Valentine’s Day & Sade? Can’t beat that combination. Wanna know how I figured that out? Well, according to this week’s Billboard albums chart, the venerable British band debuts on top, selling an amazing 502,000 copies of “Soldier of Love”, their first album in just under a decade. 2010 has just charted, but it’s easily the best first week for an album this year, and will probably retain that statistic for a while to come. Sade’s success speaks very strongly to […]
MisenPOPic Radio Episode 3.1: The Do-Over
Me and my buddy Mikey are still trying to work out some kinks related to this podcast we wanna do, but it seemed like each week, we were getting closer and closer to what we had envisioned the MisenPOPic Podcast to be. Then last week happened. Neither one of us was on our “A” game, so we decided to scrap MisenPOPic Radio Episode 3 and go back to the drawing board. Episode 3.1 , thankfully, came out a lot better. We didn’t have […]
Is John Mayer Racist? Or Just Stupid?
Once upon a time, I really, REALLY liked John Mayer. I was definitely an early adopter. I can remember getting a promo copy of “Room for Squares” in fall 2001 and falling in love with it almost immediately. “Heavier Things” and “Continuum” are both probably among my Top 20 if not Top 10 albums of the past decade. I thought (and honestly still think) that the guy is a top-notch lyricist, and that people who only know him for “Your […]