This was one of those two-day stretches where pop leak blogs were in overdrive, thanks to the songs leaking from every crevice in the music industry’s crumbling firmament (including its artists’ own blogs). Who wins? Well, the ad sales team at RapidShare, for sure. As far as listeners’ fates, the results are decidedly more mixed, as you’ll see from the brief reviews of new songs by Kanye West and T-Pain, Green Day, Dr. Dre and T.I., the Black Eyed Peas, Depeche Mode, Jennifer Lopez, and Ciara located after the jump. MORE »
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It happened one weekend
Seven-Word Reviews Of Seven New Pop Songs
Happy 44th birthday today to Andre Young, better known as reunions
JJ Fad Set To Get Supersonic All Over Again
The Los Angeles hip-hop trio JJ Fad got back into… MORE »
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Behold: The Pliesroll, Brought To You By Some Bored Guy On The Internet
This morning while doing my YouTube rounds, I found a clip claiming to have as its audio bed a high-quality version of Kanye West’s Tears For Fears homage “Coldest Winter,” so I–hoping to hear the song without all that peaking and radio static that nearly ruined last week’s leak somewhere around listen No. 10–clicked. But instead of “Coldest Winter, however, we’re treated to a video that fuses together a photo of Steve Jobs holding a pitcher of Kool-Aid, paparazzo shots of The Game and Snoop Dogg, and gunshot sounds in a way that’s seemingly inspired by both Paperrad and ransom notes. MORE »
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Project X Hits the Hip-Hop Nostalgia Circuit
As part of Idolator’s continuing effort to geekily analyze every music chart known to man, we present a new edition of Project X, in which Michaelangelo Matos breaks down top-ten lists from every genre imaginable. After the jump, he sits through VH1’s latest TV-based listicle, 100 Greatest Hip-Hop Songs, and finds a few poignant moments among the MC Hammer jokes: MORE »
upcoming releases
Dr. Dre’s “Detox” To Have Its Day… As Soon As The Dre-Branded Cognac Comes Out
Could a press release from Drinks Americas Holdings, the beverage company that has a joint venture with Universal Music Group to develop beverages of the alcoholic and virgin varieties around the record company’s artists, have offered business-page readers an inside line on a possible release date for Dr. Dre’s years-in-the-making Detox? A press release issued today by the company claims that not only will Dre’s branded cognac and sparkling vodka be released to the marketplace sometime within the next 60 days, said product launches will go hand-in-hand with the release of Detox, courtesy of a “fully integrated marketing program.” I guess the plan is to get drunk on the liquor, and then detox with… oh, you know. The relevant chunk of the release is after the jump. MORE »
upcoming releases
Dr. Dre Imagines A World Where “Detox” Is Actually On Shelves
Last month, Snoop Dogg said that Dr. Dre’s long-in-the-works Detox was “on and poppin’,” but while Andre Young himself says that the album isn’t quite ready to drop yet, he is a little more confident about its eventual release, saying that it could even come out this year. “In a perfect world, I’m shooting for a November or December release,” Dre told USA Today. So will Detox, which is slated to have guest spots from the likes of Nas, Jay-Z, and Lil Wayne, beat Chinese Democracy to stores? Or will Dre figure out some sort of crazy cross-promotion between his sparkling vodka and Dr Pepper that will result in the entire country getting blitzed out on booze, beats, and Axl Rose’s lyrics at the same time? MORE »
Snoop Dogg Swears Dr. Dre’s <i>Detox</i> Is Ready To Go
A lot of people wonder if Dr. Dre will ever stop lifting weights and giving tracks to other Aftermath artists long enough to release his much-awaited Detox, but after four years of delays, Snoop Dogg says it could drop any second. “You know me, I was starting to doubt it myself and then I went up in there and he played so much music for me it knocked my head off. I see what he got them waiting for, it’s on and poppin’. He got records, he got heat.” He also has to figure out which tracks featuring which rappers are actually worth releasing in 2008, as the game has changed many times since the release of The Chronic 2001. (Just ask The Game.) MORE »
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Interscope Plans A Hot Winter, “EW” Flatters Keane
The music industry may be shrinking and stumbling, but Interscope’s got a bunch of potential fall releases that might make this a decent year for them if not anyone else in major labeldom. Assuming a weak first single doesn’t land an act in “Jimmy Jail,” U2, Eminem, Dr. Dre, The Pussycat Dolls, the Black Eyed Peas and No Doubt should all be dropping new iPod ads–sorry, I meant albums–later this year. And let’s not forget the vague possibility that Chinese Democracy could join this roster. Entertainment Weekly also names Keane in its list of Interscope’s “marquee names,” but seeing as how that band’s last album didn’t even go gold, I don’t think we’ll be so kind. MORE »
Dr. Dre Wants To Get You <s>High</s> Drunk (But Asks That You Enjoy Responsibly)
Hopefully Dr. Young can start recouping some of those lost Death Row royalties soon; Dre’s branching into the alcohol-purveying business this year, because sometimes you gotta go where nobody’s going to forget about Dre. The first Dre-branded bottles of fancy booze will appear on liquor store shelves within the year, but with Dre’s corporate partner Drinks America nixing the idea of a chronic-infused appletini mixer, what sort of “premier” potent potables can we expect from a guy who already knows a little something about high-end consumer goods? MORE »
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