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By Erica Futterman Two female back-up singers joined Mayer’s six-piece band, helping to flesh out the sounds of Battle Studies — Melanie Taylor and Julie Delgado took over the Taylor Swift part in Mayer’s Fleetwood Mac-tinged “Half of My Heart,” added vocal acrobatics to “I Don’t Trust Myself (With Lovin...

By Daniel Kreps Kanye West made his first public live appearance since his infamous stage crash at MTV’s Video Music Awards in September, surprising the crowd at Beyoncé’s concert at London’s O2 Arena by performing his verse from the “Ego” remix last night. “Give it up for Kanye West,” Beyoncé — who was th...

By Rolling Stone Shakira’s reign as the star of Rolling Stone’s latest issue comes to an end tomorrow, but we couldn’t let the Colombian singer’s RS cover pass by without throwing a party in celebration of her upcoming album She Wolf, out November 23rd. We caught up with Shakira on the red carpet at New York’...

By Daniel Kreps Taylor Swift pulled a Timberlake this weekend, becoming one of a handful of artists in Saturday Night Live history to serve as both musical guest and host, for the show’s November 7th episode. Swift did a masterful job in both roles, appearing in nearly all the sketches — which were for the m...

By Daniel Kreps Another track off John Mayer’s Battle Studies has leaked before its November 17th release date: “Half of My Heart,” a duet with Taylor Swift. The pair team up for a nice piece of Fleetwood Mac-inspired pop in which Mayer sings, “Half of my heart is a shotgun wedding to a bride with a paper ring...

By Daniel Kreps Band Hero also reportedly features avatars of Taylor Swift and Maroon 5’s Adam Levine. Related Stories: • Rock Star Avatars: Video Game Versions of Real-Life Music Heroes • Jon Bon Jovi Joins Cobain “Guitar Hero 5″ Protest • Grohl, Novoselic Didn’t Approve Cobain’s “Guitar Hero” Avatar

By Daniel Kreps Swift didn’t want the show’s writers to take it easy on her because she’s also performing, the Fearless singer told MTV News. “I want to look nothing like myself,” Swift said. “I told all the writers, ‘Don’t count anything out.’ I want to go completely, 100 percent in.” Swift also revealed she c...

By Rolling Stone November 22nd’s American Music Awards are shaping up to be 2009’s hot ticket. Eminem and Lady Gaga were just added to the lineup of all-star performers at the event, which will air live from Los Angeles’ Nokia Theatre at 8 p.m. on ABC. The 37th annual show is determining its winners list based on...

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By Daniel Kreps The Big News: A full week on shelves and digital music services helped propel the Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack to the Number One position on the Billboard Top 200 with another 153,000 copies sold according to Nielsen SoundScan — a 33 percent increase over its truncated debut sales w...

By Rolling Stone Earlier this month, Mayer unveiled the video for the album’s first single, “Who Says,” which gives fans a raw look at one of his nights out on the town. In our Fall Music Preview, Mayer told Rolling Stone the song’s first lyric, “Who says you can’t get stoned?” was not about weed but, being “in...

By Rolling Stone Sources tell the Rap-Up that Rihanna will perform at the American Music Awards on November 22nd, the day before her new album, Rated R, is released. Rihanna’s mentor Jay-Z is already booked to take the stage, along with Taylor Swift and Alicia Keys. Ashlee Simpson-Wentz’s gig as an actress...

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By Rolling Stone • Them Crooked Vultures Rock NYC Debut • Watch Jack White Dance in “Buffalo” Clip • Peter Criss Reveals Breast Cancer Scare • Is Jim Morrison Haunting a Photo? • Alicia Keys, David Bowie: Black Ball Photos • Britney, Led Zep, Jay-Z Get Remixed • News Ticker: Taylor Swift, Garth Brooks • Excl...

By Rolling Stone Fire up the Kanye jokes! Taylor Swift will host Saturday Night Live November 7th. “There are definitely some hilarious things that have happened to me over the past couple of months that I think will be pretty substantial skits,” the singer told the AP. Garth Brooks is ending his hiatus for a...

By Rolling Stone All American Rejects, “Swing, Swing” The Kooks, “Naïve” KoRn, “Word Up!” Blur, “Song 2” P!NK, “So What” The Police, “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic” Supergrass, “Grace” Iggy Pop, “The Passenger” Incubus, “Dig” Jimi Hendrix, “Fire” Rascal Flatts, “Life is a Highway”

By Rolling Stone So whose avatar is most life-like? Metallica or Aerosmith? Ozzy or Lemmy? Taylor Swift or Hayley Williams? Check out a gallery of rockers from Guitar Hero, The Beatles: Rock Band, DJ Hero and Band Hero and name the best representations and worst offenders in the comments:

By Daniel Kreps No venues have been named yet, but you can probably predict it’ll be a larger-scale arena in each of the respective cities listed below. Former American Idol contestant Kellie Pickler and the band Gloriana will once again accompany Swift as opening acts on the second leg.

By Daniel Kreps Musically, “Who Says” accomplishes what Mayer says he set out to do on his follow-up to 2006’s soulful and introspective Continuum: Make a pop album, or “a record where you could sing any of the songs in an American Idol audition,” as Mayer tells RS.

By Rolling Stone Kanye West stole the spotlight at the VMAs by stealing the mic from Taylor Swift during her acceptance speech, overshadowing a night where Madonna and Janet Jackson paid tribute to the King of Pop and Lady Gaga donned her wildest outfits yet. For Rolling Stone’s complete coverage, from re...

By Daniel Kreps May 8 - New Kids On The Block & Special Guest May 15 - Jennifer Hudson May 22 - Fall Out Boy May 29 - Taylor Swift June 5 - The Dave Matthews Band June 12 - Black Eyed Peas June 19 - Jonas Brothers June 26 - The Fray July 3 - Rob Thomas July 10 - Rascal Flatts July 17 - The All American Rejects

By Daniel Kreps If we had to give some sort of tween acting award to either Swift in CSI and Stump in L&O, the trophy would probably go to Swift. Despite the fact that she was given eye-rolling dialogue and a cliché Lolita-esque character, Swift actually does a good job with the script. Her character is sh...

By Daniel Kreps Photo: Coldrey/WireImage The Big News: Rolling Stone cover girl Taylor Swift stayed cemented atop the charts, selling another 62,000 copies of Fearless and leading another week of slow overall sales. Swift has topped the charts for all but two weeks in 2009, with Bruce Springsteen and t...

By Daniel Kreps Photo: Cohen/WireImage When Rolling Stone’s Vanessa Grigoriadis hung out with Taylor Swift for our new cover story (on newsstands tomorrow), she found in some ways the 19-year-old superstar is the emotional teen Swift sings about in her songs — giddy over her RS cover, passionate abou...

By Daniel Kreps April 26 - Melbourne, FL @ King Center for the Performing Arts Taylor Swift plots a 2009 headlining tour that’ll keep the chart topper on the road until October, Black Mountain travel the West Coast states and “It’s Not Unusual” to see Tom Jones performing in California and Florida these n...

By Rolling Stone Debuts: Evidently recessions make people want to groove more: the only new LPs to hit the Top 50 were dance compilations — Total Club Hits came in at 16 and Ultra Dance 10 hit Number 41. Glasgow rockers Glasvegas (more on them later today in the Breaking Blog) entered at 126 and Rolling Stone f...

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By Daniel Kreps • Christina Aguilera Looks Forward to “Futuristic” New Album Photo: Getty The Big News: Taylor Swift fought off other tween sensations David Archuleta and the Twilight soundtrack to grab the top spot, with her Fearless selling 592,000 copies to crush the competition. American Idol run...