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Billboard Bits: White Stripes, Christina Aguilera, The National and more

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Jack White says the White Stripes [1] may reemerge as an active band soon. White thinks his bandmate [2] Meg White has beaten her issues with anxiety, which forced the duo to cancel their last world tour in September 2007.

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Christina Aguilera [3] is set to release her long-awaited comeback album "Bionic" on June 8, but she'll be debuting some new material [4] live on the MTV Movie Awards two nights earlier. Aguilera's June 6 appearance will be her first on the awards show since 2006.

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Florence and the Machine [5] used its sold-out European tour opener in Dublin as the opportunity to unveil a new song [6] from the band's highly-anticipated follow-up to "Lungs." She described the new song, "Strangeness and Charm," as "about seven minutes long and pretty relentless."

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D.A. Pennebaker, the director of such classic rock documentaries as "Don't Look Back" and "Monterey Pop," will oversee the YouTube broadcast [7] of a live concert by The National [8]. The Brooklyn performance, a benefit for the Red Hot Organization, will feature numerous special guests.

  • News [9]
Billboard Bits: White Stripes, Christina Aguilera, The National and more

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  • Jack White [10],
  • Christina Aguilera [11],
  • D.A. Pennebaker [12],
  • Meg White [13]

Source URL (retrieved on 2013-05-24 03:28): http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/958362/billboard-bits-white-stripes-christina-aguilera-the-national-and-more

Links:
[1] http://www.billboard.com/artist/the-white-stripes/339647
[2] http://www.nme.com/news/the-white-stripes/50939
[3] http://www.billboard.com/artist/christina-aguilera/325726
[4] http://newsroom.mtv.com/2010/05/04/christina-aguilera-mtv-movie-awards/
[5] http://www.billboard.com/artist/florence-and-the-machine/1010895
[6] http://www.spinner.com/2010/05/04/florence-and-the-machine-debut-new-material-dublin
[7] http://pitchfork.com/news/38689-da-pennebaker-to-direct-the-national
[8] http://www.billboard.com/artist/the-national/11368
[9] http://www.billboard.com/tag/news-6
[10] http://www.billboard.com/tag/jack-white
[11] http://www.billboard.com/tag/christina-aguilera
[12] http://www.billboard.com/tag/da-pennebaker
[13] http://www.billboard.com/tag/meg-white

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