“It’s a little smoother, but the sound is just as raw. That’s where having a good producer can take it to where it works for the mainstream, but the subject matter is still raw and it sounds raw,” said the hustler-turned-really, really lousy rapper of his forthcoming second album, which will include contributions from the likes of Dr. Luke and Travis Barker. You know, between this and the continued flogging of the cringe-inducing Morningwood, I’m starting to wonder if the next 12-ish months won’t be the equivalent of a body-hollowing, shake-inducing, intestine-ravaging hangover, one that exists chiefly to serve as a reminder of all the bad decisions made during a particularly decadent binge. In this case, of course, said binge was really “the majors’ pathetic attempts to ride the Last Night’s Party wave”—and in this case, it’s all of us who have to suffer. (Also, I still think he’s saying “do the tampon” in the above clip.) [MTV Newsroom] MORE »
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Just What The World Needed: A Second Mickey Avalon Album
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Hollywood: Giving The People What They Think They Sort Of Maybe Might Need Someday
The Hollywood Reporter reports that Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn and Late Show With David Letterman scribe Tom Ruprecht are at work on writing and producing a movie version of Chuck Klosterman’s coming-of-age-with-metal memoir Fargo Rock City. But those of you expecting a movie that plumbed the depths of one teenager’s rotting cassette collection (with a really heaping dash of Catholic imagery) will be disappointed, since the flick is going to have the music content turned down and the outcast angst cranked up all the way: MORE »
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Five Possible Conclusions To Draw From The Photos Previewing Chris Brown’s Forthcoming Video
Today Chris Brown posted a collage of photos from the video shoot for his new, aggro single “I Can Transform Ya” to his blog, which is a strange hybrid of news about the image-rehabilitating singer and odd, non-Brown-related celebrity tidbits. (Whatever gets the pageviews, I guess.) After the jump, the preview image in full, and five possible conclusions about the video that can be drawn from it. MORE »
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Mariah Carey’s Forthcoming Album To Spotlight Everyone Who Isn’t Mariah Carey
Don’t call the (probably inevitable) commercial retooling of Mariah Carey’s Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel a remix album: “They’ve said that it’s a remix album, but really what it is is a features album. [The songs] won’t necessarily be remixed,” producer Tricky Stewart told Rap-Up.com. “It’s just an album of features, really cool features on the exact same album.” Among the artists enlisted for this salvage operation: Trey Songz, Gucci Mane, Big Boi, OJ Da Juiceman, R. Kelly, and—natch—T-Pain. No release date has been set. [Rap-Up] MORE »
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Adam Lambert’s Forthcoming Album To Pay Tribute To Nearly Dead Mall Chain
Adam Lambert just announced via Twitter that his forthcoming album, which drops Nov. 23, will be called… For Your Entertainment. Which struck these ears as a little bit odd, given that said awkward construction is also the reasoning behind he awkwardly acronymic name of the bruised and battered mall chain F.Y.E. Is this some sort of odd synergy, or is this year’s American Idol runner-up just that serious about bringing back the music business’ go-go era of the ’90s any way that he can? [adamlambert/Twitter] MORE »
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Universal Music Group Really Hoping That People Will Want To Buy Albums This Holiday Season
So apparently that cryptic message about Nov. 23 left on Rihanna’s Web site last night was not about anything egg-related, despite its use of “ova”; instead, it was meant to be a signal that the Barbadian singer’s still-untitled fourth studio album will come out on that day. That’s the Monday before Thanksgiving, and the Monday before the holiday-shopping season kicks in. And to celebrate, Universal Music Group is apparently readying six big-name releases for that day! The list of “Super Monday” albums, via Rap-Up: MORE »
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Here Is Some Good News: The New Charlotte Hatherley Album Is Coming Out Soon (By Which I Mean Tuesday)
This just in: The third solo album from Ash/Bat For Lashes guitarist Charlotte Hatherley, the outstanding New Worlds, is being released in the United States by the label Minty Fresh on Oct. 13—this coming Tuesday. Which is fantastic news, as I’d thought that the lack of buzz regarding a release date over here meant that it would fall into turnaround; New Worlds is a rich, twisty record that deserves to be heard by as many fans of smart guitar-rock as possible. Yay! Now maybe we can get her to tour this side of the world on her own… [Official site / YouTube / Earlier] MORE »
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Tomorrow Should Be A Fun Day For New Music
In addition to the cavalcade of new albums coming out tomorrow, we’re also going to have debuts of new singles by Britney Spears (the Max Martin-assisted, cryptically titled “3″), the newly penitent Chris Brown (”Transformer,” which had better not have a Brian Austin Green reference), and the still-soldiering-on Foo Fighters (”Wheels,” which from the snippet sounds sort of, um, old-dudeish). Which will be the most successful? Which will probably inspire the most hand-wringing? (OK that one’s a given, I guess.) [RS / Inn The Basement / FMQB] MORE »
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Weezer F. Baby: Lil Wayne Uses The Latest “Rebirth” Delay As A Chance To Bro Down With Rivers Cuomo
In the latest installment of “Lil Wayne’s Rock Album Is Really Never Going To Come Out, But At Least It’s Giving Me Something To Write About,” the tongue-twisting MC’s foray into the world of guitars, Rebirth, has been delayed from Nov. 24 to Dec. 15. Which I guess freed his schedule up enough to allow him to lend a verse to Raditude, the forthcoming bit of comment bait from Weezer! Rivers Cuomo talked to MTV News about the pairing: MORE »
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Bloodsuckers Of Indie: “New Moon” Soundtrack To Feature Death Cab, Thom Yorke, Lykke Li, Grizzly Bear, And The Killers
The soundtrack listing for New Moon, the latest installment in the fangirl-insanity-inducing Twilight series, has been released, and as previously insinuated, it is pretty indie-tastic, with the likes of Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke, Swedish enigma Lykke Li, the Jay-Z-beloved Grizzly Bear, and the one-two punch of Bon Iver and St. Vincent backing up Death Cab For Cutie’s lead single “Meet Me On The Equinox.” Muse is also contributing a remix of a song from their new album The Resistance, although Matt Bellamy sure sounds like he wanted to take the path of least, um, resistance when getting on the record: “He wants a rendition of that, but the only thing with the new film is they want the songs to be exclusive to the film. So he’s asking if I mind doing, or if we mind doing an alternative version of it.” Um, OK then! Full track listing after the jump. MORE »
