Talib Kweli Wants You To “Come to Me” (With a Little Assist from Miguel)
Kweli? Miguel. Let's do a record together.
View ArticleGhostface Killah, Twelve Reasons to Die: Album Review
A grisly, retro-fitted, blood-spattered, cinematic Tarantino pastiche for music nerds and hip-hop heads everywhere, Ghostface Killah’s enthralling Twelve Reasons to Die isn’t merely the emcee’s finest...
View ArticleFall Out Boy, Save Rock and Roll: Album Review
Fall Out Boy is back to save rock & roll! Lofty ambitions-are they met?
View Article“Get Lucky” with Daft Punk’s New Joint (Finally)
Some disco goodness, courtesy of Daft Punk, Nile Rodgers and Pharrell Williams.
View ArticleThe Shouting Matches, Grownass Man: Album Review
Musical anonymity can be a funny thing. Justin Vernon, the neo-folk mastermind behind Bon Iver, isn’t going completely incognito by stepping out with a few friends to record a loose-limbed...
View ArticleMajor Lazer, Free the Universe: Album Review
Initially a collaboration between producers Diplo (MIA, Santigold, Amanda Blank, Die Antwoord) and Switch (MIA, Santigold, Beyonce, Xtina), Major Lazer’s debut was the summer album of 2009. A dance...
View ArticleYeah Yeah Yeahs, Mosquito : Album Review
‘I think that I’m bigger than the sound’ Karen O proclaimed on ‘Cheated Hearts,’ from 2006′s sophomore effort, Show Your Bones. Seven years later, on their fourth album, O, Nick Zinner and Brian...
View ArticleMetal Monday Volume 119 (4.22.13)
This is not the same Hacride who released Lazarus back in 2009. This is a more focused and determined Hacride sporting a new vocalist and drummer and a positively destructive fourth album called Back...
View ArticlePopblerd’s New Release Report 4/23/13
Look who's waiting for you at the record store counter with those dreamy eyes...
View ArticleJanelle Monae & Erykah Badu: Two “Q.U.E.E.N”s Collide
It's a soul explosion! Janelle Monae and Erykah Badu collide on a new track.
View ArticleTouche Makes My Little Electronic Heart Pump with “Bad Dreams”
Get to know the cool electro-pop sounds of Touche by checking out their brand new single.
View ArticleKarl Middleton of earthtone9: The Popblerd Interview!
You might know Karl Middleton as the current vocalist of earthtone9 and Blackstorm or from his past work with Twin Zero, The Blueprint, or This Is Menace. However you may have heard him, one fact...
View Articlewill.i.am, #willpower : Album Review
One might be tempted to think that the hashtag in will.i.am’s newest album title is a hollow attempt to call reference to the Twitter-friendly zeitgeist of the time and thereby posture itself as...
View ArticleI Read AP’s “100 Bands You Need To Know In 2013″ So You Don’t Have To
This will be the year that finally forces me to make my own one of these lists. If you haven’t read my previous two posts covering the 2011 and 2012 issues of Alternative Press’ annual “100 Bands You...
View ArticleGhost BC, Infestissumam: The Pop!Blerd Review
Being a heavy music fan, I had definitely heard the rumblings of praise in regards to then known as Ghost, now known as Ghost BC. Somehow, a promo of their first album remained ignored until I...
View ArticlePhoenix, Bankrupt! : Album Review
“List-o-mania, my testes, see ‘em grow… like-a-rhi, like-a-rhino!” These are, the internet tells me, definitely not the lyrics to Phoenix’s breakthrough hit, “Lisztomania”. I never actually thought...
View ArticleSteve Martin and Edie Brickell, Love Has Come for You: Album Review
Perusing the concert listings a few months ago, a listing for “Steve Martin & Edie Brickell” jumped out at me. “That Steve Martin? That Edie Brickell?” It all seemed so bizarre. My father later...
View ArticleSnoop Lion, Reincarnated: Album Review
Snoop Dogg? Snoop Lion? Whatever the hell you call him, he has a record out.
View ArticleMetal Monday Volume 120 (4.29.13)
Is it possible to do a 200-250 word post on a 45 second or so snippet of an album or song? We’re about to find out as this week Metal Monday says some stuff about the teaser that local faves Jack...
View ArticlePopblerd’s New Release Report 4/30/13
Those dimples compel you to look at our new release list!
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