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And while it will undoubtedly, indeed already has, out sold Kweezy, it isn’t as good as Kweezy

This is Jay-Z time folks, the Yankee Stadium shows are coming up later this month, the new album is out and it isn’t a complete dog and here is re minder of how good he can be topped with a new song

“I spent over four weeks on a drip, but I refused a blood transfusion. I managed to do some more shows in the U.S., but when I arrived in Mexico the doctors told me to stop. “

Everybody involved should be arrested

The only breathtaking omission is Laura Marling. I mean, did you expect them to name check Claire’s Diary?

Tomas’ A Slight Return album? You’ve read me rave about my friend’s new album and it isn’t here yet but all four tracks on this list are absolutely brilliant especially “Brooklyn To Ethiopia” or maybe “How Long”

I don’t know if many modern day metal singers have balls like Blythe but he sure makes it all seem pretty calm. He is now going to be an author.

This song is an insult to everybody, nobody more that the “Wounded Warriors” to whom half of the proceeds are going. It makes you wonder if Venezuela might not have a point

He seems to continue his Beck-electronica tendency but ’I Won’t Be Long’ doesn’t sound anything like his curiously elaborated ‘Befriended’.

How can a chart as transient as the US Albums be so sucky. I mean, since the turn over is so swift, surely it should be a little more out there? Wale is one of the lamest acts in Hip Hop… no in pop music as a while.

A month ago I predicted the top three songs on this list in the top three positions they have taken, and a month later, there they are.

The day belongs to Armstrong who always claimed July 4th was his birthday so would have been, er, 111 years old if he was still with us!

Prior to Yeezus release, West showed what it might have sounded like if Rick Rubin had always recorded with him. It would have sounded really good

Rolling Stone magazine gave the broad some time and some space in their horrible little rag. Which to me seems quite appropriate.

Two of these are reactions to Steve Crawford’s best of the 70s post today, he rest are all new, and one them is sooooooooooooooooo bad. In the end, it is a thank God for Joe type week.

When you think that most of these songs were close to 50 year old it makes you think these guys were trend-setting, as a matter of fact, they were the first R&B band signed by Warner Brothers.

The barely concealed feeling is central to the album: it is all subtext, its meaning a grave and beautiful thing.

Is it “Call Me Maybe”? No, but it is interesting to see that a ringtone can be used creatively. While we are on the topic- why do iPhones have such shitty ringtone options?

Interestingly, according to Nielsen Soundscan, there are two parts of the country where people download more music than they buy CDs: Hawaii and San Francisco, may be the population is very young and hip over there?

3. Blurred Lines – Robin Thicke – Sexy, funny, but is it anatomically accurate

I hate everyone who was at that show and I will hate the fans interviewed in the prelude gushing about how they love Morrissey. As much as the “Moz Army” exists is as much as I prefer to stay out of.

I have been so disappointed in the man for so many many years and I don’t know if this is gonna be the one to bring him back to his old glories

One needs a spanking and one needs a hugging and one’s on the way…” the great Loretta Lynn and the travails of housewifedom from way back when and it doesn’t sound like fun, now does it?

With his band he presents a light show flickering, mostly well paced show. But he isn’t there yet. There is a shallowness to him, an ingratiating falseness

“Dazz” was so hook filled and undeniable that it hit #3 on the pop charts, but you probably don’t hear it on your favorite ‘70s nostalgia station

But then they had some delightful little ditties about monkeys and la la love you and well you said, ‘I’m gonna like them’. Wait, they’re from Boston, home of the original hipster fuck bags!

Where is the problem? A small detail, Turkmenistan has been described as ‘one of the world’s most repressive regimes’ by Human Rights Watch,

A dystopian masterpiece about 2013 disassociation filled with doubt and dismay, made acidic by acoustic renditions of great pop songs