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“Look at what hip-hop can do.” - Dr. Dre

It was announced yesterday that Dr. Dre and Jimmy Iovine are donating $70 million to USC to create a new arts, technology and business program. We sat down with Dre, Iovine and the new school’s dean Erica Muhl to discuss why the school is necessary in today’s world, how involved in the new school the two music moguls plan to be and how both of them look to their home lives first for inspiration.

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Thirty three years ago today, the music world lost one of its most unique and powerful young voices when Ian Curtis, lead singer and songwriter of Joy Division, committed suicide just hours before the Manchester, U.K. band was scheduled to depart for their first tour of North America. In their short run, Joy Division left behind two classic albums that bridged the gap between punk and new wave: 1979’s Unknown Pleasures and 1980’s Closer, both masterpieces of a dark, gloomy style of rock dubbed the Manchester Sound.

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Just as Marvin Gaye moved from What’s Going On to Let’s Get It On, from the austere to the ecstatic, Janet, every bit as serious-minded as Marvin, moved from Rhythm Nation to janet., her statement of sexual liberation.

janet. was released 20 years ago today.

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Watch the new Queens of the Stone Age 15-minute animated film.

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