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Music News You Can Use: I’m Thankful For…
I’m thankful for a No Doubt reunion… The awesome ska-pop quartet released the good news via IM transcript on their Web site, as lead singer Gwen Stefani tells her bandmates to “pack up the babies” and “get a bunch of nannies” while on tour. Despite Stefani recently giving birth to her second child in August, [...]
Daily News Roundup: Obama’s pooch and Clinton in the cabinet
Hillary Rodham Clinton may be the next secretary of state. Obama’s team has begun to scour former president Bill Clinton’s financial ties for signs of conflict of interest, signaling to some Democratic insiders that the new administration is considering his wife for the cabinet post.
President-elect Barack Obama appeared on 60 Minutes yesterday to discuss the [...]
Music News You Can Use: Pop-Rock and Cheap Tix
Calling all Parawhores… Pop-punkers Paramore might be winding down from their exhausting year-round tour for Riot!, but that doesn’t mean jack. Fiery frontwoman Hayley Williams and the studs are releasing a live CD/DVD set, promoting their cuts on the Twilight soundtrack (including the very epic “Decode“), and just won mtvU’s Woodie of the Year. We [...]
Lil Wayne: King of the BET Hip Hop Awards Show
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The BET Hip Hop Awards on Saturday could have been called Mr. Weezy’s Hip Hop Awards because the rapper Lil Wayne stole the evening. Nominated for 12 awards, Lil Wayne picked up Lyricist of the Year, MVP of the Year and People’s Champ, with the help of his hits, “A Milli,” “Lollipop,” “Got Money” [...]
VMAs 2008: A “Resurrected” Britney, Electric Kanye Return
MTV’s done it again. Or should we say (oops) Britney did it again? Redeeming herself from last year’s embarrassing opening act, pop veteran Spears shocked this year’s MTV Video Music Awards as the stunning singer swept all three of her nominated categories, including Video of the Year.
Beyond Spears’ shocking cleanup, the VMAs lived up to [...]
Choose, lose, or cash in
The mecca of youth culture is opening its airwaves to a different kind of advertising.
Sandwiched between ads for Trojan brand condoms and the newest albums, loyal MTV viewers will now be inundated with the flood of campaign ads leading up to the November election.
It’s the first time the network has decided to accept political [...]
Survey says!
A big story this week was the findings of a poll on the political views of people ages 17 to 29. The nation’s papers reported that, according to the poll, young people were much more likely than older people to know which end was up! Or, as some put it, that young people were more [...]
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