After Andrew Bird, I was famished, so I decided to go and get some sustenance, and since I love N.Y. Style pizza, I decided to go to the longest line in all the land and wait for a good half an hour just to get 3 slices of paper with pizza sauce on it parading as an edible form of matter. During my stint with weighing the pro's and cons of anorexia, I was able to overhear a band I had made a point to miss that goes by the name of O.A.R. Before [...]
![Surprise, Surprise: Nas Takes Over The Top Spot [Friday Chart Preview]](http://cdn.elbo.ws/posts/1159383_lg.jpg)
According to early reports, Nas has managed to pull off the seemingly impossible task of keeping Lil Wayne and Coldplay from the top spot on the Billboard albums chart. Of course, what with Miley Cyrus' album dropping next week, Nas shouldn't get too used to life on top, but around 200,000 albums sold is a decent take for an album with minimal radio airplay. Meanwhile, Tha Carter III appears to have Viva La Vida beat in the longevity game, taking second with an estimated 110,000 album sales to Coldplay's 85-90,000. [...]
:: Assholes By Nature , It is What It Is (Rap-a-Lot) :: Ace Young , Ace Young (Pazzo/Fontana) :: David Banner , The Greatest Story Ever Told (Universal Motown) :: Black Devil Disco Club , Eight Oh Eight (Lo) :: The Boy Bathing , A Fire To Make Preparations (self-released) :: Drakkar Sauna , [...]

Everyone must be at the beach this week. There's really no explanation for the scarcity of albums below. However, within our grasp there are a few solid albums groups to delve into. If you think someone should have made the cut who didn't, give us a shout. One of the most popular groups on this list (as far as the East Coast goes) are our Rockville, MD friends O.A.R. Maybe you're eardrums have been pounded to " That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker " a million times over, but those times [...]

Everyone must be at the beach this week. There's really no explanation for the scarcity of albums below. However, within our grasp there are a few solid albums groups to delve into. If you think someone should have made the cut who didn't, give us a shout. One of the most popular groups on this list (as far as the East Coast goes) are our Rockville, MD friends O.A.R. Maybe you're eardrums have been pounded to " That Was A Crazy Game Of Poker " a million times over, but those times [...]
As you surely know by now, Consequence of Sound's Matt Friedman was live and on site in Manchester, Tennessee this past weekend for the 2008 edition of the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival . From Kanye's meltdown to My Morning Jacket's epic performance, we brought you coverage of all things Bonnaroo - and we truly hope you enjoyed what you read/saw, regardless if you were at the Farm or not. However, in hopes of catching everyone up on ALL our coverage, we figured a recap was needed. So without further ado, here is [...]

Here's some musical insight from the queen of McKean on her birthday. Since Jacob's post on The Canals was so popular and in his picture he was wearing my coat, clearly I should be soon to follow. It's not gonna be good at all, but hey it's my birthday so they let me become the canals first lady. I'm a big fan of Maryland . GBURG rep! So I [...]