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  Adele: New Record is 'Quite Different'

  November 2, 2010 – After breaking out with her 2008 Grammy-winning debut 19, British singer Adele will return with her anticipated follow-up 21 on February 22. (Although Adele recently turned 22, the album titles come from her age while recording.) And the new record finds the singer ditching her Brit-flavored R&B in favor of classic and contemporary roots and country music. "It's quite different from the first record," Adele tells SPIN.com. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: Adele in the Studio

  May 28, 2010 – Adele, the 22-year-old Londoner with the wiser-than-her-years voice and Best New Artist Grammy on her mantle, has been working on her second album (set for a September or October release) in Malibu, CA, with legendary producer Rick Rubin (Beastie Boys, Red Hot Chili Peppers). …
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  All 25 Grammy Performances -- Ranked!

  February 9, 2009 – For a Grammy performance that was literally show-stopping, it was hard to top Chris Brown's early Sunday cock-up -- the R&B singer turned himself in on an alleged domestic violence felony battery charge against an unidentified "female victim" who had "visible injuries." Brown and girlfriend Rihanna turned up at Clive Davis' pre-Grammy party, but both canceled their performances and Brown was later questioned by detectives. …
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  It's Not Your Parents' Grammy Awards -- Or Is It?

  February 6, 2009 – Aside from the Orwellian Reaganscape darkening the horizon, 1984 was a personal watershed for me -- a parent actually showed an interest in music that I listened to (well, sort of). Because clueless Republicans involved in Fucked-Up Ronnie's re-election campaign had tried to exploit Bruce Springsteen's Vietnam lament "Born in the U.S.A," and because the video for Springsteen's pop trifle "Dancing in the Dark" (featuring a winsome Court …
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  Jack White and Adele Collaborate

  January 12, 2009 – Don't you hate it when you get stood up because of your partner's plans with 007?" British singer Adele has revealed that she was on the receiving end of that excuse when her studio date with Jack White was cancelled due to some pressing musical matters of the Quantum of Solace variety [via NME.com]. …
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  Adele to Grammys: "Thanks, But Not Now"

  December 8, 2008 – Despite being nominated in four categories at next year's Grammy Awards, British singer Adele has declared that the timing's not right for her to win a statue. "I imagine it's like winning an Oscar and I don't think on this record I should get one," she told BBC 6Music. "I think it should be with my second or third record."? Oh, Adele. First of all: You can forget about winning an Oscar (those are for movies silly!). …
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• Adele, '19' (XL/Columbia)

  June 15, 2008 – Twenty-year-old Londoner Adele Atkins lives up to her "Sound of 2008" hype, in that she represents a highly commercial compromise between Amy Winehouse's genuine soul danger (19's bracing singles "Chasing Pavements" and "Cold Shoulder") and James Blunt's shlocky pop safety (virtually everything else). …
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