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Sound And Vision: Justin Timberlake as Elton John and Six Other Wish-List Music Biopics
posted: October 14, 2011
Every great screen biography of a music superstar needs three key ingredients to really sing: 1) An icon with the greatest story never told. 2) A talented lead actor or actress gunning for an Oscar nomination”singing…
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Soundcheck: Hip Hop Hits iheartradio Music Festival
posted: September 27, 2011
The biggest live music event in radio history hit Las Vegas this weekend when Clear Channel’s iheartradio Music Festival kicked off Friday night at the MGM Grand. Thousands of fans came from across the country…
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The EditoriaList: Best And Worst #1 Singles 2000-2010
posted: September 22, 2011
This was a brutal exercise, listening to at least large chunks of every Number 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100 for the years between 2000 and 2010 (I should have stopped at 2009, but I’m…
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Sound And Vision: It's the Same Old Song for Thespians Who Sing — and Chances Are It's Not a Hit!
posted: September 16, 2011
Though Susan Boyle helped make music’s mainstream safer for the mature crowd, her chart-life-begins-at-nearly fifty success story remains a rarity. But perhaps in the case of Jeff Bridges, who won an Oscar for playing an…
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The EditoriaList: Top Ten Singers-Turned-Actor
posted: September 8, 2011
Once you’re a hugely successful musician, with lots of people telling you how awesome you are, making the leap into acting (or painting, or politics, or baseball, or aviation, or molecular biology) must seem like…
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Sound And Vision: Fake Pop Stars — The Rise and Continued Rise of Rebecca Black
posted: August 12, 2011
Paris Hilton. Kim Kardashian. Heidi Montag. Julianne Hough. In a world where making a record is as easy as starring on reality TV, and even easier when you have your own show, Rebecca Black was…
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