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As one of pop music's preeminent ministers of brood, Abel Tesfaye can lay claim to exerting a huge influence on the menacing tone that undergirds a large swath of contemporary R&B. And he knows it. With two multiplatinum albums in the bag, the Weeknd has largely conquered a pop landscape he once dismissed as trivial, composing pop records that hide his bleak visions in a danceable,

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Over 200 of Linkin Park's used instruments, including guitars, keyboards, megaphone, samplers and other music gear from the band's personal arsenal, will be auctioned off to benefit the group's Music for Relief nonprofit. Reverb.com will host

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Ben Harper and Charlie Musselwhite know something about the darkness that underlies the deepest of blues. Standing side by side on a small stage in Los Angeles in March, the duo ease into the haunted twang of a song called "No Mercy in This Land," with Harper on electric bottleneck

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Imagine Dragons, Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Zedd will headline the

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Brian Wilson will perform the Beach Boys' Christmas Album in its entirety on his month-long Holiday Tour this winter.

The Beach Boys legend, who has spent the past two years

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Jay-Z explains that it takes a good voice and good flow to be a great rapper in a preview from his upcoming interview with David Letterman on My Next Guest Needs No Introduction.

"You can have a great voice, and you can

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