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New Release Report 11/1/11: OMIGODJUSTINBIEBEROMIGOD!!!!!

by MJ on Nov 1, 2011 • No Comments

Why is your teenage daughter begging you for money today? Find out why in our New Release report…

Spin Cycle: M83’s “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”

by Zachary Stiegler on Oct 26, 2011 • No Comments

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I first encountered M83 via their previous effort, 2009’s Saturdays=Youth. That album’s lush, dreamy soundscapes drenched in echoes of the 1980s was a sublime masterpiece, and one of my top picks for 2009. I was thus understandably excited when the band announced the follow up, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. However, I admit that when the band announced that it would be a double album, I grew skeptical. It’s not that double albums are inherently bad, but they are inherently ambitious. […]

New Release Report 10/24/11: Coldplay, Clarkson and Christmas

by MJ on Oct 24, 2011 • 2 Comments

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Kelly Clarkson and Coldplay have new albums out today? Who else has an album being released?

New Release Report 10/18/11: Get Ready To Condensate with Shelby Lynne, Patrick Stump and The Time!

by MJ on Oct 18, 2011 • No Comments

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Hello, late October. What do you have for me? Yet another tantalizing sea of new releases? Well, I don’t mind if I do. Shelby Lynne released her most recent album, Tears, Lies & Alibis only a year and a half ago. So what is she doing coming back so quickly? Hell if I know, but if her recent track record is any indication, the Grammy-winner’s new album, Revelation Road (her twelfth!) will be pretty damn awesome. Fall Out Boy’s Patrick […]

Spin Cycle: Skeletonwitch’s “Forever Abomination”

by Nick on Oct 14, 2011 • 3 Comments

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Back in 2007, I was first introduced to Skeletonwitch via their Prosthetic Records’ debut (and second album overall) “Beyond The Permafrost”. I liked the record upon first listen and found myself going back to it a respectable amount of times, but certainly not at a level that would qualify as addictive. That’s not a dig on that album at all, I simply only have so many hours in the day and an oversized and ever growing music collection that prevents me from […]

New Release Report 10/11/11: Troubadour Tuesday

by MJ on Oct 11, 2011 • No Comments

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If you’re a fan of singer/songwriters, have I got a deal for YOU! OK, I lied, I don’t have a deal. But there might be a few things coming out today that you may be interested in. We’ll start with Ryan Adams’ latest, Ashes & Fire. Considering we’ve been making Ryan/Bryan jokes for over a decade now, I’m not gonna go that route, but it does seem as though married life to Mandy Moore may have mellowed our boy out […]

New Release Report 10/4/11: Feist’s Precious “Metals”, Scotty Mac & More

by MJ on Oct 4, 2011 • 2 Comments

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Canadian chanteuse Feist has been off the scene for a few years, taking some time for herself and chillin’ (said in Bruhman from “Martin” voice). However, her hiatus ends this week with the release of Metals, her third album. Don’t read too much into the title, Feist hasn’t decided to go all Judas Priest on us, although that would be kinda interesting. She leads the pack of new releases this week, followed closely by Scotty McCreery, who you might know […]

New Release Report 9/27/11: Oh Well, Whatever. Nevermind (Again)

by MJ on Sep 27, 2011 • 5 Comments

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Twenty years ago this week, a trio of wildly influential albums came out. Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik gave that L.A.-based band their biggest success, turned rock/rap into an official “thing” and gave Rick Rubin producer cred after a couple of years in the wilderness. A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory turned that group from De La Soul Jr. into one of hip-hop’s most original and inventive acts. Meanwhile, Nirvana’s Nevermind helped bring alternative rock […]

The Singles Bar: Lou Reed & Metallica’s “The View”

by Popblerd Staff on Sep 26, 2011 • 1 Comment

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(As if to ensure that no one would ever want to download their music illegally again, Metallica have teamed up with Lou Reed to craft an album that, judging by every measure of common sense, will function as an unofficial sequel to the Velvet Underground frontman’s Metal Machine Music in both themes and listenability. The Popblerd staff gave a listen to first official track “The View”; unable to saddle any one individual with the burden of listening enough times to write […]

New Release Report 9/13/11: Lady A Owns The Week

by MJ on Sep 13, 2011 • No Comments

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Who’s the hottest group in country music right now? That’s right-Lady Antebellum. The co-ed trio is coming off of the huge success of Need You Now-the Grammy-winning song and album and they can pretty much do no wrong right now. Their third album, Own The Night, is more or less guaranteed to be one of this year’s biggest sellers. It’ll definitely be worth checking out whether Lady A can challenge Lil Wayne and Lady GaGa for the best selling sales […]

New Release Report 9/6/11: Strait To The Top

by MJ on Sep 6, 2011 • No Comments

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I know I’ve mentioned my frustration with labels who release several superstar albums in the same week before, but I believe my point is valid enough to bear repeating. Last week, new albums by Lil Wayne and the Red Hot Chili Peppers were both released. The Chili Peppers’ label had to know that an album by that band had the capability to do really well in it’s first week, but that there was no way that it was going to […]

Tighten Up!: The Black Keys’ BlakRoc Project Gets A Sequel

by MJ on Sep 5, 2011 • 2 Comments

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True confession: I only became a Black Keys fan with the release and eventual success of last year’s Brothers. I was so much a fan of the Akron, Ohio’s breakthrough release that I went back and bought everything they’d released previously, collectively and individually. Of course, Brothers was not the album with which I became aware of The Black Keys. It wasn’t even the first album I’d purchased that featured their involvement. That would be the Blakroc project–an album that […]