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Friday, December 11, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Opinion / Jeff Hahne / News Please, make Miley Cyrus stop!; Lautner needs clothes
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 1:18 PM
A few quick items to rant about:
Miley Cyrus has announced that she's going to remake Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn." Mother of all creatures great and small, someone please make it stop. She's not talented. She's popular because of some show on Disney where little kids who haven't developed musical taste watch TV and think that everything put in front of them is "good music." Leave the '80s hair bands alone and write your own shitty music.
Speaking of which — "Nodding my head like yeah, moving my hips like yeah..." - what in the blue hell does that mean? I understand that if you nod your head, you make the motion like you're saying yeah... but no 16-year-old (she just turned 17) should be singing about moving their hips... and especially not on stage in hot pants. I guess she went to the Brittney Spears school of whoring yourself out. It's only a matter of time before she attacks the paparazzi with an umbrella and shaves her head.
All of this is almost as bad as Rolling Stone magazine putting a 17-year-old guy (Taylor Lautner) in a wet t-shirt on their cover. Anyone else feel a little uncomfortable and creepy about that?
Ranting over... for now.
On TV / Awards / Videos / News Priceless guitar commercial
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:40 PM
Apparently this never aired on television... not sure why.
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
Jason Younger / News Battle for the decade: Eminem vs. The Beatles
Posted By Jason Younger on Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:34 AM
So, it’s that time of year again. When every major publication starts publishing their best of/worst of lists for everything from music to sports to politics to Tiger Woods’ mistresses. As 2009 winds down, you’ll be hit with a slew of them. And this year adds an even bigger prize, the end of the decade. That’s right, in case you haven’t noticed the 20-aughts are almost over.
In reading through all of the decade in review news that’s been out there the past few weeks, I noticed something interesting. I always thought a decade lasted 10 years right? Wrong - at least in terms of the past decade of music. It lasted about 3 years. And the battle for artist(s) of the decade? Of all the groups, artists, pop-tarts and the like that were out there in the 2000s, the race came down to a white rapper and a band who hasn’t released any new music since the '70s. Eminem squeaked out the victory (in terms of sales) over The Beatles with sales north of 30 million (that’s albums).
So what do I mean by a 3-year decade? If you look at the top 10 albums of the decade (by album sales) eight were released on or before 2002. Number one? The aforementioned mop-tops with their #1s release. Number two? N’Sync’s No Strings Attached. Eminem joins the group with numbers four and five. And by the way, he took a five-year absence and still topped the overall list.
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Interviews / News The Opening Act: Likeblood
Posted By Mike McCray on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:09 PM
How does a fairly unknown group from Washington, D.C. end up opening for a New York hip-hop icon on his nationwide tour?
Likeblood’s Eric "Yung E" Mann will tell you “it's a little bit of politics and a little bit talent.” The Metro area trio is on the road with Raekwon for his “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II” Tour and admitted that it was a chance meeting with the Wu-Tang legend, that led to their relationship.
"It's crazy how the chips fall," said rapper Andre "Dre Strong" Strong. "Before we even talked any business with him, we met him on some real humble shit at Howard Homecoming, right on the block."
A brief conversation was all it took for the group to come away impressed by how receptive he was to them.
"We knew who he was, he ain't know who we were," Dre Strong said. "The nigga was so cool, [he] ain't switch up from the time when he ain't know us to the time when he figured out who we were. ... [he] was just so smooth with it and like the old saying goes, real recognize real and everything else is history."
New Releases / News This week's new releases (12/8/2009)
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:00 PM
Here's a quick list of some of the new albums being released today:
30 Seconds to Mars This is War
Chris Brown Graffiti
Jimmy Buffet Buffet Hotel
Clipse Til the Casket Drops
Puddle of Mudd Volume 4: Songs in the Key of Love and Hate
Snoop Dogg Malice in Wonderland
Neil Young Dreamin' Man Live '92
Monday, December 7, 2009
Giveaway / News Phish giveaway
Posted By Jeff Hahne on Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 4:36 PM
There's a new biography of Phish out in stores now, on DaCapo Books, by former Rolling Stone senior editor Parke Puterbaugh.
We received an extra copy in the mail - it could be yours. All you need to do is post a Twitter message stating "Reading is Phundamental - I want the Phish book!" and tag it with #charlottemusic. First one to appear on the music page wins.
And, let's be honest — it's a big book and we can't afford to mail it. So, you'll have to stop by the N.C. Music Factory office and pick it up.
Good luck!
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