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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....
    JAZZ
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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.”...
    COUNTRY

    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.”...
    BETWEEN THE LINESROCK
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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....
    POP
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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....
    ROCK
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    Dürer, Holy Roman Masters Star in New Met Exhibit

    Keith Girard
    Albrecht Dürer is German's dominant artist from a period spanning almost 300 years in Central European development. But a new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases the works of other who shaped German, Swiss, Austrian, and early Bohemian drawings. The exhibition of artists were active before 1700 in the Holy Roman Empire runs from Apr. 3 through Sept. 3, 2012....
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    Rufus Wainwright Taps Helena Bonham Carter for New Video

    Keith Girard
    Rufus Wainwright, muse to the terminally hip, enlisted Helena Bonham Carter as a sexually frustrated librarian for the video for “Out of the Game,” the first single off his upcoming album by the same name. Wainwright himself goes through at least three separate personas in the clip; a debonair 10 o’clock scholar in a natty fedora, a woman with a mop hairdo and a stoned dude in a Sonic Youth tee-shirt....
    ROCK
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    Aretha Franklin, Queen of Soul, Has Another Side–Survivor

    Winchester
    Before Aretha Franklin was a pop legend, she was a gospel and blues singer. Like Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, and Dinah Washington before her, she has had to overcome prejudice, frustration, a teen pregnancy, weight problems and devastating emotional trauma during her career. Fortunately, Aretha has been able to channel her feelings into some of the most memorable and soulful music of the 20th century. ...
    R & B
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    Katherine McPhee Featured on New Smash Sountrack Album

    Keith Girard
    Katherine McPhee, Debra Messing and Megan Hilty have hit the ground running in the NBC hit “Smash,” and producers are wasting no time capitalizing on the show with the release of a new soundtrack album. The show debuted to stellar ratings in no small part to McPhee’s hot role as an aspiring actress trying to make it big in a Broadway musical. about Marilyn Monroe. The show is being executive produced by Steven Spielberg...
    SOUNDTRACKS
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    Demi Lovato Wants Boyfriend Back in New Video (watch!)

    Keith Girard
    Demi Lovato somehow got her signals crossed with her boyfriend and now she wants to let him know she wants him back in her new video for song “Give Your Heart a Break.” The song is the second single off her album Unbroken, which was released last September. The album peaked at No. 4 on the pop charts...
    POP
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    Is it True? Rihanna Can't Quit Chris Brown?

    Keith Girard
    Rihanna looks bored out of her mind in Tokyo. She posted some cool photos of herself, but she looked glum. Could she really still be obsessing about Chris Brown? The singer, 24, tweeted a picture from the room with a million-dollar view high above the surrounding city. She's in the Japanese capital for the premiere of her movie "Battleship." Rihanna co-stars with Brooklyn Decker, Liam Neeson and Taylor Kitsch....
    CELEBRITIES
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    Jim Morrison, Doors Ride Again for 40th Anniversary

    Winchester
    Jim Morrison and The Doors final album, L.A. Woman, from 1971, is being celebrated with a special two-CD release from Rhino Records and a behind-the-scenes DVD/Blu-Ray from our friends at Eagle Rock Entertainment. The album included The Door's signature hits “Love Her Madly,” “Riders On The Storm” and the iconic album title track. The Rhino release features a never before-heard song, “She Smells So Nice.”...
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    Jennifer Lopez Longs to Love on 'Dance Again' (listen!)

    Keith Girard
    Jennifer Lopez hooks up with Pitbull on her new single “Dance Again,” (not that way!). It’s an insipid little tune that has the singer looking for a hot booty call. The song has a smooth upbeat sound and a steady thumping dance beat that would be hard to miss on the club floor. Pitbull collaborated with Lopez on her 2011 song “On the Floor.” ...
    POP