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November 18, 2010 –
She's back! Amy Winehouse has scheduled four January gigs in Brazil, including three dates at the traveling Summer Soul Festival. Tickets go on sale November 22 here. [Amy Winehouse's Official Site]
Patti Smith was honored with the National Book Award for her memoir Just Kids, which chronicles her friendship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the late '60s and '70s. …
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November 1, 2010 – Robert Moog would have been proud. The man DJ Spooky credits with paving the way for hip-hop loved to watch his inventions and creations -- the Moog synthesizer, as well as updates on the Theremin -- take on lives of their own. …
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September 11, 2010 – This week, Kings of Leon debuted the video for their new song "Radioactive," the xx took home Britain's prestigious Mercury Prize, and Metallica revealed plans for a new live album. Meanwhile, SPIN.com brought you a rundown of the 20 Best Songs of Summer, got an inside look at Of Montreal's over-the-top fall tour with Janelle Monáe, and caught up with Maynard James Keenan about upcoming Puscifer and Tool projects! …
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September 7, 2010 – The sweet sound of falling pins met its match Monday night the minute Big Boi charged down the side staircase leading to the stage at Brooklyn Bowl in Williamsburg. …
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June 29, 2010 – After much delay, Big Boi's solo album, Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty, will finally drop July 6 via Def Jam.
The OutKast rapper's new label posted the entire 15-track album featuring collaborations with B.o.B, T.I., Jamie Foxx, and Andre 3000 to his MySpace page a little early. Hear it right now, right here!
The release follows a period of turmoil between Big Boi and Jive Records. …
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June 21, 2010 – Back in 2006, as OutKast was coming off a dizzying run that saw five consecutive studio albums hit No. 2 or higher on the Billboard chart, André 3000 and Big Boi announced that each would put out solo records before releasing their next joint project.
Four years and one Who's Your Caddy? …
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April 6, 2010 – It's not the entire album, but, hey, it is cause for celebration: OutKast's Big Boi has debuted the first single from his chronically delayed solo debut, Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty.
"Shutterbug," a heavy, genre-hopping funk jam, has Big Boi showing off the fast-paced and clever rhyming he's known for. Synths and vocoders are layered throughout, and deep bass bounces the song along. …
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March 31, 2010 – While the world waits for another OutKast album -- it's been four years since Idlewild, and seven since Speakerboxxx/The Love Below -- Big Boi is keeping himself busy with an upcoming solo album and by big-upping one of his musical discoveries, the innovative R&B upstart Janelle Monae. …
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April 7, 2009 – The lineup for this year's installment of the Rock the Bells festival has been unveiled, and it's jam-packed with top-notch artists: Nas, Damien "Jr. Gong" Marley, the Roots, Common, and Big Boi of Outkast are just a few of the acts billed for the traveling hip-hop event.
Additional artists scheduled to appear include KRS-One, Talib Kweli and Hi-Tek, K'naan, Busta Rhymes, and the Wu-Tang Clan's RZA, Raekwon, and GZA. …
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January 23, 2008 – As anyone who saw the dance sequences in Idlewild can attest, OutKast are no strangers to ass-shaking. Yet Antwan "Big Boi" Patton had little experience in the realm of tutus and pliés before the Atlanta Ballet approached him about collaborating on a new production. "I've dated a couple of ballerinas," he says. …
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Big Eyes, Almost Famous
Japanther, Eat Like Lisa Act Like Bart
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats, Mind Control
Pure X, Crawling Up The Stairs
pacificUV, After The Dream You Are Awake
Destroid, The Invasion
Marques Toliver, Land of CanAan
Gene The Southern Child & Parallel Thought, Artillery Splurgin'
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Human Eye, 4: Into Unknown
The So So Glos, Blowout
The Heliocentrics, 13 Degrees of Reality
Big Black Delta, Big Black Delta
Lucero, Texas & Tennessee
Purson, The Circle and the Blue Door
Moon King, Obsession II
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