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e depth of the sound cuts into you and all the layers fit so well.

There is something about the festival synth and horns that make every song into a party.

Thank you for letting us know, but does he even realize everyone is going to hate him for saying something so pretentious and full of nonsense?

Kelly is well on top of his game, rhyming “hocus pocus” with “focus” and throwing down lo-fi r&b

It’s like a one way ticket to seriouslyness!

Why did socially and politically engaged hip hop shift to this very successful crap idolizing wealth, bling, sex and consumption

The Marc Anthony 3.0 was a return to form after a decade and a marriage in the complete musical wilderness

I know you think Thicke should be here and I appreciate your concern but the truth is Robin is a somewhat minor r&b Prince wannabe

The problem with this guy is he requires more time then I can give him though I really believe he would repay close listening

Hated his fans in High School too, what idiots and jocks and stoners- so uncool.

Jahmene is an X Factor winner with strong pipes but iffy taste in material

Could this be their first misfire???

Smacks of House buried in a tomb of whips slashing and synths sinking: -ALBUM OF THE WEEK – B+

Nashville Skyline Rag – Bob Dylan – Perhaps more than any post-John Wesley Harding pre-New Morning music, this expressed where he was at – B+

“Bang Bang” just totally passed me at the time, but it has grown into a firm favorite of 2013.

Mick just turned 70 last week (props Bro) and well he looks it. Not as near dead as Keith Richards (who resembles a leather bean bag) but hes a liney limey.

Live Nation wants your snack money now so they have take a stance using ‘locally grown produce and humanly raised meat’

Curiously only 40 seconds of Arcade Fire’s cover of ‘Games Without Frontiers’ showed up on Soundcloud,… and it sounds exactly like Arcade Fire!

On Friday night Beyonces tour reaches Barclay Center? Diva or dynamite? You gotta to go to find out…

Jesus – Curtis Mayfield – So finely constructed and sung but feels like a thought process being worked out, “drink the wine…” mr. toot and toot – A+

Extreme wealth for extreme talent and extreme mental health issues all around. Money can buy happiness and therapy- thank goodness

As 80s icons go I do like him kinda. I don’t hate him.

‘You’re looking like a man, you’re talking like a baby/How the fuck is your song in a Coke commercial, crazy?/I don’t get it’

Though the projected 300,000 units sold is down 40,000 from their “Live While We’re Young” height, the streaming numbers are over the moon high

With Richie in rehab, he stuck his paid lackeys -some of whom have been with him for 30 years and are still just paid employees, and ran off on a stadium

After giving Bon Jovi a master class in rock and roll, Peter Wolfe is ripe for another of his reassessments in the rock and roll firmament. Might as well start here – A