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February 11, 2013
I Watched The Grammys And I'm In Love!
I totally fell for the roots rock band Alabama Shakes, particularly lead singer/guitarist Brittany Howard. To me, she's Kate Smith crossed with Tiny Tim crossed with everything else I like. And she can sang! Brittany even gave Mavis Staples a run for her money in the Levon Helm tribute. And how ... More >>
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February 11, 2013
The Best Tweets and Photos From Last Night's Grammy Awards
Last night, during the 55th Grammy Awards, we trudged through the bile and self-loating of angry would-be comedians and critics who took to Twitter to tell Jack White he looks like Edward Scissorhands and Johnny Depp he looks like the butt baby of Jack Sparrow and Steve Tyler and Adele she was dress ... More >>
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October 9, 2012
Pretty Songs That I Hate Myself For Loving
Normally, I don't appreciate anything too musically pretty. Even if it's a formula love ballad, I like a little bittersweet quality sprinkled in there--or preferably something just plain bitter. But there are some lovely standards that I can't help adoring because it's just so much easier to surre ... More >>
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July 24, 2012
Radio Hits One: Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie And Countrified Pop Tunes
After Kelly Clarkson went to No. 1 on Billboard's Country Songs chart last year with the Jason Aldean duet "Don't You Wanna Stay," I wondered hopefully if the Texas-born pop star would finally go country with her next album. So I was a little disappointed a few months later, when she debuted the bla ... More >>
Blogs
July 12, 2012
Three Other Reasons Why Sales Of Old Records Are Outpacing Sales Of New Ones
This week the news came out that sales of catalog albums outpaced those of new records during the first six months of 2012. Current (less than 18 months old) albums sold 73.9 million copies between January 2 and June 1, down from 82.8 million in the first six months of 2011; catalog albums sold 76.6 ... More >>
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May 25, 2012
100 & Single: Answering Questions On Adam Lambert's Historic Chart-Topping Album
I've never been happier to be wrong about something. Two weeks ago, the last line of my column read: "Probably won't happen. But wouldn't it be fun if it did?" The event I didn't think could happen was Adam Lambert scoring a No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 album chart with his second disc, Trespas ... More >>
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May 9, 2012
Q&A: Mark Ronson On Working With Rufus Wainwright, Learning From His Stepdad, And Amy Winehouse
If you find the new Rufus Wainwright disc Out Of The Game (Decca) to be particularly fetching, not to mention full of pop and funk flourishes, some credit should be given to Mark Ronson. The DJ-turned-producer helped the estimable Wainwright untangle his occasionally convoluted tunes. He then took t ... More >>
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March 7, 2012
Will The Chart-Topping Success Of fun.'s "We Are Young" Break Pop-House's Top 40 Stranglehold?
The new No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, crowned today, is the grandiose slice of car-commercial-approved arena-pop "We Are Young," by the trio fun. Thanks to some massive sales at iTunes and other digital outlets—302,000 of them last week—"Young" leapt over Kelly Clarkson's "What Doesn't ... More >>
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March 6, 2012
100 & Single: Of Monkees, Michael, and "Maria"—The History Of The Chart-Dominating, Lifestyle-Accessory Album
Cassandra (Tia Carrere): You've heard it? Wayne (Mike Myers): Exqueeze me? Have I seen this one before? Frampton Comes Alive?! Everybody in the world has Frampton Comes Alive. If you lived in the suburbs you were issued it. It came in the mail with samples of Tide. —Wayne's World 2 (1993) Fo ... More >>
Blogs
February 22, 2012
Adele And M.I.A. Bring Back The Middle Finger!
At the Super Bowl Half Time show, famously enough, M.I.A. flipped the bird and uttered an "expletive," unbeknownst to star Madonna, who later expressed dismay that such a juvenile act disrupted the feeling of love and peace that had taken over the stadium. This from the woman who said "Fuck" ... More >>
Music
February 15, 2012
The Grammys: Rock and Grohl
When past and future collide, does the present win?
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Lady Gaga's Next Career Move! Urgent!
I'm quite certain of what it is.
Blogs
February 13, 2012
Adele Brings Snot Out Of The Closet
Adele's speech as she was presented with the Grammy for Album of the Year last night was adorable, fun, real, honest, and mucousy. The singer extraordinaire held up her statuette and exulted, "Mom, girl did good!"
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February 12, 2012
Who Will Win At The Grammys?
Tonight's the running of the 54th annual Grammys, and for the past week Sound of the City has been running the odds on various categories. Below, a list of all the predictions made by our writers this week. (Spoiler: Adele (above) pops up a lot!) Feel free to clip and save, and fill in the (many) ga ... More >>
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February 12, 2012
Live-Blogging The 2012 Grammys: Tributes, Tribulations, Skrillex, And The Return Of Adele
via Cats Who Look Like SkrillexWill this cat win Best New Artist?Welcome to Sound of the City's liveblog of the 54th Annual Grammys, coming to you live from a couch in Astoria. There are quite a few questions lurking around tonight's ceremony. Will Adele sweep the three major categories in wh ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
How Not To Write About Female Musicians: A Handy Guide
Maybe it's all that misguided Year of the Woman chatter that dominated year-end roundups, or the slow, agonizing creep of Fashion Week, or the coming apocalypse, but hoo boy has there been a lot of terrible writing about female musicians in the past few weeks. The latest offender is the New Y ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Thom Yorke Dance Away With The Short-Form Music Video Grammy?
Unlike MTV's Video Music Awards, which usually reward some combination of pop excellence, symbolic audacity, and likelihood of being controversial, the Grammys' short-form music video category is a lot like the Oscars. They don't always pick the best videos—this year's list omits such h ... More >>
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February 10, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Mumford & Sons Upset "Rolling In The Deep" In The Grammys' Record Of The Year Race?
Every year, when I get involved in Grammy debates with my cooler friends, I tell them the problem with the awards isn't that they reward mass-appeal schlock. If the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences is doing its job right, it should be rewarding popular, undeniable, and somewhat unhip ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
It's Adele vs. Gaga At The Grammys Sunday
And that's good because it'll take some of the heat off Gaga vs. Madonna. But who do you think will win the Grammy for Album of the Year?
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Oddsmaking: Should The Grammys Just Give The Album Of The Year Award To Adele Now?
For the last twenty years, the award for Album of the Year, the biggest Grammy honor of them all, has tended to go to two types of people: young women and old men. Female solo artists under 30 (Lauryn Hill, Taylor Swift) and male veterans over 40 (Tony Bennett, U2) have dominated the category for tw ... More >>
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February 8, 2012
Oddsmaking: Will Adele Go "Rolling" Over Her Song Of The Year Competition?
The Grammys have a determinedly behind-the-times history, and Song of the Year is one of the ceremony's most reliably old-fashioned categories. It's given to the songwriter—even though what constitutes a "song" today is a lot different than when the Grammys began in 1959, back when sheet music ... More >>
Blogs
January 30, 2012
100 & Single: Adele's Focus-Grouped Chart-Topper And The Demise Of The "Deep Cut"
Remember the album cut—the track deep on a disc that fans knew best, that only cool radio stations would play? Like so many cherished things from before the iTunes era, it's essentially extinct. My evidence for this bold and seemingly facile statement isn't the steady, well-chronicled disappe ... More >>
Blogs
January 20, 2012
Radio Hits One: Beyoncé's Unlikely Pazz & Jop Coup
If the triumph of tUnE-yArDs in this year's Pazz & Jop albums poll was one of the biggest upsets in the poll's history, then the companion singles poll offered one of its most predictable winners to date: Adele's "Rolling In The Deep." Smart money had been on that song taking the prize since it bega ... More >>
Blogs
January 19, 2012
Pazz & Jop 2011: Carol Cooper On Keny Arkana's Rebellion, Chart Pop's Disco Revivalism, And Voters' Fear Of Gospel
To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. This dispatch comes from Carol Cooper, whose ballot went far beyond the boundaries of the United States and its pop charts. These days American pop music sounds too fa ... More >>
Music
January 18, 2012
Pazz & Jop Comments: Top 10-Plus
The year's big albums, from tUnE-yArDs on down
Music
January 18, 2012
Pazz & Jop Voter Comments: Singles Going Steady
Rolling down from "The Deep"
Music
January 18, 2012
Pazz & Jop's Album Results Get Soundscanned
The incredible shrinking album
Music
January 18, 2012
The Spotlight Shines on Adele's Heartbreak
Suffering from realness
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Was Alexandra Stan's "Mr. Saxobeat" The Most Anonymous Hit Of 2011?
The incredibly useful hey-what's-that-song app Shazam has released its most-queried songs of 2011, and it's both surprising and not that Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" topped the list. (Not surprising because Adele's bombastic breakup anthem was pretty much everywhere over the course of the ye ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
100 & Single: A Dozen Contenders For Billboard's Year-End Top 10, And Their Fight Against The "Last Christmas Effect"
Later this week, Billboard is expected to announce its tallies for the biggest hits of 2011. And what a year for music it's been. Remember all those big hits: "Like a G6," "We R Who We R," "Raise Your Glass," "Fuck You!" and "What's My Name?" What's that—you say the songs I just rattle ... More >>
Blogs
December 1, 2011
20 Questions Brought Up By The Grammy Nominations
Last night's Grammy nominations show was full of pomp, eyeliner, and people on Twitter becoming very confused. Here's the complete list of nominees; below, 20 questions that we're still wrestling with some 14 hours after the broadcast signed off. 1. "Super Bass": Robbed or totally robbed? 2. Now t ... More >>
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November 30, 2011
Will Bon Iver Be The Arcade Fire Of 2012? And Other Pre-Grammy Nomination Show Questions
Tonight's Grammy nomination concert, airing at 10 p.m. on CBS, will not only jam-pack a bunch of performances by the likes of Lady Gaga and Jason Aldean into its 60 minutes, it'll also let us know which artists will be prostrating themselves in front of the globe and thanking their families and God ... More >>
Blogs
October 28, 2011
100 & Single: You Can Keep Your EGOT; Adele's Going For A 2011 PB&G
The lady sitting atop both of Billboard's major lists this week has made enough news in 2011 that I'm tempted to rename this column "This Week in Adele." The British thrush is certainly making enough sad news these days, canceling her tour and preparing to undergo much-needed throat surgery. ... More >>
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October 12, 2011
The American Music Awards Nominations: Hey, Did You Know Adele Sold A Lot Of Albums This Year?
Have you bought your copy yet? (Give it time.) You can have your Grammys and your Mercury Prizes and your Polaris Prizes and whatever other musical prizes honor things like "talent" and "artistry"—the most honest awards show in pop music, though, is undoubtedly the American Music Awards ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2011
Radio Hits One: VH1 Takes On The '00s Pop Canon
VH1 spent last week counting down what the channel, and its panel of celebrities and "experts," consider The 100 Greatest Songs of The '00s. They certainly haven't been the first to assemble such a list—Rolling Stone and Pitchfork and every blog under the sun had their say about two years ago, ... More >>
Blogs
September 30, 2011
Radio Hits One: The Always Exciting, Sometimes Difficult Climb Back To The Top Of The Charts
Following up a hit song, especially a big chart-topping hit, can be one of the best moments in a pop act's career. But it's also one of the most difficult; you could be Katy Perry, scoring five No. 1s in a row, or you could be Daniel Powter, who missed the Hot 100 entirely with the follow-up to "Bad ... More >>
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September 24, 2011
100 & Single: The Increase In Hot 100 Rebounders, And The iTunes-Radio Tug Of War
The first week I remember ever hearing American Top 40 with Casey Kasem on the radio, back in the summer of 1981, the No. 1 spot was a real cliffhanger. As Kasem explained, the week before, Kim Carnes's synth-pop smash "Bette Davis Eyes" had ceded the top spot after about a month, to a song ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Radio Hits One: Adele Brings The Ballad Back To No. 1
Adele's 21 has ruled the American charts for most of 2011, and it's done so almost entirely on the back of one song: the lead single "Rolling In The Deep." While the British singer was topping charts in her homeland and several other countries with the follow-up single, the ballad "Someone LI ... More >>
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July 21, 2011
The Video Music Awards' Nominations Play To The Internet (Again)
Last night MTV announced the nominees for this year's installment of their annual pseudo-event extravaganza, the 2011 Video Music Awards, and once again, the nominees for Video Of The Year have three pop picks ("Rolling In The Deep," "Firework," "Grenade"), one sop to the olds in the crowd wh ... More >>
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July 11, 2011
What The Lineup For Clear Channel's iHeartRadio Music Festival Says About Radio Formats In 2011
Lady Gaga.Today the radio behemoth Clear Channel announced a festival celebrating the relaunch of its online service iHeartRadio, which currently allows listeners to tune into the chain's terrestrial-radio outlets from all over the country (as well as about 150 digital-only stations) and whic ... More >>
Blogs
July 8, 2011
Radio Hits One: Adele Achieves the Crossover Hat Trick
It wasn't all that surprising when Billboard crowned Adele's 21 as the top-selling album of the first six months of the year—the next-highest seller, Lady Gaga's Born This Way, is still trailing it by nearly a million copies. The British diva missed out on having the biggest-selling dig ... More >>
Blogs
July 1, 2011
100 & Single: Pitbull Turns The Hot 100 Back Into A Boys' Club (For Now)
If, like me, you've been putting together your annual summer playlist to pump at block parties and barbecues, you may have found yourself with a historically odd problem: a relative dearth of hits this year by dudes. After you've rounded up buzzy tracks by the Queens of Pop—from Adele t ... More >>
Blogs
May 24, 2011
Get Ready For The "Adele Is So Authentic, Mannnnn" Posturing To Take Over The Internet
Black-and-white! No makeup! Authentic! The success of Adele has been good for the music business, and even better for people looking for comfort in times of romantic strife. Surely the fact that she can wail in such a way that she turns a good song--"Rolling In The Deep"--into an indelible po ... More >>
Blogs
May 20, 2011
Live: Adele Dispenses Her Own Brand Of Comfort At The Beacon Theatre
Adele Beacon Theatre Thursday, May 19 Better than: Staying with that tosser. It is a special kind of emotional suicide to venture to the Upper West Side, under threat of impending thunderstorm, to hear a tortured British soulstress mourn the loss of a lover who sounds suspiciously like your last, ... More >>
Blogs
May 13, 2011
100 & Single: How Adele, Not the Beatles, Is The Music Biz's 2011 Redeemer
The music business spikes the football over its gradually improving sales the same week a certain U.K. chanteuse completes her conquering of the U.S. pop charts. Coincidence? Maybe not. The omnipresent Adele takes control of Billboard's Hot 100 this week; "Rolling in the Deep" finally evict ... More >>
Blogs
May 10, 2011
Adele: Can She Save Modern Civilization?
I'm starting to think she can! The young British purveyor of what she calls "heartbroken soul" captivated everyone with the haunting "Chasing Pavements" in 2008 and more recently dazzled with "Rolling in the Deep" and other hypnotic hits from her 21 album. She's sort of a healthy Amy Wineh ... More >>
Blogs
April 29, 2011
100 & Single: Katy Perry And Adele Score Big On The Rebound
At first glance, the tops of Billboard's two big charts--the Hot 100 (singles) and the Billboard 200 (albums)--look pretty dull this week: returns to No. 1 by two ladies who have dominated since the winter (and, in one case, since last summer). But the interesting story is in the numbers behi ... More >>
Music
February 23, 2011
Adele Goes Deep
The queen of British white-girl r&b-dom is crowned at last
Blogs
February 23, 2011
David Letterman Checking Out His Female Musical Guests: A Brief History
David Letterman is no stranger to lust: This is a man who had so much sex with his female employees that people once held a rally to get him fired for being a pervert. And though he remains a national treasure, his eyes do tend to wander, even today. On Monday night, British songstress Adele ... More >>
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February 8, 2011
Giveaway: Two Tickets To See Adele Friday Night At The P.C. Richard & Son Theater
Bazooka-voiced Brit soul singer Adele's second album, 21, is out later this month (NPR is streaming the whole thing right now), and to celebrate, she's doing a free NYC show Friday night at the P.C. Richard & Son Theater, invite-only, courtesy your friends at iheartradio.com. That link puts y ... More >>
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