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  • The fields outside of Manchester, Tennessee, are probably still lined with litter, the post-Bonnaroo hangovers haven't even worn off yet, but already festival organizers are mapping out next year's party: June 7-10, 2012. And if you didn't spend all your cash last weekend on, umm, recreational stuff, they're even offering tickets to the 2012 fest at a discount rate. Starting today at noon (that's now!), Bonnaroo early-bird three-day passes are priced at $209, or $40 cheaper than its max price per ticket. Bonnaroo is a guarantee to sell out every year, and while there's no crystal balls that can predict what will be on your schedule on June 7-10, 2012, it'd be wise to get your passes now (or you can wait a few days; the sale ends July 1st). Because there's always the option to sell them on StubHub for a huge profit.

    You'll notice Bonnaroo scheduled dates for one festival and not two. After Coachella revealed that there would be twin festivals in Indio on consecutive April 2012

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  • Britney Spears' Femme Fatale show includes 22 songs, and loyal fans captured footage of nearly every single one at her Sacramento tour opener last night -- no love for the "Boys" remix, folks! To let you see a real, live, singing (yes, sort of!), dancing (yes, mostly!) Britney Spears in action, we've compiled the best clips from the full set list here, with thanks to ONTD for doing some of the heavy lifting.

    But first, six observations:

    • This is not only not bad, it's kind of good! One of the big differences between the Circus and Femme Fatale tours is staging -- the former was too tethered to the Big Top conceit, the latter is free to explore different backdrops and video experiences, which all look snazzy and high-tech rather than chintzy and dashed-off.

    • Britney's arms and hair are doing a lot of the choreography, but to be fair she's moving with authority and confidence again. This is a massive improvement over the "live" performances of Femme Fatale we'd seen up to this

    Read More »from Watch (Nearly) Every Song From Britney Spears’ ‘Femme Fatale’ Tour Opener
  • People hoping to ring in Friday the right way -- the Rebecca Black way -- were surely disappointed this morning because the teenager's campy music video for the song was removed from YouTube... by Rebecca Black herself. "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Rebecca Black. Sorry about that," YouTube writes on the page that once housed the year's best worst song. At least they're polite about it.

    It wasn't the name-calling or the parodies or the overwhelming crush of instant celebrity that led to Black's decision. Instead, it all comes down to a legal battle between Black and the for-hire music company that wrote and produced the video, Ark Music Factory. Last week, Ark tried to squeeze a few more dollars out of the "Friday" zeitgeist by making the video only available through YouTube's rental service at a cost of $2.99 per view. Kind of ridiculous asking people to pay for what had watched hundreds of times for free. (It was up to 167 million views when it was

    Read More »from Battle Over ‘Friday’ Deprives Millions of Rebecca Black (Updated)
  • Bob Dylan has announced another giant slate of shows -- no big surprise, that's why fans have referred to his road schedule since the late-'80s as the "Never Ending Tour." But as Consequence of Sound points out, you may want to click on over to Bobby Z's official site to see the list of dates for yourself, because the pre-sale codes are pretty hilarious.

    Your eyes do not deceive you, said the joker to the thief: That really says "applebees" next to the July 27th date at Pensacola, Florida's Pensacola Civic Center. The code for Bangor, Maine's Bangor Waterfront Pavilion is "insomnia." The Cleveland show's password is "mustard," and tickets for the show closest to Woodstock at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts can be procured by typing in "snoopy." He really is the modern bard.

    We'd have assumed these amusing passcodes weren't penned by Dylan himself, but he did write that catty blog post about his Asian tour a few weeks ago, so who knows!

    [Photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com]

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  • Never before has the sentence "You need to watch this detergent commercial with the lights on" ever been uttered, but that's all changed because Rob Zombie was hired to make an ad for Woolite. In a clip appropriately titled "Torturer," a giant out of The Hills Have Eyes stretches, shrinks, and fades innocent articles of clothing using medieval instruments. From its gritty cinematography to its visceral soundtrack, Zombie's ad is a half-minute horror film that's supposed to scare housewives into purchasing Woolite, and it works incredibly well (on us at least). We wouldn't want the Torturer coming to our place on laundry day and fading the hues from our T-shirts.

    Last month, The Amp talked with Zombie about the commercial and whether he was able to put his dark cinematic stamp on a 30-second ad for Woolite. "I think the camera work and the detail and the design and stuff, I think people will definitely see it for sure," Zombie told us. "Or if you just saw the commercial, you'd think,

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  • Kanye West may be on mute, but his old sparring partner Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is still happy to go on Twitter rampages, and today he laid into his record company -- who he "tried to be cool with" -- for "moving in slow motion" and delaying his latest album. We suspected 50 Cent was too busy shoveling snow and starring in hilariously bad movies to finish the follow-up to 2009's commercially meh Before I Self Destruct this past winter, but he blames the suits.

    "I'm sorry to announce I will not be releasing a new album this year if we don't get on the same page," he wrote, clearly attempting to bully the label into action. "I don't know why they play with me they know how I get." Interscope, why do you play with 50 Cent? You know how he gets! Maybe if 50 wore some Beats by Dre headphones like Jimmy Iovine rather than his own line of earwear he'd get faster service.

    50 demanded his label "WAKE UP AND WORK" and added in what can only be construed as an idle threat, "Yo DRE has some

    Read More »from 50 Cent Threatens to Hold His Album Until ‘Detox’ Is Out, Makes Us Laugh
  • Speaking of rock biopics, the story of Phil Spector, the famed record producer who was found guilty of killing actress Lana Clarkson, is also in the works with Al Pacino set to portray the Wall of Sound mastermind. The film will reportedly focus on the two murder trials Spector, the California legal system, and the Clarkson family had to endure before he was sentenced to 19 years to life in prison. However, after word spread that the movie planned to capture the infamously eccentric Spector in a positive light, friends of Clarkson wrote a letter to filmmakers pleading that they "please refrain from rewriting history for 'creative license,' " TMZ reports.

    Their primary concern is that "the loathsome, lying, gun-abusing convicted murderer of our friend Lana Clarkson will be portrayed with some kind of sympathy." It didn't help that David Mamet, who's writing and directing the HBO film, recently said he thinks Spector might actually be innocent of the crime, which really enraged folks.

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