RECOVERY REACTION: The initial critical reactions to Eminem’s eagerly anticipatated new album are all over the place. In Rolling Stone, which awards Recovery four stars, Jody Rosen calls it “his most casual-sounding album in years, with odes to a ‘white-trash party’ (‘W.T.P.’) and songs that hearken back to his freewheeling early records—rhymes as goofy and imaginative as they are violent and profane… [T]he production follows the template of every album since Encore (2004), leaning toward dirgelike beats full of minor keys and dashes of post-grunge rock… Em is just a few years shy of 40, and if he's seeming more and more like a grumpy middle-aged man, at least he's owning it—he sounds content to be rap's wittiest head case.” (6/22a)
THE COUNT: COLDPLAY IS HOT, COUNTRY'S COOKIN' IN THE U.K.
The latest tidbits from the bustling live sector (3/28a)
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THE NEW UMG
Gosh, we hope there are more press releases.
TIKTOK BANNED!
Unless the Senate manages to make this whole thing go away, that is.
THE NEW HUGE COUNTRY ACT
No, not that one.
TRUMP'S CAMPAIGN PLAYLIST
Now 100% unlicensed!
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