Word: albums
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...music's linearity" was, unfortunately, real) but despite its haughty attitude, the website knows what it's doing. A glowing review from Pitchfork can launch a band onto the college radio charts and beyond - a 9.7 (out of 10) review of Arcade Fire's 2004 The Funeral propelled the album onto the Billboard 200. It sold so many copies that the album went out of print for a week. Conversely, a devastating review can kill an album...
...courtroom thriller began last Thursday. Al Khalifa, 33, testified that Jackson, 50, reneged on a contract for a new album, an autobiography and a stage play after accepting millions of dollars in advances. The sheik said that in addition to covering Jacko's living and travel expenses during his year-long stay in Bahrain, he built the singer a recording studio, spent more than $300,000 securing him a "motivational guru" and gave him $250,000 in cash so Jackson "could entertain his friends at Christmas." Jackson has maintained that these were gifts from the Arab prince, an interpretation...
...find peace by converting to Islam, according to British tabloid the Sun. It reports that ahead of the court case last week, Jackson went through the shahada, the Muslim declaration of belief, in the Hollywood Hills home of Steve Porcaro, the man who composed music on Jackson's Thriller album. Jackson has reportedly taken the name of Mikaeel, one of Allah's angels...
...hands. The release of “Electric Arguments” by The Fireman marks the third time Paul McCartney has inexplicably decided to team up with 47-year-old musician and record producer Martin Glover, who even more inexplicably has dubbed himself Youth. Even after making their first album, “Strawberry Oceans Ships Forest,” which pretty much consisted of nine remixes of the same song, they still thought it was a good idea to try again. 2. No matter how much bullshitting you just did in that essay of yours, I guarantee it?...
...Reissue, repackage, repackage.” So sang Morrissey on the greatest-hits-mocking “Paint a Vulgar Picture” from The Smiths’ fourth and final studio album, “Strangeways, Here We Come.” Despite these righteous words, the band—who split in 1987—are now releasing their eighth compilation album, “The Sound of the Smiths.” The two disc release includes every one of the classics that have already been included on their myriad greatest hits collections, but it also throws...