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Jaden Smith Skates Through 'Pump Up Kicks' Video (watch!)

Keith Girard
Jaden Smith does a little shopping for skateboards with a posse of friends in the new video for his song “Pumped Up Kicks (Like Me),” which can only be described as pop hip-hop, much the same musical style of dad Will Smith. He samples Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” in the rap. Sister Willow Smith has been carrying most of the load for the family musically. She’s dropped videos for her debut “Whip My Hair,” “Do it Like Me (Rockstar)” and “I Am Me.”...
HIP-HOP
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Marvin Hamlisch, Award Winning Music Composer, Dies at 68

Keith Girard
Marvin Hamlisch, whose distinctive music style earned Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, a Tony and the Pulitzer Prize over his career for such hits as A Chorus Line, and songs “Life Is What You Make It” and “The Way We Were,” has died. He was 68. Hamlisch died Monday (Aug. 5) in Los Angeles after a brief illness, said Jason Lee, a spokesman for the family. No other details about his death have been released....
CELEBRITIES
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Jennifer Lopez Boy Toy Dogged by Gay Rumors, Again

Keith Girard
Jennifer Lopez’s hot boy toy Casper Smart may be batting for both teams. The 25-year-old backup dancer was reportedly spotted ducking into a gay-oriented peep show the day before Lopez’s 43rd birthday. It’s not the first time. Joshua Lee Ayers, also a dancer and a reported friend of Smart’s, wrote on Twitter in June that Smart was gay and was only using JLo to help further his career....
CELEBRITIES
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Rita Ora, UK's Hot Sex Bomb, About to Hit U.S. (video!)

Keith Girard
Rita Ora is fast becoming the next big import in the new British Invasion. She has an even more exotic background than Rihanna and her hip-hop style recalls old school rappers like Missy Elliott, with looks rivaling her Barbadian colleague. Ora, 21, debuted in Las Vegas last night hosting Stereo Saturdays at Lavo Nightclub in the ritzy Palazzo Hotel-Resort Casino. It’s part of a whirlwind tour leading up to the release of her first album....
HIP-HOP
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John Coltrane, Jazz Classics Released In High Definition Audio

Keith Girard
Six classic jazz albums, featuring John Coltrane, Eric Dolphy, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Horace Silver and Larry Young are being re-released by Blue Note/EMI in high definition audio, digitally remastered from their original analog master tapes. All of the albums include original sleeve notes plus additional photos and newly-written package essays....
JAZZ
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Sacré Bleu! Madonna Irks Paris Fans After Walking Out of Show

Keith Girard
Madonna cut short a special performance in Paris last night (July 26) and was roundly booed and hooted by the audience made up mostly by her most ardent French fans. Sacré Bleu! The show was meant to be an intimate peformance in the l’Olympia club, a 2,700 seat venue. On her current tour the Material Girl, 53, has been playing to large arenas....
POP
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Jennifer Lopez 'Goin In' Video Goes All Over Map Visually (watch)

Keith Girard
Jennifer Lopez draws on fantasy and urban street scenes to craft her latest video for new single “Goin’ In,” including a Red Riding Hood sequence that strays into Katy Perry territory. Boyfriend Casper Smart is missing in action, however. Back-up dancer Smart is nowhere to be seen in the video. He’s been dating Lopez almost since her split from husband Marc Anthony last year and has been featured prominently in other videos....
SOUNDTRACKS
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Lana Del Rey Ode to Love Lost on Summer Sadness Video

Keith Girard
Lana Del Rey stars in another dreamy, sepia-toned video that’s a symbolic portrayal of her song “Summertime Sadness.” The tune is based on a supposedly true story about two lesbian lovers who taken their own lives. Del Rey looks stunningly fashionable as she plunges off a bridge. The images of her could have been culled from a high-fashion photo spread. Although the video has a story line, it’s more a collection of images or video postcards. Jaime King stars as Del Rey’s lover; her husband Kyle Newman, a filmmaker co-directs with Spencer Susser, who belongs to the Australian filmmaking collective Blue-Tongue Films....
POP
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Green Day Debuts 'Oh Love,' First Song Off Album ¡Uno! (listen!)

Keith Girard
Billie Joe Armstrong and Green Day new song, “Oh Love,” is sure to please the band’s power-pop fans. The tune (June 16) off the first album in its trilogy ¡Uno!, ¡Dos! and ¡Tré!, dropped today (July 16). It’s back to basics, according to the band. “The first one is power pop,” Armstrong told Rolling Stone....
ROCK
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Stevie Nicks Confirms Fleetwood Mac Tour Still a Go in 2013

Keith Girard
Stevie Nicks, who looks remarkable for 64, is ready to hit the road again with Fleetwood Mac. She confirmed that the “everyone is on board” for the reunion tour in 2013 today in a new interview. Nicks appeared on “CBS This Morning,” and invariably the topic came up whether the ’70s super group would play together again. “It’s the plan,” she said. “Because that’s what we do. I do my thing. And Lindsey [Buckingham] is out doing his thing now.”...
ROCK
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Country's Luke Bryan Sorry About National Anthem (watch)

Keith Girard
Country singer Luke Bryan didn’t flub the National Anthem last night (July 10) at the All-Star Baseball Game, but he’s apologizing nonetheless for repeatedly referring to crib notes during the song. That’s far better than Christina Aguilera, Scotty McCreery and Steven Tyler, who all sang the challenging song at major sports events and flubbed the lyrics....
COUNTRY