedelic rock band founded by Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden.

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Related Topix: Grammy Awards, Music!

14 hrs ago | VH1

Music Serena Ryder Brings Sex + Candy To VH1

Here's a little something to help kick your hump day up a notch. Serena Ryder stopped VH1's offices and brought us a " Sex and Candy " performance.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Marcy Playground, Entertainment

15 hrs ago | TwinCities

On 'The Voice' finale, Cher eclipses winner Bradbery

"The Voice" winner Danielle Bradbery poses with Blake Shelton, left, and Cher, right, pose after Bradbery won season four of "The Voice" on Tuesday June 18, 2013.

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Related Topix: The Voice, Entertainment, Television, Blake Shelton, Country, The Ed Sullivan Show

18 hrs ago | NorthJersey.com

Cousin Brucie hosts Palisades Park Reunion Concert at Meadowlands Fair

Many have mourned the loss of Palisades Amusement Park since it closed its doors in 1971.

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Related Topix: Palisades Park, NJ, Theater, Arts, East Rutherford, NJ, Rutherford, NJ, Entertainment

22 hrs ago | MuchMusic.com

Cody Simpson brings you a dose of summertime in his new music video

It's summertime and Cody Simpson has just the song and video for you because he's just that thoughtful.

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Tue Jun 18, 2013

Metro Times

Vampire Weekend

Now, this writer "hated" this band's previous album; their third release seems to recover nicely, surmounting the "sophomore slump," Vampire Weekend flared with the white light of a buzz band comet with its 2008 debut: Decorous, dashing, somewhat droll and all straight-collared stylish; complete with its quirky, effervescent blends of literate ... (more)

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River Front Times

Homespun: Humdrum We Are Electricity EP www.hmdrm.com

For Humdrum's latest EP, the band booked time with Steve Albini in his Chicago-based Electrical Audio studio.

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VH1

Music Katy Perry Opens Up About Her Love Life

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River Front Times

Worn Villain: Marilyn Manson discusses life, love and what it's like to play the villain

Once there was a subculture of people who shaved parts of their head and brightly dyed their dreadlocks.

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Related Topix: Drugs, Industrial, Nine Inch Nails, Entertainment

The Campbell Reporter

Jay-Z's Samsung deal continues revolution in music delivery and promotion

Jay-Z's partnership with Samsung for his new album, "Magna Carta Holy Grail," is another sign of how musicians are finding new ways to push, sell and promote their music, and how the multiplatinum performer -- who famously rapped "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man" -- continues to leverage his enduring popularity into a successful brand.

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Related Topix: Electronics, Cell Phones, Cellphones, The Great Gatsby, Mastertronic, I-Play, Video Games, Entertainment

411mania.com

Police Arrest Man On The Roof Of Rihanna's Home

Police Arrest Man On The Roof Of Rihanna's Home Posted by Joseph Lee on 06.18.2013 A scary situation... The Los Angeles Times reports that a man has been arrested after being found on Rihanna's roof in the Pacific Palisades near Rivas Canyon Road and West Sunset Boulevard.

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VH1

Music The Postal Service Reunite In NYC

Let's get one horrible-yet-informative pun out of the way right off the bat: On Friday night at the Barclays Center, the newly reunited Postal Service delivered.

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Related Topix: The Postal Service, Indie, Entertainment

WJBQ-FM Portland

Jason Mraz Goes Country, Pops Up on New Album by Hunter Hayes

While you're waiting for Jason Mraz to release some new music, you can check him out this week in an unexpected place: a new album by country star Hunter Hayes , best known for his hit "Wanted."

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Related Topix: Hunter Hayes, Country, Grammy Awards, Music!

VH1

MUSIC + FUNNY Does Kanye Really Think He's On Par With Jesus?

Kanye West released his latest album, Yeezus , today and as Big Sean would say, "Oh Gaaaaawd!" Fans and Christians alike have been scratching their heads at the album title since it was revealed weeks ago.

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VH1

Music Live Fast, Die Old: 20 Bad Boys Who Are Still Alive

We've probably all heard of the motto that proclaims, "Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse."

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Hampton Roads Daily Press

James Steele, fired from 96X, back on air at NOW 105 | Sound Check

"People ask me what happened at 96X," said James Steele, who ended a 6-year run at WROX-FM on April 22. "I tell them, 'Radio happened.'

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Related Topix: Recreational Vehicle, Bison, Punk, The Last, Virginia Beach, VA, Entertainment

The Village Voice

Yeezus: Innovative or Simply Another Example of the Mainstream Aping the Underground?

As you might have noticed, Kanye West's feverishly anticipated Yeezus arrives today.

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Related Topix: Celebrities, Black Entertainment, Kanye West, Hip-Hop, New York, Entertainment