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Guardian Music — When the exciting new thing called social media first came along, it promised to do what years of reality television, forests' worth of glossy magazines and countless fish-suppers' worth of paparazzi shots failed quite to manage: it would allow celeb... more info

Guardian Music — Watch, bookmark and send to your pals: it's like The Box, only way cooler1 RATATAT - DRUGSSometimes it's the simplest ideas that work best. For this creepy, Lynch-style outing, director Carl Burgess trawled stock footage of grinning actors in the Get... more info

MVSW — The Roots ~ “You Got Me“(ft Erykah Badu) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJCHeEQV454 Thought I’d bring some decade old neo-soul today. What’s not to dig on this track? The Roots doing their thing, Erykah Badu belting the hook, and Eve dropping a vers... more info

Guardian Music — Hailed as the first lady of funky house and the last word in dubstep, Katy B is on the verge of great things. She tells us about chart success, her love affair with the underground, and why there are more exciting things out there than Damon AlbarnYo... more info

MTV.com News — Veteran journalist Dream Hampton spotlights benefit concert for political prisoners.By Jayson Rodriguez Talib Kweli (file) Photo: Al Pereira/WireImage NEW YORK — Chris Rock, Talib Kweli and Dead Prez's M-1 were among the attendees of vete... more info

Guardian Music — Inspired by sci-fi novels and Afro-futurists, Janelle Monáe is a cyber diva taking R&B into far-out places. Dorian Lynskey meets the most compelling new character in popOver the last four years, Prince, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Big Boi from Outkast ha... more info

Guardian Music — ICA, LondonFor leather-clad simpletons, Spinal Tap had a fairly functional grasp of the concept of mathematical infinity. Their amps famously went up to 11, one louder than everyone else, a tactic that neatly illustrates that, however large a number ... more info

Dlisted — Let's just blame the costume department, the wig master and the three grilled cheese sandwiches I just swallowed in a row for why Stepford Katie sort of looks like Jacqueline Kennedy. Let's just go with that. Here's Stepford Katie and ... more info

Sky News — Grammy award-winning singer Erykah Badu has been fined and sentenced to six months probation for stripping naked on the site of JFK's assassination. more info