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Welp, American Idol's Top 13 is here. After thousands of singers tried out over weeks of auditions and cuts, the supposed best of the best has been announced and will move on to next week's first official proper live show. Thursday night (Feb. 20), Idol host Ryan Seacrest announced the American picked top 10 in the show's first 10 minutes. For the most part, both the top performing girls and the best boys made it through by America's vote. -
Lana Del Rey working with Dan Auerbach for upcoming album, 'Ultraviolence'
In somewhat unexpected news, Lana Del Rey has announced that she is working with Black Keys guitarist Dan Auerbach on her forthcoming album, Ultraviolence. Although the details of their collaboration have not been revealed, we're suspecting that he is producing the record. Del Rey posted a photo via Twitter of her sitting on his lap. "Me and Dan Auerbach are excited to present you Ultraviolence," she wrote. -
Blues Foundation Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony and Music Awards Set for May in Memphis
Here in 2014's class, three big sax men will be blown into the ranks: Big Jay McNeely, Eddie Shaw and Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson. Others luminaries will also be inducted in Memphis come May, including a posthumous nod to Holly Springs, Miss. patriarch R.L. Burnside and the... -
London Sinfonietta Performs Olivier Messiaen's Chamber Masterpiece 'Quartet for the End of Time' at Kings Place
More than half a century since its first performance, with entirely new wars raging, Messiaen's opus resonates still across time immemorial. -
WATCH: Katy Perry 'Dark Horse' music video features Egyptian pop queen chasing off suitors
There's no going back. After spending a month atop the Billboard charts, Katy Perry's third Prism single "Dark Horse" has finally received its music video. As last week's teaser promised, the Egyptian-themed clip finds Katy Patra as a highly desirable, magical pharaoh who isn't afraid to get what she wants from men, even if she doesn't have to keep them around. -
Throwback Thursday: Celebrate Kurt Cobain's 47th Birthday with 'MTV Unplugged In New York'
Today (Feb. 20) marks what would have been Nirvana frontman/grunge leader Kurt Cobain's 47th birthday. Though, of course, this year marks 20 years since he took his own life, his groundbreaking music continues to live on. Even though Nirvana have released a slew of posthumous releases since 1994, for today's #ThrowbackThursday, we'll look at the very first one, and the album that somehow ended up feeling like a tribute to Cobain: Nirvana's acoustic record MTV Unplugged in New York. -
Stephen Sondheim Totally Approves of Landless Theater Company's 'Sweeney Todd - Prog Metal Version'
"Since I believe that what keeps theater alive is its openness to reinterpretation from generation to generation, I look forward to seeing (and hearing) what they do," Sondheim said. -
Top Pittsburgh Symphony Violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley Picked as New Berlin Philharmonic Concertmaster
After three seasons in the first violin stand of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, violinist Noah Bendix-Balgley is leaving the Steel City to become concertmaster for perhaps the world's most prestigious orchestra--the Berliner Philharmoniker. -
Cloud Nothings and Wavves might record an album together
Could Nothings' Dylan Badi and Wavves' Nathan Williams might soon be combining their talents to record a full-length album, though nothing is official. -
Josh Groban, Jason Mraz, Tegan and Sara and more teaching course at Stanford University
The hip new thing on college campuses the last few years have been courses dealing with certain celebrities and their impacts on culture as a whole. The Kanye Wests and Lady Gagas of the world. The University of Stanford is looking to one-up the rest however, by having musicians themselves instruct courses. -
Wal-Mart features Canadian icons Rush in commercial promoting American jobs...with a song opposed to working
Wal-Mart, like many big businesses, are out to prove to American buyers that they're supporting the American economy with American jobs. We salute that. The problem occurs when the company goes on a P.R. campaign to sway those American buyers via a flawed commercial highlighting Wal-Mart's working force. -
Is Miley Cyrus' 'Bangerz' Tour in trouble? Controversial antics, high ticket prices displease fans of all types
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