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  Lil Wayne Will Be at SXSW '12, So Bring Your Skateboard

  March 9, 2012 – And the rappers keep rolling out: Following similar announcements from Jay-Z and 50 Cent, Lil Wayne has announced that he, too, will be gracing the fine folk in Austin, Texas, next week via Mountain Dew, with whom he just signed a massive branding deal. Weezy will be going south to make myriad announcements about the campaign, DEWeezy, which includes the forthcoming construction of a skate park in New Orleans. …
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  50 Cent Playing All of 'Get Rich or Die Tryin' ' at SXSW '12

  March 8, 2012 – 50 Cent will hit Austin next weekend to show all these whippersnappers how it's done — or maybe just to make sure Jay-Z doesn't hog all the glory. The rapper will headline Shady Records' "Shady 2.0 Showcase" at the Austin Music Hall at 7 p.m. on March 16 (next Friday). It gets better: he's performing the entirety of Get Rich Or Die Tryin', the album everyone likes best, anyway. …
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  Alabama Shakes Bowl Over Conan in TV Debut

  February 8, 2012 – The Alabama Shakes were on our list of 30 Acts You Can't Miss at CMJ last fall, and so far they're living up to expectations. …
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  Match the Pop Stars to the Laughably Impulsive Things They Did This Week

  January 25, 2012 – We've come to expect the best from pop stars these days — oh, wait, no, we haven't! Thus, today's appallingly spur-of-the-moment, hey-this-sounds-like-a-good-idea headlines coming out of the pop sphere this week did little more than raise an eyebrow or two. The question, however: can you tell who made which creepy mistake? 1. …
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  50 Cent, 'The Big 10' (Self-released)

  December 14, 2011 – Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson was King of the World — once. It was a simpler time. George W. Bush was still president. Dr. Dre still produced records occasionally. And successful commercial rappers were bullet-scarred warriors, or at least had the good sense to pretend they were. Auto-Tune...skinny jeans...rapping about your feelings... …
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  50 Cent Quickly Found 120,000 Fans to 'Like' His 'Big 10' Mixtape

  December 9, 2011 – Usually when a rapper unleashes a new mixtape, they simply hand it to DatPiff to distribute, or they post the Hulkshare link themselves. It's a painless process, you click a button, and the mixtape magically appears on your desktop. However, in order to download 50 Cent's entire new The Big 10 mixtape, 120,000 people must click something: the "Like" button on Facebook. …
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  50 Cent Posts New Track, Boasts, Types 'LOL'

  November 29, 2011 – It's been a second since rapper 50 Cent actually, you know, rapped. The actor, author, and G-Unit Leader picks up where he left off on "Stop Crying," the first track to surface from his upcoming Big 10 mixtape (via Illroots). And that's OK. Fiddy's last album, 2009's Before I Self Destruct, saw him teaming up with then-hot collaborators. …
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  Indestructible: The Most Durable Rock Stars Alive

  October 27, 2011 –  …
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  U2's 'Achtung Baby' Doc, 50 Slams Label + More

  July 27, 2011 – U2's documentary From the Sky Down will premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, which happens September 8-18. The movie, directed by Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth), chronicles the making of the band's classic 1991 album Achtung Baby, SPIN's pick for the Best Album of the Past 25 Years. …
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  Blondie's New LP, 50 Cent Stars in Thriller + More

  May 19, 2011 – Blondie will return this September with their first studio album in eight years, titled Panic of Girls. The band — featuring founding members Debbie Harry, Chris Stein, and Clem Burke, along with new members Tommy Kessler and Matt Katz-Bohen — will team up with Beirut's Zach Condon on a cover of his song "Sunday Smile." The group has also released a video for the new wave rocker "Mother," which you can watch below. …
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