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March 9, 2012 – Sometimes it's nice to think about professional musicians as dedicated artistes regaling us with their melodies for the sheer joy of musical performance. Then the illusion-crushing annual Billboard Money Makers list drops and fans everywhere get to see how filthy rich even the most adorable of their favorite artists really are. …
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March 6, 2012 – MTV has spent the past few years trying to remind us they're no longer "Music Television," a campaign that was aided by the fact that the channel and its associated websites haven't been able to play videos from Universal Music Group since August 2010, when the label yanked its clips from Viacom's networks so they could air exclusively on Vevo (UMG is a co-owner of the video service). …
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February 29, 2012 – This afternoon, Lady Gaga took the stage at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society with her mother Cynthia Germanotta, Oprah Winfrey, and assorted prominent academic, professional and political figures to introduce her new anti-bullying Born This Way Foundation. …
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February 8, 2012 – A full week of nonstop Madonna press seems to have given Lady Gaga the vapors. While the Queen of Pop was on a media blitz promoting new single/video "Give Me All Your Luvin', " her Super Bowl halftime extravaganza, and a fresh slate of international tour dates, Lady Gaga sat on the literal sidelines preparing for her own big announcement. "Looking forward to seeing the Superbowl! The halftime show will be wonderful I'm sure. …
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February 7, 2012 – So what exactly is Lady Gaga trying to tell us with the extremely elaborate sketch of her proposed Born This Way Ball stage design (which she conveniently tweeted the day, cough, Madonna, cough, released details of a super-size world tour)? Is this the Magic Kingdom? Downton Abbey? The Atlantis hotel in the Bahamas? A gladiator's arena? Maybe it isn't a stage sketch at all, but an elaborate Rorschach test. …
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January 13, 2012 – Last April, when the world collectively ruled Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" sounds extraordinarily similar to Madonna's "Express Yourself," Madonna cheekily uploaded her 1989 performance of the song at the MTV VMAs to her official YouTube account. Lady Gaga, backed into a corner, still told Jay Leno Madonna and "her people" e-mailed their "love and complete support" of "Born This Way" — a fact Madonna's team failed to confirm. …
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January 3, 2012 – New Year's Eve might be a bit of a blur, but for those of us who could use a little refresher, plenty of video has surfaced online from the turn-of-2012 festivities: good, bad, and ugly. …
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December 26, 2011 – While you were Christmas-ing, Lady Gaga, Cat Power, the xx, and Frank Ocean were unleashing new music. And Lil Wayne rolled out a new online sports chat show that is Weezyrific. Here's what you missed:
Cat Power's "King Rides By"A seven-minute redo of her 1996 What Would the Community Think track set to visuals of Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao working out. …
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December 20, 2011 – The Academy Awards ceremony occasionally makes for some unlikely musical pairings, whether that's Elliott Smith and Celine Dion sharing a stage or Three 6 Mafia beating out Dolly Parton. …
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December 15, 2011 – Nominations for the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards were announced this morning, and for the second year in a row, Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are up for a score honor (for their work on The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo). They'll face off against The Artist (Ludovic Bource), W.E. (Abel Korzeniowski), Hugo (Howard Shore), and War Horse (John Williams). …
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