naming blogs is easy

Everyone’s tying themselves into knots over Pitchfork Reviews Reviews when the result of the “Exclusive JustJared.com Preview” of the new Rihanna album is is the sort of music “criticism” they should be distraught over. See also:

The song samples Avril Lavigne’s “I’m With You” and is so unbelievably catchy! Avril’s “yeahh, yeahh, yeahhh, yeahhh” are prevalent throughout. This song will be so huge in clubs, bars, and everywhere that serves alcohol. Everybody will be raising a glass!

Eric Harvey has one of my favorite brains in the world. Here is one reason why.

Seriously this fucking show just needs to STEP OFF.

Bon Jovi, the Beastie Boys, Neil Diamond, Alice Cooper, Donovan, Tom Waits and LL Cool J are among the 15 artists nominated for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011. Also on the list: Chic, Dr. John, J. Geils Band, Darlene Love, Laura Nyro, Donna Summer, Joe Tex and Chuck Willis.

I mean, we shouldn’t expect classiness from the people who brought you “Megan Fox Wears Panties, Lifts Foot Above Head.” But it is somewhat astonishing, the way the flack ignores this salient point:

 In the end, what you are doing really is enhancing somebody else’s bottom line.  And think for a minute what it means when you throw yourself into working for a place, as I did, without first walking into the company’s human resources office to sign some paperwork that legally binds you and your employee to a relationship.

into a bunch of tut-tutting about “publishing private emails.” I’m sure those legions of paid HuffPo editorial employees wouldn’t have a problem publishing the private emails of others if it somehow ensured pageviews.

Just gross. Ugh!

New York magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss announced today that Nitsuh Abebe will be the magazine’s popular music critic. Abebe joins New York magazine’s staff and will write reviews for both the print magazine and the new Vulture entertainment site. He’ll review live shows as well as albums across a wide spectrum of musical genres, and encourage dialogue with Vulture’s community of commenters. He starts on October 11.

Detox: Still not out. Just FYI.

so excited for bronx beat’s return. and then… ugh.

“and people say she’s just a pair of tits.”

(if only, because then she wouldn’t be singing)