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2009 American Music Awards
A gallery of nominees for this year's AMAs, airing Sunday night on ABC
Best albums of the decade
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Say Anything: the anti-Kings of Leon
Punk/emo icon Max Bemis' band headlines the Troubadour Sunday
top photo galleries
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- 2009 CMA Awards highlights
- 15 reasons Steven Tyler isn't quitting Aerosmith
- Pixies at the Palladium
- Latin Grammys 2009
- Concert pics: Phish Festival 8
- Dear celebs: Please stop tweeting
- Rock and Roll Hall of Fame turns 25
- Lady Gaga’s most outrageous moments (so far)
- Concert pics: Weezer at the Palladium
- CMJ 2009 highlights
- Echo and the Bunnymen in concert
- Best Halloween party music
- Them Crooked Vultures in concert
- 2009 American Music Awards
- Har Mar Superstar concert pics
- Bruce Springsteen at Giants Stadium
- Pink's Funhouse Tour: concert pics
- The 16 coolest rock stars over 65
- Emo band reunions we'd like to see
- MTV VMAs 2009 red carpet interviews
- 2009 Video Music Awards highlights
- MTV VMAs 2009 red carpet
- Fourteen games that would totally rock
- Nine Inch Nails farewell concert
- Fall 2009 music preview
- 2009 CMJ Music Marathon preview
- Billy Corgan with Spirits in the Sky
- DJ AM photos
- Epicenter '09
- Sunset Junction 2009: Saturday
- Top 18 rock documentaries
- Lollapalooza 2009 highlights
- The Sounds concert photos
- All Points West 2009 highlights
- Like father, like son
- Noisettes concert photos
- The 10 lost acts of Woodstock
- Bad ink: music’s lamest tattoos
- Concert pics: Mayhem Festival
- Michael Jackson memorial service
- Cali-punk smackdown: Green Day vs. Blink-182
- Electric Daisy Carnival at the L.A. Memorial Coliseum
- Concert pics: Spinnerette
- Photos: U2 rehearse for their world tour
- Actors turned indie rockers
- Bonnaroo 2009 highlights
- Concert pics: Aerosmith
- When supergroups aren't so super
- Concert pics: Phish in New York
- Band photos: the weirdest of the weird
- Green Day in concert
- 2009 summer music preview
- Nine Inch Nails, Jane's Addiction in concert
- Jack White: the hardest working man in rock
- The return of electroclash
- No Doubt: hella good photos
- Coachella 2009 highlights
- Lollapalooza 2009 lineup
- Yeah Yeah Yeahs secret show pics
- The 34 hottest women in rock
- Concert pics: Chris Cornell
- Most obscure 'American Idol' albums
- Academy of Country Music Awards
- Rock Hall of Fame red carpet
- Concert pics: Morrissey
- Party pics: BurningAngel DVD release at the Roxy
- Irish punk bands: a field guide
- Flogging Molly in concert
- Chris Brown and Rihanna
- Katy Perry in concert
- Photos from the Grammys
- Rock reunions gone wrong
- Party pics: Metronomy secret show at Temporary Spaces
- Indie rock couples we'd like to see
- Blowin' up in '09
- Photographic evidence: John Legend and Estelle
- Photographic evidence: Devlin & Darko at the Avalon
- Party pics: Giant New Year's Eve in Downtown
- Photographic evidence: LMFAO at the Roxy
- Photographic evidence: Flying Lotus with The Long Lost at the Airliner
- Party pics: Rock 'N Bowl with CSS at All Star Lanes
- Photographic evidence: Secret Common show in Downtown
- Aging disgracefully
- Party pics: HARD Turkey Soup at the Roxy
- Photographic evidence: Of Montreal at the Hollywood Palladium
- 2008 American Music Awards
- Party pics: AMA afterparty at Boulevard3
- The 2008 mtvU Woodie Awards
- Photographic evidence: 2k Sports Bounce Tour with Q-Tip at the House of Blues
- Preview: Smashing Pumpkins in concert
- The 2008 Latin Grammy Awards
- The 42nd Annual CMA Awards
- Party pics: HARD Halloween at the Shrine
- Party pics: Monster Massive at the L.A. Sports Arena
- Photographic evidence: Girl Talk at the Henry Fonda
- Party pics: Electric Daisy Carnival 2008 at the LA Memorial Coliseum
2009 mtvU Woodies
On the red carpet with Asher Roth, Pete Wentz, 3OH3!, Kid Sister and other college favorites
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I"m so happy I flew to Hollywood to see this concert at the Catalina Jazz Club. It was one of those experiences that I will never f...
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- Video interview: MuteMath
- Paul and Darren of MuteMath talk about their new album, 'Armistice'
- Generation Jerk: the New Boyz
- The leaders of hip-hop's latest dance craze hit the road with Chris Brown
- Matisyahu: Harleys, 'Goonies' and Phish concerts
- There's more to the Hasidic rap star than meets the eye
MORE Music NEWS
- Madonna returns to Malawi to visit the school she is building for poor girls
- LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) Madonna arrived in Malawi Sunday to visit the girls school she is building in the impoverished country where she adopted two children, an official for the star's charity said....
- Madonna returns to Malawi to visit the school she is building for poor girls
- LILONGWE, Malawi (AP) Madonna has left Malawi after a nearly weeklong visit with her family, airport and charity officials said Saturday. Officials said Madonna flew out of the southern...
- 'Phantom of the Opera' composer Andrew Lloyd Webber diagnosed with prostate cancer
- LONDON (AP) Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been diagnosed with prostate cancer, his spokeswoman said Sunday. The 61-year-old Lloyd Webber's condition is in its early stages, a...
- Former Smiths frontman Morrissey in stable condition after stage collapse
- LONDON (AP) Former Smiths frontman Morrissey was released Sunday from a hospital where he was held overnight after collapsing on stage during a concert. A spokeswoman for the Great...
- Garth's still got it: Brooks' first shows in Las Vegas sell out in less than 5 hours
- LAS VEGAS (AP) Garth Brooks mused that the public may have moved on when he announced he was coming out of retirement. Was he ever wrong. Tickets for Brooks' first 20 shows...
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