• 8 Albums With Misleading Titles

    Though an album title shouldn't tell you explicitly what kind of music you're in for (where's the fun in that?), a title does have a subtle influence over how we hear an album, or how we expect it to fit into the artist's career arc. These eight albums, however, went with titles that ended up being misleading for either one of these reasons.
  • Ryan Adams Releases Hilarious Infomercial For New Album [WATCH]

    In a three-minute YouTube video title "Parakeet," a slew of celebrities and musicians try to find out why the Adams' newest effort, which drops tomorrow (Sept. 9), is killing innocent birds. The clip opens up on Gary Shandling fielding a call as the singer's manager from Jeff Garlin, a disgruntled fan whose bird just died from "listening to Ryan Adams new album, which is just such an emotional album."
  • Beck, St. Vincent and Jack White: Music Times Names Its Midyear Favorites

    Just in case you've never checked out the Junk Mail feature at Music Times, understand that staff disagreements on the quality of albums ranges from age-based immaturity to outright violence. If selecting the best records at the midyear point was this dramatic, we can only imagine what will happen at the end of 2014.
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