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Posted: 21 Mar 2012 01:33 AM PDT


Shinning The Kicks!
Apologies for posting this a day later than usual, but I just spent the last eight days in Austin, Texas, at the South by Southwest Music Conference, a popular confab this year highlighted by appearances by rising stars Bruce Springsteen, Jay-Z, Eminem,  50 Cent and other lesser-known, unimportant clods! It was great!

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 07:23 PM PDT


Songs From Albums Currently Rated By Pitchfork As 8.0+
I sure do use Pitchfork a awful lot for a guy who likes to rip on them regularly. When it comes right down to it, 95% of what I find on Pitchfork is dead on. It's the other 5% that I find unbearably pretentious. But it's easy to find fault with any music publication because [...]

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:49 PM PDT


Maypril Jewels: Hear Four New Adam Lambert Song Snippets!
Thanks to the fine folks at HitPredictor.com, four tracks from Adam Lambert's salivatingly anticipated sophomore album, Trespassing (due for a "Maypril" release, as Adam so amusingly/frustratingly announced; its original street date was supposed to be, um, TODAY), have surfaced online--in all their glittering glory. And I predict that they're ALL going to be hits.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 05:02 PM PDT


Michael Jackson's 'Who's Loving You' Covered By 10-Year-Old Girls
Follow me on Facebook, Twitter. Most child singers perform bubblegum pop. But new R&B quartet, The Gurlie Gurlz, are aiming for a more mature sound. PHOTOS Hip-Hop Stars And Their Famous Kids Last week, I wrote about their covers of Adele's "Set Fire To The Rain" and "Rolling In The Deep" that have generated more [...]

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:16 PM PDT


Y! Music Has A New Look
You may notice that the look of Yahoo! Music has changed significantly today, and we'd like to explain both why and how. For starters, today marks the official launching of our business partnership with VEVO--a well-known video provider with both a deep catalog of artists and a top-notch video player that will significantly up the [...]

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:16 PM PDT


The Voice, The Day After: Battle Rounds Pt. 3 Dish
Last night, "The Voice's" Battle Rounds continued, with a few surprising outcomes--some of which my "Day After" co-host Matt Whitfield and I were happy with (underdog Katrina Parker beating Angel Taylor, for instance), and one of which had us screaming at our television screens in horror (rockers the Shields Brothers losing out to scantily clad, [...]

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 04:16 PM PDT


Watch an Exclusive Clip from the Glam-Rockumentary 'Jobriath A.D.'
Before there was Lana Del Rey, there was Jobriath, the original cautionary tale of how too much hype, too soon, can derail a promising young musician's career. Back in the early '70s, singer-songwriter turned glam-rock "True Fairy of Rock & Roll" Jobriath was supposed to be The Next Big Thing, but that sadly never happened.

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 02:40 PM PDT


'X Factor" Contestant Chris Rene Channels David Silver in Peach Pit-Worthy Music Video
First, "X Factor" champion Melanie Amaro went on all '90s on her Hi-NRG first single, and now her fellow Season 1 finalist Chris Rene has made a music video for his signature song, "Young Homie," that basically looks like it was cobbled together from footage of the intros to "Beverly Hills 90210" and "The Heights" [...]

Posted: 20 Mar 2012 01:52 PM PDT


Totally Robbed 'Voice' Contestants The Shields Brothers Rawk On With Totally Awesome Cee Lo Cover
I was flipping the devil-horns for righteous rawkers the Shields Brothers, the Bill & Ted of "The Voice" Season 2, ever since they auditioned with an unapologetically shambolic cover of Billy Idol's "Dancing With Myself--a wonderfully, ridiculously over-the-top performance complete with purple motorcycle jackets, socket-shocked Flock Of Seagulls hair, and an oft-repeated catchphrase,"Punching America In [...]