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>> Last Night on Late Night: Inescapable sexy-trashy it-girl Charlie XCX grinded out Sucker track 13, "Need Your Luv," atop a neon-lit white piano with a little help from Vampy WKND's Rostam Batmanglij on Letterman, camp buddies Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake did Third Eye Blind's "Jumper," human beeeeeeeeeeeing Nicki Minaj told her Red Lobster story, again, and stuck around to do "Bed Of Lies, with Skylar Grey, again, Smashing Pumpkins 7.0 did new tunes "Being Beige (World's On Fire)" and "One and All," Vance Joy and his ukulele did "Riptide" and Marcel The Shell did "Landslide" on Coco, and Kendrick Lamar did a new song called "Untitled" on Colbert.

>> St. Vincent revisits the cult leader character from the cover of her album, St. Vincent, as well as a crazy/possibly-related new one and mixes the whole thing with some sumptuous slo-mo shredding footage in the better late than never music video for "Birth In Reverse."

>> New Laura Marling album/track list/Short Movie revealed.

>> Full Stream Ahead: Francesca Belmonte, "Stole," Mexican Summer, Best of 2014 (Spotify link), Laurel, Holy Water EP, Bonus: Tom Waits, "Silent Night/Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis"

>> TV on The Radio is Brooklyn's version of Radiohead. In an unrelated story, according to music data tracker Songkick The 1975 is the hardest-working band.


>> http://pitchfork.com/features/staff-lists/9558-the-50-best-albums-of-2014

>> J. Lo is 45 going on Ariana Grande. #MEOW

>> LuckyMe is ushering in 2015 with a free download every day until Christmas.

>> Christmas Miracle: Wham’s “Last Christmas,” slowed way down

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