2011 Brit Awards Performances

Rihanna - "Only Girl"/"S&M"/"What's My Name"

Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae announce 'Hooligans in Wondaland' tour

On the heels of their stellar throwback performance together at Grammys, Bruno Mars and Janelle Monae have just announced that they’ll be co-headlining a North American tour together. The Hooligans in Wondaland tour begins this May, running through June. The eccentric songstress and soulful pop star both earned critical acclaim for their debut albums last year. Mars even took home the Best Male Pop Vocal Performance Grammy on Sunday for his debut single, “Just The Way You Are.”

Tour dates and venues have yet to be announced. But fans can hit their sites for more presale info.

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BRIT Awards 2011 Winners

Mastercard British Album: Mumford & Sons — Sigh No More
Best British Single: Tinie Tempah — "Pass Out"
Best British Male: Plan B
Best British Female: Laura Marling
Best British Group: Take That
Best British Breakthrough Act: Tinie Tempah
Best British Producer: Markus Dravs
Best International Album: Arcade Fire — The Suburbs
Best International Male: Cee-Lo Green
Best International Female: Rihanna
Best International Group: Arcade Fire
Best International Breakthrough Act: Justin Bieber
Critic's Choice: Jessie J

Britney Spears - "Hold It Against Me" - Teaser 12

Lady Gaga on Jay Leno

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Highlights
-Talks about Grammys Night (her egg, her performance, etc)
-Says Willow Smith inspired her.
-Talks about her airport stumble
-Talks about her Vogue cover
-Says that Born This Way is much different than "Born This Way" (the song)
-Discusses the Madonna & Express Yourself comparisons
-Talks about the DADT rally
-Born This Way music video is coming "soon"
-Monster Ball Tour HBO TV special also coming soon!
-Describes awkward dates

Bonnaroo 2011 lineup features Eminem, Arcade Fire, more

If you enjoyed the musicians you saw on Sunday’s Grammy Awards show, you’ll see plenty of comfortingly familiar names on the lineup for this year’s Bonnaroo music and arts festival — and if you didn’t, well, you’ll still have lots of other acts to choose from. Eminem, the rejuvenated rapper who suddenly seems to be everywhere these days, will be among the headliners at this year’s festival, which runs from June 9 through 12 in Manchester, Tenn., its organizers said on Tuesday. And whether or not the Internet knows who they are, the Canadian indie rockers of Arcade Fire, who surprised some with their album of the year win for “The Suburbs,” are also at the top of the bill. Other top acts include the reconstituted Buffalo Springfield (featuring Neil Young, Stephen Stills, Richie Furay, Rick Rosas and Joe Vitale); the roots rock bands Widespread Panic, My Morning Jacket and String Cheese Incident; the Grammy-anointed blues rockers the Black Keys; Mumford & Sons, which shared the Grammys stage with Bob Dylan; indie rock acts the Strokes and the Decemberists; and the never-not-interesting rapper Lil Wayne. The bill will also feature Dr. John and the Original Meters performing “Desitively Bonnaroo,” the 1974 album from which the festival takes its name; and the Global Gypsy Punk Revue, a special stage curated by Eugene Hütz, whose band Gogol Bordello is also performing at the festival.

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Eminem
Arcade Fire
Widespread Panic
The Black Keys
Buffalo Springfield
My Morning Jacket
Lil Wayne
String Cheese Incident
Robert Plant & Band of Joy
Mumford & Sons
The Strokes
The Decemberists
Ray Lamontagne
Bassnectar
Iron & Wine
Girl Talk
Primus
Dr. John and The Original Meters performing Desitively Bonnaroo
Alison Krauss & Union Station
Pretty Lights
Florence + the Machine
SuperJam with Dan Auerbach and Dr. John
Explosions in the Sky
STS9
Gogol Bordello
Beirut
Big Boi
Scissor Sisters
Gregg Allman
Ratatat
Global Gypsy Punk Revue curated by Eugene Hütz
Robyn
Warren Haynes Band
Deerhunter
Opeth
Atmosphere
Old Crow Medicine Show
Bootsy Collins & the Funk University
Wiz Khalifa
Matt & Kim
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals
The Del McCoury Band & the Preservation Hall Jazz Band
Mavis Staples
Béla Fleck and the Flecktones
Chiddy Bang
Jovanotti
Bruce Hornsby
Loretta Lynn
Cold War Kids
The Walkmen
Devotchka
Wanda Jackson
Neon Trees
Portugal. The Man
Sleigh Bells
Amos Lee
Best Coast
Dãm-Funk & Master Blazter
The Sword
The Drums
The Black Angels
School of Seven Bells
J. Cole
Nicole Atkins & the Black Sea
Wavves
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Junip
Freelance Whales
Justin Townes Earle
Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses
Deer Tick
Band of Skulls
Sharon Van Etten
Abigail Washburn
Omar Souleyman
Twin Shadow
Kylesa
Man Man
The Low Anthem
Alberta Cross
Railroad Earth
Jessica Lea Mayfield
Smith Westerns
The Head and the Heart
Karen Elson
Beats Antique
22-20s
Phosphorescent
Clare Maguire
Hayes Carll

Music Video: J. Cole featuring Drake - "In the Morning"

Music Video: Trey Songz - "Love Faces"

Is Radiohead’s ‘The King Of Limbs’ an 8-track album?

Radiohead’s ‘The King Of Limbs‘ was their Valentine Project (as the source code of Radiohead.com says) and hit all the headlines on the internet, made it to trending topic on Twitter, Facebook, crashed a website and all that. The tracklisting remains a secret till Saturday. However, it seems that we do know that the album holds just 8 tracks. The website for pre-ordering ‘The King Of Limbs operated by Hostess Entertainment, who take care of distribution in Japan and Asia, says you will get 8 tracks as a download and on the CD accompanied with the Newspaper edition. That would be less than all the previous Radiohead studio albums.

Update: The Japanese The King Of Limbs site removed the line about the 8 tracks shortly after this post.

Radiohead The King Of LimbsTracks we’ve seen rehearsed, played, rumoured and are possibly a candidate for the new album are the following;

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Mouse Dog Bird
Lotus Flower
Give Up The Ghost
Skirting On The Surface
Open The Floodgates
Let Me Take Control/Chris Hodge
Burn The Witch
No Shame
Pay Day
Super Collider

Most of the above tracks are songs Thom Yorke played at solo shows and with his other band Atoms For Peace. Some of the others were rumoured tracks from the In Rainbows sessions and Radiohead live shows. Or can we expect an even older track finally recorded, like what happened to Nude on In Rainbows and Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A. Either way, let the guessing begin.

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Game and Kanye West are Unhappy About the Best New Artist Award

The buzz blowing around since Esperanza Spalding won the Best New Artist Grammy Award last night is starting to be driven by different winds now that people have read her Wikipedia page and figured out who she is, and music celebrities, being the colorful cast that they are, have naturally scurried to Twitter to express their displeasure over her victory against nominees and expected winners Justin Bieber and Drake.

Two of the more notables are Kanye West and Game, rap music's big names known for starting media, and in Game's case, physical feuds, and since having seen their buddies snubbed of last night's award, they've expressed their reactions via tweets over Esperanza's crowning.

"Drake aint win BEST NEW ARTIST ? Exactly why I'm kool on awards. (finishes rolling weed up as I turn the tv off).," Game tweeted last night. "You wouldn't care about AWARDS if you seen the people giving em'. "WHO DA F*CK ARE Y'ALL" ( @drakkardnoir voice ) cheated the homie."

Kanye, having collaborated with Baby Bieber last year, addressed the issue in a calmer tone, tweeting: "D*mn... I can't find the words to explain how I feel about the best new artist award... Don't wanna say the wrong thing."

It's a difficult thing to argue with, most people truly having not known who Esperanza Spalding is, while Drake and Bieber have been two of the more prominent media figures in the last year, but people will be people, opinions will be opinions, and it is what is it. As Bieber tweeted: "Someone said to me tonight its not your successes that define u but your failures. I lost..but I don't plan on this being my last chance....," and, Justin, I have to say, the whole failures cliche is true, but I also have to address the fact that that was your last chance, literally. You are ineligible for the Best New Artist Grammy Award from here on out. That's just how it is. Pwned.

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