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  • My Morning Jacket, like Phish and the Grateful Dead, are superior in concert than in the studio. They might not be as outright jammy as those other acts -- though the new album's first single was as long as a second set Phish track -- but their music has always lost something in translation from the stage to the album. (Besides Z. Z is great.) MMJ may agree, because they promoted Circuital with a Todd Haynes-filmed live set for Unstaged, American Express and Vevo's ongoing concert series that pairs artists with noteworthy filmmakers.

    The show was broadcast live last night from Louisville, but Vevo has a couple of tracks posted, like the band's new Buddy Holly-esque ballad "Slow Slow Tune." But the highlight arrived during Z's "Wordless Chorus," when Erykah Badu duetted with Jim James on the aforementioned wordless chorus, plus a few verses. Badu performed four tracks with MMJ in total and was predictably incredible, but unless you caught the concert live, "Wordless Chorus" is all you

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  • Just a week after Bon Iver tried to start a Bruce Hornsby revival Beyoncé has answered the call with her new single "Best Thing I Never Had." Just listen to that piano line!

    Is it mean to say this sounds like Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" paired with Ryan Tedder's signature thump beat and some finger-wagging "Irreplaceable"-style girl power? Because that's how this aggressively un-edgy single sounds. "Sucks to be you right now," B sings (flawlessly, of course) on the Babyface-written slo-jam. We do not want to hear Beyoncé singing "Sucks to be you right now." Some folks thought "Run the World (Girls)" was a little too out there, but Beyoncé already countered with sexed-up ballad "1 + 1" and this is way too generic a sound for a star as unique as Sasha Fierce. Plus, it does not easily lend itself to incredible feats of multimedia awesomeness. Hey also, has Beyoncé mentioned she's really into girl power?

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  • Rihanna's Loud has continued to pump out hits 18 months after its release, but the corresponding music videos haven't been nearly as successful as the songs themselves. Her "S&M" clip was accused of plagiarism for ripping off photographer David LaChapelle, and "California King Bed" was accused (by us) of being a mattress commercial in disguise. Thankfully, the visual losing streak Rihanna's been on since probably "Disturbia" has come to an end with "Man Down."

    Since "Man Down" is the closest the Barbadian Rihanna has come to recording a full-on dancehall song, it's only fitting that she and director Anthony Mandler traveled to Kingston, Jamaica -- the home of the legendary Studio One label -- to film their reggae saga. Yes, a man does in fact go down in the video's prologue, but after that the cliché moments end. "Man Down" does well evoking the spirit of two of the island nation's chief cinematic exports, Rockers and The Harder They Come, with its tale of a girl (Rihanna, obviously)

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  • Perpetually incarcerated Philly rapper Beanie Sigel has decided to end his beef with Jay-Z, likely because Jay is one of the most powerful men in the entertainment industry, nobody really cares about rap beef anymore, and ending disagreements with Jay-Z is an excellent way to remind people you exist.

    "What Mike Epps say? 'Gangstas f--- up too,' " Sigel told XXLMag.com (via Nah Right). "Whatever I felt this dude Jay did wrong to me, it can't outweigh the one thing he did do for me -- he gave me an opportunity. Dude gave me an opportunity. A lot of people don't get opportunities. He gave me that. That outweighs everything. I need that in black and white. I got caught in the moment and put my feelings out there. I should have never done that."

    Most folks assumed their dispute began with Sigel's 2009 song "What You Talkin Bout (I Ain't Your Average Cat)," where he openly dissed his Roc-a-Fella boss by mocking lyrics from Jay's own Blueprint 3 track "What We Talkin' About." His chief

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  • Say what you will about the emo kids and their whiny, whimpy brand of rock, but Panic! at the Disco's Brendon Urie demonstrated an inhumanly high tolerance for pain this weekend at show in Jacksonville, Florida. During the performance, Urie was flailing around onstage at he typically does, only this time he took a wrong step and completely destroyed his ankle. Check out the aftermath in the video above; it's brutal. Superheroes have been felled by less.

    We've seen a similar injury take down the San Francisco Giants' Buster Posey for the remainder of the 2011 baseball season, but Urie barely missed a song before returning to the stage with a disgustingly swollen ankle. On top of that, he even played the rest of the show with a light limp before going backstage to get the injury in the cast it so desperately needed. Last week we praised Alice Cooper for only missing one show in 30 years, but this exercise in pain management is perhaps even more impressive.

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  • Lady Gaga is nowhere near done doing interviews about Born This Way, and holy crap did she offend us by telling Time Out London she can't bear to watch her ridiculously amazing nine-minute epic video for "Telephone" anymore. "I hate it so much," she said (via NME). "Beyoncé and I are great together. But there are so many f------ ideas in that video. All I see in that video is my brain throbbing with ideas -- and I wish I had edited myself a little bit more."

    Seriously? The awesome "Telephone" video bothers you, but not that pointless abomination "Judas," which is also throbbing with ideas -- very, very bad ideas? The Jonas Åkerlund-directed "Telephone" mini-movie explored excess in itself, so all the cartoonish violence, nudge-nudge wink-wink product placements, stilted dialogue, and dancing prisoners served a larger point. "Judas," which was helmed by newbie directors Gaga and her choreographer Laurieann Gibson, reads like jibberish, a bunch of disconnected religious ideas hastily

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  • Did you leave last month's Coachella wishing you could relive the entire experience again, from all the gut-wrenching scheduling conflicts to Kanye West's closing set to the dreadful wait to exit the parking lot? Considering that the festival sold out in record time this year, the fest's organizers decided it's a good time to cash in on that impulse: Goldenvoice announced today that next year they'll stage two Coachellas with the "same lineup, same art, same place, different people" on the weekends of April 13th and April 20th, 2012.

    While the touring industry struggles, the festival industry is a-booming, and therefore "many of you were unable to attend this year's festival because passes sold out much sooner than anticipated," organizers wrote today. "We were truly surprised by the overwhelming response and remain honored by your passion and enthusiasm. We also know some of you purchased through non legitimate [Ed. Note: illegitimate?] sources and were inconvenienced, gouged or

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  • Jack Moore is a massive Katy Perry fan. People who read the 16-year-old U.K. resident's Tumblr or follow his Twitter already knew that, but now the rest of the world is familiar with his fandom in a big way because Katy & I, a four-minute documentary about his obsession by Olly Newport, has reached the Daily What.

    As the camera pans the walls of an curiously neat bedroom plastered with images of the "California Gurls" singer, Moore explains, "My friends call it the 'Serial Killer Room,' 'cause like in movies when serial killers have loads of pictures of their victims, that's kind of what my room is like."

    Ha ha, we say, while smiling and nodding and pushing the emergency button under our desk. Moore is lucky he has such an adorable British accent and diminutive demeanor, or we'd be upgrading Perry's threat level from "Teenage Dream" to "Who Am I Living For?" right now. Somehow the statement, "I like Katy Perry more than my family" seems sort of adorable coming from Moore rather than,

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  • Trust us, we saw this weekend despite our own advice, so we know firsthand that Coldplay's new lyrics are funnier than that unnecessary sequel. It's been a long three years since Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends, but the band is back with a fresh single due out this weekend, the equally annoyingly titled "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall." Over the Memorial Day break, Coldplay tweeted brief snippets of the track, which will premiere on Friday at their official site, but this morning, drummer Will Champion shared the lyrics to the song, and they're uproarious.

    Chris Martin's poetry has never been the bright spot for the band -- melodies are their thing -- and while Martin spent the early part of Coldplay's career trying to turn the band into the next Radiohead with some downer lyrics, he's fallen into a more U2 niche, which is also fine to his millions of (probably virgin) fans. By title alone, "Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall" conjures up visions of TLC covering the Smashing

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  • For anyone who graduated from high school prior to Y2K, Radiohead and Weezer represent two indispensable pillars of rock. In the succeeding decade, however, while Radiohead has continued to accumulate critical acclaim, Weezer has racked up an impressive amount of disdain thanks to Rivers Cuomo's ridiculous antics (see below). It's like that line from Radiohead's "Electioneering": "When I go forwards, you go backwards, and somewhere we will meet." Now the two have met, with Weezer's surprise cover of Radiohead's "Paranoid Android." So, is this worth a listen?

    Yes!

    • After years of three-chord power pop anthems, Weezer get to flex their musicianship muscles with the complex, multi-suite "Paranoid Android." And Weezer does a great job in that sense, matching the OK Computer version note-for-note. The two versions are so similar that Weezer's version clocks in at 6:29 while the OK Computer original stands in at 6:24. That extra five seconds comes at the end of the video, when Weezer

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