There is a DVD of the Justin Timberlake Futuresex/Loveshow tour that was filmed at MSG this past August. I’ve seen it. Somewhere buried in the haze of memories that is my holiday gift shopping; I saw it. It had a black cover, and a picture of Mr. Superfly himself in a white suit. Because duh.
I [...]

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 interruption. [...]

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 year, [...]

You know what I mean. Let’s just do this.
10. “Pop, Lock and Drop” by Huey feat. Bow Wow and T Pain

More St. Louis hip hop…think Nelly, but more annoying.
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9. “It’s Me Bitches” by Swizz Beatz

Easily one of the most irritating hip hop beats ever. What is that and why does it make me want to [...]

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 total hip [...]

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 even [...]