Iron & Wine: “Sigh…maybe I’ll shave tomorrow…” This week’s Billboard Top 200 chart sees country once again ruling the roost with the new Rascal Flatts album coming in at number one. The biggest surprise has to be indie mope-folkster Sam Beam’s Iron and Wine album The Shepherd’s Dog which rides excellent reviews and a newly [...]
Hot Hot Heat: Someone always insists on looking in the wrong direction, wearing a different outfit and throwing off all sense of perspective with their freakishly tiny proportions… By now we all know who came out on top in this week’s Billboard Top 200 shootout: Black Francis. Hah, I wish! Kanye West wins fair and [...]
Kanye and Cruise mistake the VMAs for the V-Jay Jays Last night I was at the 14th Street Virgin megastore in New York City where Kanye West had a line waiting around the megablock for his signature on their copies of his new CD, Graduation. It seems like the relentless prom-ing, tantrum throwing and magazine [...]
Lyle Lovett: Hathead much? Indie Rock takes a beating again this week on Billboard’s Top 200 Albums as Disney’s High School Musical 2 continues it’s reign of blood atop the chart. Further down the chart to stuff I’d actually want to listen to, ex-Mr. Julia Roberts (Lyle Lovett) lopes in at number 18 and critically [...]
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