Adams Morgan's Commonwealth Is Fashion-Forward and Music-Conscious (Washington Post)
The music is always on, and it's always loud. Never earsplitting but loud enough that the teens and 20-somethings who frequent the place occasionally have to shout as they navigate racks of limesicle-colored denim and T-shirts adorned with fornicating silver skeletons. Kanye West's "Touch the Sky...
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Bands delay albums, leave music labels in lurch (Baltimore Sun)
As recently as last month, Universal Music Group's Interscope Geffen A&M Records planned to release five major albums by superstar acts during the critical holiday shopping season.
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Soulja Boy - Soulja Boy Urges Wannabes To Take To The Web (ContactMusic)
Rap sensation SOULJA BOY is urging wannabe hip-hop stars to bombard the internet with their music - because the world wide web gave him his big break. The Superman ...
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New Music: Jay-Z [ft. Santogold; prod. by Kanye West]: "Brooklyn Go Hard" [MP3] (Pitchfork)
Jay-Z and Santogold put on for their borough with triumphantly brassy production by Kanye West on a track reportedly intended for the soundtrack to upcoming Notorious B.I.G. biopic Notorious . What "Brooklyn Go Hard" boasts in bloggability, though, it mostly lacks in originality. Jay's "Hello Brooklyn" was one of the weaker songs on American Gangster , and not just ...
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Rapper pleads guilty to manslaughter (UPI)
LONDON, Nov. 29 (UPI) -- A 18-year-old man who created rap music under the moniker Danger has pleaded guilty in London to charges of manslaughter in a teenager's death.
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Jamaican music has passed its golden age, says Chris Blackwell (The Jamaica Observer)
Legendary business mogul and one of the most successful independent entrepreneurs in pop music history, Chris Blackwell, says the golden age of Jamaican music, has passed.
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Some fans would prefer campus setting for MU-KU game (The Kansas City Star)
Greg Snow took a long look around the parking lot at Arrowhead Stadium. Smoke from a dozen grills drifted by. Footballs whizzed in the air. Students clutching cold beers tossed beanbags and shouted insults to each other. Rap music blared from a car, pretty girls danced, a sea of crimson-and-blue and black-and-gold mixed uneasily together.
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The best albums of 2008 - by the hot artists (Guardian Unlimited)
We asked this year's most talked-about acts to reveal their favourite releases of the past year. The music that inspired them is as eclectic as you'd imagine, from AC/DC to the Acorn ... and Beethoven
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Raising awareness of sexualized messages to kids (Centre Daily Times)
Violent video games. Pornography on the Internet. Scantily clad Bratz dolls. Britney Spears and degrading rap videos. Never before have children faced such an onslaught of violent and sexualized messages from so many sources.
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Pop culture is a hit in school of rock (Akron Beacon Journal)
Elective classes encourage teens to trace roots of music Teens trace history of popular music
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