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Rapper T.I. and his wife Tameka “Tiny” Cottle were arrested on drug possession charges late last night in Los Angeles after police allegedly smelled marijuana emanating from their car after a traffic stop on Sunset Blvd. in West Hollywood. Officials have not specified what drugs the couple were charged for possession of, and according to Entertainment Weekly, T.I.’s label rep is not offering a statement at this time.

T.I. — whose real name is Clifford Harris Jr. — and Cottle were just married on July 30. Though the two posted the $10,000 bail and were released this morning, this arrest could prove to be costly for the Grammy-winning rapper and actor. The star and co-producer of the film ‘Takers,’ which is currently No. 1 at the box office, is still on probation after serving seven months in prison last year for a weapons conviction.

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Getting in a little morning exercise, Reese Witherspoon and Jim Toth were spotted out for a jog in Santa Monica, CA on Friday (September 3).

With both parties looking sporty, the pair – who have been dating since January – built up a sweat before shedding a few layers as the summer sunshine grew stronger.

The sighting comes amidst building rumors that a wedding is on the way for Reese and her Hollywood agent beau.

According to InTouch, Mr Toth was recently spotted shopping for diamond rings, as their source tells, “Reese wasn’t with him, because he wants it to be a surprise. But he knows her style. The ring will be classic and beautiful, just like Reese herself.”

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The cast of “Mad Men” grace the ‘Special Television Issue’ of Rolling Stone. Photo courtesy of Rolling Stone

Who needs bloody, butt-naked vampires?

Rolling Stone is following up its shocking “True Blood” cover with a retro joy ride featuring Don Draper and his lovely ladies.

“Mad Men” stars Jon Hamm, Elisabeth Moss, January Jones, and Christina Hendricks cram into a car for the Sept. 16 issue’s chic new cover.

While a cocktail-holding Hamm wears his best sleek suit, Moss ditches alter ego Peggy’s frumpy officewear for a racy pink strapless number that highlights her curves.

Jones, meanwhile, flashes some leg while pairing tousled waves and a sexy floral-print gown.

And last but not least, curvy icon Hendricks dons a plunging red number that would have the fellas at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce drooling into their martinis.

The accompanying article examines how the stars’ obscure careers helped them land the coveted “Mad Men” gigs. Though we’re sure being ridiculously good-looking helped…

For more of the interview, pick up the Sept. 16 issue of Rolling Stone or visit the magazine online.

Meanwhile, check out Hendricks’ sexy campaign for London Fog.

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This week’s show looks ahead to the Mercury prize, to be dished out to one of 12 nominees next Tuesday (7 September). Alexis Petridis is joined by Rosie Swash, Alex Needham and Michael Hann to discuss albums by Dizzee Rascal, Paul Weller, Foals, Corinne Bailey Rae, Mumford & Sons and Biffy Clyro, and there are interviews with Kit Downes Trio, Laura Marling, the XX, Wild Beasts, I Am Kloot and Villagers. The panel also give their verdict on who they think will walk away with the prize ? and who they think deserves it. Let us know your thoughts on this year’s prize (and friend us on Facebook and Twitter), and we’ll be back next week.Alexis PetridisRosie SwashAlex NeedhamMichael HannPeter Sale

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As this column celebrates its fifth birthday, we’d like you to suggest songs with commemorative themesLook at this. It’s the first ever Readers Recommend blog, posted five years ago on 1 September 2005. The theme was change. Almost everyone posted under their own name. There’s so many copyright-infringing lyric postings it’s a wonder we’re still here. Nobody nominates Richard Thompson. Nor Ernie the fastest milkman in the west, for that matter. There are no noms, donds or justis, no bukes, no @s and no puns. The Spill was still a glint in Blimpy’s eye and the Marconium was but a heretical dream. What a long way we’ve all come, ladies and gentlemen. So on the count of three, let’s hear it for you all:Happy fifth birthday to Readers Recommend!I would now like to propose a toast. Or some toast. Depending on whether you’re reading this at breakfast.And after that’s all settled down, some housekeeping.Last week’s A-list (and the column that talks about it): Buchanan and Goodwin ? Flying Saucer Number 1; Beatles – Drive My Car; Tim Minchin ? If You Really Loved Me; Half Man Half Biscuit ? A Shropshire Lad; Tom Lehrer ? Elements; Was (not was) ? What up Dog?; Billie Holiday ? Do nothing till you hear from me; MC Lyte ? Absolutely Positively; Frank Black ? Song of the Shrimp; Johnny Cash ? Boy Named SueNow follows your B-list:Simon & Garfunkel ? A Simple Desultory Philippic (or How I Was Robert McNamara’d into Submission) Anyone can knock out a simple, desultory Philippic, but can they make it whipsmart funny? Simon and Garfunkel can.The Sonics ? Strychnine”It’ll make you jump, it’ll make you shout, it’ll even knock you out!” Good joke that, and a typically adorable piece of garage proto-punk to boot.Frank Zappa ? Cosmik Debris Liked this a lot both for its weaving structure and for the woozy anti-guru sentiments (not that I should be encouraging such behaviour). Didn’t think there were any jokes as such, but it did make me chuckle.Beastie Boys ? Professor Booty “Yo shut the f up Chico man!” An irressistible track from the Beasties’ best album (IMHO) and with a piece of dialogue, innocently spoken, but turned into a pun through a change of context.Flight of the Conchords ? Hiphopopotamus v RhymenocerosI first heard this song as it was performed to me by two Americans on a bus in Malawi. It sounds much better when done by Bret and Jermaine.Kip Hanrahan ? The Hasheater’s Tale Thoroughly disorienting, which is what makes it so intriguing. A polyrhythmic and polysyllabic flight of wild fancy.Screaming Jay Hawkins ? Constipation Blues This made me laugh, as much as for the rock’n'roll roaring cum sphincter-straining groans as for the mock-bluesy conceit: “Most people sing songs about heartbreak … being broke … nobody’s went out and recorded a song about real pain …”The Cramps ? Thee Most Exalted Potentate of Love Must have been in a garage kinda mood this week, because I’m not at all sure where the jokes are in this ? but I couldn’t stop listening to it, trying to find out.The Mighty Sparrow ? Sell the Pussy Cat Is this one big joke, or just a funny song? I have to confess, here, in the middle of the blog where no one can see it, that I had some problems distinguishing at points during my listening. In conclusion I think the Mighty Sparrow has not written a joke, whereas MC Lyte did, but this track is funnier.The Divine Comedy ? Can You Stand Up On One Leg? A bit meta I grant you, as this gentle piece of middle-aged whimsy contains no jokes, but does leave space for you to include your own.This week it’s a commemorative fifth-birthday theme. I want songs about anniversaries, or songs that feature them. That takes in birthdays and weddings, of course, but for the miserablists among you, something more melancholy too. I’ll allow you to dictate the strictness with which the rubric is applied, because ? after all ? it’s your birthday.The toolbox: Archive, the Marconium, the Spill, the Collabo.Pop and rockPaul MacInnesguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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With their on/off relationship back in full swing, Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr were spotted enjoying a little time together in New York City on Thursday (September 2).
The Vanessa Abrams babe donned a short sleeved black top with jeans and a brimmed hat while her Chuck Bass beau sported a ripped Hopenhagen t-shirt, shorts and suede loafers while animatedly conversing with surrounding paparazzi.
The sighting comes just days after Ed and Jess confirmed rumors of a rekindled romance with a passionate kiss in their US Open box seats.
The two previously parted ways amidst cheating rumors – as an insider told the New York Post that Jessica had a hotel hookup after her birthday party with one of Ed’s pals, Marco Minuto.

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Need I tell u that KJ is rapping!!! “My President is cocoa complete with an afro.” LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

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The New Yorker blends electronic music with Ethiopian jazz and South American rhythms, but refuses the ethno-techno tag. So how to describe his debut single, The Student?What do you call Nicolas Jaar’s music? The 20 year-old American may be closely associated with New York’s Wolf + Lamb label, but the music he makes has only a tangential relationship with house or techno. For his debut release, The Student (you can listen to his music here), Wolf + Lamb had to request Jaar underscore this crumbling meditative piano piece with a beat, to give it dancefloor traction. Meanwhile, the man himself often takes his live club sets down to a jarringly slow 70bpm, interested, as he is, in creating atmosphere and emotional resonance, rather than physically moving the crowd.”I never really made club music until I started playing in clubs,” explains Jaar (pronounced “jar”). “For me, electronic music didn’t equal dance music.” Indeed, this young producer, around whom there is currently the sort of excitement that the nascent Villalobos or Aphex Twin once enjoyed, has some deeply idiosyncratic ideas about clubs and club music.Jaar talks of dance music accelerating and shrinking through the 1990s; increasing in speed but narrowing its emotional range, in the process becoming a one-dimensional, escapist soundtrack. The attitude, he says, was: “Let’s forget about ‘the system’, because capitalism won.” Personally, he sees nightclubs as forums for a far richer, far more variegated experience.As befits the son of Chilean visual artist Alfredo Jaar, he explores clubbing at a conceptual level. Clubs, Jaar feels, are about escape, but there is a sadness implicit in that “separation and forgetting”. That people need nightclubs is an indictment of ordinary day-to-day life. “Everyone who goes to a club is heartbroken, I think. You can take that two ways. They’re heartbroken, so they want to forget. Or they’re heartbroken, so let’s give them an ambience where they can be heartbroken.” Better still, why not give them both? Jaar has talked about his desire to create “rhythmic anguish”: music that you can dance to, with uncomplicated joy, but which is full of melancholy “above the bass”.Moreover, if clubs are places for breaking free, then, says Jaar, the soundtrack should reflect that structurally. “If the music, within itself, is about breaking and separation, then the club experience becomes meta, bigger, and it’s very fulfilling.” He pauses: “Maybe. I’m trying it out.”Little wonder, given that modus operandi, that Jaar’s music refuses easy categorisation. Where others, aged 14, would have heard Villalobos’s Thé Au Harem d’Archimède or Trentemøller’s The Last Resort and simply tried to mimic them, Jaar wants to match them. He aspires to the originality of the former, and the emotional heft of the latter. Indeed, it’s entirely different influences: Erik Satie, Keith Jarrett or Mulatu Astatke’s Ethiopian jazz, that are useful reference points for Jaar’s most extreme music. Tracks such as The Student or Dubliners are fraught reveries, ambient enigmas, auditory hallucinations of fumbling, tumbling double-bass; stark, poignant dabs of manipulated piano; chirruping percussion and environmental noise. Danceable rhythms and yearning voices drift in and out of the mix, almost whimsically, like restless ghosts in the machine.If, in rhythmic terms, such tracks tantalise, the likes of El Bandido or Mi Mujer deliver. They have a funk impetus, a loose, fluid grooviness, a radiant and distinctly Latin American rhythmic lightness. Yet, even then, Jaar’s music retains an otherness. His unlikely club hit, Time for Us, is what? A screwed, slow-mo R&B banger? “Things might have to slow down for us to be conscious of them,” says Jaar, “as opposed to making them so fast we’re just escaping with them.”Of course, some people don’t buy it. Non-believers have dismissed Jaar’s work, and its “world music” elements, as a lazy continuation of the La Mezcla ethno-house trend. Jaar, who grew-up in Santiago de Chile, insists such sounds are encoded in his DNA: “I lived in Chile, I have French and Arab heritage. The last thing I have is American or German electronic influences. I don’t know how to make techno. I don’t know how to make that perfect kick.” For the record, he describes the welding of “ethnic” samples to western beats as: “Literally, the most disgusting thing that can happen to music. It’s colonisation all over again.”When the Inès album arrives in October, on Clown and Sunset ? Jaar’s collaborative label with his Russian and Ethiopian friends, Nikita Quasim and Soul Keita ? there will still only be 20 or so of his tracks in circulation. Completed between university classes (comparative literature at Brown University) and gigs at Fabric and Berlin’s Bar 25, they, none the less, already constitute a fascinating body of work.Jaar thinks it’s “humbling” anyone should care, and is so carried away with the hype that, naturally, he’s thinking about staying at college, and doing a master’s degree. Clearly, he is a musician apart. But are you excited by Jaar’s music? And, if not, which young bloods are rocking your world?Electronic musicWorld musicTony Naylorguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds

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