The Great American Bubble Machine Matt Taibbi on how Goldman Sachs has engineered every major market manipulation since the Great Depression

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50 Cent accepted a challenge from BET 106 & Park hosts to debate Kanye West live over whose album will make the biggest bang (release dates for both 50's Curtis and West's Graduation were pushed back so far that they're now going head-to-head on September 11th).

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According to an industry insider, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck are going to tour as the Yardbirds this fall alongside founding bassist Chris Dreja and drummer Jim McCarty. The tour is said to kick off this October.

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Robert Smith has confirmed the Cure's 13th studio album will be a double CD, saying "Rather than cut it down, at the stage we're at with the band, I'm making this record because I want to enjoy the process and be proud of the finished result." The still-untitled release …

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In an interview at the Rock Werchter Festival in Belgium over the weekend, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich said the band had finished recording backing tracks for its ninth studio album in early May and will resume studio work in August.

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Master P and his son, Romeo, are taking the fight against what some people deem to be objectionable rap lyrics seriously: They co-founded Take a Stand Records, a label that will put out "hip-hop artists with street music without offensive lyrics." Today the label's maiden d …

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An unfamiliar viewer tuning in to Keith Olbermann's prime-time news program on MSNBC, Countdown, might, at first glance, assume he was watching a highly traditional broadcaster. Olbermann has a long, sober face and trim hair that's going gray.

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It will be interesting to see what she comes up with this time around.

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