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New Music Wrap-Up: January 15th, 2008
Well, I spent yesterday telling you how worth it Marvin Gaye’s Here, My Dear reissue was. Hope you got it, ’cause ain’t a whole lot else coming out today!!
January is typically the music industry’s equivalent of the graveyard shift, so I don’t have a hell of a lot to recommend to you. Among new releases, there’s a new album from Ringo Starr (who no one has cared about new music from in about 3 decades) […]
"Here, My Dear": Revisited (An Appreciation)
There have been many great breakup albums over the years. Most are not specifically related to the end of a relationship, but sound good when the lights are off and you’re sitting alone in your apartment with a bottle of Jack (see: White Ladder by David Gray). However, occasionally you’ll hear an album by an artist reeling from a breakup who has decided to put all his or her energies into documenting the end of […]
New Releases: 11-20-07
It’s official, folks. The last major release Tuesday of 2007 has passed us by. This week contains mostly a weird mix of re-issues and compilations. However, with the exception of December’s Mary J. Blige release, expect to see Alicia Keys and Josh Groban at the top of the charts for the forseeable future.
Among the new releases today: the debut from Jordin Sparks, who won 2007’s “American Idol” and has no pre-release buzz to speak of. […]