Entering to lonely wind sounds and reportedly aiming her skeptical admonitions of deceit and self-destruction at Pete Doherty, a plain-voiced Scottish up-and-comer rides hard strums that quickly evolve into a roll-out-the-barrel polka stomp.
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Moving his grunge-soul baritone to the country, the artist formerly known as Hootie nicks a trick from Dierks Bentley — Stretch bluegrass guitars into a propulsive groove that conjures a long rural drive. His highway is marriage: 'Til death do they part.
Whores, motel raids, coke binges — it's just another day for thisgothic country crooner. Shooter Jennings, meet your new drinking buddy.
Jamey Johnson - High Cost of Living
With buttery guitar solos, King makes Blind Lemon Jefferson's classic into his own tune.
B.B. King - See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
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A Berlin-based engineer for Rammstein and Einstürzende Neubauten pays gorgeous tribute to the austere automotive zoom of early Detroit techno - for eight ominous and monotonous minutes, Eight Mile merges with the Autobahn.
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Jessie's rival has given his powerpop more power lately; here, he swipes a Stone Temple Pilots riff, incorporates old cartoon crosstalk, and aims a rambunctious melody at either political correctness or his personal computer: "A brand new way of saying nothing at all."
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Modern R&B's sweetest voice has never been the most exciting. So this bumping panty-dropper is a welcome flip. Over fat drum kicks and digital hand claps, Legend croons, "Do I have a girlfriend? Technically, no." (Convincing!) Then André 3000 heralds a goddess who gets him hard "like Medusa starin' at me." Summer jams about Greek mythology? Priceless.
John Legend feat. André 3000 - Green Light
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With Arcade Fire-style strings, Vampire Weekend's pop sense and lyrics from E. E. Cummings, it's every indie-rock kid's dream combo.
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NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.
By Todd Cunningham LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "Iron Man 3" was soaring past $1 billion at the worldwide box office Thursday, in a display of world domination that would make one of Marvel's super villains proud. The box-office bounty - roughly $700 million from abroad and $300 million domestically - is a major triumph for Disney, which bet big on comic book superheroes when it bought Marvel Studios for $4 billion in 2009. And its decision to bring aboard a Chinese partner for "Iron Man 3" and focus the Disney marketing machine on the booming foreign market looks pretty good right now, too. ...
MALMO, Sweden (AP) — An ethno-inspired flute and drum tune from Denmark is the bookmakers' favorite to win this year's Eurovision Song Contest on Saturday, which also features a bizarre opera pop number from Romania and an Armenian rock song written by the guitarist of Black Sabbath.
By Belinda Goldsmith CANNES (Reuters) - Native American actress Misty Upham never dreamt she would be walking the red carpet at Cannes to showcase a film shot on her reservation. Upham features in "Jimmy P. Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian", focused on the relationship between World War Two veteran Jimmy Picard, a Native American Blackfoot, and Georges Devereux, his psychoanalyst. Upham said like Picard, played by Puerto Rican actor Benicio Del Toro, she is Blackfeet, the largest tribe in Montana state. ...
NEW YORK (AP) — In one photo, a woman is on all fours, presumably picking something up, her posterior pressed against a glass window. Another photo shows a couple in bathrobes, their feet touching beneath a table. And there is one of a man, in jeans and a T-shirt, lying on his side as he takes a nap.
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Paul McCartney is kicking off the North American leg of his "Out There" tour in Orlando.