Iggy and the Stooges, Scientists Power Up ATP New York

Although it doesn’t involve actual camping like Bonnaroo or Sasquatch, no festival feels more like summer camp than All Tomorrow’s Parties New York. The American spinoff of the 10 year-old UK fest launched its third annual event on Friday (Sept. 3) at Monticello, N.Y.’s Kutshers Country Club, the last of the grand Borscht Belt resorts in the Catskills. From the gameroom-filled hallways to the checker-clothed communal tables and diminuative lake, everything about the fest’s setting suggests summer’s final free-for-all before another year of school

Anberlin Frontman Juggles Grad School with Releasing ‘Dark’ Album

If Stephen Christian was only spending his time pursuing his MBA and operating Faceless International, the nonprofit organization he co-founded to fight human trafficking and slavery, that would keep him plenty busy. But what makes the Nashville resident’s talents so impressive is that he finds time for such projects while fronting rock band Anberlin , whose next album “Dark Is the Way, Light Is a Place,” arrives Sept. 7 on Republic Records. Lead single “Impossible” has swiftly climbed Billboard’s Alternative chart, currently sitting at No

Top 20 Tweets of the Week: 9/4/2010

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Billboard Bits: Lady Gaga Poses as Lady Liberty, Rihanna Premiering New Single

Billboard Bits serves up the best bite-sized nuggets of music news and gossip.

Ke$ha ‘Takes Off’ with Fourth Top 10 from Debut Album

A s reported yesterday , Ke$ha becomes the 11th solo female to collect at least four Billboard Hot 100 top 10s from a debut album as “Take It Off,” from her introductory set, “Animal,” bounds 16-10.

POTW: Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Eminem, Kanye, Gwen Stefani

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Snoop Dogg To Have Song Featured in ‘Rock Band’

Rap and rock will collide once again – this time in a video game.

Iron Maiden, Shakira Reign On Euro Charts

Iron Maiden ’s “The Final Frontier” (EMI) starts a second week atop Billboard’s European Albums chart, as the No. 1 berth on European Hot 100 Singles is occupied for a sixth straight week by “Waka Waka (This Time For Africa)” (Epic/Sony Music Entertainment) by Shakira featuring Freshlyground . The Maiden album thus outdoes its studio predecessor “A Matter of Life and Death,” which had one week at the pan-European summit in 2006. “Frontier” now debuts at No. 1 in Italy and retains its crown in France, Spain, Sweden, Norway and the Czech Republic, but drops from the top spot in the United Kingdom, Denmark, Switzerland, Austria, Portugal and Germany

Ben Folds Teams with Author Nick Hornby for New Album

B en Folds says that an “instinct to collaborate and make music with people who aren’t necessarily musicians” led to “Lonely Avenue,” an teaming with Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and author Nick Hornby that’s due out Sept. 28 on Nonesuch.

Crosby, Stills & Nash to Cover Beatles, Bob Dylan on Next Album

C rosby, Stills & Nash are about one-third done with their next album, a set of classic rock covers produced by Rick Rubin, but Graham Nash won’t hazard a guess on when it will be finished and released. “It’s a lot slower than it’s ever taken us to do an album,” Nash tells Billboard.com, “because we’ve been on the road since May, and we don’t quit until October. “We all want it to be right — Rick, too — so we’re taking our time to make sure it is.” Working with Rubin, Nash adds, has been “very interesting. It’s hard to tell CSN what to do in the studio after almost 40, 50 years, but it’s an interesting experience.

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