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Feedback: Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift
In “Feedback”, I reexamine the least famous album by a major artist, and today, I’m writing about Taylor Swift’s aptly named debut Taylor Swift. Few people get to the pop culture stratosphere and even...
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Radio Rant: Bruno Mars – When I Was Your Man
Hello, and welcome to Radio Rants! Who’s on today? Ah, Bruno, welcome back ya pompadoof. I feel like Bruno Mars is one of those guys you might as well be ok with, because, barring any really bad...
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Album Review: Daft Punk – Random Access Memories
Random Access Memories is, believe it or not, only Daft Punk’s 4th proper studio album, and their first non-soundtrack record in eight years. And somewhere in those eight years, the French electronic...
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Album Review: Kate Nash – Girl Talk
Kate Nash was not my first choice in the “Most likely to release an Alternative Nation Record” Category in 2013 (the correct answer would be Wavves), but it’s hard to describe Girl Talk as anything...
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Album Review: Queens of the Stone Age –…Like Clockwork
Six years is a long time between albums for almost anyone, so it’s hard to imagine what it felt like for the typically prolific Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme. To be fair, Homme spent the...
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Radio Rant: P!nk feat. Nate Ruess – Just Give Me a Reason
Hello, and welcome to Radio Rants. Do I have to…? I typically don’t mind P!nk (from here out “Pink”, because I’m not going to remember the exclamation point every time); she’s been part of some three...
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New Music: Adventures – Clear My Head With You (EP)
There’s a certain fluidity to bands; it’s not unheard of for a member or members to bounce between groups while working out different sounds. Such is the case with Pittsburgh band Adventures, a group...
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Album Review: Kanye West – Yeezus
“Now what?” That’s a pretty fair question to pitch at the end of Kanye’s last album, 2010′s declared-masterpiece-on-arrival My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. That album was a culmination of everything...
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The Eight Most Inane Kidz Bop Lyric Edits
Almost everyone remembers Kidz Bop, right? It’s a cash-in creation of the early 2000s when record labels could release whatever the hell they wanted from [teen artist here], charge $18.99 for it, and...
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Radio Rant: Robin Thicke ft. Pharrell and T.I. – Blurred Lines
Hello, and welcome to Radio Rants. Let’s get our summer jam going. This cover art didn’t do anything with blurred lines. I can respect that. Even in a year of left-field success stories, “Blurred...
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Mini Review Round-Up: (Tegan and Sara, The Wonder Years, Jay-Z, and Yeah Yeah...
Doing a little bit of catch up today on some miscellaneous albums I’ve meant to review for the last few months. Tegan and Sara – Heartthrob I only somewhat follow Tegan and Sara, so I can imagine how...
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Double Album Review: Paramore – Paramore and Fall Out Boy – Save Rock and Roll
Hey folks, we’re doing a double today! Between these two albums, news of My Chemical Romance’s hiatus, and whatever the hell Panic! At the Disco is coming up with, 2013′s shaping up to be a weird...
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Radio Rant: Miley Cyrus – We Can’t Stop
Hello, and welcome to Radio Rants. Who’s trying to pry the number one spot out of Robin Thicke’s greasy fingers this week? Dammit, really? I thought the world was through with Miley Cyrus a few years...
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New Music: Tragic Hearts – Tragic Hearts (EP)
Continuing the summer’s hot streak of punk rock is Tragic Hearts’ self-titled sophomore EP. The Toronto band consists of singer Dean Richards formerly of The Artist Life on vocals, Pat Mathers of...
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Rage With Age: A (Brief) Nine Inch Nails Retrospective
One of my favorite aspects of an artist releasing a new album is refamiliarizing myself with their work while I’m waiting for the new one to come out. It’s a pretty universal fan experience; checking...
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Album Review: Nine Inch Nails – Hesitation Marks
I’m sure that the day after Nine Inch Nails’ final date of their “Wave Goodbye” farewell tour in 2009, someone somewhere started counting the days until the next Nine Inch Nails album. Cynically, the...
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Radio Rant: Robin Thicke ft. 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar – Give It 2 U
Hello, and welcome to Radio Rants. We’re getting into the Thicke of it today. (And 2 Chainz) I’m bending my own rules a bit and dipping out of the top 20 of the Hot 100 to look at the follow-up to this...
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Album Review: Janelle Monae – The Electric Lady
Few current artists are labeled “deserves to be bigger” or “underrated” with the frequency of R&B singer Janelle Monae. Monae’s first album The ArchAndroid was met with rave reviews upon release in...
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Radio Rant: Lorde – Royals
Hello, and welcome to Radio Rants! Let’s start with an announcement. Hipsterism is dead! That’s right, you heard it here first. Tell your nearest tight-pansted, black rimmed glasses totting 20something...
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Album Review: Drake – Nothing Was the Same
When you look at Drake on paper, it’s astounding that he’s the biggest name in pop-rap right now. He’s an upper-class, Canadian, mixed, half-Jewish, former child actor who became an MC that dabbled in...
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