In case you missed the Rapidshare links pinging around the Internet yesterday, Rhapsody is offering up a stream of Jay-Z’s The Blueprint 3 a full week before it’ll be made available for download there—which is three days before the official street date of Sept. 11. (Note that Rhapsody is all in bed with MTV, while Jay’s concert coinciding with the 9/11 Blueprint 3 release is being co-sponsored by rival music-leaning network Fuse. Now who’s a business, man?) [Rhapsody] MORE »
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Jay-Z’s New Album Follows The Time-Tested “Fake Leak After Real Leak” Blueprint
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Jay-Z Enlists Kanye West And Rihanna For His Mayoral Campaign
ARTISTS: Jay-Z feat. Rihanna and Kanye West
TITLE: “Run This Town”
WEB DEBUT: July 24, 2009 MORE »
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Why Is Mariah Carey So Obsessed With Autotune All Of A Sudden?
ARTIST: Mariah Carey
TITLE: “Obsessed”
WEB DEBUT: June 16, 2009 MORE »
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Mariah Carey’s New Single Already Getting Leakbloggers A-Twitter
Mariah Carey’s “Obsessed,” the first single off her forthcoming Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel, will get its premiere on Chicago pop radio station B96 today–but don’t expect a radio rip of the track to show up on all those song-sharing pop blogs for at least a few hours. Last year, when lead E=MC2 single “Touch My Body” came out, Island Def Jam’s squad of web sheriffs went on a rampage, deleting blogs that dared post ZShare links to the track left and right. The leakblogger known as “Vicki”–whose former site, Crazy World Of Music, chronicled the “Touch My Body” casualties and is now refusing to post any Mariah at her new blog, Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul–broke down why she’ll be abstaining from the rush to capitalize on the Google traffic for “mariah carey obsessed” in her, um, inimitable style on Twitter. MORE »
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Dr. Dre Detoxes With The Only Carbonated Beverage That Shares His Title
Continuing in the tradition of Dr. J, Kelsey “Dr. Fraiser Crane” Grammer, and Gene “Dr. Love” Simmons, Dr. Dre has lent his expertise to a Dr Pepper commercial–and he’s also allowed them to use a few seconds of a track from his forever-delayed Detox. (It’s not the song playing in the first bit of the ad, in case you hit play and got worried.) MORE »
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As a card-carrying music blogger, it’s my duty to let you know that Wilco is streaming the camel-coated Wilco (The Album) from its Web site right now. Apparently it leaked last night, leading to the stream being hastily put up on a “beta” section of the band’s site and a bunch of people making “Wilco (The Leak)” jokes. (That’s one somewhat disheartening thing about the Internet: You get to see just how many people have the same sense of humor as you. No more special snowflakes allowed, despite parental protestations!) [Wilco World] MORE »
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Green Day Hit The Accelerator, Unsure Of Where They’re Going To Wind Up
ARTIST: Green Day
TITLES: “East Jesus Nowhere,” “21 Guns,” “Restless Heart Syndrome,” “Before The Breakdown,” “21st Century Breakdown,” “American Eulogy”
WEB DEBUT: May 5, 2009 MORE »
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If You’d Like To Fight The Internet Masses And Try To Get The New Eminem Single, Have At It
Eminem’s “3 A.M.”–which according to reports is darker than the long-ago-TiVoed episode of The Soup that he released as his first single from the forthcoming Relapse–is apparently premiering on Elliott Wilson’s new site Rap Radar as I type this, although good luck getting through to the site, which is apparently slammed by eager Slim Shady fans looking for their hero to return to form. (Nothing like a good old-fashioned MySQL error to whet your appetite!) I’ve been hitting reload for a while now and I think I’m going to wait for off-peak hours to actually hear it, but your computer’s superior processing power might help you get through a bit quicker? (OK, OK, I’m flattering, sorry.) [Rap Radar] MORE »
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