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Oct 21, 2009 5:19 PM CDT

The Most Influential DJs

(Newser) - With the release of "DJ Hero" upon us, it's a good time to honor the true masters of turntablism. IGN lists the most influential:

DJ Kool Herc. He invented the “breakbeat” by using the two-turntable style of disco DJs to play two copies of a funk record, switching

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Winehouse's New Boobs
'Are Great,' Dad Reports

Oct 21, 2009 2:44 PM CDT

Winehouse's New Boobs 'Are Great,' Dad Reports

Mitch says his daughter 'looks absolutely fantastic'

(Newser) - It seems Joe Simpson isn’t the only celebrity dad who’ll talk openly about his daughter’s, uh, assets: Mitch Winehouse told a British talk show that daughter Amy’s “boobs are great” following a recent breast-enhancement surgery. "I shouldn't have said that should I? She looks...

It's Time to Stop Hating Creed

OPINION

Oct 21, 2009 11:29 AM CDT

It's Time to Stop Hating Creed

They're reuniting, but listen before you groan

(Newser) - Creed is back—the once ubiquitous (and “ubiquitously loathed”) rock group is releasing a new album later this month and going on tour. But “if your impulse on hearing that it has reunited is to groan, stifle it long enough to locate a copy of Creed's 2004...

U2 to Stream
Concert on YouTube

Oct 20, 2009 4:48 PM CDT

U2 to Stream Concert on YouTube

Sunday's show will stream live, for free

(Newser) - U2 will offer a video stream of a live concert for free on YouTube this Sunday. The stream of the sold-out show at the Pasadena Rose Bowl in California will be available in 16 countries, including the US, Brazil, Israel, and Australia. U2 has "wanted to do something like...

Beyoncé Scraps Malaysia Show

Oct 19, 2009 2:05 PM CDT

Beyoncé Scraps Malaysia Show

Singer postpones date after criticism by conservative Muslim group

(Newser) - After controversy over her racy outfits and dance routines, Beyoncé won’t perform in Kuala Lumpur this weekend. The Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party, a hardline Muslim group, had protested the Oct. 25 date on her “I Am” tour, but promoters deny the postponement had anything to do with those objections....

Wrestling Dynamo
Captain Lou Dead at 76

obituary

Oct 14, 2009 5:00 PM CDT

Wrestling Dynamo Captain Lou Dead at 76

Manager's celebrity helped wrestling crossover to the mainstream

(Newser) - “Captain” Lou Albano, a professional wrestler who also enjoyed success as a mainstream entertainer, died today at 76. Starting in the late '50s as one-half of tag team “the Sicilians,” Albano’s wrestling career spanned four decades. With his signature look—Hawaiian shirt, rubber-band goatee—and a...

Tea-Party Protesters Hit
'Pro-Obama' Jersey School

Oct 13, 2009 3:05 AM CDT

Tea-Party Protesters Hit 'Pro-Obama' Jersey School

Demonstrators sing 'God Bless America' to protest song about prez

(Newser) - A band of tea-party protesters descended on a New Jersey elementary school yesterday, complaining that a class song hailing President Obama was "indoctrinating" kids. Some 70 protesters sang God Bless America and The Battle Hymn of the Republic outside the B. Bernice Young School in a suburb 15 miles...

College Kids' iPod Volume Hurts Hearing

Oct 12, 2009 2:20 PM CDT

College Kids' iPod Volume Hurts Hearing

Most subjects in study set volume to damaging level

(Newser) - Most young people listen to their iPods at levels that will damage hearing over time, a new study shows. Researchers measured the output of an iPod while college-age students listened to music in a lab setting, and they found 55% of the subjects set the volume higher than 85 decibels—...

Flaming Lips Back to Bizarre With Embryonic

MUSIC REVIEW

Oct 12, 2009 1:14 PM CDT

Flaming Lips Back to Bizarre With Embryonic

'Sprawling' double album should please longtime fans

(Newser) - The Flaming Lips are no stranger to reinvention, having transformed “from garage-punk misfits into a splendorous, kaleidoscopic rock outfit,” then later “into a sophisticated, sincere symphonic-pop troupe bestowed with increasing commercial acclaim.” The release of Embryonic marks another sea change—and it’s the band's boldest...

New Jackson Single No Classic

MUSIC REVIEW

Oct 12, 2009 8:27 AM CDT

New Jackson Single No Classic

Response to 'This Is It' tepid from critics, all over the place from fans

(Newser) - Michael Jackson’s posthumous single was released to much hype, but the critical response is lukewarm and fan reactions are mixed. A sampling:

In a roundup of fan comments on Michael Jackson’s website, the Times reports that while some are pleased—“This single is great, even better than

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Jacko's Final Single Debuts

LISTEN

Oct 12, 2009 5:58 AM CDT

Jacko's Final Single Debuts

'This Is It' was written in 1991 but left off Dangerous

(Newser) - Michael Jackson's first posthumous single premiered this morning on his website, featuring backing vocals by his brothers. "This Is It" was written for the 1991 album Dangerous, but was cut before the album was released; it will be the only new song on a double CD coming later this...

Pink Is Ridiculously Underrated

OPINION

Oct 7, 2009 11:32 AM CDT

Pink Is Ridiculously Underrated

She can out-sing all those pop starlets, so why isn't she getting the same hype?

(Newser) - After watching Pink dangle from a trapeze 60 feet above the Radio City Music Hall stage—while belting out "Sober" perfectly—James Montgomery had a revelation: "Pink is totally underrated." She's "the total pop-star package,” he writes for MTV: tattooed, clever, confrontational, and a damn...

Paramore's Latest
One of Year's Best

MUSIC REVIEW

Oct 6, 2009 10:42 PM CDT

Paramore's Latest One of Year's Best

Group is a welcome 'throwback' and—thanks to Hayley Williams—soars

(Newser) - Paramore’s third album will likely enter the charts at No. 1—and it deserves to. Not only is it “the group’s best record yet,” Brand New Eyes is “one of 2009’s most exhilarating releases,” writes Jonah Weiner for Slate. “That sense of...

Built to Spill
Back in Top Form

music REVIEW

Oct 5, 2009 5:52 PM CDT

Built to Spill Back in Top Form

Formerly great indie rockers make a triumphant comeback in There Is No Enemy

(Newser) - Built to Spill went from producing “some of the most ambitious and resonant indie rock ever made” in the 1990s to “merely existing” in the 2000s. With its "unexpectedly terrific” new release There Is No Enemy, the band offers “an improbable late-career reawakening and heartening evidence...

'Voice of Latin America' Mercedes Sosa Dead at 74

obituary

Oct 4, 2009 2:31 PM CDT

'Voice of Latin America' Mercedes Sosa Dead at 74

Argentine folk singer gave voice to disenfranchised under repressive regimes

(Newser) - Mercedes Sosa, the Argentine folk singer who became a powerful voice of resistance to authoritarian Latin American regimes, died today in Buenos Aires. A leading light of the "nueva canción" (new song) movement that pushed for social justice in the 1960s and '70s, Sosa was 74. "...

Watch an Ad, Get an MP3 Download: Genius or Goof?

ANALYSIS

Oct 2, 2009 2:34 PM CDT

Watch an Ad, Get an MP3 Download: Genius or Goof?

Free All Music is innovative, but still might not work

(Newser) - A new site thinks it has the answer the music industry’s woes: Free All Music will allow users to download a high-quality mp3 with no copy restrictions in exchange for watching a 15-second video ad of their choosing. The site then takes a user’s handle and uses it...

U2 Tour Costs $750K a Day

Sep 30, 2009 11:17 AM CDT

U2 Tour Costs $750K a Day

Bono and the boys talk pop stardom, expansive tour with Rolling Stone

(Newser) - Rolling Stone goes behind the scenes—and tags along in a private jet—for its cover story on the U2360° Tour (aka “the biggest rock tour of all time”), which is comprised of a 170-ton stage carted around by 200 trucks, 250 speakers, almost 400 employees—and $750,...

Nation at Odds?
Miley's 'Party'
to the Rescue

OPINION

Sep 29, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

Nation at Odds? Miley's 'Party' to the Rescue

Pop starlet's latest song is her best—and it could help heal a fractured nation

(Newser) - At heart, Miley Cyrus is a “peace broker: She loves trying to get seemingly irreconcilable forces to hug, or at least sit together at the same lunch table.” Her most recent career milestone—“Party in the USA” became her highest-charting single ever—takes this role to a...

Yorke, Flea in Unholy Union

Sep 29, 2009 11:07 AM CDT

Yorke, Flea in Unholy Union

Radiohead frontman teams up with 'sock-penised' Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist

(Newser) - Radiohead purists, prepare yourselves: Frontman Thom Yorke is teaming up with, of all people, Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The "sock-penised" bassist, along with Beck drummer Joey Waronker, percussionist Mauro Refosco, and Radiohead producer Nigel Godrich, will back Yorke up as he performs material from his 2006...

'Lucy In the Sky' Dead at 46

Sep 28, 2009 11:24 AM CDT

'Lucy In the Sky' Dead at 46

Lucy O'Donnell, nursery school classmate of John's son, inspired Beatles hit

(Newser) - Lucy O’Donnell, the girl who supposedly inspired John Lennon and Paul McCartney to write “Lucy In the Sky with Diamonds,” has died of lupus at age 46. Though the song was controversial when it debuted on Sgt. Pepper for its purported reference to LSD, Lennon’s eldest...