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  FIRST LISTEN: Black Lips' New LP 'Arabia Mountain'

  May 25, 2011 – On their sixth album, Arabia Mountain (out June 7), Black Lips stepped up their game by hiring superproducer Mark Ronson for their most polished collection of garage-rock yet. Ever have a jones to hear snot-nosed punks sing about molested superheroes?? …
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  See Arctic Monkeys' Alex Turner Unplugged

  May 25, 2011 – Arctic Monkeys have just started their North American tour, and the British rockers have been debuting songs from their excellent new album Suck It and See. …
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  Foster the People, 'Torches' (StarTime International/Columbia)

  May 23, 2011 – The latest psych-pop upstarts to make a grab for MGMT's discarded headbands, this Los Angeles trio announce themselves as major players with "Pumped Up Kicks," a deceptively mellow ode to a latchkey loner primed to go Columbine. Their debut full-length proves that viral hit wasn't a fluke, as locomotive live beats and star-crossed guitars spar with perpetually pulsating synths. …
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  Foo Fighters Will Rock MTV Movie Awards

  May 20, 2011 – Just in: Foo Fighters will rock the 2011 MTV Movie Awards with a performance of their next single "Walk," from the band's excellent new album Wasting Light. …
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  Arctic Monkeys Rock New Songs in Tour Opener

  May 18, 2011 – "I wanna rock and roll," declared Alex Turner in "Brick by Brick," one of the new songs the Arctic Monkeys played Tuesday night at Washington's 9:30 Club. To judge by the untested material the quartet performed on the opening night of its American tour, the upcoming Suck It and See -- due June 7 -- will be its poppiest and most direct yet. …
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  Nas' 10th LP to Feature Odd Future's Frank Ocean

  May 18, 2011 – For the last two years, Nas has focused on working and touring with Damian "Jr. …
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  An Oral History of the First Lollapalooza

  May 17, 2011 – In 1991, Jane's Addiction's attempt at a farewell-tour extravaganza accidentally defined a generation and changed the music industry. Seven or eight bands in 20 cities sounds paltry compared to the 100-plus that will play Lollapalooza in Chicago this August, but ask anyone involved in that inaugural year: There was more at stake. In August of 1990, Jane's Addiction released their second studio album, Ritual de lo Habitual. …
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  Breaking Out: Young the Giant

  May 17, 2011 – With its explosive blend of martial rhythms, dive-bomb guitar chords, and lead singer Sameer Gadhia's emphatic falsetto-to-bellow vocals, Young the Giant's breakthrough single, "My Body," sounds like the work of a band born to rattle rafters. But the frontman insists that isn't so. "We're nice normal dudes who don't take ourselves too seriously," says Gadhia. …
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  Foo Fighters Announce Fall Arena Tour

  May 16, 2011 – With their excellent, return-to-form album Wasting Light just out, Foo Fighters have mapped short accompanying spring and fall tours. They kick off a 7-date jaunt tomorrow in Tulsa, OK, (this leg wraps on May 27 at Washington's Sasquatch Festival), visit Lollapalooza in August, and return for a 9-date run of arenas beginning September 13 in St. Paul, MN. …
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  Hot MC Tinie Tempah Raps With Wiz Khalifa

  May 12, 2011 – Tinie Tempah is one of the biggest new hip-hop stars of 2011 — and one of the few British rappers in years to break out over here in the States. …
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