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So, last month I gave you my review of Robyn’s album, Body Talk Pt. 1. It’s truly is an excellent pop album. If you didn’t take my wonderful advice then, do it now and pick it up already. As Robyn promised, she plans to release 2 more albums this year alone. The second of the [...]

The Dixie Chicks are back with a new album after a fairly long quiet spell following a great deal of controversy. You might recall them having become the pariahs of the country music world when lead singer Natalie Maines publicly criticized then-president George W. Bush. The buzz on the Internets today is whether the old [...]

Rolling Stone reports that Lil Wayne’s “Rebirth” album has been pushed again, and that the new release date is “unclear.” A video for “On Fire” is out, though, so you can get an advance taste of the rock-inspired album. A new clip has arrived for “On Fire,” Rebirth’s recent single that, as Rolling Stone previously [...]

Reports Billboard.biz: Susan Boyle’s “I Dreamed a Dream” reigns for a sixth straight week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with 137,000 (down 73%) according to Nielsen SoundScan, bringing her cumulative sales total up to 3,104,000. However, while that is a huge sales sum — especially considering it was totaled in just six [...]

Susan Boyle, the big winner of “Britain’s Got Talent” who’s taken YouTube by storm with the video of her first performance of “I Dreamed a Dream” from “Les Miserables,” is celebrating the success of her first album, “I Dreamed a Dream.” According to Billboard: This past week, Boyle’s “Dream” held on to the No. 1 [...]

Devendra Banhart’s new album, “What Will We Be,” came out last week, and Stereogum is offering a free stream of samples from it. If you’re new to Devendra, you might remember him as having dated Natalie Portman and featured her in the video to his trippy song, Carmencita. Here’s the video for Carmencita, which is [...]

Today it’s officially December, and you know what that means: crazy holiday sales, commercials for products you’ve never heard of before but think you might need, and tons of holiday-timed albums on the shelves. Although record labels are pushing out albums in all genres to sync with gift-buying, the holiday albums you’ll see this month [...]

Justin King, an amazing guitarist and sometimes-war-photographer, has just released his first solo album since the dissolution of his band, The Apologies, a couple of years ago, and the first release he’s created since splitting with Epic Records. Humilitas Occidit Superbiam is available for purchase through iTunes and CDBaby, but you can listen to it [...]

American Idol stand-out Adam Lambert is releasing his first studio album, “For Your Entertainment,” on November 23rd, and the reviews are already coming in. Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune says: there was hope that “For Your Entertainment” would be the first post-“Idol” debut to break the mold of industry-manicured pap. Instead, it’s a series [...]

Perhaps you’ve heard of this movie coming out next month called “New Moon”? I think it’s an indie film about a hot, young werewolf who gets pestered by a pale girl and a bunch of emotional vampires. Or something like that… Just kidding! New Moon, the latest in the Twilight saga, comes out November 20th, [...]

While checking out the MetroLyrics site today, I cam across something kind of funny: The Carpenters have a new album out. If you’re not familiar with The Carpenters, they’re a brother/sister soft-rock duo who mellowed our airwaves in the 1970s with hits like Close to You and Rainy Days and Mondays, and Karen Carpenter famously [...]