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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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"Contagion" Reviewed (More Or Less)

A bat gets mixed up in a pig and a contagious virus knocks off 26 million people while Matt Damon doesn’t get it infected and spends the rest of the movie cock blocking his daughter’s boyfriend, Lawrence Fishburn tries to contain the virus and Jude Law plays one of those low life bloggers and tries to make a buck off it

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Sneak Peaks, Week Of January 23rd, 2012

The story is the return of music after a six week hiatus, this is the sound of a gun being shot off and the race begining. There are people who will already have at least one of these albums among their best of 2012. I would be surprised if Lamb Of God doesn’t survive the year

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MFT 1-24-12

“Fuddum fuddum” -what the heck does that mean? Barclay’s mix tape as excerpted here for over four minutes is a thing of beauty and wonder. It isn’t seamless, indeed, it insists upon you noticing the seams but from an inspired use of the ittitular note on a Buzzcocks to the end it is an amazing achievement.

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Minimum Wage VS Music Sales

I remember the old times, before the digital age, when buying an album cost about $18-20, these times are definitively over, there are more and more music available and it is almost free

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UK Top 10 Albums, January 28th, 2012

I kinda forgot about the Vaccines at the end of last year and ignored em on both my album and singles best off. They should have at least made the singles for “If You Wanna”. Meanwhile, Beyonce got a baby bounce and I guess some people get Enter Shakira.

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UK Top 10 Singles, January 28th, 2012

I imagine very big things for “Titanium” -a much better song than that Usher rip off Guetta was lucky he didn’t get sued with. Swedish House Mafia are back on the charts, Pixie Lott a purely English phenim and Coldplay help on earth.

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MFT 1-23-12

This is my big, big, big song at the moment Nothing else has the happiness of this song and happiness is catchy. Incidentally, if writing about happiness is easy, why can’t Kathleen do it more often? Don’t bother, it was a rhetorical.questio

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Bruno Mars Free At Last

An alert and really odd restroom attendant felt that Peter Hernandez was spending too much time in a stall back in September 2010. So they called security. Pause for a moment and ponder how odd that is to begin with.

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MFT 1-22-12

seems to jump upwards with a discovery of a new love and the thrill of discovery. The melody is just lovely, “Wake up, wake up, wake up, I want to take you…” is the sound of a woman on the first day of love.

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A Failure To Communicate

I wonder why so many “serious” rock bands, so many Phish’s and their elk, don’t try and just speak to their audience, about their music, about what’s are on their mind.

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Anthony Raneri's, "Cathedrals", reviewed

The way that Anthony’s voice dances on top of the instruments is absolutely incredible and uplifting. It’s almost effortless and puts you on a cloud when you hear it. It shows off his immense talent and it’s wonderful.

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