50 Cent–Rick Ross Feud Sinks to New, Animated Low Yesterday saw the latest (and lamest) of the broadsides drop on Rick Ross’s MySpace page.
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Feb. 10, 2009
Andy Samberg Raps With T-Pain! Lorne Michaels wishes he had this one.
Mind Your Aquatic Wildlife: Lil Wayne Makes a Comeback Failed rock star Weezy returns to spitting rhymes with a high intensity.
Devendra Banhart Plays the Straight Man, for Once Banhart has shaved off his beard, and he seems to have lost some of his folk-freakiness in the process.
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Jan. 30, 2009
Big Mama? Lil’ Mama Goes PopLil’ Mama seems to be a natural, no matter what she’s doing behind the mike.
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Jan. 29, 2009
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Jan. 23, 2009
The National Know You All Too Well The “serious lady” who is the subject of the National’s new song knows “there’s no leaving New York” and prays “for Pavement to get back together.”
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Jan. 16, 2009
Three New Gorillaz Tracks Spotted Damon Albarn took over the airwaves at BBC’s Radio 1 to drop three new ‘rillaz demos.
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Jan. 15, 2009
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Jan. 12, 2009
Golden Globe–Winning Song an Insult to All Washed-Up Losers This goes out to all you scarecrows filled with nothing but dust and wheat!
M. Ward in the Afterglow In “Hold Time,” he ponders an intimate moment that “worthless photographs” would not do justice.
Awestruck Kanye Calls New Peter, Bjorn & John ‘Crazy’ “[EXPLETIVE DELETED] IS DOPE!! DRUMS ARE CRAZY AND I LIKE THE KIDS ON THE HOOK.”
Retro! A Jay-Z-and-Radiohead Mash-up Album Instead of sounding tired and gimmicky, tracks like “Dirt Off Your Android” actually add up to something!
Ciara Implies That You Should Lick Her Boot Ciara hypes her hood, sex appeal, and most important, her upcoming album on this ‘Diva’ remix.
Vivian Girls Do Their Thing to the Beach Boys Fans of the Beach Boys, and technically proficient singing in general, might have a difficult time with this cover.
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Dec. 31, 2008
Jamie Foxx Finds a Woman As Obnoxious As He Is We didn’t really take to this tit-for-tat tale of infidelity equality until we saw the video.
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Dec. 30, 2008
Morrissey’s New Ode to Paris: Terrific, Awkward Morrissey embraces the City of Light not for its shopping or Brie, but because, naturally, “only stone and steel accept my love.”
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Dec. 29, 2008
Black Lips Are Totally Going to Better Themselves in 2009 “Starting Over” is thoughtful and sophisticated — or at least, it is for this Atlanta garage-punk quartet.
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Dec. 24, 2008
Karen O. Warms the Cockles of Your Christmas Heart We’ll take this Christmas ditty as evidence that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back in the studio.
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Dec. 23, 2008
Another Christmas, Another Bizarro Sufjan Stevens EP Hear a holiday fantasia that starts as a desultory blues number before blasting off with trumpet-playing aliens!
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Dec. 22, 2008
Indie Celebs Make Ironic Charity Song For Tim Harrington’s latest webisode of Beardo , his comedy show on Pitchfork, he does a parody of the big British Africa-benefit song “Do They Know It’s Christmas.”
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Dec. 19, 2008
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Dec. 17, 2008
Akon Would Like to Tell You Something, Beautiful Though his street cred may have been shot full of holes, Akon seems to have survived unscathed.
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Dec. 16, 2008
New Britney Spears: Girl Is Back “I’m a put-on-a-show kind of girl,” sasses Britney Spears, continuing to put on her best, non-car-wreck show in years.
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Dec. 15, 2008
New Peter, Bjorn and John Equal Parts Creepy and Catchy Don’t expect to hear it on ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ — but if you give it a listen, do expect to have it looping endlessly through your head.
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Dec. 12, 2008
Scott Weiland Somehow Squanders His Best Song in Forever Lyrics like ‘strapped in the monkey seat, like a Martian chimpanzee’ actually manage to evoke a lonely astronaut existence without being completely ridiculous
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Dec. 11, 2008
Zooey Deschanel’s New Band! Zooey Deschanel and Bay Area electro-soul band Von Iva are ‘Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome’!
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Dec. 10, 2008
A.C. Newman Delivers Another So-Called ‘Perfect Pop Song’ ‘Submarines in Stockholm’ might disappoint fans, but then again, we’re not so sure we can judge on their behalf.
N.A.S.A. Call in All Their Hipster Chits for Anti-Capitalist Pile-on “Money” is the first official track off the hotly anticipated debut album from the production duo N.A.S.A.
Eminem’s ‘Number One’ More Like Number Two His rhymes are clunky and embarrassing, and when he sings, we wish he’d borrowed Kanye’s Auto-Tune.
A.R. Rahman Slum s It With M.I.A. This track feels as at-home on the subway as it does on the subcontinent.
Jack White Seen Consorting With Old Man in Church Jack White’s career apprenticing himself to roots music and its giants might climax with this reworked Raconteurs song.
Lily Allen Is Against Everything She Stands For Single “The Fear”: Talk about a guilty pleasure.
Cyndi Lauper and the Hives Aim for a Filthy New Christmas Classic Leave it to garage-rock revivalists and an eighties icon to bring a bittersweet dose of holiday nostalgia!
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Nov. 26, 2008
Bruce Springsteen Totally Angling for an Inauguration Gig The Boss performed ‘Working on a Dream’ while campaigning for Barack Obama, and the song’s lyrics are inspirational and vague.
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Nov. 25, 2008
Keith Urban Single Possibly Concerns Frenching Nicole Kidman A well-crafted piece of pop confection that debuted in the top half of the ‘Billboard’ Hot 100 singles chart this week, Keith Urban’s ‘Sweet Thing’ typifies today’s country.
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Nov. 24, 2008
Franz Ferdinand, 2.0 On their forthcoming album, Franz Ferdinand go places they’ve never been. Strange places!
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Nov. 21, 2008
Animal Collective More Animal Collective Than Ever on New Studio Track “Brother Sport” is seemingly about a boisterous and tender sibling pep talk.
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Nov. 20, 2008
Ludacris, Jay-Z, and Nas Claim, Effectively Enough, That They’re Not in It for the Money You can be forgiven for thinking that it’s stubborn Nas, if anyone, who can most convincingly claim “I Do It for Hip Hop.”
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