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Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Dusdin Condren Sharon Van Etten is boiling water to make a cup of tea in her New York apartment. Normally, this wouldn't be of note, except for the fact that she hasn't had a place to call her own in over a year. Since the release of her sophomore album, 'Epic,' Van Etten spent her life on the [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Lionel Bonaventure, AFP, Getty Images "It's you, it's you, it's all for you," Lana Del Rey 's management has proclaimed after postponing the 25-year-old's upcoming 30-date tour . According to the New York Post (via Rolling Stone), Del Rey's entire team has urged the inexperienced performer to avoid continued bad press and stay home to hone her stage craft . "[Lana] and her manager decided [...]

Filed under: News , Video MTV While many of us were playing catchup on our Monday post-Super Bowl sleep, the Black Keys debuted a new video for their single 'Gold on the Ceiling' on MTV. The Keys ditched their usual humorous (see: lothario dinosaurs, kids kicking the crap out of each other, dancing custodians) in favor of more conventional rock-star fare. Directed by Reid Long, the clip details your standard road video [...]

Filed under: News , New Music Daniel Boud Well, it's official. Nobody can accuse Toronto's F---ed Up of being lazy. Today (Feb. 7) the Canadian punks released 'Year of the Tiger,' the fifth installment in their series of Chinese Zodiac singles via Matador . The song features a supporting cast of indie film godfather Jim Jarmusch , Austra , as well as Annie-Claude Deschênes of Duchess Says, and [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , RPM , Awards Josh Ostroff, AOL Another year, another Juno nominees list that reads like the actual year in music -- and not just Canadian music -- with nominations going to North America's biggest stars, from Drake and DeadMau5 to Justin Bieber and Michael Buble to Feist and F---ed Up . (And, yes, to Nickelback [...]

Filed under: News Alexandra Wyman, Getty Images Well, we might know the reason why M.I.A. acted out and gave cameras the middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show . This week's most controversial artist has reportedly split from fiance Benjamin Bronfman , who is also the father of their 2-year-old son, Ikhyd Edgar Arular Bronfman. As the Daily News' Gatecrasher reports, the 36-year-old M.I.A. spends most of her time in London, [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News David Wolff-Patrick, WireImage LONDON -- Former Beatle Paul McCartney will star in a musical tribute to Britain's queen to mark her Diamond Jubilee. The pop superstar will headline the concert to be held in front of Buckingham Palace. The concert will honor the monarch's 60 years on the throne.

Filed under: Video of the Day Artist: Miniature Tigers Video: 'Female Doctor' Highlight: "I sent this song to Max Goldblatt (the director) asking him to come up with a visual to go along with it," vocalist/guitarist Charlie Brand tells Spinner. "My only input was I wanted women to be shown as dominant over men. Sexual empowerment, ultimate domination." Watch Miniature Tigers's 'Female Doctor' Video

Filed under: News , RPM Getty Images Steve Aoki fans rejoice! We've got some Steve Aoki SOL REPUBLIC Tracks headphones to giveaway. Why not score yourself a free pair? The DJ is currently on the road with his record label Dim Mak's biggest tour ever, DEADMEAT Tour 2012 but if you don't happen to catch the show, throw yourself your own personal dance party with his new album ' [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , Pop Culture Jeff Kravitz, FilmMagic As the media, and presumably a few prudes, get all a-twitter about M.I.A. 's flipped middle finger during the Super Bowl halftime show, it's easy to forget why she was up there in the first place. Yes, she was an invited guest, but Madonna is no, well, madonna. Madge has repeatedly tried to maintain late-career relevancy by co-opting [...]

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , RPM Jerritt Clark, Getty Images Irreverent up-and-coming hip-hop act Das Racist and dubstep-inspired singer-songwriter James Blake will share the stage with avant-garde legends Philip Glass , Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson at the 22nd Annual Tibet House Benefit at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 13. The lineup, which also features Antony Hegarty, [...]

Filed under: News , Television Timothy A. Clary, AFP Whether it was the guest appearances by LMFAO , M.I.A. or Cee Lo Green , the Roman-style grand entrance or her disappearing act to close, Madonna 's Super Bowl halftime show got plenty of reactions from people, including several musicians who took to Twitter to praise and sometimes vent. "Ha. i love madonna doing 'vogue' during the super bowl...," [...]

Filed under: News Getty Images 2011 may have been dominated by Adele 's stranglehold on the Billboard charts and near monopoly of the public's admiration, but there is still one last, iron-willed holdout who has not fallen under her spell: Noel Gallagher . The High Flying Birds frontman is convinced that her success will not last. "I feel sorry for girls in the music industry. They do have a very short shelf [...]

Filed under: The Hit List , Television YouTube This year's crop of Super Bowl commercials was pretty crappy, but we do have to hand it to the people who picked the tunes. Echo and the Bunnymen , James Brown , Ray Charles , Kanye West , Fun , the Animals ? That's a hell of playlist right there. Now that our food coma has worn off, we went ahead and picked our [...]

Filed under: News , Holy Hell LAPD Former Cake drummer Pete McNeal appeared in court in late January after being arrested in December in Los Angeles for a single felony count for child sex abuse. According to a report by Fox News , McNeal is facing a charge of oral copulation/sexual penetration of a child under the age of 10 and was released after posting $250,000 bail. An arraignment date has been [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , New Music , New Releases Sneak Attack Media The music industry has fawned relentlessly over the sacred ground of Brooklyn, N.Y. for the past several years, but Queens can rock too, you know. Cudzoo and the Faggettes are Astoria's newest loud-mouthed punk mavens, bent on burning your ears with offensive '60s pop while on an endless pursuit to hook up with your boyfriend. The band's [...]

Filed under: News Christopher Polk/Getty Images The compulsively "controversial" singer known as M.I.A. is at it again. She traveled all the way Indianapolis to tick off network heads when, like an angry Cleopatra, she flipped the proverbial bird during her halftime show performance alongside Madonna and Nicki Minaj . The singer delivered the line, "I'ma say this once, yeah, I don't give a s---" and then let it fly to the 152 million viewers [...]

Filed under: News , Television C Brandon, Redferns As we learned last month, when Lana Del Rey 's iffy 'SNL' performance had everyone from indie snobs to Brian Williams crying foul, people like authenticity -- or at least what they perceive as such. Last night's guest, Bon Iver , have never been called out for their genuineness, and performing 'Holocene' and 'Beth/Rest,' singer Justin Vernon and his blazer-clad sidemen reclaimed [...]

Filed under: News , Video , Television YouTube Phil Villeneuve is something of a viral legend around Toronto for plugging in his iPod and filming himself dancing to pop songs in public places, from grocery stores to subways to royal museums. His jaw-dropping routine to Robyn 's 'Fembot' at Toronto's Eaton Centre mall got tweeted by the Swedish pop start herself and Ke$ha even [...]

Filed under: News Al Seib-Pool/Getty Images LOS ANGELES, Calif. -- A lawyer says the mother of the actress Phil Spector was convicted of killing has settled her wrongful death suit against the legendary music producer. Attorney John Taylor tells the Los Angeles Times the terms of Friday's settlement were confidential, but says his client, Donna Clarkson, is pleased and relieved the suit is over. Lana Clarkson was shot and [...]