The week is done, but that doesn’t mean the work is. This Oscar weekend, be sure to stay tuned to MTV News, MTV Movies Blog and Hollywood Crush, all of which will be bringing you wall-to-wall coverage of the red carpet, the show, the after parties and everything in between. Meanwhile, keep thinking about who [...]

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“Family Guy” creator Seth MacFarlane is clearly a huge music fan. Last year, he built an entire episode of “American Dad” around My Morning Jacket (and lead character Stan Smith’s sudden obsession with them), and on May 2, “The Cleveland Show” will welcome a very special musical guest of its own. Kanye West will show [...]

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Justin Bieber is everywhere. He’s on your radio. He’s in your computer. And he’s deep in your cable system, showing up on MTV, TNT, ABC, NBC and a whole bunch of other networks. Next week, he’ll be able to add another one to his resumé: QVC. Bieber will appear on the home shopping channel’s “QVC [...]

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On Wednesday (March 3), following the seemingly umpteenth performance of Gavin DeGraw’s “I Don’t Want to Be” on “American Idol,” the MTV Newsroom Blog declared a handful of songs officially retired.
However, a pair of contestants decided to immediately ignore that advice on Wednesday night’s episode. Haeley Vaughn took a stab at Miley Cyrus’ “The [...]

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In our continuing efforts to take you, the loyal music lover, deeper into the minds of today’s artists, MTV News presents “Frame by Frame.” Each week, we’ll get a musician to give you the inside scoop on their latest music video.
In a little less than 72 hours, OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” video has [...]

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U2 are a profoundly polarizing band. They are simultaneously easy to love (they make wonderfully glorious rock anthems, put on ridiculously great concerts and have been consistently good for 30 years) and extremely difficult to love (they’re constantly experimenting and circling back, and Bono’s politics sometimes eclipse everything else about the band).
Musically speaking, the [...]

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Even though Sarah Palin is ostensibly a politician, doesn’t she feel more like a reality star? She’s polarizing, usually at the center of controversy and has had her family’s life strewn all over the press. (In these instances, she’s not all that different from Kate Gosselin.) So it makes sense that there are reports that [...]

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Much of the drama entering Wednesday (March 3) night’s “American Idol” telecast centered on the status of Crystal Bowersox, the dreadlocked dynamo who was hospitalized Tuesday morning with complications from diabetes (or, as she calls it, “‘Beetus”) and was told by show producers that she needed to perform … or else.
It wasn’t clear until [...]

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“Freaknik, the party ghost — which is [who I play] — is holding a battle of the trillest. It’s a rap battle. If you win the rap battle, the first prize is a lifetime supply of money, ho’s and clothes. It’s three dudes in the rap group and their weed man trying to make it [...]

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Wednesday night’s (March 3) episode of “American Idol” was, without a doubt, the best episode of the season so far. That’s not to say it was perfect (Haeley Vaughn’s version of Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” saw to that), but there were a number of instantly memorable (and occasionally jaw-dropping) highlights. In addition to Crystal Bowersox’s [...]

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Every day a multitude of stars wanders through the halls of MTV News to talk about their latest projects and goof around with our intrepid correspondents. But sometimes we catch stars elsewhere, and that’s why we put together Spotted!, a daily compendium of stars in the wild.
What is it about Rihanna that makes her so [...]

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Swedish rapper gets 15-to-life for running over pedestrian in Hollywood crosswalk

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By Rahman Dukes
This past weekend, it was sadly reported that Guru, one half of iconic rap group Gang Starr, had fallen ill and was admitted to a New York hospital where he suffered a cardiac arrest. Within hours, urban Web sites, blogs and Twitter were all on full blast with deep concern regarding Guru’s health. [...]

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Sometimes it’s hard to figure out which semi-finalists deserve to go home on “American Idol.” This week? Not so much. The grim parade of bad, sad and WTF? was Macy’s Day long this week, led by repeat visits from a few contestants who must have lucky rabbit feet sewn into their tracheas or compromising pictures [...]

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Tuesday night’s (March 2) episode of “American Idol” must have snuck up on anybody who doesn’t regularly read MTV News, as the Top 10 men ended up singing instead of the women because Crystal Bowersox had to be taken to the hospital. The dudes took the last minute change in stride and improved a bit [...]

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I’d like to open Tuesday night’s (March 2) “American Idol” recap with a short excerpt of a screenplay I’m working on, which is loosely based on what I think might have happened backstage Tuesday. It’s called “Bower Power.”
INT. CBS Studios, backstage.
The Top 10 men are hanging out. A producer enters with purpose.
Producer: Crystal Bowersox is [...]

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People say that the thing that makes Madonna such a brilliant, vital artist is that she has stayed fresh over the course of 30 years of pop music by constantly reinventing herself. While that may be true, there’s another layer to her that is often overlooked: She does an incredible job of constantly couching herself [...]

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By now, you’ve probably seen the new video for OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass.” If you haven’t, take the time to get blown away by it before moving on.
Now that we’re all caught up, you can appreciate the incredible creation that “This Too Shall Pass” is. The track is from the group’s latest [...]

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“I tried to read the article, and I was so disappointed in him. It made me so sad, and it was really discouraging because that’s not the John that I knew. I hope he gets his life together. He did apologize. I don’t accept it. It’s just one of those things that … I don’t [...]

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