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Lady Gaga and Christina Aguilera Trade Verses for ‘The Voice’

Dressed in a champagne-colored boney-shouldered kimono Lady Gaga treated viewers of the The Voice finale last night to a special rendition of her Artpop track “Do What U Want” and it was not just because Voice coach Christina Aguilera (who wore her own champagne gown) joined her for a disco-y…

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Megadeth and Jenny Lewis Sing Holiday Classics for ‘Kimmel’

Thrash metallers Megadeth put out their 14th studio album Super Collider in June and the LP found the group testing the limits of its signature sound namely on the banjo-infused bluegrass-metal crossover track “The Blackest Crow” Now the veteran headbangers whose biggest hits include songs like “Symphony of Destruction” and…

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Jailed Pussy Riot Members Could Be Released This Week

Two members of Pussy Riot are expected to be released from Russian penal colonies this week as part of an amnesty tied to the 20th anniversary of Russia’s post-Soviet constitution Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina could be free as soon as Thursday according to Russian prison officials cited by The…

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Bonnie McKee Marks Season With Intimate ‘Hallelujah’ – Premiere

Pop singer-songwriter Bonnie McKee nestles by the fireplace for this intimate heartfelt rendition of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah” Aided by Christmas lights and light guitar McKee – who has co-written a staggering 10 Number One singles for the likes of Katy Perry Britney Spears Ke$ha Christina Aguilera Taio Cruz and more…

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Jerry Garcia Band Get Funky, Proclaim ‘They Love Each Other’

Jerry Garcia slipped into a five-day diabetic coma in July of 1986; remarkably he returned to the stage by year’s end Three years later with his fruitful side project the Jerry Garcia Band in peak form the Grateful Dead guitarist arrived in Hartford CT for a twelve-show run that featured Rob…

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Avicii, M.I.A., Diplo Will Headline Ultra Music Festival 2014

Avicii MIA Diplo MGMT and Tiësto are among the many diverse headliners slated to DJ and perform at the Ultra Music Festival Phase 1 next year The 16th edition of the dance spectacle will take place on the weekend of Friday March 28th at Bayfront Park in Miami See All the…

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Kiss’ Ace Frehley on Hall of Fame: ‘I Don’t Foresee Any Bad Blood’

The past few days have been a crazy roller coaster ride for Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley One of his houses burned to the ground in suburban New York earlier this week and late last night he learned that Kiss were finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame…

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Jake Bugg Slays ‘What Doesn’t Kill You’ on ‘Tonight Show’

British rock wunderkind Jake Bugg took the Tonight Show stage last night for a riveting raucous performance of “What Doesn’t Kill You” the latest single off his superb 2013 effort Shangri La Clad in all black and looking unassuming as ever Bugg performed the song with a ferocity that betrayed…

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Gene Simmons Open to Rock Hall of Fame Kiss Reunion With Ace and Peter

After years of petitions angry letters and actual protests outside the museum in Cleveland Kiss are finally entering the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next year The instant the news hit many in the Kiss Army wondered whether Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley would perform with estranged bandmates Ace…

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John Mayer Wonders ‘Who You Love’

John Mayer has a new video for “Who You Love” his duet with on-again-off-again (but right now definitely on-again) girlfriend Katy Perry; and the only word that can describe it is “Yee-haw” Off Mayer’s latest release Paradise Valley the clip finds Mayer and Perry serenading each other and flashing some…

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