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  B.o.B and Taylor Swift Rep for Underdogs in 'Both of Us' Video

  June 27, 2012 – They say this every four years, but the upcoming presidential campaign promises to be the most negative in recent memory. Leave it to the new video for B.o.B and Taylor Swift's sappy collaboration "Both of Us," which has enough star-spangled banners and rootsy Americana for an especially glossy political commercial, to infuse the coming months with morning-in-America optimism. …
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  Who Charted? Beastie Boys Sales Soar as Fans Honor MCA

  May 9, 2012 – First! Carrie Underwood's big arrival on the Billboard 200 this week makes Jack White's personally historic No. 1 last week look slightly less impressive, regardless of how much we loved that album. The American Idol superstar's latest LP Blown Away sold 267,000 copies, nearly doubling Blunderbuss's 138,000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. 2 Through 10: Norah Jones' ...Little Broken Hearts arrives at No. …
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  B.o.B Teams With O.A.R. in Nightmarish Marriage of Abbrev.

  May 9, 2012 – We already know B.o.B will collaborate with anyone who moves units, but this is ridiculous. Bobby Ray, the Atlanta rapper-singer with a latent and unfortunate coffeehouse-strummer streak, and fellow abbrev. users O.A.R., the rockers who rode their poor-man's Dave Matthews Band jams all the way from Ohio State frat parties to a sold-out 2006 Madison Square Garden show, have teamed up. Although both the Strange Clouds artist and the  …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five

  May 4, 2012 – Oh boy, everybody's got an opinion on that SPIN's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list, don't they? Well, I do too! Good to see Jam Master Jay make it to the top ten, he certainly deserves it. There probably should've been room for Rick Rubin and Mike Dean (who really did play guitar on some rap albums!), as well. …
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• B.o.B, 'Strange Clouds' (Grand Hustle/Atlantic)

  April 27, 2012 – B.o.B is a pop star. He has pop pals. He has pop production. He has platinum pop singles, thanks to their poppy hooks and poppy sheen. And he has fans that, in another era, would be regarded as pop-crazed teeny-boppers. Which wouldn't be remarkable, except that B.o.B. …
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  Hear B.o.B and Taylor Swift's Gooey Duet 'Both of Us'

  April 12, 2012 – B.o.B broke through as a mixtape rapper with an unlikely coffeehouse-troubadour streak, and his first big commercial successes also tended to cross genre (and racial) boundaries. …
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  B.o.B's New Ryan Tedder-Assisted 'So Good': Pretty Good!

  February 21, 2012 – OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder has been the king of the slo-jam the past few years. Aside from his Colorado-based band's Timbaland-remixed hit "Apologize," he has also written or co-written Leona Lewis' "Bleeding Love," Beyoncé's "Halo," Kelly Clarkson's "Already Gone," and tracks on Adele's 21, the last of which scored him a best-album Grammy earlier this month. …
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  Watch New Videos From Taylor Swift, Loutallica, Deer Tick, and B.o.B

  December 5, 2011 – On November 1, Lou Reed and Metallica finally unleashed their much-discussed collaborative album, Lulu. Has it created "another planetary system" yet? Hard to say, but the critically divisive record has led to a previously revealed team-up with Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler). …
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  Lupe's "Airplanes" Demo With Hayley Williams Leaks

  April 7, 2011 – While B.o.B turned "Airplanes" into a smash hit, Lupe Fiasco had originally cut his own track using the now-ubiquitous hook by Paramore's Hayley Williams -- it has just leaked online and you can hear it now (via Some Kind of Awesome). Hear Lupe Fiasco's version of "Airplanes (feat. …
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  Best & Worst of Lollapalooza: Day 1

  August 7, 2010 – Best Reason to Wake Up Early: B.o.B.There were more dragonflies than fans on the damp expanse of Grant Park - and more people holding coffee cups than beers cozies - when the man born Bobby Ray Simmons took the stage at 11:30. What was with giving a guy who's moving so many units a slot in the Breakfast Club? Who knows, but before Squirt Boy's water bottles were even out of his holsterer, B.o.B. had the crowd overheated. …
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