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Nelly was arrested early Saturday morning and charged with second-degree rape following an incident that occurred on the rapper's tour bus following a Friday night concert in Auburn.




Nelly, born Cornell Haynes Jr., was booked into Des Moines, Washington's SCORE Jail just before 6:40 a.m. PST Saturday, three hours after the Auburn Police Department responded to a call from a woman who said that the rapper raped her on the tour bus.

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Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds have offered up their joyous new single "Holy Mountain," the first single off the former Oasis guitarist's upcoming new LP Who Built the Moon? The track features the Jam's Paul Weller on organ.




"There’s so much joy in it. Until the day I die, it will be one of my favourite pieces of music that I've ever written. It sounds great live. My kids love it, my friends' kids all love it and I am sure 'the kids' will love it."

Gallagher previously promised that his new album would be "a really big, bold, up-tempo beast of a record" and "Holy Mountain" delivers on all fronts as the guitarist cranks out a colorful, anthemic rocker powered by a driving riff and infectious hooks.

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Los Angeles producer the Gaslamp Killer has been accused of drugging and raping a woman and her friend in 2013.




"I've been silently suffering over this for many years. the gaslamp killer drugged and raped my best friend and myself 4 years ago," a woman who uses the handle @chelseaelaynne wrote on Twitter Sunday night. Her account of the alleged rape, which happened four years ago and also involved a female friend, soon went viral.
In the tweet, Chelsea, who declined to use her last name to Pitchfork, accused the producer born William Bensussen of drugging the drinks of her and her friend while at a hotel party in 2013. Bensussen is alleged to have had "non-consensual sex with both of us while we were completely incapacitated."

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Bob Weinstein, the brother of Harvey Weinstein, was accused of sexual harassment, Varietyreports. Amanda Segel, who served as an executive producer on the Weinstein Company drama The Mist, said the film and TV executive made numerous unwanted advances towards her during the show's production.





The allegations come after The New York Times and The New Yorker published massive reports in which numerous women accused Weinstein's brother Harvey of harassment and assault.

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All five living former U.S. presidents – Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George Bush and Jimmy Carter – united onstage together to help raise funds for hurricane victims as part of Saturday's One America Appeal event, which featured a surprise appearance by Lady Gaga.





"The heart of America, without regard to race or religion or political party, is greater than our problems," Clinton told the audience at Texas A&M University.

Donald Trump did not attend One America Appeal, which raised over $31 million, instead offering a video message, "To Presidents Jimmy Carter, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, Melania and I want to express our deep gratitude for your tremendous assistance. This wonderful effort reminds us that we truly are one nation under God, all unified by our values and our devotion to one another."

Lady Gaga made an unannounced appearance during One America Appeal at the 1:50:25-mark of the event. "Now that's what I call an audience," the singer said, looking down at the former presidents.

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Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace will be featured in this weekend's Squidbillies episode with a cover of the Adult Swim animated show's theme song. The show airs on Cartoon Network at midnight on Sundays.





As Alternative Press points out, Grace takes viewers into the studio in a behind-the-scenes video for the song. "It's fun to sing that line of, 'Take all you sons of bitches when I go,'" Grace says while laughing. In the clip, Grace plays guitar and tracks powerful vocals.

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Dave Grohl will make an unexpected return to late-night TV when the Foo Fighters singer serves as guest host of Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night.



Grohl will join Shaquille O'Neal, Channing Tatum and Jennifer Lawrence as guest hosts for Jimmy Kimmel's show this week.

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The music industry's biggest names didn't shy away from some extra fanfare in the lead-up to Halloween Tuesday, with artists like Cardi B, Demi Lovato and Adam Levine channeling everything – and everyone – from Disney characters to music icons to classic black cats.



Check out some of the year's most creative costumes ..


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N.E.R.D.'s first concert in over six years turned into a surprise listening party for their upcoming new album as Pharrell Williams and company debuted No_One Ever Really Dies at ComplexCon in Long Beach, California.





The album, the Neptunes project's first since 2010's Nothing, boasts first single "Lemon" with Rihanna as well as guests like Kendrick Lamar, Andre 3000, Future, Ed Sheeran, Gucci Mane and more, Complex reports.
Lamar, who collaborated with Pharrell on To Pimp a Butterfly's "Alright," features on a pair of No_One Ever Really Dies, "Kites" with fellow guest M.I.A. and "Don't Don't Do It," which Pharrell told the audience was inspired by the police shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott in September 2016.

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Just as pop singing wasn't the same after Elvis or the guitar didn't recover after Hendrix, neither was rock orchestration the same after Paul Buckmaster, the half-British, half-Italian string arranger who died Tuesday at age 71 of undisclosed causes. Even if his name doesn't ring any bells (or, more appropriately, triangles), the records Buckmaster arranged and orchestrated will. Starting with his work on David Bowie’s "Space Oddity," Buckmaster's alternately lush and brooding string arrangements enriched, deepened and darkened pop records for nearly 50 years.



If that sounds like an exaggeration, consider just some of the records featuring his arrangements. In Buckmaster's hands, string sections on rock records weren't schmaltzy. They were trippy and panoramic (the Rolling Stones' "Moonlight Mile"), dark and brooding (Elton John's "Madman Across the Water," the Stones' "Sway"), stately (Harry Nilsson's "Without You," John’s "Levon"), high-stepping (Simon's "You're So Vain"), and lush without being overbaked (Taylor Swift's "Back to December"). The muted French horns and other woodwinds that underscored Guns N' Roses "Madagascar" made that the moist listenable song on the messy Chinese Democracy.

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