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Holy crap, is that really a song from the eternally delayed Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2? It is! (And it's very NSFW, which is why I waited until now to post it.) [Nah Right]

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Weezer's upcoming album has had its release date being pushed up from June 24 to June 3, a rescheduling that their Geffen mouthpiece is attributing to "popular demand" but that anyone who's heard the songs of theirs that have leaked already is probably attributing to "making sure bad buzz doesn't completely take over the record's pre-release cycle." [geffen.com]

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Patti Smith and My Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields will release a double-CD recording of The Coral Sea. The discs will draw from performances in 2005 and 2006, at which Smith recited a poem about the death of her friend photographer Robert Mapplethorpe while Shields made what was presumably an ungodly amount of noise behind her with guitars and effect pedals.

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Ne-Yo To Ape Billy Joel, Sing The Word "Calamari" On New Album

Ne-Yo's planning something a little different for Year Of The Gentlman, his third album in as many years. "There's some stuff on there that sounds like something the Beatles might've done. There's some stuff on there that sounds like something Billy Joel might've done. I can't do just straight urban music no more, because to be completely honest with you, I'm a little bored with it. I'm just moving with what music excites me now." While "What Would Billy Joel Do?" isn't a game I'd recommend to anyone, Ne-Yo's earned some faith after making my favorite single of 2007 and one of the best albums of 2006. Judging from the oft-quoted "I won't attend your pity party/I'd rather go have calamari," from "So You Can Cry," maybe he's just into "Scenes From An Italian Restaurant." More »

10:30 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by encyclopediablack: Ne-Yo doing stuff The Beatles would have done...yeah, I buy it. more »

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Judas Priest Forget What Year It Is, Drop Double Album About Nostradamus

Are you ready for some concept metal?! Judas Priest will unleash Nostradamus, a double-frikkin-CD concept piece concerning the life of the 16th-century prophet in June. The project has been in the cards for ages, with Halford on record as hoping it would be released in January 2007. "His life is well-documented, so for us it was all about taking the significant episodes he went through, and then with the right emotion, create music and lyrics that would convey them." I worry that Iron Maiden is going to sue them for steez infringement, but I think it's great that they're finding a way to make their new album seem like an event without using words like "cross-promotion." Could be another Music From "The Elder"! More »

5:10 PM on Wed Apr 16 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by AcidReign:     I'm interested, as well. It would be my first Priest purchase since they went all Cars-ey with "Turbo." Worst career decision of the 1980s... more »

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Fate Of EMI May Rest With Coldplay's Viva La Vida. Bye-Bye, EMI!

Record labels think of a "career act" as a reliable chart-topper with a rich catalog. Meanwhile, bands define themselves as "career acts" by spending six months in South American churches recording songs with Brian Eno that are named after Frida Kahlo paintings. This darling schism may not bode well for the folks at EMI records, who are praying that Coldplay's upcoming album will sell at least as much as 2005's X&Y. Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends doesn't really ring like The Joshua Tree, and phrases like "indulging experimentation" probably aren't what the label wants to hear either. More »

12:15 PM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Anthony Miccio
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Latest by coo-ba: Coldplay or not, EMI survives. Just watch. more »

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Whitesnake Answers World's Request For New Album

"The world is such a mess, what's needed is a new Whitesnake album!" David Coverdale told it like it is at the Cutting Room, creating a novel context for Good To Be Bad, which comes out April 22. The album features three songs with the word "love" in the title, two with the word "need," two that reference a period of time, one about the blowing wind, and one about the summer rain. Sez Coverdale: "The responses I've been getting are that the album is a heady cocktail that embraces the whole history of Whitesnake within one album. Which was not planned, but fortunately, I'll drink two of those cocktails!" What are you, Rod Stewart now?
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10:30 AM on Mon Apr 14 2008
By Anthony Miccio
571 views, 4 comments

Latest by mykul: Where's Tawny Kitaen when you need her? more »

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Record Labels Realize That Putting Long-Delayed Albums In Stores May Boost Sagging Sales

Usually we've used our "upcoming releases" tag to highlight albums that have been in eternal limbo, but today is a brighter day. Because today, we've found out about a few long-awaited albums that finally have release dates. Alas, none of them have that week-long Raconteurs lead time—the dates mostly fall in the later part of the spring—but hey, any glimmer of hope in the record industry these days is something to cheer, right? After the jump, news on now-really-upcoming-for-sure (we think) releases by Lil Mama, Lil Wayne, and Al Green. More »

3:00 PM on Tue Mar 25 2008
By Maura Johnston
775 views, 2 comments

Latest by unperson: A co-worker already has a promo of the Al Green disc, so I think it's on the way. more »

the new model

Jack White To Industry: Oh Yeah? Well, Watch This

A late-breaking item, just hitting my inbox: according to Press Here, the Raconteurs' publicity firm, the indie supergroup featuring singer-songwriter Brendan Benson and White Stripes singer-guitarist Jack White, are one-upping, um, everyone else—not only will Consolers of the Lonely, the band's second album, be available digitally in a week, it will be in stores then. The press release after the jump. More »

7:56 PM on Mon Mar 17 2008
By Michaelangelo Matos
3,301 views, 26 comments

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Control: Janet Jackson Writes Weight-Loss Book

Janet Jackson was told by America or TMZ or someone that she was totally Chubbo City, lost a ton of weight she didn't need to lose, and now has a book coming out so you can help perpetuate size myths in the privacy of your own, Cheeto-filled home. Will it involve wrapping youself in those weird leather things she likes to wear? Or maybe, you know, dancing? She really dances a lot. You should try dancing! Or exercising. At all. More »

5:25 PM on Mon Mar 10 2008
By Christopher Weingarten
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Latest by rhythmchyc: @af607105 See, that hataration is what I'm talking about! more »

Generally the word "plotting" is a sure sign of music-writer hackdom, but when it concerns Paula Abdul's comeback album, it is le mot juste. [Billboard]

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Mudhoney To Put Out Album, Save Music From Itself Sometime This Year


Casting about for a "last post" for about an hour has finally resulted in me striking gold: Not only are forefathers of awesome Mudhoney coming out with a new album this year, Sub Pop is readying a 20th-anniversary edition of Superfuzz Bigmuff that'll include "singles, demos and a pair of live recordings from 1988." Also the likelihood of that one-off reunion of Green River, which counted among its members Mudhoney's Mark Arm and Steve Turner, happening at the Sub Pop 20th-anniversary show this summer is apparently pretty high, and all I'm saying is that I will pay any amount of money in order to get a ticket. (Just one!) While I go off to sell some plasma, please enjoy this 1989 clip of "Sweet Young Thing Ain't Sweet No More" and "Chain That Door"; after the jump, a more recent performance of the near-perfect "You Got It (Keep It Outta My Face)." [Harp / YouTube] More »

6:00 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Maura Johnston
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Latest by Tenno: @Maura Johnston: Hahaha. Yeah, no doubt. Puddle of Mudd (what do their fans call themselves? Muddsters? Puddsters? Fuckwits?) is one of those bands that, much like Nickleback, made some of the stupidest fucking lyrics ever and sang them. Seriously. I will more »

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All Clive Wants For Christmas Is The New Whitney

Hey! Remember that Whitney Houston comeback album that Clive Davis announced in 2004? And again in 2007? Well... start lining up in front of the record store now, because she's completed four songs! And there are four more in the pipeline, which may or may not be a bunch of Akon demos that Whitney herself hasn't touched yet. Clive says "We're not going to compromise who she is to fit into today's hip-hop radio market," which is a shame, because that's the only market where EPs are coming back in style. [Billboard]

4:40 PM on Thu Mar 6 2008
By Al Shipley
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Latest by MrStarhead: Sigh... the Whitney rumors remind me of the Layne Staley rumors from 10 years ago. more »

Sure, in-studio talk about possible collaborations and albums that may some day seem the light is a little loose. But I did get a little spring in my step when I read this interview with Lloyd, who told Rhapsody that he's in talks to do a collaborative album with Lil' Wayne called Best Of Young Worlds. Of course, we probably won't see the album until sometime in 2015—and by then it'll need a title tweak—but still. [Rhapsody via SOHH / Photo: Getty]

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Madonna Officially Out Of Ideas

In addition to revealing that Justin Timberlake would present her to the public at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Madonna let slip the title of her forthcoming album, which comes out on April 29: It's going to be called Hard Candy, just like that nail polish line and that old Ellen Page movie, and it'll also have a track called "Candy Store." Why? Well, according to Madonna's long-suffering publicist Liz Rosenberg, Madge "loves candy ... [The title is] about the juxtaposition of tough and sweetness, or as Madonna so eloquently expressed 'I'm gonna kick your ass, but it's going to make you feel good.'" That's the type of personal-trainer-derived talk that almost makes you pine for the days of Licorice! Maybe Madonna figures that she's being transgressive in this lollipop-girl era by admitting that she actually eats junk food in her new album's title? Sigh. Let's just go back to the Material Girl's better days with the video for one of my top-five songs of hers ever, "Deeper And Deeper." (Hey, it features women eating actual food!) More »

5:40 PM on Tue Feb 26 2008
By Maura Johnston
488 views, 9 comments

Latest by Aut0mat1c: Deeper And Deeper, the best Madonna song.. ever. more »

What's this? An album with a release date that's actually being pushed up, and not back? Yes, indeed: Snoop Dogg's Ego Trippin' has been moved up to a March 11 release date in the U.S., thanks to the success of "Sensual Seduction" and its attendant degraded-VHS video. It was originally slated to come out in May, a good six months after "Sensual" debuted. [Reuters]

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From the Portishead Web site, a little bit of news that rendered both halves of the Idolator team unable to communicate in anything but emoticons using smiling faces: "We're pleased to announce that we'll be releasing our album, titled THIRD. on April 14th 2008. The album has 11 tracks and is 49 minutes 13 seconds long." [Portishead.co.uk]

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High School Musical 3 is bypassing the Disney Channel and going to theaters this October. The film's plot is centered around "Troy (Zac Efron) and Gabriella (Vanessa Hudgens) facing the prospect of being separated from one another as they head off in different directions to college," and subsequently writing and performing a musical about the whole thing. Me, I'm already looking forward to HSM4, in which our two young stars join rival schools' a cappella groups, only to find that they're going to have to compete head-to-head at a sing-off hootenanny emceed by Sharpay and her new new nose. [Variety]

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