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EDITOR'S LETTER

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Lana del Rey

-- Who is Lana?

-- Interview with ...

Imagine Dragons

-- New concerts

You need to heard this!

-- The best new albums

Coldplay New material

Micheal Jackson is ALIVE

-- Thanks to technology

Billboard awards

-- Best show ever

New cassette tape for Sony

Sleight bells

-- Just ringing the bell

Arctic Monkeys tour

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Elizabeth Woolridge Grant (born June 21,

1986), known by her stage name Lana Del

Rey, is an American singer-songwriter. Lana

Del Rey started songwriting at the age of 18

digital album Lana Del Ray in January 2010.

After she released her debut single “Video

Games” in June 2011, a music video created by

herself for the song was posted on YouTube in

August 2011. Her second album, Born to Die,

was released in January 2012. The album has

sold over 5 million copies worldwide to date,

Charting across Europe, this album spawned

numerous top ten hits, including the

title track “Born to Die”, “Blue Jeans”, and

“Summertime Sadness”. With the release of

her third EP, Paradise, Del Rey spawned her

second top ten album in the United States,

debuting at number 10 on the Billboard

WHO IS LANA del rey?

Lana Del Rey makes atmopheric,

orchestral, retro '60s sounding pop

that showcases her torchy image

and sensuously husky singing style.

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interview with... lana del rey

Considering your female audience, do you feel any pressure to be a role model?

Lana: Well I think the good thing is, I do actually aim to live my life with grace and dignity. I really don’t like to be in trouble. I like to live a good life, it is important to me.

At a certain point, though, doesn’t your act become performance art?

Lana: Well it’s kind of be-come that. When the audi-ence gets bigger, it becomes less for you and more of a per-formance, even though I’m not really a natural performer.

Speaking of, are you working on any new music right now?

Lana: I was until my record got leaked last week, ‘cause my life is like completely in-vaded. But yeah, I’m writing songs that I really like right now.

Are you going to move for-ward, or do you feel too discouraged because of the leaks?

Lana: I do feel discouraged, yeah. I don’t really know what to put on the record. But I guess I could just put them on and see what happens.

That’s a lot of pressure to put on yourself. how do you han-dle it?

Lana: That’s the way I kind of do it, which means I don’t write all

-ing. Sometimes it’s six months. I

Do you feel like where your life is at right now is more conducive to writing music than before?

Lana: I don’t think it’s been conducive to writing, be-ing on the road and all that.

You could work with outside songwriters. Are you open to that kind of thing a bit more now?

Lana: Yeah, I’m more open to it now, ‘cause personally I’m not really feeling it. (Laughs) Like this guy I worked with eight years ago, Steven

cord He knew me really well.

Did you write “Young and Beautiful” specifically for The Great Gatsby soundtrack, or was that a song you had previously penned but not released?

Lana: I wrote a different song, but when Baz Luhrmann heard it, he asked me if I could I write a memory cue for Daisy. So I sang him a chorus of “Young and Beautiful” that I had already — just a chorus — and he thought that’d be good for her.

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Imagine Dragons will perform a charity con-

cert July 12 at TCF Bank Stadium, accord-

ing to media reports. The long-rumored

concert would tie in to the July 15 All-Star

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Imagine Dragons broke through in a major

way last year with their Grammy-winning

hit “Radioactive.” The record-breaking sin-

gle has spent more than a year and a half

in the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was the

third biggest-selling song of 2013. The band’s

debut album, “Night Visions,” has gone dou-

ble platinum and also spawned the singles

“It’s Time,” “On Top of the World,” “Monster”

and “Demons.” In March, Imagine Dragons

than 14,000 fans. Judging by previous All-Star

Game concerts, admission may be free, with

donations to a charitable cause suggested.

IMAGINE DRAGONS

Reports: Imagine Dragons to play TCF Bank Stadium for All-Star Game events

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NEW ALBUMSyou need to heard this

The new album will feature eight brand new recordings. A Deluxe Edition of XSCAPE will include a selection of the re-cordings in their original form. The title of this album honors Michael’s album naming process. He always chose a song from the album to name his projects and, beginning with THRILLER, used only one word titles, each with an edgy quality to them. This is true of the new project.

Just three years after the Black Keys released their heav-ily worn platinum album El Camino, the band is back with their newest record Turn Blue.In true Black Keys fashion, the album offers plenty of gritty blues and self-indulgent gui-tar solos, but with a refreshingly genuine approach. Released on May 12, 2014 under Nonesuch Records, the unique collection is already winning critics over.

Glorious is the debut studio album by English singer and songwriter Foxes, due for release on 28 February 2014. The album is available in three versions; the standard album, a deluxe version, and a limited edition vinyl. The track list features new songs, as well as two

Warrior (2012) (“In Her Arms” and “White Coats”). Very recomended, especially for the girls.

Monkeys. It was produced by James Ford and co-produced by Ross Orton at Sage & Sound Recording in Los Angeles and Rancho De La Luna in Joshua Tree, California, and released in September 2013 through Domino. The album was promoted by the singles: “R U Mine?”, “Do I Wanna Know?”, “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?”, “One for the Road” and “Snap Out of It”. It features guest appearances by Josh Homme, Bill Ryder-Jones and Pete Thomas.The album received critical acclaim from music critics and featured in many end of year lists as one of the best of 2013. The album draws inspiration from various musical genres, including psychedelic rock, blues rock, hard rock, heavy metal, desert rock.

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c o l d p l a y new album

Ghost Stories

bum by British rock band Coldplay and was

released by Parlophone on 16 May 2014. Ghost

Stories, partly inspired by lead singer Chris

Martin’s troubled relationship with Gwyneth

Paltrow at the time of the album’s record

ing, is a concept album that tells the story of

a man going through a dramatic and sud

den breakup, with the narrative following

the man’s various emotional states leading up

to his eventual acceptance of the situation.

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The Michael Jackson performance on the 2014 Billboard Music Awards was the result of

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ment of new technology. Producers of the Billboard Music Awards did not see even a por-

16 dancers live onstage. Jackson appeared in gold jacket, white T-shirt and brick red trou-

sers on a set modeled on the art work for the album “Dangerous,” an appropriate choice

as the track was recorded in 1991 with L.A. Reid and Babyface during the sessions for that

album. Released this week on “XSCAPE,” which is neck-and-neck with the new Black Keys

album for No. 1 on the Billboard 200 next week, the track was produced by Timbaland.

michael jackson is alive

BBMA producers built a special stage at the rear of the MGM Grand Arena that was used only for the Jackson performance. Dancers moved through aisles as Jackson was seen rising from a throne, walking down steps before going into several trademark routines, a moonwalk being one of the them.

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BEST SHOW EVERSo, yeah, the 2014 Billboard Music Awards happened (May 18). And the show was eventful, to

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Following an introduction from her muse Nicki Minaj, Lorde took the stage ready to dazzle. Decked

out in black, the 17-year-old songstress brought life to the electro-goth track “Tennis Court,” ooz

While capping off an incredible comeback year by accepting the Top Artist award at the 2014

Billboard Music Awards, Justin Timberlake made a point to clown on disgraced Los Angeles Clip

comments and was subsequently banned from the NBA for life. “I want to thank everyone on

Earth… except Donald Sterling,” Timberlake deadpanned, before walking off camera. This and

more, happen on a magic night, you can visit www.billboardaward.com for more and more details.

(CNN) -- Forget the cloud, and rework your

mental image of those mysterious data centers.

Sony has reinvented a tool for storing a mind-

numbing amount of data: A cassette tape.

But this isn’t one of those rattling plastic tapes you used

to compile your ultimate summer road-trip songs

and were probably forced to rewind with a pencil.

Sony’s record-breaking magnetic micro tape tech-

nology allows it to store 180 terabytes of data on

a single cartridge. That’s the same amount of

storage as 1,184 iPod Classics, Apple’s roomiest

music player, which can hold about 40,000 songs.

Using that number, Sony’s new cassette could

technically store about 47.3 million songs of its own.

That’s enough jams for a really long road

trip, driving in Atlanta during a snowstorm.

If you’re more of a movie buff, think of it this way. The

cartridge, which stores 148GB of data per inch of tape,

has room for 3,700 Blu-ray discs full of your favorites.

The number obliterates the standing best

record, set in 2010 when Fuji developed a

tape that could hold 35 terabytes of data.

Sony, which worked with IBM on the tape,

presented the new technology over the

weekend at InterMag Europe, a mag

netics conference in Dresden, Germany.

NEW CASSETTE TAPE FOR SONY

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Point Music & Arts Festival. Upcoming fes-

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with numerous festival appearances, noise-

pop duo Sleigh Bells has nailed down a

few headlining dates. Stops include Provi-

dence, Louisville, Indianapolis and Cincinnati.

Singer Alexis Krauss and guitarist Derek Miller

have been supporting Sleigh Bells’ third stu-

dio album – Bitter Rivals – with lots of live

appearances as well as TV performances,

including “The Late Show With David Letter-

man,” “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” and

“Jimmy Kimmel Live!” They also stopped in at

SXSW, made it to Indio, Calif., for the group’s

third appearance at Coachella and traveled

to Georgia for a gig at Atlanta’s Counter-

tival appearances include New York City’s

Governor’s Ball in June, Denmark’s Roskilde Fes

tival in July, and the Mad Decent Block Party

in Columbia, Md., and Norfolk, Va., in August.

J U S T R I N G I N G

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