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Adele's '21' sets record with 21st week at No. 1
Pop & HissAdele's momentum is showing no signs of slowing. After winning six Grammy Awards and taking the top prize at the Brit Awards, the young soulful star bested a chart record set by another vocal powerhouse, the late Whitney Houston. Adele's "21" coasted to... -
Brit Awards: Blur returns and Adele raises her middle finger
Pop & HissWelcome home, Adele. Now please, step aside for Blur. London's soulful singer, who won six Grammy Awards and performed for the first time earlier this month after undergoing vocal cord surgery, unexpectedly took top honors at the 2012 Brit Awards. Her... -
Adele, Bruno Mars, Civil Wars among Grammy sales winners
Pop & HissOne full year after its release and Adele's "21" continues to find a new audience. In its 52 weeks in the top-10 of the U.S. pop charts, "21" has now sold more than 7.3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.... -
Album review: Amadou & Mariam's 'Folila'
Pop & HissReferred to throughout Africa as the Blind Couple of Mali, this veteran husband-and-wife duo had a mainstream hit in France in 2005 with "Dimanche à Bamako," produced by the French-Spanish pop star Manu Chao; three years later the couple recruited...... -
Foster the People: Pumped up, indeed
The time slot was an unforgiving one and the venue even worse. When Foster the People ambled onstage at noon on the final full day of the nearly weeklong South by Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, in March, it was exhaustion rather than...Tags: Rock and Roll (genre), Music Industry, Justice System, Breach of Contract, Human Interest
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Foster the People tackles Neil Young at Lollapalooza
Pop & HissFoster the People, L.A.'s fast-rising electro-pop act, haven't been shy about their genre-hopping ambitions. Still, the the masses awaiting "Pumped Up Kicks" at Lollapalooza in Chicago this past weekend could be forgiven for being surprised when the... -
Lou Reed to join Gorillaz at Gibson Amphitheatre Wednesday
Pop & HissSinger Lou Reed will join the increasingly impressive lineup for the Escape to Plastic Beach tour, which star-studded concept band Gorillaz is bringing to the Gibson Amphitheatre on Wednesday night. The former Velvet Underground singer will join... -
Today's music pick: Gorillaz w/ N.E.R.D. @ Gibson Amphitheatre
Brand XOur favorite cartoon-charactered virtual band Gorillaz are out on their first-ever world tour, rampaging through town with the âEscape to Plastic Beach Tour.â Former Blur frontman Damon Albarn will be heading up the flesh-and-blood version of the... -
A reanimated Gorillaz is back — this time with real-life musicians
When the sprawling British ensemble Gorillaz reunited to close out the final night of Coachella in April, anyone familiar with the band might have been shocked at what they saw.
Gorillaz, co-founded a decade ago by Blur frontman and U.K. rock macher...Tags: Mos Def, Music Industry, BBC, Cartoons, Movies
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Ray Davies' new album is a collaborative effort
"The wonderful thing about making records is something comes out you never expected," explains Ray Davies, who knows of what he speaks. In nearly five decades as leader of one of rock's great bands, the Kinks, and as a solo artist, Davies has been...Tags: Music Industry, Metallica (music group), Entertainment, The Time Traveler's Wife (movie), Ray Davies
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Rolando Villazon, reality TV star
Culture MonsterIn December, Mexican tenor Rolando Villazón announced that he would return to the stage in March in a Vienna production of Donizetti's "The Elixir of Love," his first full-fledged opera performance since undergoing throat surgery last year. But fans of..... -
Opera is Rufus Wainwright's 'main squeeze'
Classical music is often maligned for its apparent insistence that aspiring acolytes display proper credentials before becoming a true follower. Once admitted to the fold, you must bow to the altar of knowledge and denounce uncomplicated pleasure as the...Tags: Classical Music (genre), Music Industry, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Weaponry, Entertainment
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