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Sound And Vision: Can R.E.M. Rock The Charts Again With "Collapse Into Now"?
posted: March 4, 2011
If you read the title, and you’re still with me, maybe there’s hope. R.E.M.’s publicity machine might be working. Twenty years ago, for a brief window in the early ’90s before grunge took over, the…
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Monday, February 28, 2011
posted: February 28, 2011
RIP Eddie Kirkland Just watched the new Lady Gaga video. Suck it, west coasters. And also, we get it Gaga, you look good naked. Selena Gomez’s Wikipedia page better watch its back Kid Cudi jumps on…
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Thursday, February 24, 2011
posted: February 24, 2011
Beyonce goes back to her roots The most hard-hitting question of the day: How will Bieber’s haircut affect his career?! Coke just got classy, thanks to Daft Punk Katy Perry talks shit on Twitter again,…
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End of the Revolution: Has Pop Lost Its Social Conscience?
posted: January 14, 2011
“You say you want a revolution,” The Beatles taunted in 1968. Seventeen years later, the Cult declared, “There’s a revolution.” When Tracy Chapman started “talkin’ ’bout a revolution” in 1988, she left the battlefield with…
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Pop in Advertising
posted: October 29, 2010
The more things change in the music industry, the more one thing in particular stays the same: Radio remains as integral to star- and hit-making as it was back in the days when Bill Haley…
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Discourse & Dischord
posted: October 29, 2010
The Good The National win best album at Q Awards This week Q Magazine’s Q Awards took place, bringing together some of the biggest names in music. Winners included Florence Welch of Florence and the…
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