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>> Last Friday on Night on Late Night: Neptune, New Jersey native Nicole Atkins did "War Torn" on Letterman, Christian rapper Lecrae did "Welcome To America" and Jimmy & Don Cheadle did "Pleather & Jerry" on Fallon, and country boy Frankie Ballard "Young & Crazy" on Kimmel.

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>> "I can't seem to get rid of characters. Say, for instance, I want to write about a very political subject, or a 24-hour news cycle, or something more worldly — it's not until I think of a character and how a character feels about that that it becomes interesting enough to me to write a song about it." ~ Suart Murdoch

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>> Congratulations to John Legend and Common who took home the Golden Globe last night for Best Original Song for their Selma collaboration, "Glory."

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>> Noel Gallagher goes on a mysterious slo-mo solo walkabout adventure and ends up where he begins (literally and figuratively dyaknowhatimean) in his new video for Chasing Yesterday tune "Ballad Of The Mighty I."

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>> Full Stream Ahead: Sleater-Kinney, No Cities To Love, Menace Beach, Ratworld, Mark Ronson, Uptown Special, Liam Hayes, Slurrup, Bonuses: Panda Bear, Live at MoMA PS1's geodesic VW Dome and Nick Cave, "Avalanche" (Leonard Cohen cover)

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>> Tyler The Creator and Erykah Badu star in Adult Swim's The Black Dynamite Police Brutality Musical.

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>> http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/12/business/media/pop-music-critic-leaves-the-new-yorker-to-annotate-lyrics-for-a-start-up.html

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>> Some people are really into Taylor Swift's armpits.

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>> There's a new Death Cab for Cutie album called Kitsugi on the way, y'all.

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