The Circuit City here in Athens is closing up shop, and all of the CDs there are 50% off. I picked up the new Q-Tip there, Portishead’s Third, and Sly & the Family Stone’s Greatest Hits (so I could get the three songs not included on last year’s box, bastards). Maura posted about Circuit City closing a couple of days ago and how there were tons of Janet Jackson’s Discipline there. “Tons” is an understatement: There were four rows of copies. I got intrigued by this and decided to catalog what other CDs people weren’t buying at Circuit City, even at 50% off. MORE »
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Circuit City’s Island Of Misfit CDs: What People Aren’t Buying
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Maxwell Thinks BET Is Simply Beautiful
Al Green was the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award at last night’s BET Awards, and to celebrate him, the producers had Jill Scott and Anthony Hamilton pay tribute to him in song. MORE »
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BET Awards Honor The Young, The Old, The Dead, And The-Dream
The list of winners from last night’s BET Awards is full of fascination and surprise for any nerd who can’t help but care. Did the right “feat. T-Pain” win Best Collaboration? (Yes.) Is Missy Elliott doing better than any female artist who actually released an album in the last year? (Lil’ Mama was robbed!) Did UGK deserve “Best Group” and “Best Video” more than Playaz’ Circle and Ashanti or was it just a tribute to the passing Pimp C? (Both.) Kanye over Lil’ Wayne? (Weezy will have to settle for Viewer’s Choice.) Chris Brown over Ne-Yo? (A tragic tear under a tilted hat.) MORE »
Jill Scott Lifts, Separates, Diversifies Her Portfolio
R & B singer/AT&T pitchwoman Jill Scott has added to her portfolio with a line of full-figure undergarments for the Ashley Stewart chain, including bras that she’s designed based on cup-related frustrations that, in the past, required her to wear two of the contraptions at the same time. MORE »
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Raheem DeVaughn Gets Behind The Melody
Between Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Vol. One–which sounds to your friends at Idolator like the album to beat in ‘08–and late-’07 goodies by Jill Scott, The-Dream, and Mary J. Blige (with points going for a hip-hop crossover like Lupe Fiasco), the past three months have been very good ones for R&B. Add to that list Jive/Zomba’s mid-January release of Love Behind the Melody, the second album by Raheem DeVaughn, which is as solid and alert and enjoyable as anything I’ve heard this year. Enjoy the metaphor-happy (not to mention toy-instrument-sounds-happy) “Customer,” and if visuals aren’t necessarily, you know, your thing, you can at least now see and hear DeVaughn’s “Woman” after the jump. MORE »
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“Vibe” Takes On The Big And Small Screens
Once again, we present Rock-Critically Correct, a feature in which the most recent issues of Rolling Stone, Blender, Vibe, and Spin are given a once-over by an anonymous writer who’s contributed to several of those titles–or maybe even all of them! After the click-through, a look at the new issue of Vibe: MORE »
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The Grammy Nominations: Kanye West Is Stronger Than Amy Winehouse
We’re running through the complete list now, but for the time being, since Grammy.com seems to be completely hosed, here’s a rundown of nominees in the biggest Grammy categories. Kanye West leads all nominees with eight nods, while Amy Winehouse picked up six; initial surprises include “Hey There Delilah” getting nominated for song of the year (!) and Bruce Springsteen being shut out of the Album Of The Year running in favor of Herbie Hancock. PHooray, you can all argue about Wilco again! MORE »
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Bruce Springsteen Comes Out On Top In A Rough Week
As predicted last Friday, this week’s SoundScan charts were pretty rough, with no album breaking the six-figure sales total mark and only two–Bruce Springsteen’s Magic, off 42% from last week, and Kid Rock’s Rock N’ Roll Jesus, down 55%–breaking 75k. Magic just edged out Kid Rock’s album for the top spot on the chart, although that Waffle House brawl Kid got into over the weekend will surely boost his sales next week. (At least he hopes.) MORE »
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Kid Rock Plays King Of The Charts For A Week
Kid Rock’s Rock N’ Roll Jesus sold 172,000 copies last week, and that total was enough for the oh-so-classy guy to wrest the top spot from Bruce Springsteen, whose Magic suffered a 60% sales decline and sank to No. 2. Jesus is Kid Rock’s first career No. 1, and its success probably ensures that he’ll be getting into scraps with minor celebrities at award shows before his next album drops too. MORE »
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Bruce Springsteen’s No. 1 Album Will Probably Inspire Lots Of Bad “Magic”-Related Puns
Bruce Springsteen’s Magic sold 335,000 copies last week, a total that put the New Jersey singer at No. 1 on the just-released SoundScan charts. The album is Springsteen’s eighth career chart-topper, although the first-week total is substantially less than the 525,000 mark set by The Rising back in 2002. MORE »
