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more about #music more comments → ronniedobbs: Why is this the hill you want to die on, Hamilton? I mean, as SarahHeartburn, MissNormaDesmond and others have pointed out, these are not simply "rhe... more » IpsoFacto: Well I was still more pissed off when Soulja Boy got nominated for a Grammy. more » i'm a bottle: Can I put something out there? Dylan is massively overrated. After having seen Don't look back my opinion of him is sealed. He's an arrogant jerk whos... more » iplaudius: It’s up to you to decide whether to use your dollars or, say, your platform as a blogger to promote artists who preach violence against gay peop... more » MrInBetween: The album should be renamed, "Christmas In The Thorax." more » Botswana Meat Commission FC: Did Collie Buddz come out this year? That's GOTTA be the one if so. more » Aatom: This line of reasoning might work with someone like Prince, an actual musical genius who just happens to be a religious wackadoo going door-to-door to... more » MissNormaDesmond: By pretending to be discussing two separate issues, this post actually conflates them. Only an idiot would say his political views make him a bad mus... more » Spirit Fingers: redacted. Cause well, damn Buju. more » AzureTexan: Just wait till Joan Baez sings all your Hanukkah favorites. more » Tremonius: He's still with Jews for Jesus, right? We caught that way back when he did up the Sermon on the Mount as Times They Are A'Changing. We all follow alo... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Where is Tipper Gore? I'm pretty sure we already went through this kind of thing with Ice-T quite some time ago, except with cops in place of gays. ... more » FormerEnglishMajor: Trying to imagine a Christian rock band, in the middle of a show, saying black people, or Hispanics, or Jews, are evil. Would they get a Grammy? more » Hamilton Nolan: YES BUJU IS JAMMIN. Also Ty Cobb was a great baseball-playing racist. more » MyNameIsChris: I just can't stand these so called artists today and their insane lack of values. I'll stick to Sinatra, thanks... more » -
#holidaze
Bob Dylan Gives the World an Acid Trip for Christmas
This, the A-Ha-ish second video from Bob Dylan's alternately charming/grating/fun Christmas Album, helped us distill the folksinger's vision of the holiday season: As a sort of extended LSD trip. The first vid, "Must Be Santa," is still the jollier trip. More » -
#music
Loving a Hater: The Buju Quandary
On one hand, Buju Banton is a raging homophobe. On the other hand, he's the best reggae artist working today. So, should he get a Grammy? If you think not, sign GLAAD's petition. But then click through. More » -
#clips
French Music We Actually Like
A few months ago this song started popping up in my iTunes on shuffle mode, but I kept forgetting to go back to my computer and learn the name. Thanks to Foster, I now know they're Phoenix, the song's "1901." More » -
#whataflirt
Indisputable Cool Person Brian Eno Says We Are All Cool Now
"There are too many styles around, and they keep mutating too fast to assume that kind of dominance." The doddering old limey continued: "The idea that something is uncool because it's old or foreign has left the collective consciousness." [Prospect] -
#communism
Quit Laughing: The Hippie Industry Is Booming
Everyone seems to think it's funny that UC Santa Cruz has a job opening for an official "Grateful Dead Archivist." But it's just the latest example of hippies riding high during the recession, floating on a cloud of groovy breaks. More » -
#awesomethings
Led Nepotism: Jann Wenner and Steven Spielberg's Kids' Rock Band
Happy November: You're about to watch rock history be made. Rolling Stone founder Jann Wenner's youngest kid, Gus, has a musical act with Steven Spielberg's daughter. "It's like the nepotistic She and Him," writes our tipster. So: how many stars? More » -
#gossiproundup
Whitney Houston Should Just Go Home And Rest
Whitney Houston had a wardrobe malfunction and forgot about her own album. Paris Hilton craves shellfish. Akon wants his baby mama to be his Myspace friend. All that and more in your Monday Morning Gossip Roundup! More » -
#instantreview
Most Comically Dylanesque Tracks on Bob Dylan's Christmas Album
Bob Dylan's much-anticipated Christmas album is out. And — huzzah — it doesn't sound horrible. Still, you can't help but imagine Dylan as a drunken interloper who stumbled into choir rehearsal at a prim suburban church. More » -
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#michaeljackson
Michael Jackson's New Track? Eerie.
The internet's abuzz over the release of the late Michael Jackson's latest, "This is It." Listening to him sing about undying love is at once reassuring and distressful. More » -
#jobs
Become Record Label To Rappers Who Hate Record Labels
Working with internet startup Sellaband, Public Enemy hopes to turn its fans into investors, bucking The Man in the process. For as little as $25, you too can become a greedy record executive. Just like those slammed by Public Enemy. More » -
#lovesongs
Ghostface Gives Example of What Could Have Inspired His New Album, Hypothetically
"I might have messed around, let the cable man come to my house, fix my cable, but two weeks later he's somewhere on my property in my guest house, screwing my wife...It's more mature; that's what I'll say." [Pitchfork] -
#andnowhesdead
Mr. Magic, Hip Hop's First Radio DJ
Legendary hip hop DJ Mr. Magic reportedly died of a heart attack this morning. He was the man who brought rap music to the radio, and some of the most famous moments in hip hop wouldn't have happened without him. More » -
#shutupnilla
Vanity Fair's Borderline-Racist Interview With Borderline-Homophobic Warren G
Regulators! Mount. Up. Warren G got interviewed by Eric Spitznagel (Read: NILLA) for Vanity Fair. Spitznagel's interviewed lots of celebrities for lots of Nilla publications (The Believer, anyone?) and is a likable writer. But he'll remember this for a while: More » -
#trendwatch
Common: Obama Single-Handedly Transformed Hip-Hop
Is there anything Barack Obama can't do? Not according to rapper Common, who credits the President with sending hip-hop off into a more cuddly, less bling-centric direction. And now peace reigns for all. More » -
#crazies
Rap Music Kills Again
Rap music: Will it ever stop inspiring America's youth to commit multiple homicides? Not likely, if the sad case of Richard "Syko Sam" McCroskey is any indication. Because he's charged with killing four people. More » -
#indierocklives
Bands Start Up Each and Every Day
Indie-rock progenitors Pavement are getting the band back together for a tour—but no record—next year. Rumors were floated by Brooklyn Vegan a few days ago, but now it's official. Their last show was in 1999. We feel old. -
#andnowshesdead
R.I.P. Mary Travers, 72
An anti-war voice has fallen silent, for Mary Travers, a founding member of Peter, Paul and Mary, was felled by cancer today. The singer, whose sullen folksy sound many of you will remember from "Blowin' in the Wind," was 72. More » -
#couturecrash
Rock Rules, Fashion Drools on Perry Farrell's Party Bus
Once upon a time the John Varvatos store reeked of rat poison, sweaty skinheads and Iggy Pop's low-hanging balls. But last night, the scent was decidedly sweeter for me, because I totally partied on a tour bus with Perry Farrell.
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#feuds
Ellen DeGeneres and Company, You've Been Served!
Ellen DeGeneres was floating on cloud nine this week, when American Idol producers finalized a deal that made her the show's fourth judge. Sadly, that cloud has popped. Her talk show's being sued! More » -
#toys
Jay-Z's Attempt To Kill Autotune: Fail
Autotune, the technology giving guys like T-Pain, Akon, and Kanye West's 808s & Heartbreak their trademark sounds, was supposedly murdered by Jay-Z. Not so much: the I AM T-PAIN iPhone app enables ordinary folk to sound just like him. More »
