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Be Your Own Pet’s self titled debut was, to say the least, a big deal. It didn’t, ya know, rock my world, but that Bicycle Bicycle song was pretty rad. Their big sophomore release Get Awkward is set for a March 18 release on Thurston Moore’s Ecstatic Peace label, and it’s going to be a [...]

It seems only fitting (at least according to this blog) that we’ll all be able to ring in the new year with yet…even more…Radiohead. Al Gore’s Current TV will broadcast a never before seen performance of the entire new album, In Rainbows, on New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day in it’s entirety with no [...]

It appears that pretty much everyone is well aware of the dying machine that is the recording industry. Not only are artists like Radiohead and Madonna changing the way they release their music, but we now have the first major executive step-down; H to the izo. When Jay-Z’s contract expires at the end of this [...]

Well, maybe some could, but gosh, I’m so clever.  It’s happened already. The Michael Jackson’s Thriller 25th Anniversary bonus remixes have leaked onto the web, and…they’re not that bad. Really. Will.i.am’s takes on “Beat it” and “The Girl is Mine” are by far the superior tracks. “Beat It” gets a pretty mild make-over when compared to the [...]

Oh crap. She’s back. Maybe this time she won’t be quite so annoying (thanks to some Timbaland production a la Nelly Furtado’s Loose). Do I kind of like this? Her new album Bittersweet World is due in March, also has some production by Pharrell, Will.i.am, Chad Hugo (ugh, sounds likable)…

This may have been the trickiest year end list I’ve done in a long time. Not only was I stuck staring at a list of over 20 albums that needed to be narrowed down to 10 (I don’t fancy a top 50), but I almost made a last minute switch for the #1 spot. There [...]

Rolling Stone reports that Beck will release a 2 disc Deluxe Edition of his 1996 classic Odelay. The second disc will include b-sides, compilation tracks, and remixes by Aphex Twin and U.N.K.L.E. The disc will also come with two previously unreleased tracks, “Inferno” and “Gold Chains,” produced by The Dust Brothers (who also produced all [...]

So…um, the new Mars Volta album, The Bedlam in Goliath, is cursed by a Ouija Board from Jerusalem. No, seriously. After studio floods, disappearing tracks, and other creepy stuff that they believe to be part of a curse, the band buried the board that guitarist Omar Rodriguez-Lopez got in Jerusalem at an undisclosed location. It [...]

Apparently, MTV cut up this video. M.I.A. wrote on her blog that it was “sabotaged,” and posted this version, featuring the gunshots from the original track and a cameo by the Beastie Boys. One of the best effing songs of the year.

8 While it’s not A) a Top 10 Album of the Year, B) Better than Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or A Ghost is Born, or C) particularly mind-blowing in any general way, Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky is still lovable. “Impossible Germany” is one of the Best Songs of 2007, and Tweedy continues to be incredibly simple [...]