Alyson Camus

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Trash Talk "Slander", Video Review

It is super short and works like an awesome hammer hitting you repeatedly on the head,… it is true you don’t need to be ‘fucked up’ to experience what this guy does at a Trash Talk concert, as the bloody ambiance seems pretty realistic to me.

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Jay-Z's Secret Son

Star magazine was all over the story a few months ago,…. Jay-Z may have fathered a secret son with a Trinidadian model, Shenelle Scott, nine years ago.

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Leonard Cohen 'Darkness', Reviewed

The song, which was performed live during his last world tour, is the second single from his upcoming album ‘Old Ideas’, set to be released on January 31st on Columbia, his first studio album since 2004!

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Jay Z More Money Making

He is a billionaire, sold his clothing line for more than $200 million, hasn’t had a single which did not go platinum, has a $150 million deal with Live Nation and he and Beyonce are the top earning couple in the music industry! How much money does he want his Blue Ivy to inherit?

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Shins', 'Simple Song' Reviewed

It is quite close to The Shins’ typical sound, although the music seems to be escaping the chiming signature sound of their first album, while being bolder and a touch more upbeat than usual

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Coachella 2012 line-up

Everyone agrees that the line-up is strong this year,although the Black Keys look like a weak choice for some? Well, they just were on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine so,… but Saturday looks attractive (at least for me), and no it’s not because David Guetta is playing!

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Coldplay, "Paradise" Video Reviewed

Beside the fact that the video is ridiculous and only exists to remind us that the song has really nothing to say, the falsetto gushy chorus wants to hook the listener up like a sticky donut he or she absolutely wants to resist to.

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Power of The People: How To Make a #1 Hit

A month before, he started a Facebook group, proposing the crazy and bold idea to beat the Xfactor winner with a song having the complete opposite vibe, and he was helped onTwitter by a comedian, Peter Searfinowicz, who had more than 268,000 followers.

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Black Keys' Patrick Carney Feuding With Nickelback

Rock& roll is the music I feel the most passionately about, and I don’t like to see it fucking ruined and spoon-fed down our throats in this watered-down,post-grunge crap, horrendous shit. When people start lumping us into that kind of shit, it’s like, ‘Fuck you,’ honestly.’

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Taylor Swift In Yet Another Les Mis Revival

First of all, before getting to Swift, do we really need another version of Les Miserables?! How many times can you reinvent Victor Hugo’s classic, with music or no music? The famous novel has already been adapted, I kid you not, 52 times since 1907

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Elton John Wants Justin Timberlake For His Biopic

is a real endorsement from the man himself, how many times does this happen? How many times does the singer choose the person who is gonna play him or her? I know it was the case for Johnny Cash who had totally approved Joaquin Phoenix playing him, but it must be rare

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Not With The Band: Can We Really Multi-Task To Music?

If scientists are still investigating whether music really impairs studying, a recent study showed that ‘participants [who had to memorize things in order] performed worst while listening to music, regardless of whether they liked that music’ and ‘did the best in the quiet and while listening to a tape repeating three’.

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Katy Perry's Divorce and Religion

However her whole life and career are hypocritical, and writing about this insignificant celebrity misstep is just another occasion to point out how religious people can be beyond insincere and just plain fraudulent.

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The Worst Album Covers of 2011

I have only made my choice based on the covers, they say don’t judge a book by its cover? I have judged albums by their covers, and I am pretty sure that the music sucks too.

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