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...Moxon, life was just getting started. In a place where Friday night football is the only game in town, Moxon said, the Coyotes are heroes—both celebrities and saviors. Becoming starting quarterback gave him everything, from free beer at local convenience stores to a billboard with his very own face on it, as well as virtual exemption from local and federal...
HRIS: That the soundtrack to last year’s Garden State has peaked at 20 on the Billboard top 200 seems somewhat significant, but not as significant as the word of mouth concerning the film’s score. For those who knew and loved the song beforehand, that the Shins’ “New Slang” is forever destined to be “that song from Garden State” is a humorous tribute to their good taste, and usually a prod to remind the listener that the opening doohs and dahs graced...
...TRL” might have lost some of its relevance with the departure of Carson Daly, but it’s still more exciting than Billboard, if only because new songs shuffle in and out a lot faster, and new entries are more common. Plus, borderline acts like Jesse McCartney and Simple Plan would never have a chance at breaking the official top 10, and the TRL charts give them a chance to bask happily in the adoration of youth. It is one awesome show. Everything on it is important...
...drive. Pop music now has to find other ways to seep into our consciousness—to find new, pulsing veins through which to get us addicted and to get these songs into our heads. I won’t claim to know how they do it, but Billboard must have its ways—because as slow-moving and tiresome as their weekly lists sometimes are, they’re usually dead on. For this reason, the national charts should be hawked and combed for the prettiest, the funniest, and the most modern on a regular basis. William...
...answers to those questions arrived bundled together last September in the form of American Idiot. There is almost no precedent for a band's putting out six decent albums and then on its seventh delivering a masterpiece, but American Idiot debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, appeared on most critics' year-end Top 10 lists, netted seven Grammy Award nominations (including one for Album of the Year), returned for another run atop the charts this month and inspired talk that the rock opera--oh, yes, American Idiot is a rock opera with characters and a plot...