This year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees are in and they include resurgent head-bangers, hip hop icons, a 5th time nominee that a lot of you won't have even heard of, and one long-overdue nod for a shirtless icon. See the list after the jump.
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OK, we all know the music industry is in the crapper, but this is too funny: Rick Astley's label has elected to move up the release of the 80s star's hits collection by two weeks, in hopes of riding the Rick-Rolling phenomenon to some extra sales.
It seems that nobody bothered to clue these guys in on the shelf live for viral web "phenomenons." April 28 is a looong way out, in Internet time. But hey, at least somebody figured out a way to keep this thing on the blogger radar. Check out Astley's Muppet doppleganger strutting his stuff after the jump.
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The generous folks at Matador have just released their Intended Play music sampler as a free digital download. Cat Power, The New Pornographers, Mission of Burma and Stephen Malkmus are among the artists represented, so get over there before excited bloggers like us crash their servers.
Check out the full track list after the jump.
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