December 11, 2007

This just in: The typical American consumer is a giant fuckface. As it turns out, the music-buying public has worse taste in music than we ever could have imagined. MTV published the top selling albums and songs on iTunes this year, and the questionable results make me want to go Picasso on my aural receptors.

Say the results: “Maroon 5’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long was the year’s most-downloaded album, followed by Amy Winehouse’s Back to Black and Kanye West’s Graduation. Fergie’s ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal)’ was the most-downloaded song, ahead of West’s “Stronger” and Soulja Boy’s ubiquitous ‘Crank That.'”

No, friend, crank this. Read on for a pair of intensely frustrating Top Tens…

A week and a half ago, the mass hysteria in our little slice of the music world surrounded the Ween shows at Terminal 5 here in what the Allman Brothers

We like to fluff Sir Paul McCartney ’round here, so today we offer a countervailing opinion. Our Bad Music Correspondent Eliot Glazer shall now take Macca down a peg or two. Great, Hidden Track, yet another post about aging Brits.

I like “Feliz Navidad” as much as the next guy, and although my heart lies with Mariah Carey’s go-to-for-the-gays, modern classic “All I Want For Christmas,” the holiday song I can truly call my favorite is, naturally, “Wonderful Christmas Time (All The Best!)” by Paul McCartney and Wings. Honestly, what the shit is this song?

Read on for more on why Eliot wants this song to go the way of Linda…

As if we needed another reason to hate the Dolan Family, it appears their ill-timed renovations of the Beacon Theatre will lead to the eviction of the Allman Brothers Band