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  Preview: Five Hot Sundance Music Documentaries

  January 19, 2011 – Film buffs and industry veterans flock to the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, each year to get a glimpse of the next Quentin Tarantino or Steven Soderbergh. But this year's festival, which runs from January 20-30, also features a group of buzzy music documentaries. …
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  Lilith Fair Returns with Tour Kick-Off

  June 28, 2010 –  …
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  Full Lilith Fair Tour Dates Announced

  April 12, 2010 – Many of music's most talented ladies are ready to invade a town near you. As previously reported, Lilith Fair will be making its way across North American this summer for the first time in a decade. Dates for the entire trek have just been announced, complete with a one-night-only performance from Rihanna in Salt Lake City! …
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  Dallas Mayor Denounces Erykah Badu's Naked Video

  April 2, 2010 – Public officials in Erykah Badu's hometown of Dallas are less than pleased with the R&B songstress, thanks to her new music video for "Window Seat." The clip -- which was all over the net earlier this week, but now runs exclusively on her official site -- shows Badu stripping in downtown Dallas' Dealey Plaza before she lays down naked on the spot of John F. …
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• Erykah Badu, 'New AmErykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh' (Universal Motown)

  March 30, 2010 – Erykah Badu has always been elusive -- this is just her fifth full-length since 1997 -- but when she surfaces, she stuns. If 2008's extraordinary New Amerykah Part One: 4th World War was a lunar journey laced with P-Funk absurdism, then Part Two is earthbound and elemental. …
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  Erykah Badu Debuts New Song on 'Fallon'

  March 4, 2010 – With a performance Wednesday on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, soul songstress Erykah Badu debuted her first new song in two years, "Window Seat," the lead single off her forthcoming album, New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh), out March 30. If "Window Seat" is any indication, Badu's new album going to be something particularly sexy. The song is soft and passionately sung, with romantic lyrics and smooth piano accompaniment. …
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  Top 5 Twitterers of 2009

  December 31, 2009 – This was the year of Twitter. Millions (and millions) of people took to Twitter to record their daily lives in short blurbs of 140 characters or less -- including musicians like Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, DJ A-Trak, and Blink-182's Mark Hoppus. We kept track of them all, collecting the best, newsiest tweets of the week for our weekly Follow Friday feature. Here's a look back at the Top 5 Twitter events of the past year: 5. …
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  Terrific Twitter Trio of the Week

  December 11, 2009 – Lots of musicians tweet -- but all that Twitters is not gold. That's why you'll want to check out SPIN.com every Friday to see whose tweets we're reading this week -- then update your TweetDeck! (Obligatory Self-Promotion: ...while you're at it, be sure to follow @SPINmagazine!) This week's winners: Who: The Smashing Pumpkins' Billy Corgan (@Billy) Why You Should Follow: Feeling lost and confused? Uninspired? Down in the dumps? …
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  Erykah Badu, Shiny Toy Guns Face Off in Dallas

  October 20, 2009 – "What am I gonna sing?" Erykah Badu asked the audience with a smile and a shrug. The challenge facing the performer: transforming one of her barely-still-classifiable-as-neo-soul songs into a country take. It was one of the many tasks she'd be faced with as part of Friday night's free Red Bull Soundclash event at Dallas' Victory Plaza. …
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  Erykah Badu's Festival Memories: Family, Friends, Collaborations

  April 23, 2009 – [Editor's note: For our May issue's summer festival section, SPIN spoke with a number of artists on the festival circuit, from Gaslight Anthem and Metric to Doves and Jane's Addiction. Among them is neo-soul songstress Erykah Badu. Here, she tells us about her favorite moments backstage and waxes on music's power to bring people together. …
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