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  • July 2008

    • Bubble-Grunge? Cyrus Oddly Downbeat on Breakout

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 22, 08 12:20 PM CDT

      Bubble-Grunge? Cyrus Oddly Downbeat on Breakout

      As Miley Cyrus’ second album under her own name hits stores today, the 15-year-old admitted on Good Morning America that her now-infamous Vanity Fair photos were a “mistake.” But just like those racy pics, the tougher tunes and “feel-bad downers” on Breakout are anathema to her bubbly Disney alter ego, Hannah Montana, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      Miley Cyrus  • music review  • Hannah Montana  • album release  • celebrity interview

    • Carla Shares New Album on Website

      newser  |  Wall Street Journal  |  Jul 10, 08 10:07 AM CDT

      Carla Shares New Album on Website

      If Coldplay and Radiohead can do it, then so can the first lady of France, reports the Wall Street Journal. Carla Bruni is inviting her fans to listen to up to 2 hours of her new album for free on her website. The album, which has sparked extreme interest among her husband's constituents, ranges from bluegrass to Bob Dylan-inspired.  More »

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      drugs  • music downloads  • Carla Bruni  • love  • album release  • online music

  • June 2008

    • Lil Wayne Busts 1M Barrier

      newser  |  Billboard  |  Jun 18, 08 9:20 AM CDT

      Lil Wayne Busts 1M Barrier

      Lil Wayne has become the first artist to sell more than a million albums in a week since 50 Cent in 2005, Billboard reports. Tha Carter III, the rapper's sixth album, exploded out of record stores last week, selling close to half a million its first day. The milestone sales are way ahead of the 238,000 Wayne's last release notched up in its best week. More »

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      hip-hop  • rap music  • rapper  • album release  • Billboard charts  • record sales  • Lil Wayne

    • Lil Wayne Gives Milk for Free, Still Sells Cow

      newser  |  Rolling Stone  |  Jun 11, 08 4:10 PM CDT

      Lil Wayne Gives Milk for Free, Still Sells Cow

      It made record execs cringe, but Lil Wayne's three-year mixtape giveaway sealed his megastar status, reports Rolling Stone . After his last album underperformed, Wayne built an underground following with four free double-albums released on the Internet. The risky move launched Wayne's new single "Lollipop" to Number One on Billboard's Hot 100; the track became the fastest-selling ringtone in history. More »

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      music industry  • rap music  • rapper  • album release  • Rolling Stone  • Billboard charts  • Lil Wayne  • Internet music

  • April 2008

    • Madonna's Candy Not So Sweet

      newser  |  Baltimore Sun  |  Apr 30, 08 12:16 PM CDT

      Madonna's Candy Not So Sweet

      There is something noticeably absent in Madonna’s new record, writes Rashod Ollison in The Baltimore Sun : Madonna. Her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, “is a mostly stale piece of self-consciously fluffy pop” in which the superstar “plays it safe.” Enlisting younger hit makers like Justin Timberlake, Kanye West, and Timberland adds a coat of gloss that Madonna fails to shine through. More »

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      Madonna  • pop music  • album release  • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame  • dance music

    • Portishead Better with Age

      newser  |  New Yorker  |  Apr 16, 08 2:53 PM CDT

      Portishead Better with Age

      If Portishead’s new album comes off as cheesy, it’s only because it’s easily digestible, Sasha Frere-Jones writes in the New Yorker . While the album, Third , is “delightfully abrasive,” the Brits have “accepted that being soothing, despite their perverse streak, is part of what they do,” crafting tracks that will appeal to “young Radiohead fans” and “those who like some heft in their gloom.” More »

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      music  • rock music  • album release  • New Yorker magazine

    • B-52s Shimmy Again

      newser  |  NPR  |  Apr 14, 08 2:30 PM CDT

      B-52s Shimmy Again

      Sixteen years after the release of their last album, the B-52s are still rocking the cosmic party, this time with the all-new album Funplex . The Georgia band still performs regularly, but "if we're going to keep doing this, we need new material," guitarist Keith Strickland told NPR. "And our fans were beginning to sort of bang on the door."  More »

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      music  • rock music  • album release  • rock bands  • dance music  • B-52s

  • March 2008

    • Dolly Parton Releases Album on Own Label

      newser  |  Associated Press  |  Mar 23, 08 3:16 PM CDT

      Dolly Parton Releases Album on Own Label

      More than a decade after Nashville spurned her for a crop of up-and-comers, Dolly Parton is releasing a new album on her own label--and having the last laugh, as Backwoods Barbie hit Billboard's No. 2 on Billboard in its second week. That's thanks to new technologies that are creating end-run opportunities around major labels. “Now the majors are what they used to think I was: history,” the 62-year-old singer told the AP. More »

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      music  • music industry  • country music  • album release  • Billboard charts  • Nashville  • record industry  • Dolly Parton  • record contract

    • Austrian Monks Nab Record Deal

      newser  |  BBC  |  Mar 23, 08 2:16 PM CDT

      Austrian Monks Nab Record Deal

      Amy Winehouse and Cistercian monks wouldn't seem to have much in common, but now they've got the same record label, the BBC reports. Universal Music's search for "sacred singers" to record a Gregorian chant album turned up an Austrian monastery dating back to 1133. "It was beautiful, beautiful music," said a Universal exec. More »

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      YouTube  • Catholic Church  • Universal Music Group  • album release  • monks  • monastery

    • Queen Readies First Album in 13 Years

      newser  |  AFP  |  Mar 19, 08 10:05 PM CDT

      Queen Readies First Album in 13 Years

      Freddie Mercury may be long gone, but the rest of Queen still wants to ride their bicycles. The band today said its first album in 13 years will be released in the fall, followed by tours of Europe and Latin America, Agence-France Press reports. The album, which will feature frontman Paul Rodgers, is the band's first recording since Made in Heaven in 1995. The new album is finished but still unnamed. More »

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      music  • Europe  • rock and roll  • album release  • tour  • Queen

  • February 2008

    • The Cool Kids Take Hip-Hop Back to the '80s

      newser  |  Chicago Magazine  |  Feb 27, 08 3:54 PM CST

      The Cool Kids Take Hip-Hop Back to the '80s

      Hip-hop sensation the Cool Kids might come off as too, ahem, cool for school, catapulting from an online hit to Pitchfork Music Festival performer and MIA's fall tour opener—without ever releasing an album. But Chicago Magazine paints Antoine Reed, 20, and Evan Ingersoll, 23, as two inexperienced Chicagolanders whose winning formula relies on staying simple and accessible. More »

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      music  • Chicago  • MySpace  • hip-hop  • album release  • Beastie Boys  • The Cool Kids  • LL Cool J

  • December 2007

    • Radiohead to Webcast Show on New Year's Eve

      newser  |  Guardian (UK)  |  Dec 27, 07 9:52 PM CST

      Radiohead to Webcast Show on New Year's Eve

      Radiohead will celebrate the CD release of its buzz-generating new album In Rainbows by streaming a pre-recorded concert on its website at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The band broke new ground by first releasing the album online under a pay-what-you-want formula. The New Year's Eve show will include "songs and other bits,” as described by Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, Guardian reports. More »

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      concert  • Radiohead  • album release  • Thom Yorke

  • November 2007

    • Radiohead Denies Report That Fans Aren't Paying

      newser  |  Wired  |  Nov 9, 07 3:59 PM CST

      Radiohead Denies Report That Fans Aren't Paying

      Just how successful has Radiohead's experimental pay-if-you-want online album release been? That's in debate as the band denies a report that just 38% of fans opted to pay for In Rainbows , and most paid under $4. Radiohead said the the figures from comScore Inc. are "wholly inaccurate," reports Wired News . More »

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      music industry  • music downloads  • Radiohead  • album release  • music sales  • online music  • comScore

    • Grizzly Bear Makes New Friend

      newser  |  Pitchfork Media  |  Nov 6, 07 11:55 AM CST

      Grizzly Bear Makes New Friend

      At first glance, Grizzly Bear's new EP, Friend, appears to be a reworking of material from the band's well-received Yellow House. Not so, writes Pitchfork Media critic Ryan Schrieber. Although the new disc contains old songs and covers, these are thoroughly transformed, making Friend "a very well-disguised, 31-minute mini-LP of newly recorded (and largely newly written) material," Schrieber writes. More »

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      music  • music review  • album release  • grizzly bear

  • September 2007

    • Kanye Prevails in Battle of the Hip-Hop Stars

      newser  |  Los Angeles Times  |  Sep 12, 07 10:52 AM CDT

      Kanye Prevails in Battle of the Hip-Hop Stars

      In the much-hyped battled between two music titans, early sales indicate hip-hop fans are going West. Kanye West’s latest album, Graduation, has been outselling rival 50 Cent’s Curtis —by 2 to 1 at one Hollywood store, the LA Times reports — since the two went on sale yesterday. Fitty, 32, famously threatened to retire if West’s album sales bested his. More »

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      hip-hop  • musician  • Kanye West  • album release  • music sales  • 50 Cent  • CDs  • Virgin  • graduation

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