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Album review: MellowHype, 'Numbers'
RedEye special contributor**1/2 (out of four) The weird group of skater-kid rappers known as Odd Future (aka Wolf Gang aka OFWGKTA aka Golf Wang) managed to offend seemingly the country's entire music listening population when it arrived in the mainstream last year with grotesque...Tags: Music, Stranger Than Fiction, Entertainment, Wu-Tang Clan (music group)
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Odd Future's Controversy-Courting, Media-Savvy Hip-Hop Hits Wallingford
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All $25. 8 p.m., Sept. 8. Oakdale Theatre, 95 S. Turnpike Road, Wallingford, oakdale.com  The sudden rise of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All from unknown rap group to strapped-to-a-rocket underground demi-gods reads...
Tags: Music, NPR, Stranger Than Fiction, Homophobia, Entertainment
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Imagine to film Jay-Z's music fest: Howard, Grazer to co-produce pic of Made in America fest in Philly
VarietyImagine Entertainment partners Ron Howard and Brian Grazer will film Jay-Z's Budweiser Made in America Music Festival in Philly this week. Steve Stoute, founder and CEO of Translation, will be co-producing alongside Grazer and Gotham-based Radical Media,...Tags: Music, Miike Snow (music group), Janelle Monae, Brian Grazer, Arts and Culture
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Pitchfork Day 2: Sleigh Bells, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Wild Flag
Pitchfork Day 2 is in the books for Saturday in Union Park. Here’s the rundown from yours truly (GK) and my hard-working colleague Bob Gendron (BG): 1:09 p.m.: The pleasant chirping of crickets provides the transition between songs for the...
Tags: Music, Feist, Cults (music group), Disco (genre), Science and Technology
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Album review: Frank Ocean, 'Channel Orange'
3.5 stars (out of 4) In the days leading up to the release of his major-label debut album, “Channel Orange” (Def Jam), R&B singer Frank Ocean announced that five years ago, when he was 19, he fell deeply in love with a man. The...
Tags: Music, Minority Groups, Crime, Law and Justice, Gay Rights, Justin Bieber
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Zac Brown Band scales chart summit: Georgia act gets Amazon bump; Frank Ocean splashes in second
VarietyIn a week when Internet sales commanded the traffic, the Zac Brown Band took its second consecutive No. 1 album, as "Uncaged" swept onto the U.S. chart at the top. The Georgia act's third Atlantic studio album moved 234,000 copies, according to Nielsen...Tags: Music, Kenny Chesney, Justin Bieber, Zac Brown Band (music group), Kanye West
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Notorious hip-hop collective Odd Future ... to play The NorVa Aug. 31
Brace yourself. West Coast hip-hop freakiness is heading to The NorVa. Promoters announced Wednesday that the notorious hip-hop collective Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All is coming to that Norfolk club on Aug. 31. Odd Future ... has been criticized in...
Tags: Stranger Than Fiction, Ticketmaster, Justin Bieber, Beyonce, John Legend
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Lyrical acrobatics: Baltimore rapper Los over Drake's 'Lord Knows'
The chances of Los — a Baltimore rapper once signed to and quietly dropped from Diddy's Bad Boy Records — being named one of XXL's 2012 Freshmen aren't good.
Like most of the hip-hop-only magazines on stands, XXL's clout in rap-circles has...Tags: Sam Adams
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Pearl Jam joins Jay-Z to headline 'Made In America' fest
Special to CNNJay-Z has decided to go vintage for his upcoming Made In America music festival. The hip-hop mogul revealed Tuesday that he's tapped Pearl Jam to headline the upcoming Philadelphia fest along with him. The Seattle rockers will play for one night only...Tags: Music, Calvin Harris, Miike Snow (music group), Passion Pit (music group), Dirty Projectors (music group)
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Album review: El-P 'Cancer for Cure'
With Waka Flocka Flame's blunt force raps serving as the most influential sound in hip-hop and an underground scene currently ruled by the irreverence of acts like Odd Future and Das Racist, the market for so-called Real Hip Hop--the kind defined by boom-...
Tags: Music, Genres, Cancer, Das Racist (music group), Entertainment
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Coachella 2012: Snoop Dogg & Dr. Dre, The Black Keys, Santigold, and seven other must-watch acts
Just as winter begins to bum everyone out with its dropping temperatures and dark-by-4:30-p.m. routine, the newly liberated Coachella lineup has us daydreaming of spring and a weekend trip to the west coast. Seemingly every year, Coachella sets the...Tags: Music, Dr. Dre (music artist), Calvin Harris, Avicii (music group), Virgin Group, Ltd.
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Rapper "Tyler the Creator" Arrested for Vandalism at Roxy Theater
KTLA NewsWEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (KTLA) -- Rapper "Tyler the Creator" was arrested Thursday night for allegedly vandalizing sound equipment at the Roxy Theater in West Hollywood. The 20-year-old rapper, whose real name is Tyler Okonma, was taken into custody...Tags: Arts and Culture, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
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