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Rooting around the I Love Music message board
for something else entirely, I got completely sidetracked by
the new clip for Snoop's "Sensual Seduction" . Frankly I don't even want to say too much about it. Except: Flying beds! Don Cornelius ...
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![The Worst Album Cover Of 2007 Revealed: Budding Art Directors, Take Note [Art Brutes]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/085/the_worst_album_cover_of_2007_revealed_budding_art.jpg)
Well, the weeks of polling are over, and
we have a winner in our first annual Worst
Album Cover Of The Year Tournament. Before you click through, feel free to reflect on our final eight, and check out a late-arrival cover that should at least get ...
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![Last Night's Top "Idol" Contender: Another Ringer? [Idolator's American Idolatry]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/097/last_night_s_top_idol_contender_another_ringer.jpg)
Simon Cowell's favorite performer last night was 18-year-old
Kady Malloy, a Houston teen who started off impersonating
Britney Spears and Carrie Underwood before belting out "Unchained Melody" in the style of Christina Aguilera. But how would she do ...
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So one thing I forgot to mention in
my Hip-Hop Honors post is that Lupe Fiasco flubbed
his verse on Tribe's "Electric Relaxation." To be perfectly honest I may have never noticed if I hadn't read about it beforehand, but rap nerds around the world ...
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One of the worst things about the earnest
nature of music blogs at the moment--whether giants like
Stereogum and Brooklyn Vegan or some kid happily posting up uncleared MP3s, where most copy amounts to recycled press releases or "OMG! Music is so ...
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!["Blender" Sneaks A Best-Of Into Its Pages [Year-end Analysis]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/078/blender_sneaks_a_best_of_into_its_pages_year_end.jpg)
Blender 's year-end issue did, in fact, have
its list of the year's top 25 albums--although you
wouldn't know it by looking at the mag's cover, which did take the time to tout a) its list of "the 209 best songs of 2007" (which run in eight-point ...
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![Is This The Cover To The New Nas Album? [Deft Typography]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/083/is_this_the_cover_to_the_new_nas_album_deft_typography.jpg)
That's the word on the blogs anyway. Who
knew this would be the classiest Nas cover since
Illmatic ? It's certainly the classiest album cover to ever prominently feature a racial slur. Can't wait to see the in-store merchandising options. ...
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![Joe Levy Takes The Reins At "Blender" [Revolving Door]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/092/joe_levy_takes_the_reins_at_blender_revolving_door.jpg)
VH1 talking-head staple and former Rolling Stone executive
editor Joe Levy has been named editor-in-chief of Blender
, according to a release that just landed in our inbox. Levy is apparently replacing Craig Marks, who had been Blender 's ...
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![The lineup for the South By Southwest showcase ... [SXSW]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/129/the_lineup_for_the_south_by_southwest_showcase_sxsw.jpg)
The lineup for the South By Southwest showcase
hosted by "America's favorite cook and indie music lover"
Rachael Ray--yes, it's really happening!--has been finalized: "Join us at this merging of great food and even better music with performances by ...
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![SO NOT A JOKE: Weiland Ejected From Velvet Revolver [Breaking]](http://images.showhype.com/uploads/photos_story/2008/04/01/so_not_a_joke_weiland_ejected_from_velvet_revolver.jpg)
It's official! We even called to verify! WEILAND
IS NO LONGER IN VELVET REVOLVER. Ding-dong, the witch
is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead. Velvet Revolver founding members Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt ...
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![Dr. Dre's "Detox" To Have Its Day... As Soon As The Dre-Branded Cognac Comes Out [Possibly Upcoming Releases]](http://images.showhype.com/uploads/photos_story/2008/08/05/dr_dre_s_detox_to_have_its_day_as_soon_as_the_dre.jpg)
Could a press release from Drinks Americas Holdings,
the beverage company that has a joint venture with
Universal Music Group to develop beverages of the alcoholic and virgin varieties around the record company's artists, have offered business-page ...
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![Is There A New Britney Spears Song Floating Around The Internet Right Now? [Truthmongerer]](http://images.showhype.com/uploads/photos_story/2008/09/17/is_there_a_new_britney_spears_song_floating_around.png)
Like the Timex Social Club, I spend a
lot of time lamenting the rumors that surround me
every day. How do they get started? And where do they get crazy? In Truthmongerer, I'll try to suss out the kernels of truth in the rumors that are taking up ...
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Not to say I called this , but,
well, I pretty much called this : Radiohead 's
much-debated decision to let fans choose what they pay for its new album online is a promotional tactic to boost sales of compact discs, the band's management said ...
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Thom and Co. have never exactly flaunted their
wealth, being art-rockers in it for the art-rock, but
with this whole crazy non-SoundScan-reporting, pay-what-you-will Internet release thing, everyone's curious about just how many "copies" have been ...
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Welcome to our inaugural recap of The Next
Great American Band , the American Idol spinoff that
will give one lucky act the chance to achieve the same level of stardom as Taylor Hicks. First up is Friday night's audition episode. Now, given that in ...
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![We hear that Island/Def Jam sent exactly ... [Rumors]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/045/we_hear_that_island_def_jam_sent_exactly_rumors.jpg)
We hear that Island/Def Jam sent exactly 15
review copies of Jay-Z's American Gangster out to journalists--and
when tracks from the album leaked last week, the label tried to see who the guilty party was, only to find that the songs could be traced ...
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While cleaning out his archives, Gawker's Jim Lehnhoff
unearthed some video that he shot of the Arcade
Fire all the way back on April 11, 2004, at the First Unitarian Church in Philadelphia. (They were third on the bill, playing behind the Unicorns ...
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![Britney Spears Completes Transformation Into "Lost Weekend"-Era David Lee Roth [Uncanny Similarities]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/046/britney_spears_completes_transformation_into_lost.jpg)
On the right, David Lee Roth celebrates Halloween
back in the pre-top-hat days . On the left,
Britney Spears reaches down between her legs to ease the seat back while celebrating Halloween last night, just before she speeds off for her nightly ...
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![Radiohead Fans: You Didn't Actually Expect Us To Pay For In Rainbows , Did You? [The New Model]](http://images.showhype.com/img/story/049/radiohead_fans_you_didn_t_actually_expect_us_to_i_pay.jpg)
Remember last month, in the wake of Radiohead's
pay-what-you-will announcement, when every news outlet and blog was
polling its readership as to how much they would be willing to plunk down on In Rainbows ? And remember when all those Radiohead fans ...
Snoop Dogg Makes Best Video Of 2007 1979 [Videodrone]