When you leave the womb under the tutelage of Northern California rap legend E-40, odds are good that along the way, you’ll learn a lot about music, and even more about marketing.  One of West Coast rap’s biggest success stories, E-40 managed to build a multimillion dollar music empire from a mom-and-pop operation began [...]

Jimmy Eat World (Jim Adkins guitar/vocals, Tom Linton guitar/vocals, Rick Burch bass, and Zach Lind drums) are a band that everyone should be familiar with on some level.  Whether you’ve been a die hard fan since 1999′s Clarity or have only heard their popular singles “The Middle,” “Sweetness,” and “Big Casino,” music fans everywhere have [...]

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It’s hard to tell, based on this photo, what exactly Selena Gomez is getting up to here, isn’t it? Is she leading a tour of London’s landmarks? Re-enacting the “You Make My Dreams” scene from “(500) Days Of Summer”? The answer may be more simple than all that. It would appear that Gomez, [...]

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People express their love and devotion to Lady Gaga in various ways. They dress up like her, they dress their dogs like her, all sorts of stuff, really. But this, this might literally take the cake. Behold, the largely “Telephone”-inspired Lady Gaga cake.
Created by a crafty, Gaga-loving baker named Melissa, who blogs over at [...]

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When Drake performed “Fancy,” his Thank Me Later jam for the ladies, at the 2010 MTV VMAs, he surprised viewers by opening the song with a suited-up Mary J. Blige, vamping over some sweet piano lines played by producer Swizz Beatz. Upon viewing this awesome meeting of the R&B minds, most viewers probably [...]

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While Treats, the explosive debut album from the New York City duo Sleigh Bells, is certainly an exciting listen, you really haven’t experienced the dynamic power of this band if you haven’t seen Sleigh Bells live.
If you haven’t had the pleasure of catching front-lady Alexis Krauss shouting her punk cheerleader chants and guitarist [...]

Preview of new album reveals Nicki Minaj collaboration, Avril Lavigne sample.By Jocelyn Vena

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If the first single from Rihanna’s Loud, “Only Girl (In The World),” is any indication, the “Umbrella” singe…