- The Illmatic is back on top. Hip Hop Is Dead is expected to give Nas his third Billboard Number One album. The record is estimated to have moved 355,000 copies last week thanks to rave reviews, production support from Kayne West and Dr. Dre as well as a ton of PDA from his new BFF, Jay Z.
- Arcade Fire’s “Intervention,” the first single from their forthcoming Neon Bible album, was supposed to be uploaded to iTunes as a charity single benefiting Partners In Health on the 28th of December, but someone at Merge uploaded the album’s second track, “Black Wave/Bad Vibrations,” by accident yesterday. As Win writes in his public journal, “I guess it is sort of charming that we can send the wrong song to the whole world with the click of a mouse…there will be [a] Paypal link up on arcadefire.com for those who have downloaded the songs without paying but still want to give money to PIH.org.”
- Uber-fan site U2Log has posted three rare remixes of tracks from “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb”. The tracks will be available to download for a limited time.
- The punk rock machine that is Social Distortion is about to begin work on a new studio album. While the band continues their version of Bob Dylan’s never-ending tour, they’ll spend the next month or so working on the follow-up to 2004’s “Sex, Love and Rock N’ Roll.”
- Snoop Dogg wants to squash gun violence, once and for all, by completely outlawing all firearms. This has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that the Doggfather was arrested in October in procession of an unlicensed gun and marijuana. I’m all for banning guns, but I think this movement may need a wee better spokesman.
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