R.E.M. will stream their new album Accelerate in its entirety via “social music discovery service” iLike, which has a partnership with Facebook. The “Worldwide Listening Party” will go down March 24th, a week before the album is released to stores. Rapper the Game has been released from jail after serving just eight days of his sixty-day sentence for pleading guilty to felony charges of possessing a firearm in a school zone. RS cover star (and presidential hopeful) Barack Obama will reportedly appear in some capacity on Q-Tip’s new album The Renaissance. “I’ve got Norah Jones on there, but Barack is the big one. You’ll see what happens,” the rapper said. Commenting on reports earlier today that the Beatles catalog going on iTunes was imminent, Apple dismissed the claims as “unsubstantial speculation.”
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