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Hear Coldplay Collaborate With Rihanna

When Coldplay announced they collaborated with R&B star Rihanna, everyone was skeptical. Then Chris Martin said it was his favorite track on the upcoming Mylo Xyloto and fans thought he lost his mind.  read more

10 Terrific Covers of Rap Songs (And 10 We Want to See Happen)

There are million YouTube videos of people covering rap, hip-hop and R&B songs, and it can be overwhelming to sift through them all—so we've done it for you. Here are 10 songs that you should hear.   read more

Coldplay Unveils Tracklist for New Album, Releases Second Single

On Friday, a dazzlingly colorful image appeared on Coldplay's Facebook page listing the finalized list of tracks from the British superstars' forthcoming fifth LP, Mylo Xyloto.  read more

Good in the Hood: The Very Best of The Hood Internet

The past two weeks have been fruitful for The Hood Internet...  read more

Hope For Haiti Now Telethon to Feature Coldplay, Jay-Z, Bono, George Clooney, Many More

This Friday (Jan. 22), the MTV-networks sponsored Hope For Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief telethon will run on just about every television network in existence. The event will bring together a long list of musicians and actors, including Coldplay, Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Wyclef Jean....  read more

Ian Brown Wants to Work With...Rihanna?

In a recent interview with the BBC, legendary former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown revealed a bit of news that fans have been waiting to hear for years... ...  read more

Seven Brilliant, Terrible and Brilliantly Terrible Metal Covers of Pop Songs

Your average metal band usually has wildly different musical sensibilities from top 40 radio pop (and that goes double for said average metal band's fans). But is there really any good reason for that other than genre segregation that forbids metal fans from rubbing their leather-clad elbows with bubblegum popsters? That question may remain unanswered for now, but some metal acts are bridging the divide with covers of pop tracks that range from excellent to execrable. Let's take a look, and see how they stack up against the originals....  read more

Def Jam preps 2LP comp for anniversary, Record Store Day

Hip-hop is in a collaborative frenzy right now. Nearly every big-name release has a small horde of featured artists, and producers and emcees are passed around the studios like so many communion chalices. Even so, uniting an entire label's best and brightest is no mean feat, since so many titanic egos would have to play nice to squeeze onto a single album. Def Jam, rap mecca that it is, is artfully sidestepping this problem by releasing a double-vinyl compilation in celebration of the label's 25th anniversary. ...  read more