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Lil Wayne: Return of the Hip-Hop King | ARTICLE
The processing room at the New York City Correctional Institution for Men is about as depressing as you'd expect. Broken pay phone, roachy floors, harsh fluorescent lights. There's a rusty old vending machine against one wall, and...
February 3, 2011 8:00 AM ET -
Fleet Foxes Get Existential on Second Album, 'Helplessness Blues' | ARTICLE
For Seattle folk harmonizers Fleet Foxes, their second album is a chance to attend to some unfinished business. "It's definitely an attempt to improve on the first one," says 24-year-old frontman Robin Pecknold, referring to...
February 1, 2011 10:55 AM ET -
On the Charts: Katy Perry's Hot Summer | ARTICLE
In order to write her smash "California Gurls," a glossy, SPF-500 celebration of suntanned flesh and West Coast pride that she calls "like rollerskating on a rainbow," Katy Perry asked herself one (strange) question: WW2D — What...
July 7, 2010 1:02 PM ET -
The Semi-Charmed Life of Vampire Weekend | ARTICLE
When Ezra Koenig was a student at Columbia University, he wrote a short story set at a posh New England prep school. At the...
February 4, 2010 11:35 AM ET -
Eclectic Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Unites Emmylou Harris, Richie Havens in San Francisco | ARTICLE
Warren Hellman is the kind of billionaire investment banker who makes it hard to hate billionaire investment bankers. Every year, Hellman — a successful venture capitalist and an amateur banjo player — organizes something called the Hardly...
October 5, 2009 2:22 PM ET

