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Frank Ocean Nominated For 6 Grammys
Frank Ocean has had a pretty good year, and he's closing it out in style, cleaning up on year-end lists and now, being nominated for Grammys in six categories: Album Of The Year, Record Of The Year,...
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The 10 Least Boring Moments From The 2013 Grammys
About two thirds of the way through last night's endless Grammy ceremony, Justin Timberlake ambled onstage for the second time, this time to flank Recording Academy CEO and inveterate pirate-scolder...
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Watch Passion Pit Cover Fun’s “Carry On”
In a live session for VEVO, Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos did a piano cover of fun.'s "Carry On" backed by four female singers. The session seems to be for a series called Unexpected Covers...
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Photos: Bumbershoot 2013
Over 100,000 fans hit the Seattle Center for this year's Bumbershoot over Labor Day weekend. Performers included Kendrick Lamar, MGMT, Fun., Heart, Gary Numan, and Death Cab For Cutie playing their now...
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Stream The 2013 Bridge School Benefit Feat. Arcade Fire, CSNY, Tom Waits, & More
Every year, Neil Young hosts the Bridge School Benefit, a star-studded two-day acoustic fundraiser for the special-needs school he founded with his wife Pegi. Now in its 27th year, the 2013 fundraiser...
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The Week In Pop: Candice Glover And American Idol’s Decline
Did you know the reigning American Idol champion's album is out this week? Maybe the better question is: Do you know who the reigning American Idol champion is? Candice Glover is quite alright, so I...
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Eminem –“Headlights” Video (Dir. Spike Lee)
Spike Lee has only dabbled in music videos over the years, but he still has a handful of iconic clips on his resume: Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel's "White Lines (Don't Do It)," E.U.'s "Da Butt,"...
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Beck’s Song Reader CD Tracklist Revealed: Jack White, Jarvis Cocker, Tweedy,...
As previously speculated, Beck is finally releasing an official version of his 2012 sheet music album Song Reader at the end of the month. Beck will only be performing one song ("Heaven's Ladder")...
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The Week In Pop: Bleachers, The Solo Project Of Fun.’s Jack Antonoff, Is...
Things we learned about Jack Antonoff -- Fun. guitarist, former Steel Train ringleader, Lena Dunham boyfriend, and, lately, Bleachers mastermind -- in Vulture's great profile last week: He lived with...
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Bleachers –“Take It Away” (Feat. Grimes)
Last week's pop column sung the praises of Strange Desire, Fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff's full-length solo debut as Bleachers. One of the best songs on that album is "Take It Away," a collaboration...
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Listen To Jack Antonoff On Marc Maron’s WTF
Recently Chris examined Fun. guitarist Jack Antonoff's new project Bleachers, and today Antonoff appeared on Marc Maron's super-popular podcast WTF. Head there now and give it a listen. More »
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Stream Beck’s Song Reader Album Feat. Jack White, Jarvis Cocker, Tweedy,...
Back in 2012, when he was taking a break from recording proper albums, Beck released Song Reader, an "album" made up of nothing but sheet music. And after refusing to play the songs in public for a...
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Jack Antonoff & Grimes Are Collaborating Again
The Fun. co-leader Jack Antonoff is building a strong and lucrative second career as a behind-the-scenes songwriter type; he produced and co-wrote Taylor Swift's excellent "Out Of The Woods." So it's...
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The Week In Pop: Forecasting 2015’s Event Albums And Rising Stars
Take it from someone who started a weekly pop column last year: 2014 was a bad year for pop music. I write this knowing that there are still many self-satisfied blowhards in the world -- sometimes even...
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Amid A Rumored Clash Of Egos, Fun. Claim They’re Not Breaking Up
The band Fun. blew the fuck up in 2012 with the album Some Nights, but they haven't gotten around to recording a follow-up, and they don't seem to be in any hurry. Last year, Jack Antonoff recorded a...
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The Week In Pop: Fifty Shades Of Grey And The Movie Soundtrack Resurgence
From Saturday Night Fever to Purple Rain to The Godfather, movie soundtracks used to be a major factor on the albums chart. Then, all of the sudden, they weren't. This user-made Amazon list of the top...
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The Week In Pop: The Grand Rehabilitation Of Lady Gaga
Less than a year ago I published a post with the headline Watch Lady Gaga Get Doused In Neon Vomit While Riding A Mechanical S&M Pig At SXSW, Brought To You By Doritos. The garish excess of Gaga's...
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The Week In Pop: Sam Hunt Brings Hip-Hop-Informed Country To SXSW
It's gotten to where you can't read about Sam Hunt without reading about Drake. Hunt -- a former college football quarterback and philosophy major turned rising country star -- makes the connection...
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The Week In Pop: American Idol Changed TV, But Music? Not So Much
Last year, during this column's infancy, I expressed what by then had become conventional wisdom: American Idol is washed up. My primary evidence was subjective -- season 13 winner Candice Glover was...
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Nate Ruess –“What This World Is Coming To” (Feat. Beck) (Stereogum Premiere)
Fun. frontman Nate Ruess worked with Beck on "What This World Is Coming To," the latest advance track from Ruess' debut solo album, Grand Romantic. As such, the track applies some of that award-winning...
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The Week In Pop: Nate Ruess Went Solo, Made A Fun. Album Anyway
Andrew Dost got screwed. Last year, when Fun. frontman Nate Ruess unilaterally decided to transform the next Fun. album into his solo debut, he essentially cut his bandmates out of one of music's most...
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Watch Lorde Cover Robyn, Lauren Mayberry Cover Katy Perry At Ally Coalition...
The Ally Coalition Talent Show is a benefit concert put on by Bleachers' Jack Antonoff in support of homeless LGBTQ youth. Last night was the third annual show at Webster Hall in NYC, and an array of...
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Welcome To Superstardom, Camila Cabello
Camila Cabello stuck the landing so emphatically that it's easy to forget she leapt in the first place. This time last year the 20-year-old Cuban-Mexican singer from Miami was fresh out of Fifth...
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