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Taylor Swift has been criticized by Earl Sweatshirt, who says that the music video for her latest hit, "Shake It Off," is "inherently offensive." Earl hit Twitter to shoot a few arrows at Tay Tay. "haven't watched the taylor swift video and I don't need to watch it to tell you that it's inherently offensive and ultimately harmful," he said in his first tweet.



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Brad Paisley has released the lyric video for "Limes," a cut from his upcoming album Moonshine in the Trunk. In the video, Paisley is depicted as a guitar playing lime, who wears a cowboy hat. Paisley's lime is featured alongside Annoying Orange, and the two attempt to outdo one another with tales of woe. "My truck broke down, my dog has the flu . . ."



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Slipknot have been added as a headliner to the upcoming Australian Soundwave Festival. The fest's organizers announced the news, adding that Faith No More and Soundgarden have also been added to the headlining bill. Knot joins the roving fest for dates in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.



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Usher has released "Believe Me," the latest single from his upcoming album. The cut, produced by Mike Will Made It, sees Ush reminiscing on a long lost lady. "And it breaks my heart to know I break your heart," he coos. According to Exclaim, the song features Mike Will Made It's signature sound, "[F]rom heavy bass and busy drum work through back-masked synths . . ."



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Following her split from Nick Cannon, Mariah Carey was spotted out and about, taking her twins - Moroccan and Monroe - out for pizza. Paparazzi spotted Mimi in NYC looking stylish in a black and white wrap dress and floppy hat. Cannon announced news of the pair's split last week, but he was seen leaving the pair's apartment on the same day Carey was spotted.



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Martin Scorsese is working on a biopic about the Ramones, according to the band's estate manager. Jeff Jampol tells Billboard, "We're gonna do something moving forward, but it's gonna be Ramones. We're all gonna focus on the Ramones, and it's that whole thing of, 'United we stand, divided we fall.' The legacy is the Ramones, the music is the Ramones . . ."



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Dolly Parton has posted a video to YouTube of her completing the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. She was nominated by fellow country legend Kenny Rogers, who doubted whether she'd do it. She did - noting, however, that she wasn't planning on turning it into something risqué.

"Yes, I have on a bra," she says in the vid. "Kenny, you have to pay extra for the wet t-shirt contest."
"This was not on my bucket list, if you'll pardon the expression," Parton adds. "A lot of people challenged me . . . Kenny said, 'You'll never do it with your false hair, your false eyelashes and your false nails.' Kenny, you'd be surprised at what all I do with my falses for a good cause and a good laugh."

The IBC is raising awareness and funds for Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a disease of the nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord that control voluntary muscle movement. ALS is also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.





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Radiohead's Thom Yorke surprised club goers in Los Angeles this past week when he performed a DJ set. Yorke showed up unannounced behind the turntables at the Roosevelt Hotel in L.A. during its weekly Nightswim party. Excited and surprised onlookers filmed parts of his set.



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Rihanna is the latest celebrity to be seen getting down to Bobby Shmurda's "Hot N***a." The "Rude Boy" songstress took a video of herself doing the Shmoney Dance on a yacht, alongside her good friends Melissa Forde and LeLe Boo. Shmurda, a Brooklyn rapper, created the latest dance craze, which he does while rapping in his music video for the song "Hot N***a."



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Johnny Winter and Aerosmith's Joe Perry released their new track, "Mojo Hand," which is the second single released from Winter's collaborative album, Step Back. The single has been made available on YouTube. The first single, "Where Can You Be," featuring an assist from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons, was released last week.



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