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Seven Collaborations Mick Jagger, Arcade Fire, and Foo Fighters Could Take a Hint From

Saturday Night Live is ending its 37th season with a bang. Last week, classic alum Will Ferrell hosted the show, reprising his parody of George W. Bush, and the 100th SNL Digital Short was aired. Things look to get even bang-ier with this Saturday's season finale, featuring Mick Jagger taking the ... More >>

Tech N9ne Discusses The Clubhouse Shooting, The Doors, and Machine Gun Kelly

Aaron Dontez Yates, better known to the world as Tech N9ne, is not a big fan of the typical. "How many black dudes do you see painting their faces and coming out with bishop robes on the stage?" he asks me, speaking from his tour bus "somewhere in New Mexico." He's taken a strange, twisted path ev ... More >>

Rick Ross Is Rap's Opulent King

Holiday Gifts for Your Hip-Hop Cousin

​Alright, slacker. There's no more denying it: the holidays are here, and you need to get on that shopping list. Luckily, Up on the Sun has caught gift guide-fever, and over the course of this week we'll be offering you suggestions for the entire family. Yo yo yiggity yo, son. Christmas is u ... More >>

Kreayshawn to Perform Free Show for College Students Saturday

Poor Kreayshawn doesn't realize just how phallic that Popsicle looks. ​In college, everything is better if it's free. And no matter how many times Mastercard convinces you that the slice of pizza and Frisbee offered at their just-off-campus booth are free, they're not. 

What's Up With Christina Aguilera and Maroon 5's New Single?

​​​For the first time ever, Adam Levine's voice is saddening people. The vocals of Maroon 5's frontman are simply way too over-processed on Maroon 5 and Christina Aguilera's new collaborative single, "Moves Like Jagger." Idolator thinks the song is the best thing since sliced bread, but I disa ... More >>

T-Pain Parts Ways With Auto-Tune, Does the World a Favor

​The world is now a better place thanks to T-Pain. He recently declared that he has sworn off using auto-tune, according to Prefix.He better keep his promise! If he doesn't, Jay-Z will have something to say about it. Along with his new vow to do away with auto-tune came the unfortunate introductio ... More >>

Why Nicki Minaj is the Most Annoying Person in Music Right Now

No, no, Nicki: Fuck you.​Am I the only one who really, really hates Nicki Minaj? You'd think so based on only a smattering of anti-Nicki talk on ye ole interwebz, compared to a torrent of anti Ke-dollarsign-ha fury and all the hate of other comparable slutwave artists.For example: There are a mere ... More >>

T-Pain @ Marquee Theatre

Seven Nights of DJs and Dancing

Jakwob, T-Pain, Tierra del Fuego, Small Leaks Sink Ships, and Other Events This Weekend

Mikel Lander and his red Epihone.​ Heads up, y'all: If you've seen a red left-handed Epiphone hollow body guitar being used at a live music gig anytime in the last couple weeks, Mikel Lander would like to know. Ditto for a purple left-handed Flying V by Gibson. Both southpaw six-strings were unf ... More >>

T-Pain to Offer Free DJ Gig at Marquee Theatre on Saturday (But Only for College Kids)

​Don't be alarmed if you hear the sound of irritated groaning emanating from the campuses of Arizona State University and other local institutions of higher learning this week, as it's merely the collective grumblings of students returning to class for the spring semester. Southern rapper T- ... More >>

Lottery Ticket: Bow Wow's Strikes It Rich

MC Chris

Revenge of the Nerd

10 Things Under $10 This Weekend: Jersey Shore Parties, Pin-up Girls, T-Pain, and More

www.mtv.comGet a fake bake like Angelina "Jolie" Pivarnick at Sandbar's Jersey Shore party tonight.​Colorful doesn't even begin to describe the eclectic array of inexpensive events on tap for this weekend. There's a candy-themed dance party at Afterlife that's guaranteed to satisfy your sweet to ... More >>

Soul Power

Motel 6 Offers Free Rooms to Touring Bands, Alice Cooper Trash Talks Preppy Indie Dudes, T-Pain Releases iPhone App

Idolator: Jay-Z Takes Control Of The Board (Room)Idolator: Golf-Playing Rocker Laments Preppy Indie Dudes' Lack Of BallsNME: Ex-Rolling Stones' Bill Wyman slams 'Guitar Hero' And 'Rock Star' gamesPitchfork: Want to Sound Just Like T-Pain? There's an App for ThatRolling Stone: What Made "Braid" a Pun ... More >>

Hellogoodbye

Hellogoodbye

Steven Tyler Airlifted to Hospital, T-Pain For Florida State President, Bob Dylan's Christmas Album?

Rolling Stone: Aerosmith's Tyler Airlifted to Hospital After Falling From Stage Rolling Stone: Seacrest "Stunned," Jackson "Shocked" By Abdul's "Idol" Exit Rolling Stone: "Birthday" Video From "The Beatles: Rock Band" Premieres Pitchfork: Dead Man's Bones (Ryan Gosling and Zach Shields) Reveal Cover ... More >>

Incoming: Lil Wayne, Daughtry, Cherry Poppin Daddies

Robert Brandon MartinezLast time Lil Wayne came to town he was two hours late to the stage, causing a chain reaction of show-stalling shenanigans that involved the opener, T-Pain, coming back on stage wearing pajamas and a scarf to dance in a futile effort to quell the crowd. None of it worked and, ... More >>

An Open Letter to Jay-Z

Jamie Foxx's New Video: Amazing or Just Plain Goofy?

Jamie Foxx and friends...get it? Fox News? You know what, forget it.As was widely reported at the end of last week, Jamie Foxx released his new video for the song "Blame It," and the response in the blogosphere has been one of elation. He's Jamie Foxx, for one thing -- and that alone opens him up to ... More >>

The Lonely Island: Something You Need Now

Eh, the album cover could have been better, but the songs are superbIt all started on Saturday Night Live in December 2005. Midway through a so-so episode of the New York institution, we were treated to a digital short featuring Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg. The premise was simple enough: two whi ... More >>

Lil Wayne Very Late, Very Predictable at US Airways Center

Robert Brandon Martinez Things I witnessed while waiting nearly two hours for Lil Wayne to perform at US Airways Center on Wednesday night: An impromptu routine by all of opener T-Pain's assortment of dancers, including two midgets, a fire-eating contortionist, two dudes with their faces painted lik ... More >>

Rotten Tomatoes' Ofay-Centric Critics, and the Biggie Smalls Biopic Notorious

"It was all a dream..."There are very few film critics I can read without getting at least mildly peeved at their gasbaggery. But the critics' pool on the geek-fan site RottenTomatoes.com really ticks me off, particularly in regards to the Biggie Smalls biopic Notorious, which I caught over the week ... More >>

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

By Dan Leroy A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-en ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

The Year in Music: 2008's Top Ten Pop Songs

By Annie ZaleskiPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussycat Dolls, step right up!) But every year, a few irresistible bits of innovative ear candy rocket up the charts and seep into our subconscious. The foll ... More >>

Just Announced: Eagles of Death Metal, Hank Williams III and More

It seems like just yesterday we were reminding you how bad the Eagles of Death Metal are live while praising The Hives for putting on one of the best shows of the year. Well, the band Axl Rose so memorably dubbed The Pigeons of Shit Metal are coming back in February, and they won't have the Sweds to ... More >>

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

By Dan Leroy A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

Party Crasher: American Junkie, Club FullFilled, The Vintage Lounge, and Rhythm Room

The lovely Lady Santas of the Rhythm Room. Click here for a slideshow of the Party Crasher's weekend adventures. There's a plethora of parties that go down each and every weekend in the PHX. Whether it's hot DJ nights at Valley clubs, after-hours raves out in the sprawl, or house parties with kegs ... More >>

Taylor Swift, Al Barr, and More Reflect on Songs to Be Thankful for

Across Our Blogs

We understand that in the 24-hour news cycle it can be difficult to keep up. Worry not! We have the solution. Check back on Valley Fever every evening for highlights from each of New Times' blogs. Today's entries follow: Janet Napolitano Named as Obama's Top Pick for Head of Homeland Security Vete ... More >>

Top 10 Songs You Must Turn Off

Flo Rida

Mail on Sunday
(Atlantic)

Future Shock: Mike Ness, Flo Rida, Nevermind, and more

Mariah Carey

E=MC²
(Island)

Where's the party? A quick guide to a dozen hot Super Bowl soirees

Chris Brown

Exclusive
(Jive)

Kanye West

Graduation
(Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)

Monument Valley

The plumed wonder hates to agree with GOP gun moll Ann Coulter philosophically, but about our 9/11 memorial . . .