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Justin Bieber’s Just Gotta Ask: ‘What Do You Mean?’ in New Song (listen!)

Keith Girard
Justin Bieber has released a new single that he says points to a new direction in is music. A lyric video for the song “What Do You Mean?” is going viral and hopefully will help jump-start his stalled career. Bieber talked about his music today in a radio interview with Elvis Duran on his Z100 radio broadcast, “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show.”...
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Taylor Swift Mixes It Up with Little Mix at Santa Clara Show (watch!)

Keith Girard
Taylor Swift shared the stage at her Santa Clara, Calif., show with English girl group Little Mix, and turned over the stage, so could perform their new single “Black Magic.” Taylor sang and shimmied along. Swift has featured a number of groups, including Fifth Harmony, on the latest leg of her 1989 tour. The all-girl band, made up by Jade Thirlwall, Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jesy Nelson share something in common with boy band One Direction....
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One Direction Drops ‘Drag Me Down’ From Upcoming Album (listen!)

Keith Girard
One Direction, or what’s left of the boy band, dropped a new song out of the blue called “Drag Me Down.” Is it a veiled reference to departed member Zayn Malik? Tabloids are sure to play it that way. Band members Harry Styles, Niall Horan, Liam Payne and Louis Thomlinson announced the news in a Twitter blitz....
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Will Dana Leaves Rolling Stone With Lawsuits, Scandal in His Wake

Keith Girard
Will Dana, the long-time managing editor of Rolling Stone magazine, is leaving the iconic music publication amid continuing fallout since he was forced to retract a story about an alleged gang rape at the prestigious University of Virginia. Although Dana technically wasn’t fired, he’ll leave next month without another job lined up. Rolling Stone was launched in the 1960s by Jann Wenner, 69. He continues to be listed on the masthead as Editor....
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Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer Talks About Battle With Lyme Disease

Keith Girard
Amanda Palmer, lead singer of Boston duo Dresden Dolls, revealed today (July 26) why she was forced cancel her scheduled appearance at a Morrissey concert at San Jose State University. She was being treated for Lyme Disease, she said. Palmer was hospitalized at Miles Memorial Hospital, in Damariscotta, MA, on July 17. ...
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Harry Styles Face Plants at First One Direction Show on U.S. Tour (watch!)

Keith Girard
Harry Styles of boy band “One Direction” joined an elite musical club after he was captured on a fan video taking a shocking tumble on stage during the first show of the band’s U.S. tour. In fact, so many stars have fallen on stage it seems like a rite of passage. Over the past few years, Kanye West, Selena Gomez, Steven Tyler, Iggy Azalea and Lady Gaga have taken stage tumbles while performing....
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Rihanna Pushing Envelope Too Far in “B*tch Better Have My Money” Video?

Keith Girard
Rihanna’s grindhouse video for “B*tch Better Have My Money” pushes every politically incorrect button, from violence to nudity to human torture. Some are calling it art, but others say it’s anti-feminist, sadistic and nihilistic. In other words, a “Mad Max” film. Rihanna shares directing credit with Leo Berne, who co-directed through his video collective Megaforce. The video is certainly no more graphic or violent than a Quentin Tarantino film....
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Pharrell Williams May Get Relief From $7.4M ‘Blurred Lines’ Jury Verdict

Keith Girard
Pharrell Williams may get half a loaf in his bid for a new trial in the “Blurred Lines” copyright case that stunned the music industry after a jury awarded $7.4 million to the family of late-singer Marvin Gaye. In a hearing on motions in the case yesterday (June 29), federal district court Judge John Kronstadt said he was leaning against Williams’ request for a new trial. But he called the $1.6 million jury award against the singer and producer “excessive.”...
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Justin Bieber in Official Version of New ‘Where Are U Now’ Video (see!)

Keith Girard
Justin Bieber is a broad paint-splattered canvas in his new “Where Are U Now” video. But images containing the plea “Stop Worshipping (sic) Me” and “please go out and find some worthy idols” are disturbing some fans. One image also admonishes “read a book.” Fans reportedly made the artwork and it was superimposed on Bieber in the video. They should learn how to spell....
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Florence + The Machine Break Out With No. 1 Album Debut (video)

Keith Girard
Florence + the Machine, scored a breakout hit with the debut at No. 1 on the U.S. Album charts of their latest album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. The band’s third studio album pushed Hip-hop record At.Long.Last.A$AP out of the top spot. Led by lead singer Florence Welch with Isabella Summers and collaborating artists, the band sold 128,000 albums, according to music tracker Nielsen SoundScan....
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Rolling Stones Gear Up for New Tour With Surprise LA Show (video)

Keith Girard
The Rolling Stones played one of the smallest venues since their 2003 Four Flicks concert series, with a show at the Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles. It was a tune up for this summer’s Zip Code Tour that will be anything but small, hitting only stadiums in 15 cities. There was plenty of room at last night's show for celebrities like Jack Nicholson, One Direction’s Harry Styles, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Willis, Patricia Arquette, Eric Idle, Don Was and Joe Pesci. ...
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Janet Jackson Plans Comeback at 49, With New Album, Tour (Video!)

Keith Girard
Janet Jackson, one of the most dominant performers of the 1980s and ’90s is about to launch a comeback after a seven- year hiatus with a new album and tour, she said in a surprise announcement at midnight today (May 16). Does she still have it? Legacy acts, as they’re called, often find that their fan bases are still willing to support them, even in middle age. Madonna, who is 56, recently released Rebel Heart, her 13th studio album, and it has been a commercial success. ...
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B.B. King, the Heart and Soul of Mississippi Delta Blues, Dies at 89

Keith Girard
B.B. King, the son of a Mississippi sharecropper and early gospel singer who picked up a guitar at 15 and spread Mississippi delta blues world wide over his long career, has died from an illness related to diabetes. He was 89. From his humble beginnings he helped revolutionize music with his soulful singing and guitar picking. Artists from Elvis Presley to some of the 1960s guitar gods” Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmy Page, Dave Mason, Steve Winwood and Keith Richards, to name a few, all drew inspiration from delta blues....
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Justin Bieber Bangs His Own Drum on James Corden’s Show (watch!)

Keith Girard
Justin Bieber has been called a lot of things, but nobody has ever called him untalented. He slipped into the drummer’s seat with Reggie Watts and the band on the “Late Late Show With James Corden” and kept a mean beat while Watts sang. What a guy! Bieber, who was a creep in an 18-month run of loutish behavior, is now slowly creeping back into everyone’s good graces. He was supporting musical guest Tori Kelly, a protege. ...
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Keith Girard

Keith Girard four decades of experience as an award-winning reporter, editor-in-chief, and senior media executive. Keith’s career began in Washington, D.C., where he was a reporter for The Washington Post and a contributing editor for Regardie's and Washingtonian magazines. He also worked as a writer/producer in CNN's Washington Bureau and has written one book on the U.S. Marines in the Gulf War.