Gil Scott-Heron doesn't have to tell you all the shit he's seen over the years. You hear it in his voice, which has grown coarse and deep with the years, its gravelly texture evoking an unending succession of bad days. "New York Is Killing Me" is urban blues refined and re-formed...
93. Morrissey"Something is Squeezing My Skull"[Polydor] After Morrissey's onstage collapse and subsequent pegging by a drink-hurling fan, Years of Refusal's muscular, defiant opener, with its worries about the star's health, feels like its most striking accomplishment. For such an aggressively...
VA. I drifted around there for a while after high school. It was a cultural wasteland, at least for me at the time. If you were all about hardcore punk then there was definitely something happening, something to be a part of. That was never really my t...
About 10% of the IP addresses are used by more than one avatar. Some of these shared IP addresses were used by very large numbers of avatars, suggesting shared gateways or proxies. However, with 4600 avatars sharing at least one IP address, Fractured Crystal’s datamine certainly contains clu...
As he lets us know later—"Both my bitches drive Range Rovers/ None of my bitches can stay over"—it's not like this is going to follow him home, anyway. The 28-year-old brat is R&B's most brazen player and this is his Jerry Springer moment, trapped in a love triangle of his...
On 2011's hilarious anti-haters screed "Shut Up", R. Kelly was mad that his music hadn't received due credit for being responsible for the creation of every child born in the last 20 years. Not three months later, on "Share My Love", he seemed more determined than ever to prove tha...
There's a longing, universal hook that repeats: "I want you bad underneath my skin." A guitar solo pops up right where we know it should. There's its namesake glam back beat. "Glitter" has a blistered shininess we've never heard from this L.A. duo who are keeping the idea of ...
There's a longing, universal hook that repeats: "I want you bad underneath my skin." A guitar solo pops up right where we know it should. There's its namesake glam back beat. "Glitter" has a blistered shininess we've never heard from this L.A. duo who are keeping the idea of ...
Some of the credit for "Jail La La"'s success goes to producer Richard Gottehrer, the co-writer of "My Boyfriend's Back" and "I Want Candy"-- it helps, when aiming for a specific sound, to go right to the source. But the real star of the show is Dee Dee, who wrangles a ...
There's a longing, universal hook that repeats: "I want you bad underneath my skin." A guitar solo pops up right where we know it should. There's its namesake glam back beat. "Glitter" has a blistered shininess we've never heard from this L.A. duo who are keeping the idea of ...