Fever Ray - Keep The Streets Empty For Me (Video)

Rihanna - Hard feat. Young Jeezy (Video)

Posted for obvious reasons, and they don't include the quality of the music.

Update: Video removed due to copyright infringement. Gutted [sarcasm].

Alicia Keys' new video

Cheryl Cole - Chart Record Breaker

Any excuse for a gratuitous lady picture... (pervs, click for close-up)

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"Cheryl Cole could be heading for the fastest-selling single of the year with her debut solo effort.'Fight For This Love' sold more on its first day available (October 19) than Alexandra Burke's 'Bad Boys' did last Monday (October 12), according to the Official Charts Company."

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Full story at nme.com

New Foo Fighters... Yawn

Jesus. Kurt is turning in his grave.

I really don't rate these guys. Music for Aussies and Kiwi's. It's all so... safe. No doubt this will be getting spins on Steve Wright's Radio 2 show. Which says it all. really.

Maxwell - Love You mp3

Some feelgood modern soul/pop music (for grown ups) from Maxwell's new album BLACKsummers'night, which is out now.

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This is album number one of a trilogy (next part is called blackSUMMERS'night, the part after that blacksummers'NIGHT, or so they say).

Michael Jackson Tribute Mags - The Good, The Bad and OK!

Time magazine cashing in with a special Commemorative Issue, released separately to their normal magazine. I get the feeling MJ would have liked this cover.

OK! chose to cover their 'tribute issue' with the last photograph taken of Michael, showing him being rushed to hospital, either moments from death or dead already (as he had stopped breathing at home, before the ambulance was called). This horrid cover made news across the globe. Elliott Wilson called it 'shameful'. I agree 100%. Rumours are circulating that the magazine paid $500,000 for the photo, but the cost to OK! could be far greater, as the complaints are literally streaming in from UK and US readers unhappy at the magazine's flagrant disregard for taste. Not that they've ever been known for their high standards in that department...

A cooler, throwback image from the 70's chosen by New York's The Village Voice. I think this is how most of us would like to remember Michael. Off The Wall was just about to come out, and his future was not yet determined. If only he had a friend who could have kept him on the right track.

A classic image of Michael, and classy monotone colours make this an attractive collectors edition of the world famous US music mag Rolling Stone. No silver glove on display, but the short trousers and contrasting socks are present.

Maxwell - This Woman's Work mp3

This is not a leak. This is not a new remix. It's just brilliant.

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There is a live version of this track (which, obviously, is a cover of the Kate Bush classic) that blows this studio version to bits. You can find that version on Maxwell's MTV Unplugged album. I compel you to search high and low (or maybe just iTunes) for it if you like this version.

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Prince + Q-Tip = Goodness

This may not or may not be your thing, but you have to love the fact these two are working together.

Lyyke Li - Tonight (Video)

I love Lykke Li.

Chris Brown's handywork...

The before and after. Chris Brown is done.

Peter, Bjorn & John - Nothing To Worry About (Video)

Jay to Chris - "You messed with the wrong crew"

^ "Stop it! Stop! He didn't mean it!"

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Former sub-machine gun toting ("I showed you your first Tec on tour with Large Professor") crack-dealer and convicted knife-attacker Jay-Z, has apparently threatened R&B pop-tart Chris Brown for allegedly beating his girlfriend, the Jigga-mentored, ella-ella-ella singing, R&B pop-tart Rihanna at a pre-Grammy's party.

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Now, if Jay would have threatened my safety in '88, I'd have gone on the lam. For a decade. But in 2009, Hova's threats don't hold much sway. He's Bill Gates's buddy. He hangs out with Chris, Gwyn, Apple and Oyster Card (or whatever their latest kid is called). He wins United Nations humanitarian awards for chrissakes! If he farts, it's in the news. So what is he going to do to me, knowing that it's now fully in the public realm? If I was Chris Brown, I'd be thinking... does S-dot want to slap fire out of me THAT MUCH that he'll risk a huge lawsuit and have to go into his pockets for 7 figures? The definitive answer is this: No. He doesn't.

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UPDATE: Rihanna's grandma says she's 'fine'. Phew.

Gold - Spandau Ballet to play Nou Camp

So... the world-famous arena that usually invites paying customers to witness the mercurial genius of Argentinian footballer Leo Messi, will soon invite paying customers to witness the mercurial genius (ahem) of 80's New Romantics Spandau Ballet singing 'Gold' and 'True' and other such high watermarks of popular music.

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This stadium holds 120,000 people. Is this an as-yet-undocumented case of the 'foreigners love a British celebrity who is a bit rubbish' phenomenon; Spandau being to Spain what Norman Wisdom is to Albania? I hope so... that would be bloody marvellous for the Kemp brothers and big tall Tony Hadley.

Lykke Li - Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix) mp3

A strange little remix of Lykke's strange little pop song from The Loving Hand (Hercules & Love Affiar producer and Mo Wax records co-founder Tim Goldsworthy).

This has been around for months now, but I thought it was worthy of a post of it's own.

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Little Bit (Loving Hand Remix) mp3

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Warwick Avenue - Duffy feat. Wale mp3

Washington DC rapper (and recent signee to Mark Ronson's fledgling label, Allido Records) tags a verse onto Duffy's single from earlier this year, which I assume is now getting airplay in the US.

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Warwick Avenue (Wale Version) mp3

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