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  R. Kelly, Animal Collective, Wu-Tang Clan Stay Up for Bonnaroo's Late-Night Lineup

  May 1, 2013 – This year's Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival lineup just welcomed a host of fresh additions — Solange, Empire of the Sun, William Tyler, Mac DeMarco, and Polyphonic Spree, to name a few — and now organizers have revealed the annual showcase's late-night schedule. The following artists will hit the stage in the wee hours of the night: R. …
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  R. Kelly Amazingly Gives Us a 'Trapped in the Closet' Soundboard to Play With

  March 28, 2013 – R. Kelly fans and Trapped in the Closet aficianados will be pleased to know that R&B's reigning freak king has launched "Trapped in the Soundboard," a web toy that allows users to trigger all of their favorite lines from the gonzo, soul-powered soap-opera. …
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  Petition to Make R. Kelly's 'Ignition' the National Anthem Has Obscene Amount of Support

  March 13, 2013 – In January, there was the Kickstarter guy who wanted a million dollars to make a Spin Doctors biopic starring Daniel Stern. In February, frustrated shoegaze aficionados petitioned the White House to fix My Bloody Valentine's website so they could get a copy of m b v. …
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  R. Kelly Leaves 'Closet' Behind on Sandy Hook Tribute 'I Know You Are Hurting'

  January 4, 2013 – Part of R. Kelly's particular genius is the ability to work brilliantly at all emotional pitches. The loftiest inspirational tract. The basest sexual come-on. The bawdiest cornball humor. Kellz can do, has done it all, investing each with equal levels of expressiveness. …
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  R. Kelly: 'Trapped in the Closet' Book (!) in the Works

  November 30, 2012 – R. Kelly has always divided his epic R&B soap opera Trapped in the Closet into chapters, so now he's taking the natural next step. As Vulture points out, the singer and songwriter told Fast Company's Co.Create he's working on turning Trapped in the Closet into a book. …
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  R. Kelly Reveals Future of 'Trapped in the Closet' at Amazing NYC Screening

  November 20, 2012 – R. …
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  R. Kelly Revives 'Trapped in the Closet' in 'Crazy' New Chapter

  October 17, 2012 – R. Kelly let G.O.O.D. Music boss Kanye West walk away with Cruel Summer's closest thing to a "George Bush doesn't care about black people" moment — "Mitt Romney don't pay no tax" — on their album-opening team-up "To the World," but the Pied Piper of R&B would never hide from the limelight for long. …
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  R. Kelly Bails on 'Love Letter' Caribbean Cruise

  August 13, 2012 – For anyone who was hoping to get trapped on the poop deck with R. Kelly on the R&B singer's Love Letter Cruise this October, your ship has sailed. Kelly's high seas adventure, which was supposed to depart Miami for the Caribbean and include two concerts by Kelly, a performance by Kelis, a stepping class and more, has been canceled. …
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  R. Kelly Knows He's Funny, Goes Broadway in 'Feelin' Single'

  July 16, 2012 – Part of the reason so many rock-oriented listeners tend to misunderstand R. Kelly has to do with a crucial difference between rock and pop, or at the very least, rock and R&B. So much art-rock can be serious to a fault — think Radiohead, a great band so unrelentingly dour that it was newsworthy when Flying Lotus recently told Rolling Stone that Thom Yorke cracks jokes. …
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• R. Kelly, 'Write Me Back' (RCA)

  June 28, 2012 – Even without his recent, more literal throwback moves, R. Kelly had already become retro. Once famously known as the Pied Piper of R&B, Robert Sylvester Kelly hasn't been leading the genre anywhere since it largely started marching to hyperkinetic Euro-dance beats in past decade. …
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