It may seem like he’s only been showing up in commercials and writing books lately, but Bob Dylan has actually been a very active musician this millennium. And now the follow-up to 2006’s platinum-selling Modern Times has a title and release date.
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By now, the rehab jokes have gotten old, but Amy Winehouse just can’t seem to keep herself out of trouble. So with a highly anticipated Coachella performance just over a month away, it somehow doesn’t strike us as surprising that the soul singer has been forced to pull out of the California music festival.
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M.I.A has been added to the lofty list of artists who will be performing at the Grammy Awards this Sunday, even though the ceremony falls on the Sri Lankan rapper’s due date. Billboard anncounced yesterday that the nine-month-pregnant Maya Arulpragasam will be performing at L.A.’s Staples Center on February 8, alongside artists like U2, Radiohead, Justin Timberlake, and… Neil Diamond.
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Kudos to The Daily Swarm for keeping track of Fox News for us. We tend to shy away from their brand of muckraking because we like to think of our tastes as a bit more couth and less sensationalistic. But we couldn’t pass up on another bit of news surrounding the whole Joe Satriani Vs. Coldplay fiasco.
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After writing a story a few weeks ago about racist music finding a home in digital download services, SPIN’s David Marchese blogged yesterday about whether retailers should carry racist hate music, particularly as we enter a new era with the nation’s first black president.
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