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Watch the Throne

Independent record stores are backlashing against Kanye West and Jay-Zs collaborative album as the Throne.

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Britney Spears — “Miss American Dream since I was 17,” as she aptly put it in her 2007 single “Piece of Me” — has been through it all: ups, downs, marriages, divorces, triumphs, comebacks. And she’s not even 30.

Now, as the 29-year-old teen queen-turned-pop princess comes to The Palace of Auburn Hills tonight on her celebrated Femme Fatale tour, we’re taking a look back at Spears’ career, from the highs to the lows and everything in between. And we’re doing it from A to Z.

Love her or dismiss her, and there are plenty of folks in both camps, it’s impossible to deny Spears is the embodiment of fame in the 21st century. And no matter how many times she’s appeared to be down for the count, she keeps crawling back.

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Throughout his mentoring time on The Voice, Adam Levine made sure there were no doubts about his admiration for the legendary Stevie Nicks. His dream seemed to finally come to fruition as he brought out the legendary singer at Maroon 5s Hollywood Bowl show last night (July 25).

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In The Voice battle round episodes, Levine paired up Casey Weston and Tim Mahoney to compete on Don Henley and Stevies classic duet “Leather and Lace.” In the finale, Levine got his Nicks fix when his contestant, eventual champion Javier Colon, performed Fleetwood Macs “Landslide” with Stevie. Read full post…

Hager has spent nine years as dean of the universitys School of Music and Fine Arts.

Reporter-News file Lawson Hager conducts the Hardin-Simmons University Cowboy Band at the West Texas Fair & Rodeo in 1980.

Nellie Doneva/Reporter-News Lawson Hager goes through old files to decide what to keep, in his office at Hardin-Simmons University Tuesday, May 24, 2011. Hager is retiring as dean of the school of music and fine arts.

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The song heard ’round the hip-hop world last week was “Otis,” a new song by Kanye West and Jay-Z that samples Otis Redding.

The track, which leaked Wednesday before going public, is more of a three-way than a tag-team duet, thanks to producer West’s liberal use of Redding’s ‘Try a Little Tenderness.” If the first salvo from the Kanye/Jay-Z collaborative album, Watch the Throne — which is due August 1 — is anything to go by, it’s going to be one red-hot summer.

These two titans aren’t the first to nick bits of Redding; in fact, his golden voice has been a sample staple of rap songs since the late ’80s.

Redding, who died in a plane crash on Dec.

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