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Florence + the Machine have scored their first number one record after moving 137,000 units of How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful in its debut week. The LP bumped A$AP Rocky out of the one spot on the Billboard 200. "What Kind of Man," the lead single, peaked at number eight on the Alternative Songs chart, and number seven on Hot Rock Songs.

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Montgomery Gentry have been credited as pioneers of the current trend of slick male front men in country known as "bro country" and have opened up on the trend with Rolling Stone Country. In the interview the pair say they're totally fine if people want to say they started the trend.

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Peter Frampton has announced a new LP, which will include acoustic renditions of some of his favorite songs from earlier releases. "It's much more interesting than I thought it was going to be," Frampton tells Billboard. "I thought, 'Well, I'll just go into the studio and I'll whip off 10 or 11 of my songs just the way I wrote them.'"

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Former Rage Against The Machine frontman Tom Morello has started his own record label, Firebrand Records. "The label gives you one-stop shopping for all your rebel-music needs," Morello told Rolling Stone. "It's the kind of label that I wish had existed my entire artistic life." Morello has released a digital sampler with a variety of different styles of music.

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U2 dedicated their song "One" to Arcade Fire during the band's recent stop in Montreal, Canada. Arcade Fire's R

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Lenny Kravitz has made a special guest appearance on the track "Face the Sun" by Miguel. The track will be included on Miggy's forthcoming third studio album, Wildheart, and follows his two already released tracks "FLESH" and ". . . going to hell."

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Marilyn Manson has confirmed a new string of U.K. tour dates. The run is set to kick off in London at the Eventim Apollo on November 19 and will continue through November 23 when he'll wrap things at the Manchester O2 Apollo. The tour will follow Manson's forthcoming run of North American dates alongside Smashing Pumpkins. That tour will encompass 23 cities across the continent.

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If you ask Dave Davies, he isn't the one holding up a potential Kinks reunion. Dave set the record straight with a recent tweet, saying that he doesn't know why people keep saying that he is the reason that the band has gotten back together. "I dont know why reporters keep sayng I dont want 2 do a Kinks reunion w/ Mick Avory. I WOULD like 2 do a Kinks reunion."

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Icona Pop has released a new video for their track "Emergency." The new clip, directed by Christian Larson with fashion styling from B.

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Lil Wayne has announced that fans can expect to see his long anticipated album Free Weezy on July 4. Weezy initially said that fans could expect the album to be released this past February. He made the announcement during a club appearance in Anaheim, California. "I got a new album coming out. It's called FWA. It'll be out Fourth of July," he told the crowd.

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