Drake performs at the Joint within the Difficult Rock Casino and Hotel in Las Vegas.

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A spokesperson for Drake has responded to the lawsuit filed against the rapper over royalties for the song ”Marvin’s Area.” As Rolling Stone reported yesterday, a woman who says she is Drake’s ex-girlfriend is claiming that she was wrongfully excluded from sharing co-writer royalties for the song. 

“This claim is totally with out merit and our client has not engaged in any wrongful conduct,” the spokesperson advised Rolling Stone. ”Ericka Lee consented to the use of her voice in the song ‘Marvin’s Room’ prior to its release. Lee asked only for the credit she received as ‘Syren Lyric Muse,’ and she did not ask for any compensation. It was only immediately after she retained a attorney that there was a demand for payment.  Drake tried for months to resolve the matter amicably, and he now looks forward to getting vindicated in court.”

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Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon has announced plans to collaborate with Alicia Keys on a venture he hopes will incorporate a lot of other female singers. “I have a huge idea to do an American songbook of the best ladies singers. There are so several: Casey [Dienel] from White Hinterland, Bonnie Raitt, Alicia,” he told USA Right now. Vernon has currently written songs with Keys, but so far it’s unclear precisely how they will be recorded and released.

Vernon is set to complete with Bon Iver on Saturday Evening Dwell this weekend and will seem at the Grammys the following week as a nominee for Greatest New Artist, Record and Song of the Year. The songwriter has previously begun perform on a new disc with his side venture Volcano Choir, but warns his followers that he may possibly not release a new Bon Iver album for numerous a long time. “I don’t have songs written nevertheless,” he says. “I’m guessing 3 years. But it could be five. It could be only a single more. It just depends when the songs come about. I sort of have to wait till they reveal themselves.”

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Neil Young performs with Crazy Horse in Hong Kong.

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Neil Youthful and Insane Horse are going to perform at the MusicCares Person of the Year Gala honoring Paul McCartney on February 10th at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Other acts on the bill of the Grammy weekend charity concert include Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Alicia Keys, Katy Perry, James Taylor, Alison Krauss, Tony Bennett, the cast of the Beatles Enjoy, and McCartney himself. Eddie Izzard will host. 

This will be Neil Youthful and Crazy Horse’s very first public efficiency since the Greendale tour wrapped up in March 2004. The group has reportedly wrapped up function on a new studio album, and just just lately they posted a newly recorded 37-moment jam on Neil Young’s official internet site that wraps up with an epic rendition of “Cortez The Killer.” There’s no word about a tour for the group, but it really is probably a safe and sound bet that they will hit the road at some point this year.

Neil Youthful toured regularly with Insane Horse often in between their formation in 1969 and the Greendale tour of 2003/04, but over the past eight many years Youthful has turned his attention in the direction of other tasks. Numerous followers worried that the group would by no means tour once more, but Insane Horse drummer Ralph Molina just lately wrote on his Facebook wall that he had no such fears. “We were just grazing,” he wrote. “But never ever gone!”

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Amy Winehouse performs on the Principal Stage at T in The Park in Balado, Kinrosshire, Scotland.

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The coroner who performed the inquest into the death of Amy Winehouse has resigned, raising the chance that the case could be reopened. Assistant Deputy Coroner Suzanne Greenaway ruled in October that Winehouse, who was located dead on July 23rd, died of accidental alcohol poisoning. Greenaway resigned in November after officials found that she had not been a registered attorney in the United Kingdom for the essential five years. Her resignation was not created public until finally nowadays.

Adding to the intrigue is the simple fact that Greenaway was appointed to her post by her husband, Andrew Reid, who serves as a London coroner himself. In a statement, Reid mentioned that he was below the impression that his wife’s tenure as a registered lawyer in her native Australia certified her for the post. The Camden Council, the nearby authority in the matter, said it believed Reid “had created an error in very good faith.”

Reid indicated he would be prepared to carry out any of Greenaway’s inquests yet again if the households of the deceased requested it. Winehouse’s family members stated they are consulting with attorneys and have not yet decided whether to pursue a new inquest.

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Neil Young at the premiere of ‘Neil Young Journeys’ in Park City, Utah.

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Neil Youthful desires to protect the sound quality of existing rock recordings – and he believes he had an ally in the late Steve Jobs.

“My objective is to try and rescue the art type that I’ve been practicing for the past 50 a long time,” Youthful mentioned in the course of a panel discussion at this week’s D: Dive Into Media conference in Southern California. “We live in the digital age and, however, it really is degrading our music, not enhancing it.”

Youthful explained that “some rich guy” would eventually provide a resolution by generating new hardware to preserve much more audio content material in digital formats, and heralded Jobs as a like-minded soul. “Steve Jobs [was] a pioneer of digital music, and his legacy is tremendous,” Youthful explained. “But when he went property, he listened to vinyl. And you have got to believe that if he’d lived lengthy adequate, he would have accomplished what I am attempting to do.”

The musician also decried the lessened sound top quality of MP3s and other digital media formats, while noting their extra convenience. “It’s not that digital is poor or inferior, it’s that the way it really is becoming used isn’t undertaking justice to the art . . . The comfort of the digital age has forced men and women to choose among top quality and comfort, but they should not have to make that option,” he explained.

Surprisingly, Youthful revealed that he has no apprehension about illegal fire-sharing, presently a hot-button problem in the wake of Megaupload’s closure. “Piracy is the new radio,” he stated. “That’s how music gets around.”

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Lil Wayne is exorcising some psychic pain in his new video for “Mirror.”

The song, from the deluxe model of “Tha Carter IV,” is the closest we generally get to a ballad from Lil Wayne, who even invokes Michael Jackson, when he says “No message could be any clearer, so I’m commencing with the man in the …. “ then adds, “MJ taught me that.”

The Antoine Fuqua-directed video opens with a close up of Lil Wayne’s closed eyes, tattooed with “Fear” on his appropriate eyelid and “God” on his left lid. That digital camera then caresses gradually down his painted torso. A shirtless Wayne begins developed some unseen masterpiece as red paint, symbolizing red blood, spills in rivulets.

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As he seems in the mirror, he comes to that startling realization that’s shocking for any man–when he or she see how considerably he appears like his father–and, as Lil Wayne smiles, he also sees some of the beauty of his mother. In among, Bruno Mars serves as a greek chorus of kinds, chanting “Mirror on the wall/here we are once again/by way of my rise and fall/you’ve been my only good friend.

At the finish, it turns out Lil Wayne has been painting a rapper holding a mike, as each he and the rapper in the photo hold a messianic stance with their arms spread broad.

What do you think of the beautifully shot “Mirror?”

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Alan Lomax

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Alan Lomax’s considerable archive of area recordings is staying digitized for an on the web collection that will commence streaming by the end of February.

Some 17,000 of Lomax’s recordings will be readily available for free of charge, like early recordings of folk and blues legends this kind of as Woody Guthrie, Leadbelly and Muddy Waters. Choices of the music in the Lomax archive will later be sold on CD and digital get. In addition to five,000 hours of music, three,000 videotapes, five,000 images, 400,0000 feet of film and numerous manuscripts in Lomax’s vast collection are also getting digitized.

A digital sampler of Lomax’s recordings, The Alan Lomax Collection from the American Folklife Center, was released today on the International Jukebox label. It functions 16 songs recorded at a variety of areas during the ethnomusicologist’s career, starting with his earliest function in the mid-Thirties. 

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Proving that the sum is better than any of the person components (sorry, Nicole Scherzinger),  a new iteration of the Pussycat Dolls will be unwrapped in a GoDaddy commercial set to air throughout the Super Bowl on Feb. five.

It is a match made in Madison Ave. heaven: GoDaddy, which registers net names, has a background of revealing revealing female physique elements in its advertisements, and the Pussycat Dolls have plenty of entire body components to reveal.

The new PD line-up, according to Popcrush, consists of former Girlicious gal Christina Sayers, former pro cheerleaders Vanessa Curry and Erica Jenkins, “So You Feel You Can Dance” contestant Paula Van Oppen, and ex-Paradiso Woman Lauren Bennett (best acknowledged for appearing on LMFAO’s “Party Rock Anthem”).

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In other woman group news, the Spice Women, who are rumored to be reuniting for the Summer time Olympics, may be obtaining together just before the Games kick off. Mel B, otherwise acknowledged as Scary Spice, hints throughout an interview with Australian morning plan, “Sunrise,” that the quintet will carry out as component of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee celebration in June.

Mel B was primarily on “Sunrise” to tout her weight loss by way of Jenny Craig, and she was a very excellent pitch girl given how many occasions she got in Jenny’s title.  She also plugged The Spice Girls musical, which will open this 12 months.

When asked about a reunion, Mel B notes, “I’m always down for a Spice Girls reunion… I’m a Spice Women through and via.” When asked specifically about the Olympics, she says “Well, we do have the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee coming up. Did I actually say that?”

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Garbage performs throughout a concert held at the Palais Theatre in Melbourne, Australia.

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Garbage are set to release Not Your Sort of People, their very first studio album in seven a long time, on May 15th. The alt-rockers, who dominated rock radio in the mid-Nineties with hits this kind of as “Only Content When It Rains,” “Queer” and “I Assume I’m Paranoid” will situation the record on their very own label, STUNVOLUME.

“We got collectively with no agenda other than to just jam a small bit, fuck close to and see what we came up with, and it was inspiring,” drummer and producer Butch Vig informed Rolling Stone in October.  “I believe you can hear some vitality and a vibe in the tracks that sounds refreshing, a minor bit much more to me like the first two records.” 

The band have not nevertheless revealed details with regards to a initial single or a track listing for the record, but they do intend to head out on a planet tour in help of the album. A handful of dates have been announced, but as of however, they only incorporate a handful of theater dates in England and Russia about the time of the album’s release in May possibly and a smattering of European festival gigs via the summer season.

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Post by Caleb Rockwell, Jan 24, 2012 at four:00 am

Diddy is one of the most effective icons in hip hop, and the entertainment industry in basic. So what’s a Negative Boy music mogul to do when he’s dominated significant facets of music currently? Well, Diddy is reportedly arranging on launching his personal music based tv network.

Similar to an MTV or BET based channel, Diddy’s own network is mentioned to be known as “Revolt” and is anticipated to launch by the finish of 2012– on this year’s 12/12/12.

Broadcasting and Cable has shared that it is likened to the “old school” MTV, and will be all music videos and music news with a concentrate on much more hip hop based audience. Diddy’s in talks to distribute his channel via Time Warner and Comcast, and B&ampC has the scoop on Comcast’s part in this rumored offer.

Comcast will provide distribution as element of its commitment to the FCC to aid launch minority owned networks. In April, Comcast started soliciting proposals for “independent channels,” according to its press components. It plans to launch 10 more than the up coming eight years, including eight Hispanic or African American owned channels, and started accepting proposals for the 1st 3 final spring.

Stay tuned for updates.

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