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Last month, we noted that, despite media outlets from Pitchfork to Paste to USA Today claiming there was a comma in the title of TV On The Radio's triumphant new record Dear Science, there was no punctuation to be found in the album's actual name. (He missed MTV, Blender, and AllMusic, all of which showed their commitment to the cuddly clause-container weeks after his expose broke.) More »

Usually the most rewarding installments of the crabby-boomer music industry newsletter the Lefsetz Letter are the ones that list proprietor Bob Lefsetz devotes to reader mail; yesterday he sent out a really, really long edition of his mailbag, and reading it all the way through was pretty rewarding if only because of the missive from the producer James Sanger, who produced and co-wrote Siobhan Donaghy's incredible album Ghosts. (The Inland Empire-inspired video for Donaghy's "So You Say" is above.) Sanger's e-mail was quite informative, if only because I learned that artists who put out albums that I like aren't as immune from UK label dumbassery as I thought they might be: More »