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” ‘Redline,’ to me is the ultimate anthem,” electronic dance music producer Wolfgang Gartner told MTV News recently. “It’s all built around this really simple yet catchy melody, but it’s got all the turbo-fueled drops and peaks that a

Donna Summer’s death Thursday (May 17) at age 63 after a long battle with cancer saddened music lovers around the world. Fans are mourning the loss of one of the greats, a real pioneer, whose innovative use of synthesized backing trac

It’s not often that fans get to hit the club to party with the artist behind the latest dance hit, but that’s exactly what happened for the audience at the interactive off-Broadway show “Fuerza Bruta” when Usher arrived for a unique f

The “American Idol” finale is set, and Joshua Ledet didn’t get an invite.Phillip Phillips and Jessica Sanchez will compete in next week’s season finale after Ledet was voted off the show Thursday (May 17). Ledet, the 20-year-ol

The surprised, sincere and heartfelt reactions continue to roll in as the news of Disco Queen Donna Summer’s untimely passing Thursday (May 17) spreads far and wide. Summer influenced the music industry as a whole, but her impa

Adam Yauch was, in almost every sense of the term, a true New Yorker — born in Brooklyn, raised on the music of the Village and the Lower East Side, representing the eclectic energy and vibrant multiculturalism of NYC itself through

The news of Donna Summer’s untimely passing Thursday (May 17) weighed heavily on all those who knew and loved the undisputed Queen of Disco.Despite the fact that “disco fever” lived and basically died in the 1970s, Summer’s mus

You can understand if the contestants on “American Idol” make some bad song choices when left to their own devices. But on Wednesday night’s
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Rap superstar Wiz Khalifa will perform his new single “Work Hard, Play Hard” for the first time on television at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards.Khalifa joins chart-topping indie-pop group Fun. as the second performer announced for t