So, this quickly turned into a rant.
When I first read some of the negative reviews of B.o.B’s Adventures of Bobby Ray, I strongly disagreed with a lot of the points (and as a fan of his earlier mixtapes, was borderline defensive). Some criticized the album for being unfocused, and B.o.B for being a casualty of [...]

I’m afraid my gripes with this one go way beyond a comment/Tweet/Facebook status update. Based almost entirely on the top 2, Rolling Stones’s Top 25 Best Albums of 2009 is easily the worst ‘best of’ list the magazine has ever done (counting year end albums lists only, cause Lord knows they’ve made a metric ton [...]

Fact: Every music publication that doesn’t name Radiohead’s Kid A as the album of the decade is only doing so for the shock value (Paste, would love to give you Illinois, I just can’t), but I have to give some blogkudos to the Guardian for their #1 choice of The Streets’ Original Pirate Material.
Even though [...]

Remember the guy from Sex and the City that hung around his dead wife’s grave, flashing pictures of her in his wallet and crying at the mention of her name to get girls to think he was emotional so they would sleep with him? That’s John Mayer. Remember how Charlotte totally fell for it, and [...]

Some background on why The Fiery Furnaces are idiots:
The New York City indie band, whilst trying to create a buzz that never wuzz for their summer 2009 release, I’m Going Away (OK, perhaps there was a mini-buzz), have taken to familiar tactics amongst music world douchebags by nonsensically (or possibly sarcastically or ironically?) trashing Radiohead [...]

Why bother? It’s gonna hurt me.
Yup, it’s Weezer and Weezy, but even Lil Wayne can’t save the Polow da Don produced Raditude track, “Can’t Stop Partying.” Raditude. Worst. Dwayne Carter could freestyle over microwave buzz and still kill it hard, but even his mediocre verse is wasted on this boring, poorly written embarrassment of a [...]

Bon Iver/St. Vincent duets? New music from Thom Yorke and Grizzly Bear? No, it’s not a second Dark Was the Night compilation, and it’s not Pitchfork’s Best New Music posts for the next month. It’s um, the soundtrack to the new Twlight sequel.
Eek.
When I first skimmed the tracklisting this afternoon, I saw Death Cab, The [...]

Why?
Why Why?
Why?
Right, so Beatlemania 2009 is hitting, which is awesome (I really enjoyed Beatlemania 1995, which if you remember featured the 9 hour Anthology documentary, 2 new songs, and my life changing forever). Beatles Rock Band games, reissues, and magazine covers? All great things. But Entertainment Weekly’s special Beatles issue thingy? All around FAIL.
There’s a [...]

Did 500 Days of Summer just become even more indie and adorable? Unbelievable.
I guess though, when taking into account the many kinda cool, unpretentious musical references in the movie, and the fact that it actually stars Zooey Deschanel, a 500 Days of Summer themed music video set to She & Him’s “Why Do You Let [...]

From the Smoking Section post, “Kid Rock’s Talks Stadium Spectaculars, Confirms Gayness of Twitter”…
We caught up with Kid Rock yesterday, who told us that wherever he goes, people are screaming “Twitter is gay”!!!
If you have no idea what we’re talking about, here’s the story: In the last issue of Rolling Stone — with MJ on [...]