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Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Getty|Redferns|Getty The day after the 2012 Grammy nominees were announced, the New York Times released an excerpt from an interview with Bon Iver 's Justin Vernon conducted earlier in the year, before he was nominated for four Grammys, including best new artist, best song and record of the year. After claiming his self-titled album "isn't the kind of [...]

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: Concerts and Tours , The Hit List Frank Micelotta, Getty Images It's hard to criticize anyone who has to perform during the Super Bowl halftime show: They're live (mostly) in front of an absurdly large audience on a stage that's set up in under 10 minutes. That said, we'll gladly pick apart the performances and bring you the 10 best bloopers of all time. Lip-syncing, flashing, technical errors and downright bad judgment -- it's all here! [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Wire Image | bauergriffinonline.com In January 1992, Nirvana 's 'Nevermind' album toppled a four-week holiday-season reign by Michael Jackson 's 'Dangerous' atop the Billboard 200 sales chart. The Alternative Revolution had stormed the barricades. Grunge, goth, pop-punk, industrial and electronica suddenly all came together to a degree, as outsider acts from outsider genres broke through to the mainstream in [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Getty Images (2) If it seems like the hip new bands of 2012 remind you of something you've heard before, one, you're old, but two, you're right. The adage "everything old is new again" is particularly applicable to modern music and there are a lot of acts who feel mighty familiar right now. Sensing a time-based forensic piece, we jumped in the Official Spinner [...]

Filed under: Exclusive , The Hit List Getty Images (3) A former guitarist for Titus Andronicus , Amy Klein is a writer, the founder of feminist art collective Permanent Wave and an all-around amazing person. With this week's release of Ani DiFranco's new album, 'Which Side Are You On?' we asked Amy to come up with the best feminist, girl-power anthems of all time. Check out her picks below! [...]

Filed under: New Music , The Hit List , Spinner Says Nasty Little Man | MichaelKiwanuka.com | Doomtree Forget about elections and armageddon: 2012 is already shaping up to be a hell of a year for new music. If you're overwhelmed by all the great up-and-coming artists, we're here to help: Check out our picks for 12 acts you need to know in 2012, hear some of our favorite tracks and click through the gallery below [...]

Filed under: The Hit List XPOSUREPHOTOS.COM When Adele was recently spotted in the Everglades with her new boyfriend , we were pretty happy for her. Then, one of us pointed out that the photos of the happy couple featured them riding on one of those flat-bottomed airboats and it got us thinking: What other random vehicles have musicians taken out for a spin? As it turns out, some rockers like to get around [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List EMI/Warner There are plenty of good reasons to stay in on New Year's Eve: elevated drink prices; impossible expectations; a dearth of taxicabs when it's freezing out. So perhaps this year you'd be better off avoiding the drunks and cover charges altogether by cuddling up for some quality sexytime with your favourite date. If you still need a little convincing, here are 12 songs to help you [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Flickr/lizstless As you prep for your annual evening of New Year's Eve debauchery, you needn't look far for some aural inspiration as many a musician has penned a paean to late-night revelry. So forget the trials and tribulations of 2011 and get ready to carouse into twenty-twelve with this collection of 11 songs to keep the merrymaking going well into the [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Getty Images (2) | AP While we celebrated the music of 2011 in our Best Albums and Songs countdowns, we although thought it was fitting to pay tribute to the artists we lost this year, as well as the bands and rock 'n' roll couples who broke up. Check out the gallery below to see the year in loss, in chronological [...]

Filed under: Video , The Hit List , Movies Kevin Mazur, WireImage Counting the recently released ' We Bought a Zoo ,' Cameron Crowe has made seven feature films that feature some of the best musical moments in cinema history. We decided to revisit those scenes, which include a teen using Peter Gabriel to woo a classmate, a band singing Elton John to help a friend in need and Pearl [...]

Filed under: The Hit List YouTube Most people think of David Fincher as the man behind several of today's biggest films: the upcoming ' Girl With the Dragon Tattoo ,' ' Fight Club ,' ' Zodiac ,' ' The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ' and his Oscar-winning ' The Social Network ,' just to name a few. However, it is a lesser-known fact that he began his career directing music videos [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List Wonderbread Tapes Cats were the "it" symbol of cool last year, especially in the indie-rock world . Best Coast , Wavves , the Klaxons and more capitalized on the trend, putting cats on album covers, in music videos and, as Lady Gaga did, even wearing a Hello Kitty dress. But as the music world fell in [...]

Filed under: The Hit List , Spinner Says Getty Images If you read our list of the Best Albums of 2011 , you know we went through a difficult process of making our picks (we even ran our choices by this guy , and he's a harsh critic). So, rather than rehash all that, we'll just get to the chase. Here are our picks for the Best Songs of 2011. Have a [...]

Filed under: The Hit List Getty Images (5) The end of 2011 is nigh, and we've listened to tons of great albums (also: 'Lulu'). Picking favorites is never easy, but this year seemed especially difficult. We heard some amazing debuts, a sprawling punk masterpiece, a singer-songwriter hitting it big after some high-profile hip-hop dalliances, a long-lost album finally seeing the light of day, a growling old favorite making welcome return and a jilted singer dominating the [...]

Filed under: News , Video , Exclusive , The Hit List YouTube The "M" in MTV may not stand for "music" any more, but that doesn't mean music videos are dead. In fact, in these hyper-connected social media times it's more important than ever for an artist to have a good video. Upload an ace clip on a Thursday and by Friday someone can become a worldwide Internet [...]

Filed under: The Hit List Getty Images Rock stars have needs, too. But when you're used to getting pretty much everything you want, your needs might get a bit weird. Below, you can find some of the funniest, most bizarre concert-rider demands, ranging from condoms and bacon to toy robots and something referred to as "fish ice." Find out who wants what in Spinner's gallery of tour demands!

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List MCA There are plenty of musicians who find the days of the week endlessly inspiring. The Beatles loved you for all eight days of them. Barenaked Ladies measured a fight in terms of one week. Loverboy sagely noted that we were all working for the weekend. Other musicians get even more specific, choosing to sing about one day in particular. Every day -- [...]

Filed under: News , Exclusive , The Hit List C Flanigan, FilmMagic Few bands who can sell out arenas and peddle 50 million records over seven albums are able to evoke the same rage as Nickelback . The Portugese have even thrown rocks at 'em and despite their party-hearty music seemingly purpose-built for macho stuff like football, people in Winnipeg and Detroit [...]