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"Tha Carter III" Pushed Back Again, Much To The Surprise Of No One

If you had "April 10" in your "When will Lil Wayne's Tha Carter III be delayed once again?" pool, congratulations: The long-in-the-works album has been pushed back from its already-delayed release date, and is now set to hit stores on June 10, a date that Universal execs no doubt picked in part because it kept the album on the label's Q2 balance sheet. There's also been some scuttlebutt about Tha Carter III's visual component, with a fake cover that mashed together a vintage Sears Portrait Studio baby picture, Weezy's tattoos, and some questionable font choices floating around yesterday. After the jump, the phony album art and the supposedly real Carter III cover. More »

12:15 PM on Thu Apr 10 2008
By Maura Johnston
929 views, 6 comments

Latest by Queerbot: Oddly, the label apparently confirmed that the Sears Portrait Studio cover art was legit yesterday. [popwatch.ew.com] If they can't pick a cover, they're never gonna pick a release date. Luckily I still have about 20 undownloaded Wayne mixtapes to warm my more »

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Will Nas' New Album Hit Stores With Its Title Intact?

Nas has been running into problems thanks to the proposed title for his upcoming album—you may have heard about it; it's the N-word—since it was announced in October. But with the (rumored) album cover circulating 'round the Web since December, Nas and Mrs. Nas showing up to the Grammys in promotional N-word jackets, and Nas putting up his dukes on high-profile hip-hop magazine covers as he brandishes the album's controversial slur, it looked as if Def Jam was going to let the rapper's shit-stirring title stand unedited. But the album was initially announced as having a (highly unrealistic) December release date before being pushed back to February, and with February almost gone, it seems Def Jam's L.A. Reid is still wary about shipping the record before it's "ready." More »

12:00 PM on Tue Feb 19 2008
By Jess Harvell
1,655 views, 8 comments

Latest by Jfrankparnell: If that's the title when it leaks, no way am I posting the rapidshare file. more »

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Nicole Scherzinger Gives Up?

Tonight marks the premiere of the CW series Pussycat Dolls Present: Girlicious, the sequel to The Search For The Next Pussycat Doll that will set out to launch another girl group under the Pussycat Dolls' brand name-slash-marketing deal with Interscope Records. In the New York Daily News' preview of the show, not only do we learn about the Girlicious-branded merchandise that'll soon be lining your local 99-cent stores' aisles (makeup, clothing, a new album incorporating the sounds of TLC and Destiny's Child), we learn that the original Pussycat Doll—Nicole "Her Name Is Nicole" Scherzinger—will be returning to the fishnet-covered arms of the group that spawned her. More »

4:15 PM on Mon Feb 18 2008
By Maura Johnston
1,191 views, 1 comment

Latest by gorillavsmarykate: Her name is NNNNNNIIIIIIII-CCCCCCCCCOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLEEEEE. Bawitdaba da bang a bang a boogie... more »

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Is Pushing An Album Back Ever Good For Its Health?

Today Kelefa Sanneh wrote about All $tar, a Nashville rapper who's been the city's "next big thing" for three years now—excxept for the fact that his debut album, Street Ball, has been in limbo since 2005, thanks to his label, Cash Money/Universal, going over the preparation for the album with what seems to be the finest-tooth comb ever. (Sanneh: "...it's not uncommon for rappers to wait months or years while labels try to figure out the right single, the right track selection, the right marketing plan.") What struck me is that I've heard about so many delayed albums lately—from Amerie to All $tar to Nicole Scherzinger—that I can't help but wonder if the music industry is further shooting its sales hopes in the foot by stoking negative buzz around albums by somewhat established stars or high-profile up-and-comers. Especially in the current environment of music, where people seem to have many excuses for ignoring records at the ready. After the jump, a few arguments against pushing release dates, marketing-department-emanating objections be damned. More »

4:40 PM on Mon Feb 4 2008
By Maura Johnston
763 views, 11 comments

Latest by jasonelias: @GovernmentNames: For me most of that article was full of BS, but it was a way to get All $tar's name in the press. But as quickly changeable as rap is, an album from 2005 is going to sound old. more »

I'm starting to wonder if I should create a keyboard macro for the phrase "Nicole Scherzinger's album has been pushed back again," because, well, it's been pushed back again. To June 23. (Recall that its original release date was Oct. 16, 2007.) I wonder how many more people will be laid off at Universal Music Group between now and the time the long-delayed lead balloon actually hits store shelves? [Toya's World]

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Ashlee Simpson's forthcoming album has apparently been pushed back yet again, after being moved from last November. Apparently her label's latest strategy involves repackaging the Missing Persons homage "Outta My Head (Ay Ya Ya)"—which sank like a stone after its initial release Dec. 11—as the lead song for a three-track EP that drops Feb. 5. Said EP is going to include a "hidden gem" from Ashlee's last album, and if that isn't music-business code for "we have no idea what the hell we're going to do with the songs she's turned in so far" then I don't know what is. [AshleeSimpsonMusic.com via Kevipod Music / Photo: Getty]

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Courtney Love Will Get Back To Releasing Music Just As Soon As Everyone's Schedule Clears

Have you been wondering about the status of Courtney Love's second solo album? Well, today she put up a blog post that sort of lets people know what the deal is! "i wont drop an album i am not yet comfortable with- im not goofing off and getting nuerotic aboput whatever i try to write - im ina real band and i want that to really come through- so im sorry..." After some chatter about making "mood boards," she goes on: More »

9:45 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By mjohnston
781 views, 4 comments

Latest by thumper: lol - oh courtney more »

Will We See Chinese Democracy Before The Next Nelly Record?

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Mya's forever-delayed Liberation has finally seen the light of day ... in Japan. Nicole Scherzinger, this is your future, so take notes! [Kevipod Music]

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These Days, You May Be Dreaming If You Think Your Album Will Come Out On Time

Yesterday's Houston Chronicle had a piece on delayed hip-hop albums; among the albums profiled is UGK's UGK (Underground Kingz), which after having its release date held up for a year is reportedly going to debut at No. 1 next week. (Who knew that waiting for the bottom to fall out of the CD market would pay off so handsomely?) Also mentioned in the piece is Mike Jones, whose album The American Dream was unceremoniously pushed back to October after vanishing from Atlantic's schedule last month: More »

12:58 PM on Thu Aug 9 2007
By mjohnston
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Neil Young Gives Axl Rose A Run For His Money

Yesterday, Billboard announced that Neil Young's multi-disc Archives box set—which was supposed to finally come out later this year—has been moved to 2008. This thing been in the works for years now: A quick look through the archives unearths a Rolling Stone news piece by David Fricke, who notes that the project "has been a decade in preparation," and that it will be out "in the third quarter of this year." Said article was published in April of 2000. What work could Young possibly have left to do? It only takes a few weeks to digitally airbrush David Crosby's more druggy background vocals. More »

9:10 AM on Tue Jun 26 2007
By Brian Raftery
879 views, 5 comments

Latest by Walewander: If the label did have that type of control, they would have released a box set like that years ago. It's pretty incredible that Neil doesn't have a box set. when Bob Marley and Johnny Cash each have about 75. Oh, and more »