Apparently the new Madonna greatest-hits collection Celebration is full of botched mastering jobs and bad segues, so those of you looking to spend money on a CD in 2009 should be warned. (Example: “A bad edit jumps the track from the end of the chorus to the repeat of the bridge which kills the structure of the track. This version is unlistenable.”) Good thing Warner Music Group fired all those people at its reissue-specialty arm Rhino last week, right? [Requiem 4 A Dream; HT perfectomix] MORE »
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Cancel The Celebration: You Maybe Should Just Buy All The Old Madonna Singles Piecemeal And Ignore That New Hits Collection
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I Knew That Having Ida Maria On The Perez Hilton Tour Would Be A Bad Idea
The fierce Norwegian rocker Ida Maria had a meltdown on stage at the woefully undersold Boston installment of Technicolor-haired Internet scourge Perez Hilton’s tour the other night. Somehow the bottom-feeding blogger himself hasn’t mentioned this yet! But other people who were there have accounts of the evening and video. MORE »
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Kate Moss and the Kills’ Jamie Hince apparently had a lovers’ spat that was so awful, Moss decided to pitch some of Hince’s belongings into a nearby pool… including a laptop that contained the only recordings of six new Kills songs. Finally, a case of a girlfriend actually destroying her paramour’s band’s musical output, instead of the trumped-up tales that you hear from so many nooks and crannies of the rock-lore world. [Mirror via Matthew Perpetua] MORE »
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The Most Horrifying Song You Will Hear All Day: It’s Like “Butterfly Kisses” Meets The Birds And The Bees
I am not a parent, so I have no idea what it’s like to have The Talk with your kids–or, at least, The Explanation Of Why Mom And Dad’s Room Has Noise Coming Out Of It On Some Nights. But I’m pretty sure that “Making Love,” a song that made its way to the people behind Mind-Melting Demo Disasters, is not it. A delicately plucked folk song that’s sung to a not-yet-walking child by “Daddy,” with “Mommy” chiming in to harmonize every so often, its particular brand of squickiness is probably best epitomized by the various sexual metaphors it ticks off during one of the verses: MORE »
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Michael Jackson Wasn’t Planning On Getting Four Extra Helpings Of Comeback Shows
Michael Jackson apparently said howdy to a clutch of fans waiting outside the Burbank, Calif. rehearsal studio where he’s prepping for his 50-date residency at London’s O2 Arena, which is set to start next month, albeit a little later than originally planned. If The Sun’s account of the meet-and-greet is to be believed, Jackson is feeling more than a bit hoodwinked by the scope of the whole thing, claiming that he was only planning on performing 20% of the shows that were eventually scheduled: MORE »
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Ticketmaster’s Legal-Scalping Site Continues To Give Bruce Springsteen Fans Headaches
Thanks to a glitch, Ticketmaster’s “secondary ticketing” site TicketsNow–which allows those people who have bought tickets to events to resell them at a premium–oversold certain seating sections for this coming Monday’s Bruce Springsteen show in Washington, D.C. As it turned out, the tickets that were oversold were in the good areas of the Verizon Center, and not the nosebleed seats. So basically, a bunch of E Street fans who paid as much as three times face value for a seat close to the stage at the city’s Verizon Center were actually buying the illusion of getting to see the Boss up close. Nice work, guys! MORE »
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Amy Winehouse’s Too-Slight Return
Whether or not Amy Winehouse was going to play her first show in months on Friday night was up in the air until the very end–the St. Lucia Jazz Festival, which was featuring her as a headliner, had canceled its Thursday slate of performances because of some nasty weather on the island where Winehouse has been spending most of this year. As it turns out, Winehouse might have been helped out by the weather, at least as far as it giving an excuse for her set’s abrupt end; while she clearly didn’t seem ready to perform at all, chugging drinks in between forgotten lyrics and awkwardly dancing, her flack chalked up her walking off the stage to the storms blanketing the tropical island, “causing a lighting rig to fail and disrupting sound equipment.” You may disagree with the official spin after you see the two clips embedded here–above, catch her scatty opening number, while the clip after the jump has the aftermath of her walking offstage, leaving her backup singers somewhat bewildered. MORE »
