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New in the Idolator tips inbox: A press release with the title "Scott Stapp Returns to the Top of the Billboard Album Charts With Creed's Full Circle Debuting At No. 2." Huh? Now, let's leave aside the whole manner of whether or not the No. 2 spot is really the top of the charts. (I'll actually let that slide by on a technicality, since this week's No. 1 album was the This Is It soundtrack, which is mostly old Michael Jackson material.) But a press release solely [...]

Yesterday's cheeky Jarvis Cocker soundbite about the possibility of Pulp reforming for next year's Glastonbury Festival sounded pretty much like a "we're not playing" blow-off to these ears, but apparently other people didn't pick up the nuance, running with "OMG PULP REUNION" stories as fast as their content-management systems would let them. So Jarvis has released a statement denying and decrying those rumors, and this time, he's playing it 100% straightforward: "I can categorically tell Teletext that Pulp have no plans to get back together. Someone asked me if I [...]

Last night, friend of Idolator Marah Eakin broke the news that there was a new restaurant opening near her home in Chicago-and it was called, oddly enough, the Pitchfork Saloon, even though it has no relation to the tastemaking music reviews-and-news site that's also based in the City Of Big Shoulders. From the looks of things, the place looks like your typical neighborhood joint-chili and chicken-finger apps, half-price bourbon on Tuesdays, something called the "Pitchfork Build-A-Burger." But the coincidental nomenclature just begged for a few one-liners to be tossed off, what with the combination of food-borne [...]

Alicia Keys' forthcoming album, which comes out Dec. 1, has one of those silly titles that have become so commonplace this year : It's called The Element Of Freedom , even if its lead single sounds like it hasn't really broken free of the template established by her 2007 monster single "No One." But no matter! This is a fine time to ask what element from the periodic table you think best represents the concept of freedom. My pick is neon , because you can't have bright blinking signs advertising American flags and [...]

Today in unfortunate promo codes, from a last-minute ticket deal for a show at the Boston venue known as the Wang Theater : "Take advantage of this 50% discount when you purchase select tickets to see R. Kelly featuring Pleasure P, at the Citi Performing Arts Center, this Friday, October 9. Tickets start at S27.50 when you use the promo code RKELLYWANG." Even "WALMARTPANTIES" would have been a little less giggle/groan-worthy! [ BroadwayOffers.com via Velvet Rope ]

Repentant R & B singer Chris Brown Tweeted earlier that the follow-up single to his new track "I Can Transform Ya" -from his forthcoming album Graffiti -would be "a ballet called crawl." Alas, those of you who like me got excited that he would try to apologize to his ex-girlfriend Rihanna and the American public at large while engaging in some sort of jetée -filled antics will be disappointed; turns out he meant "ballad." Still holding out hope for Jazz Hands Of Sorrow, then. [ @MechanicalDummy / Twitter ]

Apparently former Danity Kane screecher Aubrey O'Day is getting all of her musical ideas from radio stations with '80s-centric playlists. First there was her horrific cover of Eddie Murphy's "Party All The Time," which at least made Murphy's performance of the song seem like utter genius. (Not that I didn't like it before, but holy wow.) And now she's released a new track, "Never Fallin'," which is about mean people on the Internet who are Just Jealous and which is based around a wholesale lifting of New Order's "Bizarre Love Triangle." And guess what-it even includes [...]

I'm going to go with the title for two reasons; one, the painted-lady-next-to-dapper-du de motif, while having more than a whiff of sexism, is clearly Pitbull's homage to James Bond; and two, the word "rebelution," which was probably thought of as a genius pun when it was initally thrown out in the idea room, is actually not all that original of a coinage, what with there being 317,000 other Google results for it . There's even one for a band ! Can you say "package tour"? [HT: Reed Fischer]

Jordin Sparks' new record Battlefield contains a cover of the Canadian singer Fefe Dobson's "Don't Let It Go To Your Head," a song that Sparks fell for while toiling in the mall-store salt-mines. But what are these lyrics? "Just cause I think of you in bed / Don't let it go to your head"? "So what if I want to kiss / From your toes up to your lips"? In bed? Full-body kissing ? Could the youngest American Idol winner be singing about-gasp!- sex ? No way, she says! Thanks to the miracles of lyrical [...]

Titling an album is tough, especially in the era of people being averse to giving a hoot about new music. How do you sum up your artistic intentions in a few words that will look good on a five-inch-square piece of cardboard jammed into a big-box retailer's rackspace? Unfortunately, some artists have been tripped up by the process so badly that we had to step in and gently tell them that they may not be rocking such a great look, word-wise. After the jump, five examples of really bad album titles that are on the way to a music retailer [...]

Live Nation is patting itself on the back this morning with an announcement that its Web site would be suspending ticket fees on lawn seats for hundreds of shows on its summer-shed docket, provided that concertgoers purchase said ducats between 12:01 a.m. and 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday. The concert-promotion behemoth is sparing no superlative in its announcement of this promotion, referring to it as "the biggest one-day sale in concert business history" and attempting to rename itself "Free Nation," even though people will presumably have to pay face value for the tickets they're purchasing on Wednesdays (lol, words!). More press-release [...]

The deciding word in last night's Scripps National Spelling Bee was a musical term: "amarevole," which, according to the wire stories on the bee's results, is "a musical term that means 'with bitterness, poignantly.'" But while trying to find out just how one could use it, I noticed that there aren't many references to the word online that employ it in the context of an English sentence; they're either in Italian or references to the spelling bee. (Even the word's entry on m-w.com is behind a pay wall.) One insight on its proper use comes from [...]

"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed... I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life," the caps-locked MC told Reuters. Is that why the book is a mere "52 pages-some blank, others with just a few words"-even though he had a co-writer on the project? Is one supposed to carry it around in public as a way to say "hey, guys, I'm an information-getting [...]

Jay-Z and Ciara are embarking on a short tour of the U.S. this summer, with the hip-hop heavyweight being backed up by a live band as he works on the finishing touches for the long-in-the-works Blueprint 3 . One thing, though; the press release that was sent out referred to the venues on this tour as "intimate," even though the capacities for the venues announced so far range from 2,400 (The Pearl at the Palms in Vegas, where the tour will spend two nights) to 9,500 (Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn.). And the press seem to be copying [...]

One thing about being a blogger with a lot of music-related RSS feeds: You see the word "rock" used as a verb a lot . Why, right now the following headlines are popping up in Google Reader for me: "'The Hills' Girls Rock The Paley Center Red Carpet"; "John Varvatos and Island Records: Fashion that rocks?"; "Veteran act Dinosaur Jr. to rock Music Farm"; and "Video: Sesame Street Says 'Earth Rocks'!" I've actually thought about calling a wire-wide moratorium on using it in headlines-just for a day!-and Carrie Brownstein reminded me of this impending mini-crusade with an examination [...]

Today's Wall Street Journal takes a look at a clutch of musicians who have decided to get notoriety—if not cash—by writing songs about the recession, although I'm guessing that the Journal didn't want to do the songwriters in question any favors. Why? Because the paper took the time to print the awful lyrics these people have come up with in order to suck up the YouTube hits from people looking for "bailout" or "Fannie Mae." Seriously, the lyrical stylings exhibited after the jump made me appreciate "Weird Al" Yankovic's recession-ready remake of T.I.'s "Whatever You [...]

Animal Collective's Fleet Foxes-slobbered-on, Kanye-endorsed video for "My Girls" has been bumpin' around for a few days and has been getting some pretty positive praise, despite generally looking like an expensive version of Green Man from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia . And more than any lyric on Merriweather Post Pavilion , the chorus to "My Girls" has people Tweetinging or Tumblring or whatever the fuck they do now. The most common reading on (always-accurate!!!11) lyric sites is: I don't mean to seem [...]

In this week's AV Club , multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird drops the controversial soundbite "When you think indie rock, you think more about haircuts and fashion than about music." Somehow, this has yet to be picked up by outraged bloggers (maybe because they think he's right? oooh snap), but it made me I wonder just what other tags and adjectives and bits of shorthand have been rendered free of any sort of music-related meaning by misuse, overuse, or just your normal wear and tear. Bird's full quote after the jump, so you can think it over! [...]

Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing [...]

Most critics have a love-hate relationship with album reviews. On the one hand, they're an absurdly limiting format, forcing you to find things to say about albums you don't care about, limiting your thoughts on albums you do care about, and requiring a bottom-line consumer reccomendation that might not really encapsulate your honest feelings. On the other hand, in these hard times for music scribes, record reviews are the one unique service we can provide that the public always seems to want. Which is why it seems crazy that Alernative Press was considering removing [...]