It may not look like it, but the Christmas shopping season has arrived. Each passing Tuesday brings moremajor fourth-quarter releases as the labels fight for market share.
Here’s what’s out today:
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Men don’t get repeat. If I want to drive my husband crazy, I let him sync my iPhone. (Okay, I don’t know how to do it myself but can he make béchamel sauce?) He always checks out my playlist.
You should hear the outrage when he sees I’ve listened to “One” (The U2/Mary J. Blige version) more than 200 times or “Ain’t No Rest for the Wicked” by Cage the Elephant even more. [256 times and 301 times.-AC]
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Yes, I’ve been remiss in getting through all the stuff you’ve been sending me.
But the volume is such that I’ve had to enlist some people to help me sort through everything.
Here’s what made it through that double filter of “Listening to bad music so you don’t have to.”
Read MoreFrom Gawker: Rock n’ roll grave robber Steven Conard, a 39-year-old grounds worker at the Allouez Catholic Cemetery in Wisconsin, was placed under arrest on Saturday and charged with “felony theft from person
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From The Daily Beast:
Shortly before midnight on Sept. 19, 2008, a Learjet carrying six passengers departed Columbia, South Carolina, en route to Van Nuys, California, when something went terribly wrong. Air traffic controllers observed sparks coming from the plane as it streaked down the runway while an eyewitness reported that the aircraft, engulfed in flames, resembled a fireball.
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Stop everything that you’re doing. Free up some room on your credit card. I don’t care how. Then run to the nearest record store and buy the new Pink Floyd reissues.
As I write this, I’m listening to the six-disc “Immersion” version of Dark Side of the Moon. It is stunning.
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Even by the standards of the anything-goes 70s, Casablanca Records stood out. Led by Neil Bogart, the label made millions from artists like KISS, the Village People and Donna Summer. In the process, they spent tens of millions, mostly on things like cocaine and flying birthday cakes across the country. Oops.
I’m surprised that no one has made a proper movie about Casablanca and their crazy president, Neil Bogart. At least not until now.
Read MoreFrom Billboard: Billy Corgan says the ambivalent reception to Smashing Pumpkins‘ large-scale, diffuse “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope” project is what led the band to create an actual album, “Oceania,” that’s due out in coming months.
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I was having breakfast in Beijing after a music conference when the email came in. It was from Tara, the person who does her damndest to get me speaking gigs.
“Be at the Royal York Hotel at 11am tomorrow. Go to the concierge and ask them to call up to the room of Bill XXXXXXXXX. He wants to have brunch.”
“Er, okay. But who’s Bill XXXXXXXX?”
“William Shatner.”
“Oh. Wait, what?”
Read MoreThis is from Friday’s show in Atlanta.
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