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Blerd Briefs: Kimbra Announces Headline Tour
New Zealand singer Kimbra, best known as Gotye’s duet partner on “Someone That I Used To Know,” has just announced a run of headlining dates in the U.S.
Permanent Vacation: Aerosmith to Hit the Road This Summer
Lock up your daughters, America – Aerosmith are touring North America for the first time in two years. The iconic quintet – even iconic singer/American Idol judge/crazy person Steven Tyler! – are embarking on 22 dates between June and August on the “Global Warming Tour” with fellow rock elder statesmen Cheap Trick. It might surprise Idol‘s target audience, but before Steven Tyler took that hilarious hosting gig, he was the frontman for one of the hardest-living, hardest-rocking, longest-lasting bands in America. Tyler and […]
Maroon 5 Embrace Pop Trends, Irony on New LP “Overexposed”
If you liked Maroon 5’s odd duck of a single, last year’s chart-topping club banger “ Moves Like Jagger ,” you’re going to love their fourth album Overexposed , described by the band as their “poppiest” yet. The soul-pop quintet did a total 180 from 2010’s Mutt Lange-produced Hands All Over on the inescapable “Jagger,” downplaying their usual skittering funk guitars for swirly synths and high-energy beats (not to mention the howling vocal acrobatics of Christina Aguilera). That track, produced by pop wizards Shellback and […]
Blerd Briefs: The Black Keys, The Roots, Dr. Murray & Have Faith For George
Blerd Briefs / hip-hop / Michael Jackson / New Releases / news / pop culture / rock music / soul music
After being found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Michael Jackson, Dr. Conrad Murray was sentenced yesterday. The disgraced doctor will receive four years in prison, which will likely be reduced to a few months in county jail due to prison overcrowding in California. I’ve resisted discussing this in any sort of detail so far just because I’m torn about whether his conviction or sentencing was appropriate. At the end of the day, whether Michael Jackson was a drug […]
Today in “For Real?”: The West Memphis 3 Are Free
One of popular culture’s most celebrated causes finally achieved some (sorta, kinda) closure yesterday when it was announced that Jason Baldwin, Jesse Misskelley, and Damien Echols – otherwise known as the West Memphis 3 – would be freed after 18 years of incarceration. The trio, convicted of a grisly triple murder in 1993, were set free after entering an Alford plea, an obscure plea that essentially admits guilt on paper, but allows the convicted to maintain innocence publicly. The “guilty” […]