Hip-hop watchdogs back off on Pepsi boycott
The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network called off its planned boycott of Pepsi after the soft-drink company agreed to donate money to the Ludacris Foundation, LiveDaily.com reports.
The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network called off its planned boycott of Pepsi after the soft-drink company agreed to donate money to the Ludacris Foundation, LiveDaily.com reports.
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Avril Lavigne, Shania Twain top Juno nominees
Avril Lavigne and Shania Twain picked up nominations for five Juno Awards apiece on Wednesday (2/12), Canada’s Globe and Mail reports. The Junos--the Canadian equivalent of the Grammys--will be doled out on April 6.
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U.S. tour dates ahead for The Vines
Australian hell-raisers The Vines will open a headlining tour of U.S. clubs in late March, LiveDaily reports.
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Fox to air Michael Jackson’s rebuttal
Fox television will televise a two-hour special on Feb. 20 that will feature footage that Michael Jackson’s production company videotaped while he was being interviewed by British journalist Martin Bashir, Reuters reports.
Jackson has expressed outrage at Bashir’s documentary, which aired on ABC last week, claiming that it portrayed him unfairly. Fox’s program will be titled “Take 2; The Interview They Wouldn’t Show You.”
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Revisiting The Beatles’ ‘Get Back’
RollingStone.com has published an interesting package of stories about The Beatles ill-fated 1969 “Get Back” recording sessions. Police recently recovered more than 500 reels of tape from the sessions during the raid of a bootlegging ring in the Netherlands.
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Wilco tops Village Voice’s 2002 Pazz & Jop list
Wilco’s “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” was named the top album of the year by the 695 critics who voted in Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll. Rounding out the Top 5 were Beck’s “Sea Change,” The Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,” The Streets’ “Original Pirate Material,” and Sleater-Kinney’s “One Beat.”
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