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    Fiona Apple's New Single, Every Single Night, Debuts (listen!)

    Keith Girard
    Fiona won’t be mistaken for Lady Gaga or any other cookie-cutter dance-driven artist dominating the charts. Her new single “Every Single Night,” from her new album is a melodic tip-toeing through her subconscious. Apple, 34, set the music world on its ear with her debut album Tidal in 1996. She was just 19. Her distinctive contralto voice, piano skills and biting, angst-filled lyrics set her apart. She still stands alone....
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    Rihanna Coachella Drug Use Stokes Bad Girl Image (look!)

    Keith Girard
    Rihanna likes to flaunt her bad girl image. She posted photos that look like she’s getting ready to snort cocaine, or maybe roll a joint off some guy’s bald head at the Coachella Music Festival. How bad ass is that? Of course, no serious coke-head would be so cavalier with their stash, if not out of fear of getting busted, then out of fear of watching the expensive powder blow away in the wind....
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    Fine Wines, 1820 Cognac, Up for Auction at Skinner in Boston

    Keith Girard
    A bottle of 1820 A. De Luze et Fils grand fine champagne cognac is one of the highlights of a fine wine auction in Boston next month. Also featured will be wines from Bordeaux, Napa, Burgundy and the Champagne region of France. The two-part live and online auction, May 4 through May 13, will feature more than 950 lots....
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    Katy Perry Goofs on Carly Rae Jepsen Song at Coachella (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Katy Perry and friends have been making the scene at the Coachella Music Festival and decided to record themselves goofing on Carly Rae Jepsen’s smash song “Call Me Maybe.” The video was posted on YouTube this morning and features Katy and friends dancing, singing and goofing off to the smash....
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    Robin Gibb Failing Health, Coma Mark End of Era

    Winchester
    Bee Gee Robin Gibb, in failing health for the last year, has slipped into a coma, and the end is feared near. The Bee Gees as a group has defied almost insurmountable odds to become an iconic entity like no other. From "How Deep Is Your Love," to "Night Fever," to "If I Can't Have You," we can't really recall any other music that so fit a film. Of course the 1977 film, based on writer Nik Cohen’s novel, "The Tribal Rites of Saturday Night," was epic in every sense of the word....
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    Ahmet Ertegun's Legacy Secured With Oxford University Fund

    Winchester
    When those in the know talk about the major behind-the-scene players in the music business, three names always come up: Clive Davis, Mo Ostin and Ahmet Ertegun. Ertegun’s legacy was secured in February when his widow gave $26 million to Oxford University. The money will pay for at least 35 graduate scholarships every year through the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun Scholarship Fund....
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    Paul McCartney Hires Big Guns for My Valentine Video (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Paul McCartney’s bluesy “My Valentine,” which he wrote and dedicated to his new wife, Nancy Schevell is out on video. Johnny Depp and Natalie Portman are the only characters. The ex-Beatle debuted the video in Los Angeles last night (Apr. 13). Oscar-winning cinematographer Wally Pfister (“Dark Knight,” “Inception”), Susanne Preissler and Paul Martinez produced and edited the minimalist, black and white clip, which runs just over three minutes....
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    Stolen Paul Cezanne Painting Recovered After Four Years

    Keith Girard
    A painting by the French artist Paul Cezanne, worth an estimated $100 million, has been found relatively unscathed four years after it was stolen at gunpoint from a Swiss museum by three masked robbers. The painting, Boy in a Red Waistcoat, was one of four stolen from the E. G. Buehrle Collection in Zurich in 2008 by three robbers who burst in just before closing time and told staff to lie on the floor while hand-picked the paintings to steal....
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    Esperanza Spalding Jazzes Up the Daily Show (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Esperanza Spalding turned Jon Stewart’s Daily Show into a jazz club for two songs last night and belted out two songs from her new album Radio Music Society. Stewart doesn’t often do music, but when he does, it’s usually awesome. Spalding, 27, is well-known in jazz circles, but only vaulted to national attention last year when she set teen sensation Justin Bieber back on his heels by beating him out for Best New Artist at the Grammy Awards....
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    Taylor Momsen, Johnny Depp Jam With Marilyn Manson (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Taylor Momsen battled Marilyn Manson for the heaviest eye shadow on stage at the Club Nokia in Los Angeles yesterday (Apr. 11) in a joint performance for the 2012 Revolver Golden Gods Awards show. Johnny Depp also jumped up on stage and performed the Eurythmic’s tune “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” and “The Beautiful People.”...
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    Lisa Marie Presley Gutsy, Blues-Edged Single Out (Listen!)

    Keith Girard
    Lisa Marie Presley is ushering in her first album in seven years, with the release of a new single “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” produced by 12-time Grammy winner T Bone Burnett. Needless to say, the daughter of King of Rock Elvis Presley spared no expense producing the album, recorded at The Village in Los Angeles. She sings in a breathy voice that sounds a lot like Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. It’s been described as “gutsy and blues-edged.”...
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    Peter Gabriel Solo Career Captured on Two-CD Set

    Winchester
    Peter Gabriel began his solo career with the terrific song “Solsbury Hill,” from the first of several solo albums that were all self-titled. The results are now on a staggering, mesmerizing two CD set called Live Blood from Eagle Rock Entertainment. The music for his CD set was recorded live at London’s iconic Hammersmith Apollo on March 23 last year, and several of the songs are now legendary, among them “Sledgehammer,” “Don't Give Up” and “Red Rain.”...
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    Katy Perry Finds Fame Disgusting; She Should Know

    Keith Girard
    Katy Perry’s career was all whipped cream a cherries until her marriage to Russell Brand went sour and ended in divorced. It left her with a sour taste for fame, which she considers “disgusting.” Katy sounded off about her music her upcoming 3D film and her desire to pursue a film career in a new interview with Teen Vogue magazine....
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    Jack White’s Disturbing Video; Is it Kiddie Porn? (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Jack White fires a blunderbuss in his new video for “Sixteen Saltines,” and it’s loaded with disturbing images of children that border on kiddie porn at worst, and a manual for depraved juvenile delinquency at best. White is flying solo now, but the tune has the same jarring guitar and pounding beat of his White Stripes days. Maybe the route he’s taking with the video is the only way to get attention in these coarse times....
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