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News Roundup: Obama Sings Another Tune, Adele’s Bird Flip, Jack White ‘SNL’ Bound, New Norah Jones LP

Sweet Home Obama: President Obama is continuing his crossover singing career, following up an Al Green one-liner a few weeks ago with this stomping ground reppin’ soundbite from a cover of Robert Johnson‘s windy city [...]

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Song Review: Dierks Bentley – “Home”

Cut immediately following the Tucson, Arizona massacre that killed six, wounded 13, including U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, the eponymous second single from Dierks Bentley‘s eighth effort, Home, prod’s the country star’s native Amurrica pride and [...]

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News Roundup: Sean Combs Lands Cable Channel, Fiona Apple Plots Tour, New BOSS Single, Rihanna & Chris Brown Remix Amends

Puff TV: Sean Combs is branching out from hip-hop and clothing lines to get all Oprah on television with his own cable networked dubbed “Revolt” reports The New York Times. Hypothetically 24/7 music vids and [...]

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News Roundup: Aretha & Stevie Will Honor Whitney, Townshend Sells Who Catalogue, Stream Sleigh Bells’ ‘Reign Of Terror’, Wilco In Time-Lapse

Houston Live: As the unfortunate saga of Whitney Houston readies its official closure, Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder have been slated to sing at the private funeral on Saturday, the late artist’s publicist, Kristen Foster, [...]

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News Roundup: Classic GNR Reunion Update, DEMF Lineup Drops, New Green Day LP, Miley Cyrus Covers Dylan

RE: GNR:  As the 2012 class of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gets closer to induction, original members of late 80s thrashers GNR - Axl, Slash, Dizzy Reed, Izzy Stradlin, Duff McKagen and Steven Adler [...]

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News Roundup: Whitney Houston Postmortem Price Hike, NYC Kraftwerk Residency, Madonna Remixes, Kanye West & Odd Future Collab

Houston, We Have A Music Business: Hours into the wake of Whitney Houston‘s death, U.K. iTunes prices of the late singer’s albums jumped on Sunday from $7.85 to $12.50 on The Ultimate Collection comp and [...]

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News Roundup: Tom Jones & Jack White’s Howlin’ Wolf Cover, Obama’s Spotify ‘Campaign Playlist’, OFWGKTA’s Earl Sweatshirt Returns, Jay-Z and Kanye’s ‘Paris’ Vid

Howlin’ Tom: As earlier reported, the odd-genius collaboration featuring Jack White and Tom Jones has appeared via BBC 6 Radio (via Consequence of Sound). The b-side, at least – growling blues icon Howlin’ Wolf‘s “Evil.” [...]

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News Roundup: Beach Boys Reunite At Grammys, Another Jack White Single, New GaGa Tour, Sigur Ros Return

Grammy Boys: Back in December the L.A. Times was reporting on a possible Beach Boys reunion on the stage of the 2012 Grammys. Looks like the rumors are true, as the official Grammy peeps confirmed [...]

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News Roundup: Johnny Cash Museum Coming To Nashville, Metallica Curates Festival, Neutral Milk Hotel Postcard Find, LDR Postpones Tour

The Man In Black: Johnny Cash is getting supreme memorial treatment this year, as several different camps gear up to release three different documentaries, a restoration of his boyhood home in Arkansas and a resurrection [...]

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News Roundup: Madonna’s Halftime Bird-Flip, James Blake Remixes D’Angelo, Yo! MTV Raps Returns, New Shins Single

The Bird Is The Word: In case you were not one of the 111 million viewers expected to tune into the Super Bowl yesterday, Madonna‘s Halftime pop spectacular drew some divisive opinions, on account of [...]

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About Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul is a Chicago-based staff writer at SongLyrics. Chicago-bred, New York-sculpted, as a freelance journalist Gavin's words have appeared in publications ranging from Spin and Rolling Stone to The Chicago Sun-Times and Arborist News.
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