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Kendrick Lamar doles out punches and salvation in the new video for "Element," off his latest album, Damn.
Jonas Lindstroem co-directed the clip with the Little Homies, the duo of Lamar and Top Dawg Entertainment President Dave Free.






The new video mimics the richly symbolic visual collage style of "Humble," though the "Element" video is less frenetic and relies more on striking slow-motion shots. The clip grapples with violence and comprises sequences in which a building burns, a father teaches his son to fight, a group of men shadowbox, police chase a suspect and even Lamar brawls with a pool cue and his fists. These harrowing shots, however, are countered with serene and religiously-themed images of nuns in habits, a couple alone in a bedroom and a young boy standing quietly in the pouring rain.

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The Michael Jackson estate announced it partnered with CBS to produce an hour-long animated Halloween special set to air this fall, according to The Hollywood Reporter.




Jackson's music will soundtrack the story of a young duo named Vincent and Victoria who "accidentally" meet on Halloween night. Alongside a dog named Ichabod, Vincent and Victoria wind up at 777 Jackson Street at the mysterious – and aptly named – This Place Hotel. Inside the This Place Hotel, Victoria, Vincent and Ichabod embark on a journey that ends with a dance finale featuring an animated Michael Jackson.

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The Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody "is finally happening," the band announced Friday on their website.




"The film is now 'as-close-as-that' to start of shooting," the band wrote. "Pre-production begins next week in the UK to prepare for start of principal photography in around London as soon as mid-September."

Queen's Brian May and Roger Taylor will serve as executive producers on the film that focuses on the life of Freddie Mercury, with Mr. Robot star Rami Malek set to portray the iconic singer.

"He's completely living and breathing Freddie already, which is just wonderful to see," May recently told Rolling Stone of Malek.

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Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington died of an apparent suicide by hanging Thursday morning, according to AP. Police in Palos Verdes Estates, in Los Angeles County told TMZ that*the singer's body had been discovered just before 9 a.m. The singer was 41. A representative did not immediately reply to a request for comment.





Bennington's screamed and emotional vocals provided a gritty counterpoint to co-frontman Mike Shinoda's raps on the group's nu-metal hits like "In the End" and "One Step Closer." He sang the poppy melodies on the band's recent hit "Heavy," which featured singer Kiiara and reached Number Two on Billboard's Hot Rock Songs chart and Number 11 on the Top 40. In addition to working with Linkin Park, he also fronted Stone Temple Pilots between 2013 and 2015 and the supergroups Dead by Sunday and Kings of Chaos.

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Justin Bieber canceled the remaining dates of his PurposeWorld Tour. The singer announced the decision in a statement on his website, though he didn't elaborate on his reasoning for axing the final promotional dates behind his 2015 LP.




"Due to unforeseen circumstances, Justin Bieber will cancel the remainder of the Purpose World Tour concerts," the statement reads.

"Justin loves his fans and hates to disappoint them. He thanks his fans for the incredible experience of the Purpose World Tour over last 18 months. He is grateful and honored to have shared that experience with his cast and crew for over 150 successful shows across six continents during this run. However, after careful consideration, he has decided he will not be performing any further dates. Tickets will be refunded at point of purchase."

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Quincy Jones has been awarded $9.42 million ($9,423,695) after a trial that ended with a Los Angeles jury finding in the producer's favor in a royalties dispute with Michael Jackson's estate, Variety reports.




The lawsuit, which Jones filed in 2013, stemmed from Jones' claim that he was owed royalties for a series of projects that were released after Jackson died, including the music used in two Cirque du Soleil productions and music featured in the This Is It concert film. Jones said he was owed $30 million.

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Chester Bennington's ex-wife Samantha Bennington remembered the Linkin Park singer in an emotional tribute that she posted on Facebook Sunday.





"I pray from my soul that he is at peace and no longer suffering," wrote Samantha, who was married to the singer from 1996 to 2005.
"Chester, as one of my best friends of the age of 19, a husband, father to my son, business partner, and all we created together, I'm truly honored to have completed our soul contracts together, build all we did together, & thank you for giving me the greatest gift ever, our beautiful son Draven."

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The Rolling Stones' Ronnie Wood revealed in a new interview that he recently battled a "touch of lung cancer," with the guitarist requiring an operation to remove a part of his lung.




"There was a week when everything hung in the balance and it could have been curtains, time to say goodbye," Wood told the Mail on Sunday of the diagnosis, which he kept a secret.

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Metallica's final North American show in Edmonton, in Alberta, Canada, from this leg of their WorldWired tour will be live streamed on Wednesday, beginning around 10:45 p.m. ET. In support of last year's Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, the tour is the band's biggest trek yet and their first North American tour in eight years. It's also their first stadium run in almost two decades. It kicked off in May in Baltimore at M&T Bank Stadium.




"Not a lot of bands have been jumping from the middle to the top," Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone*when discussing their stadium run, citing U2 as his role model for how bands get bigger. "Guns N' Roses have been around for 30 years, AC/DC have been around 45, we've been around for 130 years – it's an odd thing. Sometimes it's like, 'Holy fuck, we're playing stadiums. What if somebody finds out that we shouldn't be playing stadiums?'"

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The latest episode of the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast is now available. Listen and subscribe to the podcast on iTunes, Spotify.

The National's Matt Berninger and Bryan Devendorf join host Brian Hiatt to go deep on the making of their new album, Sleep Well Beast. They explain how weed, Donald Trump, Karl Rove inspired some of the songs, and why "rock n' roll in general is on its way out."

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