Jay-Z And Kanye West Release ?The Throne?

Just in case you haven?t received your fill of Kanye West team-ups today (apparently, Kanye is joining forces with the likes of Hitler and Michael Jordan?go figure), his collaboration with Jay-Z, Watch the Throne, released their first record today, cleverly titled?you guessed it?The Thorne.  And while full reviews have yet to start pouring in, the [...]

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Cage The Elephant Aim For 'Gaga Moment' At Lollapalooza

'Maybe this is our year to blow up like Gaga did,' band tells MTV News before hitting bigger stage pop star did in 2007.
By Gil Kaufman


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CHICAGO — They tell you to "act like you've been there." And Kentucky rockers Cage the Elephant have been to Lollapalooza before — two times, in fact. And just hours before they were set to take the stage for their third go-round, they told MTV News that they hope it might be their "Lady Gaga moment."

You see, back in 2007, a then-little-known Gaga played the same small side stage as Cage, and last year the new megastar returned to headline one of Lolla's main stages, her career universes beyond where it was back when they were both under-the-radar acts.

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"This is our third time, it feels really good," said singer Matthew Shultz, who was still a bit groggy after having just woken up around noon. "We haven't really been able to analyze all the information yet, but it definitely feels good to be back here playing on a bigger stage."

With news that more then 26,000 people have pledged to go see them on the official Lollapalooza page, the Bowling Green boys were in awe of the potentially huge audience, but trying to not let it go to their heads. "I try not to get my hopes up, because when that happens then you'll have just five people there," said a humble Shultz about their latest trip to the festival where they made a big impression in 2009. "Because if we don't expect that and five people show up we'll be super-satisfied and happy that five people wanted to come to see our band."

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With his band earning accolades for their Nirvana-like punk rock explosion, what's weird for Shultz is that he clearly remembers Gaga playing just before them in 2007, and look at her now. "Maybe this is our year to blow up like Lady Gaga did," Shultz deadpanned, as guitarist Lincoln Parish joked that maybe his singer could take the stage inside a giant egg.

"I'm gonna come out in a Cadbury egg with blood all over me," Parrish said, "shooting sparks out of my nipples. and that might get us more votes for the VMA's as well," he added of the band's Best Rock Video nomination at the upcoming August 28 show.

Hell, for a second, Shultz even considered going back to the bus and maybe trying to put together his own meat outfit. Although given the scorching temperatures on the Chicago lakeshore on Sunday afternoon, chances are it would be a well-done steak suit by the end of the band's five o'clock set. Now that might get them the attention they're looking for.

MTV News is in Chicago for Lollapalooza 2011! Stick with us all weekend as we cover the bands you love and the bands you will love soon.

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Miranda Cosgrove Bus Accident Details Emerge

'iCarly' star's driver was the most seriously injured in the 'life-threatening' crash.
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After news broke on Thursday that Miranda Cosgrove had been injured in a tour bus accident, new details are emerging about what is being described as a potentially "life-threatening" accident.

The "iCarly" star and her fellow passengers, including her mother, were shaken up by the crash, according to multiple reports. On Friday (August 12), Cosgrove, who had yet to comment publicly on the accident, took to Twitter to let her fans know she's doing fine and appreciates all of their support."Thank u so much for all your messages," the teen star tweeted. "They mean so much to me. Yesterday was extremely scary & I'm just so happy everyone's gonna be okay."

TMZ reported that it was dark out when Cosgrove's bus came across a semi-truck, en route to Kansas, the next stop on her Dancing Crazy Tour. The singer/actress' bus driver decided that instead of trying to swerve out of the way of the truck, he would hit the brakes and face the vehicle head on. He was the most seriously injured of the group, and was airlifted to a local hospital, where he received as many as 45 stitches. He is currently in stable condition, according to sources.

Photos from the crash show extensive damage to front of the bus and the semi-truck appeared to have overturned onto the side of the road.

"Miranda's mom was on the bus with her and got really beaten up by the crash," a source told People. "She's expected to fully recover, but it's scary because the driver was hurt, too, and he's in really bad shape."

The source added that the teen star was "really shaken up" by the crash. "A piece from the tractor-trailer went straight through the windshield and the driver's arm was sliced all the way through," according to the magazine's source.

Cosgrove had been sleeping on a couch at the front of the bus when the accident occurred. Those sleeping in the bunks farther back were not injured.

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Firefox 4 rockets to 5% global usage share, IE9 wallows at 1.5%

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Using some early numbers from both StatCounter and Net Applications, Mozilla's noisiest hominid, Asa Dotzler, has illustrated Firefox 4's meteoric rise to around 5% of Web browser global usage share. Internet Explorer 9, which launched two weeks ago, seems to be enjoying a much more casual stroll in the park with just 1.5% of the global Web usage share.

Interestingly, we can see IE9 dipping between March 20 and 21, just before the 'Important' Windows Update rolled out. It's hard to say whether IE9 is only growing because of the installed-by-default Windows Update, but that small dip definitely sticks out -- did excitement peter out? Did people download IE9, try it out, and summarily uninstall it? Perhaps, given their close proximity, the stats show an attention shift from Microsoft to Mozilla?

Numbers-wise, if the bottom left corner of the graph shows 2.3 million downloads for IE9, we can guesstimate that that it has now been downloaded 5 million times. Firefox is clocking in at 37 million downloads after five days of public availability.

We wonder whether Microsoft knew its release schedule would coincide so closely with Firefox 4. Internet Explorer 9 -- a great browser by almost every metric -- was never going to do well against anything emanating from the maws of Mozilla. The main thing, though, is that Microsoft has now shown that it's serious when it comes to the Open Web. If Internet Explorer 10 is good, and 11 and 12, then we might finally see it compete with the zealous Mozillan horde.

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Looking back at a year of Android Malware

Wow, has it really been a year a year since we first witnessed the arrival of SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.a? It seems like only yesterday when everyone was first scrambling to describe the text message manipulating bit of Android malware. We've come along way and seen plenty of malicious bits of software since August 2010. Remember the porn-bundled SMS.AndroidOS.FakePlayer.b trojan from October? Or how about the bible-packing Android.Smspacem? Relive all of the handset hijacking memories in the source link below.

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Add playback hotkeys to Amazon Cloud Player with a Chrome extension

Sure, Amazon's Cloud Player works -- as long as you're in the U.S. or willing to do some tinkering -- but it's fairly simplistic at the moment. There are plenty of features missing which we'd like to see added -- but since Cloud Player is a Web app we don't have to wait for Amazon!

Google Chrome users, for example, can add playback hotkeys with an extension called keyMazony. Once installed, you'll have keyboard control of your Amazon Cloud Player queue. keyMazony commands will work as long as you're in the same Chrome window as Cloud Player, even if its tab doesn't have focus. The key combinations are customizable as well -- just make sure you don't set up a combo that conflicts with another extension or Chrome's built-in keyboard shortcuts.

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Dropbox Chooses Investor Group, Valuation Set at $5 Billion

screen-shot-2011-07-12-at-5-05-43-pmWe've been tracking the twists and turns of the Dropbox mega funding round for over a month now. In July Sarah Lacy wrote that they'd be raising $200 million to $300 million at a $5 billion or higher valuation. A week ago MG Siegler wrote that the auction process was over and Dropbox was considering bids as high as $10 billion. The company has now chosen which investors will lead and participate in the round, we've heard from one of our sources. The final valuation will be less than $6 billion, and we've heard that the original estimates of a $200 million - $300 million round are still accurate. We do not yet know who's leading the round or otherwise participating, but that information will probably become available soon.

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'So You Think You Can Dance' Has a Winner!

'So You Think You Can Dance' Has a Winner!

The results are in, and there's at least one contestant from So You Think You Can Dance who definitely can dance!

After an intense season full of dramatic performances, the battle between the top four dancers left judges wondering if head judge Nigel Lythgoe was right when he predicted it would come down to the two women, Melanie Moore and Sasha Mallory.

If you still haven't caught Thursday night's finale of Fox's hit reality competition, look away now. The top dancer of season 8 is... Melanie Moore! The petite dancer, 19, received 47 percent of the Top 4 vote.

With 32 percent of the vote, Mallory came in second, followed by the two Top Four guys: Germar (third) and Gadduang (fourth). It was the first time in the show's history that the winner and runner-up were both women.

"You two are both exquisite dancers, you have both been amazing," host Cat Deeley told the two finalists before announcing the winner.

But in the end, after more than 11.5 million votes, it was the pixie-ish brunette from Marrietta, Ga., a frontrunner for most of the season, who came out on top.

Watch Melanie and Marko in one of the crowd's favorite dances of the season:

 

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Reading In Four Dimensions: ?Books Are Only Going To Get Better And Better, But There Will Be Fewer of Them?

41++GSxLuFL._SL500_AA278_PIkin4,BottomRight,-34,22_AA300_SH20_OU01_Andrew Losowsky is having a busy week. For one thing, he has just been appointed the new Books Editor for the Huffington Post (disclosure: Aol blah blah blah) and his latest essay - Reading in Four Dimensions - has just been released as a Kindle Single. In the essay, Andrew discusses the future of publishing and specifically how the Internet has added a forth dimension to the reading experience. It's a fascinating essay (and a bargain at 99c) and provides a veritable Smörgåsbord for thought for any of us who are interested in the future of publishing, and the sharing of information. In the video below, Andrew shares some of the key points from the essay - how print brings permanence to digital publishing, how the concept of "publishing" has translated online and the value of paper books in our increasingly digital world. Kindle users can read Reading in Four Dimensions here, in four dimensions. UK readers can find it here.

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