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Video: Yelawolf Talks New Projects at Bonnaroo
June 16, 2012 4:35 PM ET
Yelawolf was first introduced to hip-hop as a child in Alabama when Run-DMC paid a visit to his mom's boyfriend and left behind some tapes. "It was destiny, you know, man," he says. "It just kind of fell into my world. I had no business at all knowing anything about it." In this interview at Bonnaroo, the rapper talks about those early influences as well as his recent collaborations with Eminem, Kid Rock, and Travis Barker. As for the state of hip-hop today? "Hip-hop is soft as fuck... | More »
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Kitty Pryde Makes Live NYC Debut
June 16, 2012 1:00 PM ET| RJ Cubarrubia
If you only exist online, are you real? After releasing her video for "Okay Cupid" last month, young Florida rapper Kitty Pryde practically broke the Internet, sparking frenzied attention around her unfiltered stream-of-consciousness lyrics and enchantingly flippant flow. But after waves of interviews and a new EP, haha, i'm sorry, out this past week, Kitty Pryde arrived at New York's Knitting Factory with about 35 minutes total of career material and a throng of eager attendees anx... | More »
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Paul Simon Makes Surprise Appearance at Jerry Douglas' New York Show
June 16, 2012 11:25 AM ET| Patrick Doyle
Dobro master Jerry Douglas was midway through his set at New York's tiny B.B. King Blues Club on Friday night, when he stopped to introduce "a very well-known friend of mine. I hope he's here." The fellow, it turns out, was Paul Simon (Douglas has opened for Simon on tour in recent years). Simon poked his head out from the side of the stage and grinned while audience members rose to their feet, pulling out their camera phones. Looking casual in jeans, a brown jacket and fedora, Sim... | More »
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Kaskade Takes Freaks of Nature to Coney Island
June 16, 2012 10:55 AM ET| Joe Tacopino
There were only three items on Kaskade's Friday agenda, according to his Twitter feed: "Eat hog dog, ride Cyclone, smash it." The final item on that to-do-list was ceremoniously checked off at Brooklyn's MCU Park, where the Chicago-born DJ and electronic dance musician brought his Freaks of Nature tour to more than 8,000 fans on a cool summer night in Coney Island. Fresh off his performance at the Electric Daisy Carnival in Vegas, Kaskade performed against the backdrop of... | More »
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Of Montreal Lead an Eclectic Lineup at Northside Festival
June 16, 2012 10:30 AM ET| Stacey Anderson
The performers of the biggest show of the Northside Festival – a multi-venue independent rock sprawl in fashionable Williamsburg, Brooklyn – were an unlikely mix. The flamboyant freak-folk rockers Of Montreal, the winsomely deadpan singer-songwriter Jens Lekman, and the bracing yet introspective punks the Thermals played the main stage at McCarren Park in fractured but happy succession, united in their enthusiastic stage presence and little else. After openers Beach Fossils, who ... | More »
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Eddie Van Halen Explains Postponed Tour Dates
June 13, 2012 1:55 PM ET| Rolling Stone
In a recent interview with USA Today, Eddie Van Halen explained why Van Halen postponed all their summer tour dates following their June 26th show in New Orleans. "We bit off more than we could chew. This record [the recently released A Different Kind Of Truth] took a lot out of us," says the guitarist. "And we went on tour earlier than we wanted to so we could play Madison Square Garden [before a renovation], and that threw the schedule out of whack." Last month singer David Lee Roth expres... | More »
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Inside Glenn Danzig's Photographer Beef at Bonnaroo
June 12, 2012 2:28 PM ET| Adam Gold
Security had to physically hold Glenn Danzig back from attacking photographers at Bonnaroo on Saturday. The muscle-bound metal legend's inner Axl Rose got the best of him eight songs into an early-evening Danzig Legacy set at the Manchester, Tennessee music festival. The Danzig singer, who is, to say the least, a little finicky about having his picture taken, ran offstage and over to an adjacent media area, where he tried to confront photographers before storming off to his backsta... | More »
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Photos: Photos: Backstage at Bonnaroo 2012
June 11, 2012 4:49 PM ET
Behind the scenes with Kenny Rogers, fun., Gary Clark Jr. and more | More »
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Beach Boys, Phish, Fun. Bring Good Vibes to Bonnaroo
June 11, 2012 11:40 AM ET| Adam Gold
Bonnaroo 2012's defining singalong moment came late in the festival, which wrapped up last night in Manchester, Tenneesee. It was at That Tent shortly before 8 p.m., when New York power-pop sensation fun. hit the first chorus of their ubiquitous hit, "We Are Young." Across the vicinity, it seemed like every single attendee — from festivalgoers to vendors and event staffers — was singing along to the rousing, undeniable anthem with the same life-affirming gusto as fun.�... | More »
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Video: Madonna Exposes Breast Onstage in Turkey
June 10, 2012 3:13 PM ET
Fresh out of the fire from her recent provocation of French political leader Marine Le Pen, Madonna continued to court controversy on her MDNA world tour, flashing her nipple at an audience in Istanbul, Turkey on Thursday night. The 53-year-old icon began her performance of "Human Nature" by whipping off her shirt. The video of the performance shows that the subsequent exposure of her breast was entirely deliberate, as she tugs down her bra and shrugs at the roaring crowd. | More »
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