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Last week's prediction: Non-white. After this, you can bet on that. Weird--real rap takes its turn on the iTunes free single carousel. Jay Rock is the reigning West Coast hope not named Nipsey Huss... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Jay Rocks "All My Life In the Ghetto (feat. Lil Wayne and Will.i.am)" " >

Last week's prediction: Nothing like this again, unless iTunes wants a revolt. Sometimes, you get a real child-slavery vibe from these young, recently formed Nashville acts. From the official Glori... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Gloriana's "Wild at Heart"" >

Last week's prediction: Still can't believe this is what broke my streak of not seeing the new 90210. Hmm--oddly appealing compact Black Crowes boogie from four Irish dudes who do their damnest to... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: The Answer's "Demon Eyes"" >

Max Martin C-team band Carolina Liar got some valuable 90210 airtime a few weeks ago: Strains of popular hit single "Show Me What I'm Looking For." Dash Snow is singing lead. His scarf provides cam... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Carolina Liar's "Show Me What I'm Looking For"" >

James MinchinHere's your future Last week's prediction: From the UK? Sorry, but aesthetics matter, no matter where you are on the globe. No coincidence that the Somalia-born K'naan learned to speak ... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: K'naan's "Bang Bang (feat. Adam Levine)"" >

Last week's prediction: Kiss My Ass. Five guys with stage-names chasing the wobbly dream of '80s hard rock superstardom, Last Vegas bear the all important 2009 Mötley Crüe cosign, which will surely... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Last Vegas's "I'm Bad"" >

Last week's prediction: 4-5 dudes gunning for that U2 money. Aw jeez, Little Brother--erstwhile fat-guy dancers of apocalypse, rap's bad conscience, the vegans at crack-rap's church fried chick con... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: The Foreign Exchange's "Take Off the Blues (feat. Darien Brockington)"" >

Last week's prediction: I hear the new Animal Collective is pretty good... Nevada City is a Denis Johnson-type Northern California mountain town whose chief economic/cultural export is hippies, mor... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Alela Diane's "Dry Grass & Shadows"" >

Last week's prediction: Elizabeth Alexander/will.i.am mash-up The Alberta-born Adam Gregory seems to be gunning for that heretofore unknown Owen Wilson-of-country cred--shaggy blond hair, prominent... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Adam Gregory's "Crazy Days"" >

Last week's prediction: Inauguration-themed "Latino R&B crooner" Jean is more than a bit of an enigma--if your band name, song title, and album title (Out of the Box) are three different unGooglabl... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Jean's "Stop the Clock (Peligro de Extinción)"" >

Last week's prediction: Teary-eyed, overweight The message board-born Boxer Rebellion, like Glasvegas, sport an endorsement from Creation Records founder/Oasis-discoverer Alan McGee, a distinction ... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: The Boxer Rebellion's "Evacuate"" >

Last week's prediction: "Auld Lang Syne" Anyone eagerly awaiting Fabolous's Loso's Way (guilty) should probably listen to "Good Lovin'," the second single off former Puff Daddy apprentice/112 vet S... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Slim's "Good Lovin' (feat. Fabolous & Ryan Leslie)"" >

Last week's prediction: "Cop Killer" So yeah, there's something delightful about Stephen Colbert giving himself some laughs here--respect to guys who have ideas. One minute there was no A Colbert C... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Stephen Colbert's "Another Christmas Song" " >

Last week's prediction: A Dipset Christmas To the extent that I understand holiday music at all, it's as a technique: Aural comfort designed to unobtrusively class up December Christmas parties and... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Faith Hill's "O Holy Night!"" >

Last week's prediction: Lunch with Avey Tare The iTunes promotional lurch--a la last weekend's Times' box-set and coffee-table "gift guides"-- is, sadly, headed straight into moving Christmas produ... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Melissa Etheridge's "Christmas in America"" >

Last week's prediction: Upbeat, on the road to super-stardom Tony Bennett: Man, the Web Sheriff is a total asshole. All 14 Members of the Count Basie Big Band: He's just trying to do his job. Ton... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Tony Bennett's "Winter Wonderland" " >

Last week's prediction: Beyonce Jr. Scotland, Montreal, Ireland, and now, with Dark Captain Light Captain, London. The suspicion grows: Is there some message hidden in the iTunes free single select... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: Dark Captain Light Captain's "Jealous Enemies"" >

Last week's prediction: Upper 40s, white, soulful Irish trio The Script fall into that category of music that I mostly hear as ambient noise—the Fray (e.g. "How to Save a Life"), OneRepublic, Coldp... Continue reading "Another Free iTunes Single of the Week: The Script's "Before the Worst"" >

Last week's prediction: Election special? Very, very little information about this band Beast anywhere online, just a hazy MySpace 'About' that appears to be written in what James Wood would call 'Verbage'— After having wonderfully performed on the 2004 Oscar Winner Sound Track – The Triplettes de Belleville – Betty has joined since then her voice and her songwriter skills to Dj Champion to create, once again, a major impact on the local, national and international music industry. Huh? [...]

Last week's prediction : Japanese Motors NME-boosted Scottish quartet Glasvegas got the UK hysteria treatment last year, hailed as the next Oasis/Arctic Monkeys/J&MC/MBV/etc. by the dudes who give out such designations every five minutes or so. Last year's single " Daddy's Gone ," which pumped them into the shape they're in now, is an almost inconceivably agonistic muddle involving a tremendously thick Scottish accent and shaggy dog story about Daddy going out for cigarettes or whatever and never returning. ( NME : "The love between a young man and his [...]