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“Vibe” Has A Few Curious Omissions

weezybaby.jpgOnce 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 »

"now considered the best in the game by connoisseurs?"

I doubt that. You say Wayne is the best, I don't take you for a hip-hop head. Yeah, he's good. The best? Nah.

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Rascal Flatts Feel Pretty Good At The Top

flatts.jpgRascal Flatts topped this week’s SoundScan chart, with their latest album Still Feels Good selling 547,000 copies; the country-pop outfit’s last album Me & My Gang sold 722,000 copies in its first week a year ago, and this week it actually moved up to No. 38 on the charts, with 18,000 people deciding that they had to own that “Life Is A Highway” cover. MORE »

so i guess that jill scott album is bigger than that weird duets compilation thing that came out last year where the cover was her wearing a jamiroquai hat and slow-dancing with a grizzly bear?

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Idolator Counts Down The 100 Greatest R&B Songs Of All Time (With My Mom) Part Two

In case you missed our first installment: A few months ago, Idolator’s Michaelangelo Matos sent out an e-mail to a handful of his associates with a proposition: Give me a list of your 100 favorite R&B songs. Well, those months went by and the only person to turn in a completed list was…my mother. In our second installment of Kathleen Turner’s 100 Greatest R&B Songs of All Time (with bonus YouTube links), we learn about her “intense British connection,” why you should just say no to drugs, and how she feels about a certain pied piper of R&B: MORE »


Common Finds Himself On Reviewers’ Minds

commoncover.jpgEvery week, we round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today’s entry is Common’s Finding Forever, which hits stores in the U.S. tomorrow: MORE »

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Who Charted?: Norah Jones Is No. 1 On The Chart, And In America’s Hearts

As expected by pretty much everyone who’s ever heard a note of music in the last five years, Norah Jones’ Not Too Late took the top spot on this week’s Billboard 200. The adorable singer’s third full-length sold 405,000 copies–a jump from last week’s No. MORE »

Re: Norah - they really should've held it for closer to Valentine's Day (i.e., this Tuesday, or maybe even next week). Her last one dropped the Tuesday before V-Day, which explains big-time why it made such a killing in its first week.

That said, after that EMI article today, clearly they needed the revenue shot in the arm now now now.

Re: Daughtry - don't rename the section. No band's durability is as inexplicable as Nickelback's.

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