Ms. Christina leads the opening performance of New York City classics for NBA All-Star weekend, accompanied by Nasir Jones, who performs “New York State Of Mind.” Great segue, gotta say, Xtina killed. Bonus, Ariana Grande and Nicki Minaj bumpin’ uglies in the second clip.

Carson Daly, Cee-Lo Green, Christina Aguilera and others will go up against American Idol as judges on NBC’s The Voice, which aims to be different than other “vocal competition” shows. Kicks off April 26th.

Christina Aguilera may have fallen the fuck off, but her 2006 LP, Back To Basics – produced heavily by DJ Premier – was something special. Unfortunately, Preem’s usage of the “Hippy Skippy Moon Strut” sample from Dave Cortez & the Moon People, has landed Ms. Aguilera in the hot seat. As it stands, the sample [cont.]

Nicki comes through with her (potential) second single after “Massive Attack Failure”, and unfortunately this one doesn’t look much better. We dig everything that Nicki has done up until this point, but this lame attempt at crossing over by sampling Annie Lennox falls flat. Can we expect mimes in drag for the video? Maybe third [cont.]

Look out Gaga, Christina Aguilera is coming back. Her latest is produced by Mr. 1-2-3-4, Polow The Don and written by Esther Dean, and goes for an electro-pop dance feel. This is the first single from the singer’s June 8th LP, Bionic. The new LP’s tracklist has not been revealed yet, but rumored collaboratons include [cont.]

    After boy bands and pop-stars were mocked and destroyed by acts like Blink 182 and Eminem, the TRL set decided it was time to take this rap shit seriously, so to speak. Gwen Stefani and Britney got The Neptunes, Justin Timberlake and Nelly Furtado got Timbaland, and Fergie kept it in house with Will.I.Am. [cont.]