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  • Barry Feinstein, the photographer of some of the most iconic album covers in rock history, has passed away of natural causes at the age of 80, Rolling Stone reports. According to his official website, Feinstein designed over 500 album covers. He's also remembered for his countless photographs of a young Bob Dylan, including the pictures that became the covers for The Times They Are A-Changin' and No Direction Home: Bob Dylan. Feinstein's camera also created the images that appear on the front of the Rolling Stones' Beggars Banquet, George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, Janis Joplin's Pearl, and many more albums that are essential to every music fan's collection.

    Feinstein's covers weren't as flashy as other designers of that era, like Pink Floyd's collabration with Hipgnosis. Instead, he had an innate ability to capture artists at their coolest moments. Celebrate Feinstein's work with this collection of his best covers, and check out his gallery of music royalty at his official site:

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  • The comedy of errors that is Guns N' Roses' Latin American tour reached a hilarious new high (or low, depending on how you look at it) when Axl Rose fell hard mid-song during a Mexico City concert. The singer was traipsing around the stage during "Knockin' on Heaven's Door" when, after singing the "Knock, knock" of the chorus, he lost his footing and toppled over. However, the impact wasn't enough to knock that ridiculous cowboy hat off his head, and Axl only missed a few notes before regaining his composure. The always-classy GN'R fans responded to the fall by laughing out loud and hurling projectiles at the downed singer.

    If this was the Rose of the 1990s, he would've stormed off the stage and this concert would've been over the second after he stumbled, but this mellower (most of the time) Axl merely shook off the stagehands and continued singing. Axl's folly joins The Amp Hall of Fame of Stage Falls, joining Jimmy Buffett, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Scott Weiland, Christina Aguilera,

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  • Adam Levine watches way too much television. In August, the Maroon 5 singer caused an uproar when he criticized MTV, and yesterday he engaged in a battle of tweets with Fox News after the channel played a Maroon 5 song. "Dear Fox News, don't play our music on your evil f------ channel ever again. Thank you," Levine wrote. It's unclear how Levine knew his band's music was on Fox News in the first place, and whether his tweet has to do with the channel's conservative political alignments or the fact that he's NBC property.

    A pair of Fox News anchors, Red Eye hosts Greg Gutfeld and Andy Levy, took Levine's jab as diplomatically as possible by responding with their own salvo that criticized Maroon 5. "Dear @AdamLevine, don't make crappy f------ music ever again. Thank you," Levy tweeted. "Maroon 5's bio strangely fails to note the band was developed by the CIA as part of its enhanced interrogation techniques program." Gutfeld added, "Dear Adam, that's not music" before unfurling a spree

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  • Here's the music video that angered the farmers of Ireland, Rihanna's "We Found Love." And it's easy to see why the Irish were angry when the singer came in contact with their crops: Rihanna spends the whole video in various states of undress, doing drugs, and dancing up a storm. It's as though she's using all her time on the tour bus rewatching Trainspotting, Go, and Requiem for a Dream on a constant loop. This "hopeless place" that Rihanna keeps singing about appears to be a rave, or the Electric Daisy Carnival, or some location where eyes dilate constantly, multi-colored pills are consumed like Skittles, and cigarettes burn down into rainbow ashes.

    Still, it works: The song is a perfect soundtrack for this moving portrait of Europe's MDMA culture, from the quick edits to the bleached-out film stock to screen projections Rihanna often sings in front of. The fun ends for one scene, though, when Rihanna and her drug buddy, played by someone who looks exactly like Chris Brown, are

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  • There have been a lot of oddball Beatles items to go to auction in the past few years, but here's one piece of memorabilia that makes the $14,000 purchase of John Lennon's toilet bowl seem normal: On November 5th, Omega Auctions will offer one of Lennon's teeth to the highest bidder. As the story goes, instead of putting the tooth under his pillow like a normal person, the Beatle gave it as a gift to his housekeeper Dot Jarlett in the late 1960s. "[Lennon] was in the kitchen and he had this tooth which he had wrapped in a piece of paper. 'He said, 'Dot will you dispose of this,' and then he said, 'Or, as your daughter's a Beatles fan, you can give to her as a souvenir," Dot's son Barry Jarlett said. "It is something that we felt was very personal and my mum actually gave it to my sister who has kept it safe."

    Like all things Beatles-related items on the auction block, this tooth will no doubt find a buyer, but an estimated bid of £10,000 (about $15,800) is a tad extravagant. "This is

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  • Who's Number One: Evanescence, one of the last remnants of the deplorable nu-metal movement in rock, returned after a five-year break between discs and went straight to the top of the Billboard 200. According to Nielsen SoundScan, the band's self-titled third album sold 127,000 copies in its first week, which was just enough to edge Adele's 21 for the Number One spot. Amy Lee and company's staying power is impressive, but Evanescence's fan base has eroded since The Open Door debuted with 447,000 copies in 2006. Either their fans have moved on, or they've learned how to illegally download better. Frankly, The Amp is shocked people still listen to this genre, but this could be the best week for nu-metal in the past half-decade: Five Finger Death Punch, another band that fits into the category, grabbed Number Three as their timely American Capitalist sold 91,000 copies.

    Who's Bummed: Idol runner-up Lauren Alaina's Wildflower only mustered roughly a third of what Scotty McCreery tallied

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  • After 28 years, two adult children and plenty of drama together, Kiss frontman Gene Simmons wed former Playmate Shannon Tweed in a ceremony broadcast on last night's "Gene Simmons Family Jewels." How did the wild rocker feel about finding himself tied down for the first time in his life? "No idea what I'd been scared about all this time," Simmons mused while talking to his 19-year-old daughter Sophie. "[It was] this stubborn guy thing... it was really stupid." Smiling and nodding, his daughter simply said, "Yup."

    Simmons' realization that the woman he's spent 28 years with is, in fact, "The One" (i.e., life partner, not to be confused with Keanu Reeves' character in "The Matrix") was reflected in the no-nonsense, self-skewering wedding vows he wrote. "I always thought I was strong. You made me realize how arrogant, selfish and weak I was," he admitted. "I've never said 'I love you' to anybody, but I love you, Shannon Tweed. With all my heart, for the rest of my life."

    Simmons'

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