NME stages its first USA awards ceremony at El Rey in Los Angeles tonight at 9pm(PST).
The event will include the much anticipated reunion of Jane’s Addiction. The eighties band have reformed specifically for the occasion where they will receive the NME award for Godlike Geniuses.
The Lemonheads will collect the award for NME Classic Album for [...]

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Here, for those of you who missed the Klaxons live performance with the gorgeous Rihanna at the Brit Awards 2008 on Wednesday night, with a cool rendition of Rihanna’s chart topping Umbrella song. Yes, I agree the original is somewhat annoying and over played wherever you go. But this version gets the Klaxon [...]

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Britains  troubled songstress Amy Winehouse collected five awards last night, out of the six she had been nominated for.  The singer dedicated her awards to her incarcerated husband Blake Fielder-Civil and to Camden Market which was hit by a huge fire at the weekend.
Winehouse won awards for record of the year, best new artist, best song [...]

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Feist album The Reminder has won this years Shortlist Prize- the American equivalent to the UK’s Mercury Music prize- seeing off strong competition from Arcade Fire and M.I.A.
The award is open to Artists who have released an album during the period of January to November, that has sold less than 500,000 copies. Other contenders for [...]

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Its pretty fair to say that the nominations for this years Brit Awards were, lets say disappointing. I am not really sure how we should take the news that Take That are among the handful of best bands in the UK.
Obviously I am not alone in these thoughts as Arctic Monkeys front-man Alex Turner is [...]

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