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Arctic Monkeys Proclaim ‘You’re So Dark’ on New B-Side

The Arctic Monkeys will cap off an excellent 2013 with a new single “One for the Road” a standout from the group’s latest record AM It arrives December 10th on Domino and now you can listen to the b-side “You’re So Dark” A fitting companion to “One For the Road” –…

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The Rentals Sign to Polyvinyl for First Album in 15 Years

The Rentals the band formed and fronted by former Weezer bassist Matt Sharp have signed to Polyvinyl and will release a new full-length album in 2014 “I am beyond thrilled to announce @therentals have just signed with my favorite record company @Polyvinyl” Sharp wrote on Twitter The still-untitled record will be…

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Katy Perry, Taylor Swift to Perform at Grammy Nominations Concert

Katy Perry and Taylor Swift have been aded to this year’s Grammy Nominations Concert Live!! – Countdown to Music’s Biggest Night set to take place this Friday December 6th at 10 pm EST on CBS – though both will literally be phoning in their performances Perry who just released her…

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Jay Z Ranks His Albums From ‘Blueprint’ to ‘Kingdom Come’

Rapper Jay Z ranked his 12-disc discography today on his culture website Life and Times The top of the pile – literally judging from the stack of CDs he photographed for the post – belongs to his 1996 debut Reasonable Doubt He calls that album “classic” a descriptor he also…

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Lana Del Rey Lets Sin and Symbolism Fly in ‘Tropico’

John Wayne Elvis Presley Jesus and Marilyn Monroe are hanging out in the Garden of Eden with a unicorn What sounds like the set-up for a long weird joke is actually the start of Lana Del Rey’s long weird new short film Tropico Centered around three tracks from Del Rey’s…

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Jared Leto’s Music Industry Documentary ‘Artifact’ Arrives

Jared Leto’s new music-industry documentary Artifact (out this week on multiple on-demand platforms) follows 30 Seconds to Mars through their legal struggle with their label EMI Despite selling 3 million copies of their second album A Beautiful Lie the band found themselves more than a million dollars in debt to the…

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Faces Reunion Likely, Rod Stewart Says

Rod Stewart recently told Boston radio station WZLX that the Faces – the bluesy rock group he and current Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood joined after they came to prominence together in the Jeff Beck Group – would likely return to the stage in 2015 He revealed the news in…

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The Scandals Pull ‘All Nighters’ – Premiere

New Jersey punk band the Scandals strip down “All Nighters” as frontman Jared Hart descends on the Asbury Park New Jersey basement studio known as Little Eden for this raw emotive video Ahead of the performance which debuts on the Red Bull Music Channel on December 6th Hart sits down…

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Velvet Underground Raid the Vaults for ‘Light’ – Premiere

“No one listened to it” Lou Reed said not long before he died about the Velvet Underground’s singular second album White Light/White Heat the raw corrosive sound of the streets that was recorded so preposterously at the tail end of the Summer of Love Not many listened to it upon…

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James Blake’s Sound – Billboard Q&A

James Blake chats with Billboard about his hectic year, and his plans for a "very relaxing" 2014. SUBSCRIBE NOW http://bit.ly/BillboardSub for more exclusive performances, interviews and in-depth coverage of the world's biggest music events.

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