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Perfume Genius' Promo Video Banned

can’t imagine that a ‘straight’ version of this ad wouldn’t pass. Our entire office (90% straight,for what it’s worth) was genuinely surprised by this one. Especially given their impassioned pleas last week about free speech and anti-Internet-censorship.’

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False Erudition And Writing About Music

It is almost like I’m pretending I know stuff I don’t. When all information is at your fingertips, every opinion you offer is corrupted by limitless amounts of other people’s ideas. It goes beyond borrowing, or being influenced, or even counter-uninfluenced, by other writers opinions, or even just an accumulation of information. It taints everything.

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Sir Paul and Little Stevie

Stevie came along to the studio in LA and he listened to the track for about ten minutes and he totally got it. He just went to the mic and within 20 minutes had nailed this dynamite solo

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US Top 10 Singles, February 3rd, 2012

“Fire” is, debatably, Adele’s worst song to date: her typical mean spirited nonsense as she goes out of her way to make herself the woman most likely to be a billiuonaire and still not get a date. How can anybody write about love with so little affection: for Adele love is a synonyme for spite.

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MFT 1-27-12

The pain here is so indelibly linked to Tammy’s tone that the words don’t REALLY matter, it would be clear the pain of a lost love is irreperable. I wouldn’t mind plunking Adele in front of this song, just to remind her love is not the same as complaining.

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Ed Sheeran's "Drunk" Reviewed

It’s fascinating to watch because parts of it are funny, but then there’s more serious parts that really captivate you and draw you in. It’s ridiculously well done and one of the best music videos I’ve seen in a while.

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Sleigh Bells', 'Comeback Kid' Video Review

The video gives it some life, the scenery is sun-drenched 80s Florida with a lot of Alexis and her famous bangs, as she jumps on a bed in a red robe witha rifle or wears a black leather jacket,… sure she is sexy, but is that enough?

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Holy Hell, Die Antwoord!!

They consider themselves to be a rap crew/art project. Ahh, you can smell the hipster in the air! But I cant even pick on them too much cuz this thing creeped the bejeezuz out of me.

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How Hard Is It To Write Happy Love Songs? Very

The closer we are to people the easier it is to hurt them and we must be very careful to treat them with kindness… or lose them. But there in lies another problem, if love isn’t sturdy how can it survive? So the thing that is bringing us the most pleasure is built upon fault line

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Rolling Stone Takes Care Of Its Own

I don’t think Bruce thinks he is a hypocrite, he is one but he is too stupid to know it. He actually believes this nonsense has meaning, while it actually has no meaning, no position, no point of view, no villain.

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MFT 1-26-12

Miley is unbelievably beautiful on this song off Blood On The Tracks. She gets that it is country and not folk and she is not so young that she can’t grasp the sentiments. Miley takes it easy, undersings it a touch, and lets the melody play itself out.

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The Brian Jonestown Massacre's upcoming album

their frontman has such an inflated ego that hehas basically spoiled everything for me. However, if we can pass on Anton Newcombe’s tempestuous character and plain insanity at times, and the factthat he basically has fired his band line-up every year, you still may be interested by the band’s psychedelic-shoegazing rock sound

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Faux Glitter

It was some blogger with an agenda calling it a ‘social experiment’ Silly. This is one of the ways Bloggers get a bad rap- some should just be stopped. There is a huge difference between creative writing and impersonation and if I were Glitter I’d be pissed.

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Whitney Houston On Hard Times

‘Whitney’s fortune is gone,’ the source told the site. ‘Music industry heavy hitters are supporting her and her label is fronting her cash against her next album, but no one knows when that will be released.”

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Steve Tyler Growing Old Gracelessly

Watching the Joan rRvers and Steve Tylers of the world is just sad. They look terrible. They look plastic. Tyler actually sounded great but he looked awful. Why not grow old gracefully? What would it cost him? He certainly couldn’t look any worse.

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Gimme Gimme Garbage

There hasn’t been new Garbage since 2005, this is fantastic and its really happening! The new album will be released on their new indie label STUNVOLUME. This means nothing to me just hurry and let me hear it!

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American Idol Viewership Down 27% From Last Year

Two years after Mary Magpie reviewed every single episode of the 2010 season of American Idol, we didn’t mention its premiere in 2012. And this indifference is reflective of a society that is becoming swiftly satiated in its thirst for reality and variety show.

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President Obama Sings Al Green!

Check out the President nailing a couple of lines off the Reverend Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together” and doing so with such an infectious smile. This was at a Fundraiser at the Apollo Theater last Thursday

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MFT 1-25-12

Desolation – Lamb Of God – Harder then their last album, the fans claim. But what does that mean? The most ferocious band in the business nail it again, that’s what that means

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Bridgetown Records Winter 2012 Releases

Kevin has written that the D.R.mix casette is one of his three fave releases of all time, though there are no slouches here. From Reighnbeau’s flutterring folkie beauty to Gentle Claw’s quiet ambience, all his new releases are excellent.

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A Futurist Writes

I am a futurist in all things but in music more than in anything else. I am sorry I am gonna die in ten or fifty years because of all the great music I’m gonna miss by not being here.

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Ice T, Knows It All

‘Music as a whole is delusional. If you listen to pop records right now, you’ll believe every body’s rollin’, poppin’ bottles, life is perfect. Life is f**ked up right now! …

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