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  SPIN.com's Best of the Week

  June 18, 2011 – This week, Metallica announced a new album collaboration with Velvet Underground rock icon Lou Reed, SPIN gave readers the rundown of the 30 best summer tours, ranging from Rihanna to Black Lips, and Eddie Vedder proved he can still rock out, even on a ukulele. Meanwhile, Arcade Fire opened up in a new documentary, Bon Iver released a mysterious new music video, and the Flaming Lips performed in a cemetery at 6 A.M. …
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  Rihanna Gets Sexy in Tour Opener

  June 6, 2011 – Rihanna certainly wasn't the only girl in Baltimore, let alone the world, Saturday night. Not only was the 13,500-seat First Mariner Arena nearly full for the debut of her "Loud" tour, disproving rumors that tickets weren't moving. But the stage itself was crowded with eight dancers and seven musicians, who often joined the Barbadian sex bomb for elaborately choreographed routines. …
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  Rap, Rape, and R&B: Battle of the Sexes, Round 2

  May 6, 2011 – My conversation with Latoya Peterson of Racialicious continues. …
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  Female Trouble: Is Rap More Mature than R&B?

  April 15, 2011 – Rap and R&B right now are, for the most part, interchangeable. That's not a complaint, it's a simple fact of contemporary urban music. …
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  Kanye, Rihanna Bring "Lights" to Video, NBA All-Stars

  February 21, 2011 – Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy epic "All of the Lights" is hedonistic buffet for the ears, squeezing 11 guest artists, including Elton John, Fergie, and La Roux's Elly Jackson, in just under five minutes. Its just-released video is the visual equivalent: a veritable Baskin-Robbins for the eyes, full of lasers and flashing DayGlo. Watch below! …
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  Rihanna's Tour, Gucci Mane's March LP + More

  February 10, 2011 – Rihanna has announced the first seven dates of this summer's LOUD Tour, which includes dates at New York's Nassau Coliseum and Los Angeles' Staples Center. More dates will be announced soon; tickets go on sale February 14 at Ticketmaster. [Rihanna's Official Site] Gucci Mane will release a new album, The Return of Mr. Zone 6, on March 22. …
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  Grammys: Who Will Win? And Who Should Win?

  February 9, 2011 – Doing an office pool for this year's Grammy ceremony, which airs Sunday, Feb. 13, at 8:00 PM on CBS and features performances by Eminem, Arcade Fire, Cee Lo Green, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, and many others? SPIN has a highly scientific guide to who's going home with the most trophies on music's biggest night. (Hint: we totally broke into the offices of the accounting firm that counts up the ballots. …
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  White Stripes Sales Skyrocket, Rihanna Banned

  February 4, 2011 – Sales of albums from the White Stripes have skyrocketed since the band announced their official split earlier this week. According to Amazon, the duo's 2010 live album and documentary Under Great White Northern Lights have seen an increase of 2,644 percent on the site, while two other albums, White Blood Cells and Elephant, are Top 10 sellers. …
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  Rihanna Releases Racy New Video for "S&M"

  February 1, 2011 – On her latest album Loud, Rihanna delivers one of her raciest lyrics ever on the track "S&M." "Sticks and stones may break my bones / But chains and whips excite me," she sings on the gritty electro-banger. And now the singer has released a sexually-charged new video crammed with all sorts of S&M references, from whips to ball-gags. …
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  Watch Patrick Stump Cover Jay-Z, Cee Lo, and B.o.B

  January 20, 2011 – Patrick Stump has been intensely focused on his solo debut Soul Punk, which is due out later this year. But the Fall Out Boy has found a way to blow off steam during recording sessions: recording a capella versions of some of his favorite pop jams. In a video uploaded to his YouTube channel, Stump filmed himself doing inventive versions of Eminem, Cee Lo, Lady Antebellum, and more. …
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