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  Brian Eno Has a Very Big Brain

  May 3, 2013 – Friday afternoon at the Red Bull Music Academy in Manhattan, Brian Eno dished out a steady stream of ribald backstage tales and sordid studio gossip during a moderated discussion for a crowd of journalists and upstart musicians. …
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  Ian Curtis's Jiggly Boobs, the Cure Sell Out, and More From Peter Hook's 'Unknown Pleasures'

  January 24, 2013 – The last quarter of 2012 brought an onslaught of music memoirs loaded with memorable revelations. Who can forget Rod Stewart's cocaine confessions, Wyclef Jean's romantic trysts, or Neil Young's tireless proselytizing for high quality audio? …
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  U2 Eyeing Multiple New Music Releases Starting in September

  January 17, 2013 – U2's long-rumored new album has at least a tentative release date. The rockers hope to release "something" from the follow-up to 2009's No Line on the Horizon by September, drummer Larry Mullen Jr. told Irish broadcaster RTE."I'd say we will be finished by the summer — and hopefully we will have something released by September," Mullen is quoted as saying on RTE's The Dave Fanning Show. …
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  'Forbes' Magazine's Highest Paid Musician Doesn't Make Music Anymore

  November 29, 2012 – Forbes has released its annual list of the 25 highest paid musicians and the top spot has gone to someone who doesn't make music anymore. Dr. Dre, the Compton producer and entrepreneur, pulled in $110 million between May 2011 and May 2012 to claim the title of highest earning music maker, despite having not released a new album since 1999. …
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  Rockfest Will Bring U2, Led Zep, Who Films to the Big Screen

  April 24, 2012 – UPDATE (April 25): Good news, Beatles fans: that concert doc The Beatles: The Lost Concert — The Birth of Beatlemania in America, which captures the band's first stateside show, is getting a wide release, too! New York City is hosting an awesome film fest starting this Friday (apologies to everyone reading this farther than a commuter-train ride from Manhattan) and no, we're not talking about this one. …
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  Fake Bono Fools Reporter Inquiring About U2's Taxes

  March 22, 2012 – Jason Mattera finally bum-rushed the wrong liberal celebrity. Which, well, the person he ambushed wasn't a celebrity at all. Mattera, a conservative activist who gained attention for previous gotcha-style interviews involving Chris Rock and Vice President Joe Biden, earlier this week posted a video purporting to show him firing tough questions about taxes at U2 frontman Bono during a pre-Grammy event in Los Angeles. …
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  Surprise! Taylor Swift Tops Money Makers List, Beats U2

  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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  Kraftwerk Bringing Eight Full-Album Shows to NYC

  February 15, 2012 – In the wake of the Grammys' weirdo mashup salute to electronic music, Kraftwerk have returned to remind EDM-ers from whence they came: The Museum of Modern Art in New York has commissioned an eight-night retrospective, "cleverly" titled "Kraftwerk-Retrospective 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8," celebrating the German electronica pioneers' legacy. …
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  POTUS Playlist: Barack Obama Drops a Sweet Spotify Mix

  February 9, 2012 – It's not like we're very surprised, but President Obama, who has already gone down in history as the first candidate to have waged a truly effective social media-based presidential campaign, is at it again: Barack has dropped a 27-track "Campaign Playlist" via Spotify and his Facebook page (via the Washington Post). …
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  U2's 'Achtung Baby' Doc Hits DVD January 24

  January 6, 2012 – The 20th anniversary of U2's hugely influential 1991 album Achtung Baby has passed, but Bono and the gang are offering fans one more way to commemorate the milestone ̬ releasing the making-of documentary From the Sky Down, which premiered last September at the Toronto Film Festival, as a DVD, Blu-Ray, or video download on January 24. …
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