Nearly every week, we used to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today’s triumphant return is for the album with the song for that video you liked a few weeks ago: Snoop Dogg’s Ego Trippin’, which hits shelves today:
MTV’s President of Entertainment declares that their new lineup has a common denominator: the “goal is to get our viewers to participate in the world of music.” If what he’s proposing here is what the “world of music” is going to look like, please count me out.
This entire post is probably tainted by my deep, deep bias–and endless love for the Superchunk catalog–but Merge Records has opened a digital store, and has remarkably (for this business) actually given the consumer something they actually want. More »
Well, either someone’s not telling the truth about Monday’s Britney Spears/Heidi Montag musical trainwreck/duet or someone is editing our troubled celebrities together in duet tracks that were never meant to be! More »
Sometimes there’s news that hits the wire that seems like it merits some sort of bloggo remark or more appropriately, should be broadcast as widely as possible to warn the populace. So here, the first (and likely last) appearance of a “feature” entitled “Presented Without Comment”:
I’ve discovered I like (at least) two things about Rachael Ray. One: the knife set my mother-in-law purchased for me this Christmas (sharptastic!). Two: That she can drop the classic “I’m way too busy for this jibber-jabber” retort on the blogger types who aren’t thrilled with her SXSW day party appearance on March 15. Hey, Brooklyn Vegan! Rachael Ray just gave you the gas face.
Thankfully, if you’re a stockholder in CKX, a company dedicated to “ownership, development and commercial utilization of entertainment content”, the answer isn’t important, since all that revenue goes to the same bottom line. More »
An open letter to Avril Lavigne and the executives of the Kohl’s Corporation: My daughter was born in December, and like any parent, I’m concerned about what sort of woman my little girl will become. More »
NPR Music has posted an nearly hour-long documentary on all-around music legend Louis Jordan today as part of their Jazz Profiles series, so if you know what’s good for you, head on over and download it. More »
The last thing the world needs at this point might possibly be another entrant into the digital-music business (Merge excluded, obvs), but everyone’s second-favorite social networking site is exploring the idea of how they too can cannibalize the remaining bits of corpse that once belonged to the major labels. While I’d be happy to support any project that keeps me from ever having to visit a band’s MySpace page again, how many paradigms are we going to go through on how to sell music before we settle on one?
