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Justin Timberlake tops album chart with 968,000 copies sold
He didn't quite hit the million-sold mark, though he came awfully close. Capping a whirlwind promotional run that included hosting "Saturday Night Live," performing on five consecutive episodes of "Late Night With Jimmy Fallon" and playing an intimate...
Tags: Entertainment, SXSW Music and Media Conference & Festival, Justin Timberlake, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Late Night with Jimmy Fallon (tv program)
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Smokey Robinson to release album of duets this fall
Smokey Robinson is getting in on the duets album action. Following his appearance Wednesday night on "American Idol," the R&B legend announced Thursday that he's to release a set of all-star duets this fall through the Verve Music Group. The album...
Tags: Paul Anka, Smokey Robinson, Entertainment, Lionel Richie, Reba McEntire
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Lou Reed cancels Coachella, Orpheum dates
Coachella just got a bit less grizzled. Citing "unavoidable complications," Lou Reed announced Tuesday that he has canceled his planned appearance at next month's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, scheduled to bring artists including Blur,...
Tags: Music Industry, Entertainment Events, Queens of the Stone Age (music group), Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival
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Gucci Mane jailed on assault charge
Gucci Mane apparently isn't ready for spring break to end just yet. The Atlanta rapper and actor was booked into the Fulton County Jail late Tuesday, after Gucci Mane (born Radric Davis) turned himself in on suspicion of aggravated assault with a...
Tags: Prisons
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Parsing Coachella 2013: Lineup highlights by genre
Los Angeles Times Pop Music CriticHow would you book a festival that, regardless of your decisions, was sure to sell out? Would you give the people what they want, or give them what they need? Always the diplomats, those who slotted the 2013 Coachella Music and Arts Festival lineup,...Tags: Entertainment, Trent Reznor, Ghostface Killah, Wu-Tang Clan (music group), Festive Events
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David Bowie, Justin Timberlake are stars of pop music's spring
The winter hibernation is nearing its end. Bleary-eyed musicians are crawling out of their windowless studios after months — and in some cases, years — of isolated dream-capturing. The bottomless espresso cup awaits, and a queue next to the...
Tags: Entertainment, Wu-Tang Clan (music group), Ghostface Killah, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala (music group)
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Coachella 2013: Ticket woes and a quick sell-out for Weekend 1
Tickets for the first weekend of this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival reportedly sold out within 15 minutes, even as computer users reported widespread issues in attempting to purchase weekend passes. Long wait times and site crashes...
Tags: Trent Reznor, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Festive Events, Lollapalooza, Skrillex (music group)
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Coachella 2013: Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers to headline
Last year the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival used technological trickery to make it look as if Tupac Shakur had been brought back to life. So what do you do for an encore to one of pop music’s biggest magic shows? Coachella organizers have...
Tags: Trent Reznor, Entertainment, The Red Hot Chili Peppers (music group), Wu-Tang Clan (music group), Festive Events
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Album review: Christopher Owens' 'Lysandre'
"New York City," the third song on Christopher Owens' debut solo album "Lysandre," is kind of an opposite-universe version of Lou Reed's "Walk on the Wild Side." It's a sax-soaked tale of turning tricks in the big city, but zips along a major-key melody...
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Tomorrow magazine, the next Good thing
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The Reading Life: Ellen Willis, rocking the rock music boat
![I've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's an exemplary life. She was the first pop music critic of the New Yorker, writing 56 pieces for the magazine from 1968 to 1975 that trace her relationship with "music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated ... [and] challenged me to do the same."](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-07/63579526-28135836.jpg "I've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's an exemplary life. She was the first pop music critic of the New Yorker, writing 56 pieces for the magazine from 1968 to 1975 that trace her relationship with \"music that boldly and aggressively laid out what the singer wanted, loved, hated ... [and] challenged me to do the same.\"")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticI've long considered Ellen Willis something of a hero. I hope I live longer than she did (Willis died in 2006, at 64), but otherwise, it's an exemplary life. She was the first pop music critic of the New Yorker, writing 56 pieces for the magazine from...Tags: Entertainment, Janis Joplin, The Who (music group), Bob Dylan, Woodstock Festival (1969)
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'Sweet Joe' Russell dies at 72; singer with the Persuasions
"Sweet Joe" Russell, who spent half a century harmonizing with the Persuasions, an influential vocal group widely regarded as the "kings of a cappella," has died. He was 72.
Russell died May 5 in a Brooklyn hospice after a long struggle with diabetes,...Tags: Entertainment, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Frank Zappa, Concerts
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