On Monday night, a collection of songs purporting to be R. Kelly’s 12 Play: Fourth Quarter showed up on a few of the leak blogs I read, prompting Vulture to send itself into a tizzy, and Digital Music News to cluck its tongue about the early release’s effects on the biz. But 12P4Q doesn’t even have a release date yet, and the blog where I first saw it, the kooky Music Is The Heart Of Our Soul, had a disclaimer that read “For your own information, this isn’t the retail version just a compilation of tracks that might be on his album but it is still great to enjoy and to listen to.” Which I think means that it’s not really the official version of the album, but a bunch of tracks that were laying around the studio that happened to make it outside the Kells compound. Further confusing the whole picture are the torrent sites that had versions of the album marked “[RETAIL]” (which signifies that the version being traded is, in fact, the commercially available one) floating around their ether. So what gives? MORE »
Posts Tagged ‘LEAK OF THE WEEK’
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The Mysteries Behind R. Kelly’s Leaks (Album Division)
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T.I. Sings, Continues His Half-Assed Repentance
ARTIST: T.I.
TITLE: “A Better Day”
WEB DEBUT: June 21, 2008 MORE »
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Madonna Doesn’t Know When To Quit
ARTIST: Madonna
TITLE: Hard Candy (well, 58% of it, anyway)
RELEASE DATE: April 29, 2008
WEB DEBUT: April 20, 2008 MORE »
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A Look Inside The Major Labels’ Creaky “Whack-A-Pirate” Machine
Over the weekend, some enterprising hackers weaseled their way into the e-mail system of MediaDefender, a Southern California-based company that works with major labels and movie studios to try and make stealing those companies’ products a little bit harder. As Douglas Wolk described the company in Spin: “The bread and butter of MediaDefender’s business is interfering with unauthorized file-sharing: disseminating fake files, clogging uploaders’ queues, disrupting downloads. To advertise their services, they provide record labels and film and TV studios with information on exactly when and where releases have leaked.” (And in their off-hours, they go and see Chris Kattan perform!) MORE »
Leak Of The Day, Part III: Lupe Fiasco Heats Up
Nah Right has three new tracks from Lupe Fiasco, the Chicago rapper whose Food & Liquor finished at No. 28 in last year’s Jackin’ Pop poll. MORE »
Leak Of The Day: Redman Hits The Bricks
Redman’s Live From The Bricks mixtape surfaced last night over at Nah Right; it’s a warm-up for next month’s long-delayed Red Gone Wild - Thee Album, which we think was originally slated to come out in 1964. MORE »
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Leak Of The Day, Part II: Kaiser Chiefs Mob The Web
It took long enough, but Kaiser Chiefs’ Yours Truly, Angry Mob finally hit the Internet, where it’s already taking up valuable tube space. MORE »
Leak Of The Day: Feist Shoots For The “Moon”
Fluxblog has a new track from Canadian singer Feist, who’s much beloved around the Idolator flophouse for the 2004 AM-gold homage “One Evening.” MORE »
Leak Of The Day: J Dilla Feelz The Noize
Gorilla vs. Bear has a track from the upcoming re-release of J Dilla’s LP-only 2003 album Ruff Draft. “Wild” reworks Slade’s 1973 classic “Cum On Feel The Noize” in the way that only J can: J Dilla - Wild [MP3, link expired]there is nothing like this [gorilla vs…. MORE »
Leak Of The Week: LCD Soundsystem Manages To Keep A Song Under The 45-Minute Mark
The new LCD Soundsystem record is all over the Internet, and we have Little White Earbuds to thank for the track below. Is it just us, or is James Murphy channeling Zevon on that “how-ooooh” bit? MORE »
