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I'm really not entirely certain how I got to this point. I was never a Fan Girl of anything, if you don't count those two years in Junior High when I knew an alarming amount of trivia about the personal lives of all the members of Duran Duran .

In a speech given at UCLA two weeks ago, Duran Duran bassist John Taylor comes off as earnest and reasonably thoughtful, so I am going to do my best to take seriously his argument that the Internet may be "stifling new music." But it won't be easy.

Instead of following their creative muses in the studio, garage, or tour bus, artists are often plugged into channels like Twitter or personal blogs.A That makes sense for fan connectivity, but does it make sense for creativity? Despite the rush to connect and stay engaged with fans, plenty of artists have been wondering aloud whether the internet ...

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The Daley administration commands an off-the-books kitty of taxpayer money equivalent to a sixth of the official city budget.

Erin English here with this weeka TMs SingStore update. This weeka TMs update includes a special Duran Duran song pack featuring five chart-topping tracks from the 80a TMs super group such as "Hungry Like The Wolf," "Ordinary World" and "Girls On Film." Also included in the update are some great new tracks from Everclear including "Everything to ...

At first, it appeared to be one of the biggest and most brazen art heists in American history.

Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, far left, Katie Cassidy and Stephanie Jacobsen in a scene from the CW's Melrose Place." Ashlee Simpson-Wentz 's Violet and Colin Egglesfield 's Augie are moving out of CW's "Melrose Place," the network announced Thursday.

"Dude, Where's the Couture?" read the invitation to last night's opening bash for Juicy Couture's London store.

As a teenager in the 1980's, I was the proverbial "kid in a candy store" when it came to all the great music that was at my fingertips for me to explore and experience.

Round-the-Clock Purple and Gold written by the Kamenetzky brothers. Old school October 9, 2009 9:31 am Type "The Fabulous Forum" into the search box at YouTube, and the first thing that pops up isn't a Laker game, but seven minutes of concert footage from Duran Duran, back in '84 . Judging by the volume of the girlish screams coming from the crowd, ...

With the offspring of the new romantic stars forming their own rival bands, we may soon witness a rematch of the 80s pop rumble DNA-driven Duranishness ... Nitevisions's Andy and James Taylor Prepare yourselves, retro-pop fans, for Battlestar New Romantica: The Next Generation.

When I was in middle school, back in the mid-1980s, one of the biggest bands in the universe was Duran Duran.

Kofi Annan , Melanie Laurent and Manu Katche attend Beds Are Burning launch. A revamped version of a classic Australian rock anthem is the soundtrack to a new campaign aimed at drumming up support for upcoming global climate talks.

The first global music petition, a re-recording of Midnight Oil's Beds are Burning, is aimed at pressuring world leaders at Copenhagen Still of the Tck Tck Tck music video for climate change song Beds are Burning.

Stephen Duffy's '30 years of failure' as a songwriter are a kind of success, as his album Memory & Desire shows Stephen Duffy and Victoria Beckham have just come down in the lift together, at Claridge's. Tabloid photographers cluster around the revolving doors, like feeding piglets.

Duran Duran's forthcoming single, Reach Up for the Sunrise, features this lovely piece of album art.

Midnight Oil's Peter Garrett, now Australia's Minister of the Environment. Photo by mushroom and rooster via Flickr Hands across the globe everybody, sing along: "The time has come/a fact's a fact/It belongs to us all/Let's give it back." The 1987 Midnight Oil hit, "Beds are Burning" has been tweaked and re-recorded by 55 artists to be released ...

All together now: " I'd like to teach the world to stop global warming ." Though such likely won't be the lyrics, a group of the world's leading celebrities have joined together to create a new song to draw attention to climate change.

Duran Duran's Red Carpet Massacre is in stores today. After 30 years, 30 Top-40 singles and 85 million albums sold, Duran Duran continues to reinvent itself in an attempt to remain relevant to pop music, sometimes even at the expense of its members.