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Last night, BET aired its annual BET Honors special, in which the network pays tribute to black visionaries in popular culture. This year’s special included Usher, Phylicia Rashad, Microsoft chairman John Thompson, and National Museum of African Art director Johnnetta B. Cole, and Kanye West. The Roc-A-Fella Records co-founder and early Kanye mentor Damon Dash […]
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Metallica: Rock N’ Roll Hall Of Fame Videos Available
submitted by Nick Apr 6th 2009 11:01 am (www.metalhammer.co.uk)
Get the band's full performance and acceptance speech footage videos inside! Get your Sonisphere tickets here!Metallica followed in the footsteps of Black Sabbath by becoming only the second heavy metal band to be inducted into the Rock N' Roll Hall Of Fame.The heavy metal titans performed 'Master Of Puppets' and ...
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Mastodon: Stream Mastodon's Crack The Skye
submitted by Nick Mar 17th 2009 08:00 pm (stereogum.com)
Crack The Skye's clearly the least immediate release in Mastodon's oeuvre. Which isn't to say it's bad. It just takes a few more close listenings (and, as you'll soon discover, an acceptance of their increased progginess.) Instead of the raw crustiness you found, even amid the most ambitious arcs of Remission, Leviathan, and Blood Mountain, Crac...
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Radiohead: Robert Smith Clarifies Radiohead Comment
submitted by Nick Mar 2nd 2009 11:00 pm (stereogum.com)
In a Kanye-locked post, the Godlike Genius clarifies calling Radiohead's In Rainbows strategy, aka "marketing ruse," an "idiot plan," taking a moment to address the "idiot critics": "I AM NOT CONFUSING 'ARTISTIC VALUE' WITH 'COMMERCIAL VALUE' ... MERELY QUESTIONING THE DUMB ACCEPTANCE OF THE 'FREEART IS THE 'NEW' PARADIGM - THATS JUST THE WAY IT...
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Metric: Talk Deepest, Darkest Fantasies
submitted by Nick Feb 24th 2009 12:00 am (www.pitchforkmedia.com)
Metric are lightening up. A little. While the Toronto-based band's music has always leaned toward the upbeat-- shock-treatment new wave, dance, and rock-- its worldview is usually anything but. Whether singer and main lyricist Emily Haines is railing against war ("Succexy"), stagnant art ("Dead Disco"), or an increasingly overbearing world ("The...
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M.I.A.: Loses Oscar
submitted by Nick Feb 23rd 2009 04:00 pm (www.pitchforkmedia.com)
New mother M.I.A. missed out on the Oscar telecast, and then missed out on the Oscar itself, as her fellow Slumdog Millionaire nominee A.R. Rahman took home the trophies for both Original Score and Original Song-- the latter for his Bollywood closing-credit number "Jai Ho". M.I.A. and Rahman's "O Saya" was considerd a longshot for the song award...
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