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A Girl Like Rihanna
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Watch: "Unfaithful"
With "S.O.S." topping just about every chart on the planet, Rihanna's come a long way from her Barbados, "Pon de Replay" roots. An exclusive interview
with the new Queen of Pop
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Sunday, Sunday, Sunday!
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Watch: "Mania TV Interview With TBS"
We've got a triple shot of Taking Back Sunday features: An interview/top ten list from bassist Matt Rubano, a video interview
courtesy of our friends at ManiaTV, and a giveaway featuring a video iPod
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Interview Mania!
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Watch: "ManiaTV Interview with James Blunt"
ARTISTdirect has teamed up with ManiaTV to bring you some of their best "Artist of the Day" interviews. Besides James, check out video interviews
with Fall Out Boy, Death Cab for Cutie,
My Chemical Romance and more...
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Speakin' With the Smack
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Listen: "Godsmack Interview Part I (Sully and Shannon)"
Our editor had a rare opportunity to sit down with all four members of Godsmack and get the scoop on their latest album, IV
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The Party Playlist
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Listen: "What Does It Mean Now"
World Party's Karl Wallinger survived a brain aneurysm and still makes music that sounds like sunshine. What songs get him through the day?
He shared his essential playlist with us
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Fiddle Me This
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Listen: "Jerusalem Ridge"
Meet Casey Driessen, who's doing for fiddle music what Bela Fleck did for the banjo. An exclusive Q&A, plus Casey's
list of his top ten favorite fiddlers
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A Drive-By Mixtape
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Listen: A Blessing and a Curse - Full Album Stream
If Patterson Hood weren't busy rocking out with the Drive-By Truckers, he'd probably make a pretty good
college radio DJ. Check out his list of 20 of the best songs of the past year and you'll see what we mean
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Get Your Eagle On
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Watch: "I Want You So Hard (Boy's Bad News)"
Eagles of Death Metal is the story of two friends, one with a band called Queens of the Stone Age, the other with
a Little Richard fixation and one badass mustache. Our exclusive interview with Jesse "the Devil" Hughes
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| new! the ARTISTdirect Widget |
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Wanna take your iTunes experience to the next level? Then download ARTISTdirect's new iTunes Widget, and sync up your playlists with our
vast database of artist bios, album info, free audio and video streams, and much more.
Click here to download now!
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"Make Damn Sure" You Enter This Contest
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Grand prize includes the new albums from Taking Back Sunday and Angels & Airwaves, plus a 60GB Video iPod (yeah, that's 60 as in six-zero),
Logitech speakers, and $500 in gift cards from ARTISTdirect, iTunes and Best Buy...
enter now!
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Win Some Bling From Blige
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Stop cryin' and enter to win this one. Grand prize is a diamond bracelet from Dolce Diamante and a signed copy of The Breakthrough...
enter now!
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Two Red Hot Giveaways
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Which would you rather have: a video iPod preloaded the Red Hot Chili Peppers' entire CD and video catalog, or a Fender Stratocaster signed by John Frusciante?
Wait, don't answer that...just enter to win both...
enter now!
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Woah, Nelly! Check Out This Prize Pack
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Win a portable DVD player, a $200 Five Star Vintage gift certificate, plus new music from Nelly Furtado, Pitbull, Calle 13 and Jean...
enter now!
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Got Warped?
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It's our best ticket giveaway ever: A pair of tickets to the Warped Tour show of your choice. See AFI, Thursday, NOFX, Joan Jett and a zillion other bands... free!...
enter now!
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A Prize Pack Fit For a "King"
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Here's a contest you can "Ride Wit"...Grand Prize includes an iPod Shuffle, a copy of the album King signed by T.I. himself,
merch from the movie ATL and more...
enter now!
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A Baker's Dozen of Beatles Albums
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From ARTISTdirect and DailyCD, here's a chance to win all 13 of The Beatles' original UK albums, from Please Please Me to Let It Be...
enter now!
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Win an iPod Nano From People in Planes
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Grand Prize: an iPod Nano, t-shirt and autographed copy of the debut album from Welsh rockers People in Planes. Five runners-up get CDs and t-shirts, too...
enter now!
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Win a Dinosaur Jr. Prize Pack
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J Mascis has been busy autographing prizes, and here's your chance to win them: copies of Where You Been, Green Mind and the limited edition
Live at CBGB's, plus a signed band poster...
enter now!
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Things That Go "Boom!" From Less Than Jake
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Grand Prize: signed drum head and signed snare drum from ska-punksters Less Than Jake. Runner-up prizes: signed blow-up dynamite sticks...
enter now!
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Win Prince's Cloud Guitar!
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Imagine how badass you'll look doing the "Let's Go Crazy" guitar solo on this baby: a custom white "cloud" guitar from His Purpleness himself...
enter now!
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Take a Chance on Andrea Bocelli
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Win a romantic trip for two to either Boston or Atlantic to see tenor Andrea Bocelli in concert. Airfare and two-night hotel accommodations provided...
enter now!
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 on the verge: Psapp
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Fans of the TV medical drama Grey's Anatomy may have that show's theme -- a tinkly little number that sounds like a jazz combo playing inside an antique music box --
permanently stuck in their heads, but they not be familiar with the band behind it: British pop-electronica-random- noise duo Psapp.
With their second full-length album, The Only Thing I Ever Wanted, ready to traipse out into the world, Galia Durant and Carim Clasmann's agitated-yet-swooning, electro-acoustic
pop gems are about to get stuck inside even more heads. Which sure beats humming "Bad Day" all day long.
Listen: Hi
Watch: Tricycle
Read: Galia and Carim take ARTISTdirect's "If You're Forced To" challenge!
Check out albums from more On the Verge artists in the ARTISTdirect Store.
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artist picks: Sonya Kitchell
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Joss Stone? Washed up. Jamie Cullum? Over the hill. Norah Jones? Sooo three years ago. In the world of wise-beyond-their-years
purveyors of sophisticated pop, newcomer Sonya Kitchell trumps them all.
At the tender age of 16, Sonya wrote and recorded her jazzy/bluesy debut album, Words Came Back to Me, and had the privilege of being one of the first artists
signed to Starbucks' Hear Music label. Now all of 17, she's taking the world by storm with appearances on CBS' The Early Show
and The Late Show with David Letterman, plus a national tour opening for that elder statesman of adult-pop singer-songwriters, Jamie Cullum (he's 26).
Recently, Sonya shared a list of her favorite albums with us, along with a youthful disclaimer: "I am being exposed to new music and sounds almost daily, so this list is subject to change."
Duly noted, Sonya!
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Cat Power
The Greatest (2006) |
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PJ Harvey
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea (2000) |
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Rufus Wainwright
Poses (2001) |
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U2
The Joshua Tree (1987) |
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Joni Mitchell
Blue (1971) |
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Ben Harper
Fight For Your Mind (1995) |
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Bonnie Raitt
Give It Up (1972) |
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Billie Holiday
God Bless the Child (1994 compilation) |
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Stevie Wonder
Innervisions (1973) |
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Marvin Gaye
What's Goin' On (1971) |
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Chet Baker
My Funny Valentine (1953) |
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Nick Drake
Pink Moon (1971) |
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The Beatles
Rubber Soul (1965) |
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Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) |
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Amos Lee
Amos Lee (2005) |
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D'Angelo
Voodoo (2000) |
Sonya Kitchell's debut album Words Came Back to Me
is available now in the ARTISTdirect Store, as are all of her picks. Click any of the album covers for more information.
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blog o' the month: Commercial Music
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Wondering what that song is that makes working in a "Cubicle" actually sound kinda cool? Or who the band is behind the guitar-smashing classic rock in
that other new iTunes ad? Look no further than our Commercial Music blog for all the answers.
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The Great April Roundup
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Hey, "Gang"! Did you have a "Bad Day"? Then you'd be "Crazy" not to check out our April recap
of all things good, bad and silly that happened in music last month. And "Yes, Virginia," that's all the lame puns we have time for now.
Got an idea for a blog? Let us know -- if we like it, we'll host it and make
you famous.
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