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Electric Daisy Carnival has announced plans to spend a weekend in Chicago this summer, en route to the EDM festival's annual weekend in Las Vegas. The Carnival will touch down in the Windy City at the Chicagoland Speedway over Memorial Day weekend, which runs May 24-26.

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If you've seen the Flaming Lips live, you know all about the crazy multimedia show they put on. The spectacle includes a wild light show, bubbles, balloons, buckets of confetti and singer Wayne Coyne's giant laser-shooting hands. Unfortunately, the Lips report that those specialized hands went missing after the band's appearance at the Southbound Festival in Busselton, Western Australia, last weekend.

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The Decemberists made their previously announced visit to the town of Springfield on the Fox animated comedy 'The Simpsons' last night. The group sat in as the elementary school's new music teachers in an episode about the town becoming hipper when a couple -- played by 'Portlandia' stars Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein -- moves in from Portland with a pretentious son (comedian Patton Oswalt) in tow.

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Lady Gaga has been named as a "great" choice to play Amy Winehouse in a biopic by none other than the later singer's dad, Mitch Winehouse. Speaking to Heat, Mitch told the publication that a Winehouse movie was definitely in the works and that Gaga would be perfect for the role. "There will be a biopic," he said. "Lady Gaga is welcome to audition for the part of Amy -- she would be great. Ray Winstone will probably end up playing me."

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Get in the holiday spirit with fun.'s version of 'Sleigh Ride,' a Christmas classic that the band recently recorded and contributed to the new Starbuck's 'Holidays Rule' compilation.

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What comes after '¡Uno!,' '¡Dos!' and '¡Tre!?' '¡Quatro!,' of course, although Green Day won't be following their new trilogy of albums with a fourth record. '¡Quatro!' announced today, will not be another album, but rather a documentary offering a behind-the-scenes look into the making-of '¡Uno!,' '¡Dos!' and '¡Tre!'

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A new Soundcloud sampler featuring six songs from Bat for Lashes' forthcoming 'The Haunted Man' album has been posted online. The player features three tunes ('Laura,' 'Marilyn' and 'All Your Gold') that have previously surfaced online, plus three cuts ('A Wall,' 'Oh Yeah' and 'Winter Fields') that are making their online debuts. Check them out below.

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"If the question ever comes up do you like the Killers," David Letterman said by way of an introduction to the band's performance Thursday on the 'Late Show With David Letterman,' "let me tell you something: The answer is always yes." With that, frontman Brandon Flowers and the band returned to the stage of the Ed Sullivan Theater to perform 'Runaways,' the first single from their new album, 'Battle Born,' which dropped this week.

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An unplugged version of the Foo Fighters hit the stage of San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts this afternoon (Sept. 12) to close out Apple's iPhone 5 launch event, during which the computer company unveiled the latest version of its popular smartphone. 

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Adele reportedly paid a visit to London's famed Abbey Road recording studios to work on a song that will be played over the closing credits of the next James Bong movie, 'Skyfall,' claims British newspaper The Sun.

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Each year, the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pa., is a time for reflection on a day that will forever live on in infamy. It's also a chance to see how different people cope with tragedy in different ways, and some of the ways the rock stars reflected included:

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