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Get In Tune: Our Favorite Acoustic Albums

By Jonah Bayer • 1 day ago

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This week, Justin Bieber announced plans to release his second unplugged album in January, joining a long line of artists who have made amazing collections without running up a crazy electricity bill.
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Here we recap some of our favorite acoustic albums that range grunge icons to today’s most popular songwriters. Justin, you’ve got a lot to live up to with this album, so good luck!
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Bright Eyes — Back in 2005, Bright Eyes released two albums: The electronic-influenced Digital Ash In A Digital Urn and the acoustic collection I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. Both have held up well, but looking back, this stripped-down disc features some of his most powerful material to date, such as “We Are Nowhere And It’s Now” and “Poison Oak.” Alienation never sounded this transcendent.
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Elliott Smith — Elliott Smith was still a relatively unknown songwriter back in 1995 when he released his self-titled album; however, things didn’t stay that way for long after people heard it. This extremely moody album featured heartfelt meditations like “Needle In The Hay,” which were dark and melancholy but also featured an underlying theme of hopefulness. Sadly, the latter feeling didn’t last.
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Nirvana — Nirvana were thought of as a loud, overdriven act when they released MTV Unplugged In New York in 1994. Kurt Cobain & Company’s somber takes on “All Apologies” and “The Man Who Sold The World” confirmed them as the most exciting band in rock and showed that they were as versatile as they were visceral in the process.
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Monsters Of Folk — What do you get when you put Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, M. Ward and production guru Mike Mogis in the same room? You get an extremely accomplished album that bridges the common ground between all four artists without sacrificing an ounce of artistry or integrity.
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Alice In Chains — Alice In Chains’ Sap EP wasn’t nearly as well-received as Nirvana Unplugged but this five-song, largely acoustic collection still sounds as good today as it did when it was recorded almost two decades ago. It also showcases the incredible vocal range of the band’s fallen frontman Layne Staley.
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Bruce Springsteen — Bruce Springsteen is one of the most prolific artists of all-time, but his ’90s and ’00s output has been a little spotty, making We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions even more impressive. The Boss’ only album of material that he didn’t write is an amazing reinterpretation of classic tunes by Pete Seeger and ushered in a new era in Springsteen’s career.
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Mumford & Sons — Mumford & Sons seemed to come out of nowhere two years ago to release Sigh No More, and for many music listeners the album sounded like a gift from God. Rarely does a debut album come along that’s as fully formed and engaging as this one and while we love their latest disc Babel their first collection will always have a special spot in our hearts.
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Beck — Beck is an amazing example of an artist who was born in the alternative scene but managed to segue into serious artistry — and the real turning point in his career was his 2002 collection Sea Change, which is full of moving but somber songs such as “Lost Cause” and “The Golden Age.”
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Bob Dylan — We couldn’t write an article about memorable acoustic albums without paying tribute to the man who popularized the genre, Bob Dylan. Although Dylan has tons of legendary collections, we’d recommend you start with Blood On The Tracks and go from there.
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Tags : Beck, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, justin bieber, Nirvana

5 Things We Really Wish Bands Would Stop Doing

By Emily Zemler • 3 days ago

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Last week, Paramore announced that they will unveil their fourth album next year. They also announced that they will be naming the disc after themselves … and personally, we absolutely hate it when artists self-title albums that aren’t their debut. This got us thinking about some of the other annoying things musicians have been doing lately. And we want them to stop. So, bands and artists, please consider this a helpful guide on what not to do. Thanks in advance.
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1. Self-titling albums that are not your first album
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Why would you self-title your third, fourth or, if you are The Cure, 12th album? We know that you are trying to say “This is who we are now so please ignore our formative releases and pretend that this is the album that defines us” but what you’re actually saying is “We’re too lazy to come up with a real album title.” It makes sense to self-title your debut, because that’s the world’s first introduction to you, but it’s just obnoxious to assume that a record four discs into your career is in anyway more self-defining than your prior. If you wrote a book, you wouldn’t name it after yourself, right? No. This note is especially for Paramore and their upcoming fourth album… Paramore.
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2. Unnecessarily drawing out your album promo
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Paging Carly Rae Jepsen (and every other pop artist in America). It is not news when you release your single cover art or when you “reveal” a still from an upcoming music video. Just give us the info, all at once. It doesn’t make you more newsworthy when you announce an album, album title, a tracklisting, album cover art, single, single cover art, single video teaser, single video and single remix as separate pieces of news. Let’s be realistic: It’s all the same thing!
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3. Faking us out with “special guests”
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Did you realize that The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney is on Ke$ha’s new album? No? Well that’s because you would have no idea unless someone told you that he plays drums on one song on the disc. Does that make him a special guest on the album? Not exactly. Iggy Pop, who sings on one of the pop star’s new tracks, is a special guest, because we can actually tell when we hear the song. As in, it makes the song bigger than it would be without him. No one ever really talked about how Tommy Lee played drums on the Jack’s Mannequin album, much like Carney, which means they don’t really qualify as special guests.
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4. Re-packaging old albums as new releases
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Did we really need any of the music on Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up or on Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die (Paradise Edition)? Not at all, but the artists and their record labels certainly made you think you did. It’s been a trend over the past few years for musicians to release an album and then re-release it a few months later with a few bonus tracks and maybe a DVD. Most of those bonus tracks are usually crap (eh-hem Nicki). Why do you need another copy of the same album? Let’s stop worrying about releasing every single track you’ve ever made in the studio and start worrying about putting out good ones worth the fans’ time.
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5. Wearing baseball caps onstage
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This is the most inane of these grievances ,but also the most annoying. It’s just not appropriate for a musician to wear a baseball cap onstage. It covers your face and makes you look like you don’t care. Jack Antonoff from fun. recently donned a red hat during the KIIS Jingle Ball and in the mix of all the dolled up pop stars and Ne-Yo’s fedora, it just looked lazy (sorry to single you out, Jack, but come on). Let’s save the baseball hats for baseball games, please.
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Tags : carly rae jepsen, Nicki Minaj, Paramore

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles' Karaoke Date: One Direction Star and Conor Kennedy's Ex Party, Hold Hands

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles have an unfair advantage when it comes to karaoke.

After One Direction's Madison Square Garden concert Monday night, Harry, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson hit up New York City's Hudson Hotel with the "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer for some late-night fun.
Taylor herself had just come from a gala where she was honored by—awkward alert?—ex Conor Kennedy's family.
Harry and Taylor spent Sunday together, too
In a series of blurry pictures, Harry, 18, and Taylor, 22, can be seen holding hands as they show off their vocal skills. An eyewitness tells E! News Taylor "spent the early part of the night hanging out with the parents, but once karaoke came on, she and Harry joined [other 1D members] onstage for the rest of the night." For one of the last karaoke songs, Taylor and a gal-pal sang a One Direction song, according to a witness.
A One Direction fan account on Twitter captured Taylor and the guys paying homage to another boy band: the Backstreet Boys! In one shot, Taylor, Harry and Niall appear to be quite invested in a karaoke performance of BSB's 1998 hit "I Want It That Way."
"Haylor is real, y'all," Sunny Jacob, a 1D fan, tweeted along with a picture of the duo.
Taylor rocks the Jingle Ball stage in L.A.

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A witness tells E! News Emma Roberts and a girlfriend were also in attendance at the karaoke get-together. At the end of the night, when the light cames on, the One Direction guys, Taylor and pals took a turn on Playstation. Harry and Taylor "were clearly having fun," says a witness.
Later on, shortly after 4 a.m., Harry and Taylor, holding hands again, were spotted going back to the Red singer's hotel.
The next morning around 11:30 a.m., Harry and Taylor were snapped leaving the Greenwich Hotel separately.
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Rihanna 777 Post-Tour Reflections: Would We Do It Again? Hell, Yes.

By Emily Zemler • 19 hours ago

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Last night, as I was in a taxi returning to the hotel from Jay-Z’s 40/40 Club, where Rihanna held her final 777 Tour afterparty, my Editor emailed me asking for a final piece on the experience. In the moment I was concerned that I was still too in the thick of the tour and too caught up in the experience to have any sense of reflection. But after four hours of sleep and another journey to another airport to return home, I think I have a moderate sense of what just went down on the Rihanna plane. And it’s clear that this tour, which started as evident gimmick to get album press, has become something greater and more impactful than originally intended.
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This tour will, certainly, have lasting consequences on both the music industry and the press world. No experiment is without its results, without some sort of conclusion that either yields change or doesn’t. Several managers and publicists emailed me while on the tour, asking “Are you dying?” and “What the hell is going on?” Several noted that they’d spoken about similar tours with artists they work with, wondering whether this could be done differently or more effectively in the future. If we suddenly see an influx of creative album promotional gimmicks, we can thank Roc Nation and Island Def Jam, as well as Rihanna for being a “willing” participant.
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Which brings us to the issue of Rihanna. The singer was reportedly pitched the idea of this tour on her last album, Talk That Talk, and she turned it down, only to acquiesce now on Unapologetic. Theoretically, she is a great artist with which to undertake such a project. She seems fun – at least based on her Instagram and Twitter feeds, which are filled with images of her blowing pot smoke out of her mouth and lying naked on furniture. She seems like someone you might be able to party with. But the problem is that even if we assumed there was a chance she’d hot box the plane, that wasn’t the real reason the journalists went on the trip (it might have been why the fans attended, though).
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I read a comparison on ABC News yesterday that noted the correlations between this tour and the press who follow the presidential campaigns, pointing out notable similarities between the experiences of the music journalists onboard the now-infamous Rihanna plane and those tailing Republican candidate Mitt Romney. And although I see these congruencies, ultimately the results don’t match up. The reporters riding along with Romney had something to report on as they moved around the U.S., each rally and appearance yielding new information and quotes. Rihanna says the exact same thing onstage every night while playing almost the same set, and there is little variance besides the venue and her outfit. (Our favorite thing to do on the plane was to mimic Rihanna’s intro to “Say My Name” by shouting “What did you call me?” and “It’s not Hey-na-a, it’s Rihanna” at each other.)
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There are a lot of ways this could have worked better and more smoothly, which is not to undermine the fact that this was an impressively run trip, with elements that absolutely found control in the chaos of 250 international travelers, some of whom did not need as much luggage as they hauled around. Roll call, assigned buses, pre-printed plane tickets, hotel key cards laid out by last name and ongoing email communication expedited the arduous processes. But was it too many people? Did efficiency and logic occasionally vanish? Were we all at the mercy of an artist who would rather go lingerie shopping in Paris or hang out with her Battleship co-star Brooklyn Decker in Toronto than participate in the tour that was literally about her? Probably.
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In the end, the 777 Tour turned into a story about the media rather than Rihanna herself. It became a mirror into the way the contemporary, Internet-based press covers an event. If you read the articles from the last week you can see the coverage devolve, transform from peppy dispatches and excited photos to stressed-out musings on our purpose here and queries on what it all means. Reading back now, I can see how the tone of my own coverage changed. By the last day, because no one could get a quote from Rihanna, the journalists were all interviewing each other.
The coverage was also nearly immediate – the video of the Australian streaker made it online within an hour of us landing in London. I sent photos and updates via email over an international roaming plan on my cell phone while on buses and standing in venues. I wasn’t the only one who wrote almost their entire tour coverage on their iPhone, too. The Rihanna plane became its own meme, a story that has been reported on widely as if it was an actual hostage situation requiring constant updates. Jokes about Ben Affleck using the story as his follow-up film to Argo abound and not for nothing (Rihan-Argo has been the name bandied about). I’m surprised my parents didn’t tie a yellow ribbon to a tree in our yard.
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The journalists were the story because we created the story via Twitter, Instagram and our own articles, offering an instant look inside a bizarre and seemingly desperate situation. When we landed in New York someone emailed me, “#Rihannajailbreak” and everyone I ran into at the New York show kept saying “She was on the plane,” like I was a character on Lost. Admiration for our survival has been palpable. And that’s fair – this was by far the hardest tour I’ve ever been on (and I’ve toured with artists quite a bit, including earlier this year with Linkin Park), and it’s definitely the most physically grueling thing I’ve ever done.
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It may be weeks before my body fully recovers, which is to say nothing about my mental state. I can’t promise not to snap into an altered sociopathic reality the next time “Diamonds” comes on the radio. And to those who criticize our public complaining, I can only say that we needed Twitter and photocopied Rihanna “Missing” posters and Instagrammed shots of the prison food we were fed to make it through this without totally losing it. I cried twice in Berlin and didn’t know it was happening until someone pointed out the tears pouring down my face. One journalist openly wept on the way to London. Another puked into her airplane blanket during in-air mutiny that occurred as we left Berlin.
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Does this make us entitled and coddled? Should we be more grateful for the opportunity? I have no idea. I think it’s clear that most of us wouldn’t survive a real hostage or prison situation, especially if our iPhones got taken away. But if you weren’t there, you can’t really know what it was like to stay awake for 28 hours over the course of three countries all because some pop star wanted to promote an album that was already guaranteed to go No. 1 worldwide upon release and didn’t respect the press who gave up seven days of their lives enough to even answer one question about it. None of us cared about talking to Rihanna; we just wanted to sleep and eat, and that’s where the real breakdown happened.
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One of Rihanna’s label reps from Island Def Jam joked as we touched down in New York that he’d see us next year on the 888 Tour, eight shows in eight days on a cruise ship around the Caribbean. Obviously this is not real, but despite the fact that my body has never been in such extreme distress, I think I’d be in if it was. The 777 Tour is going to herald something, it’s going to be the watermark for future album promotional concepts, and it feels important that both Myspace and myself participated. I’m glad to have been one of the guinea pigs. Plus, I learned that it’s complete bullsh-t that you can’t use electronic devices while a plane takes off. All that aside, though, I’m now going to sleep for three days and when I wake up I’m going to listen exclusively to death metal for the rest of the year.
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Rihanna 777 Tour Day 6: Mutiny on the 777

By Emily Zemler • 8 hours ago

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What happens when you crowd 150 journalists and a bunch of fans on a 777 jet and don’t deliver on their expectations? Mutiny, that’s what. It started with a few chants of “b-roll” by some of the videographers as a joke, escalated as one of the Australian radio journalists streaked fully naked through the plane and cultivated with the entire economy section shouting “just one quote” and “save our jobs” during the flight to London.

If you think this would make Rihanna finally appear, you’re wrong. She is on the plane, but despite the cries and pushing throngs of writers, photographers and videographers, the captain of the ship never revealed herself. Her security team did, however, as did her label reps and management. Everyone was eventually told to return to their seats, but no one has calmed down. A flight attendant poured anyone who wanted it shots of Jay-Z’s cognac brand D’ussd — the same stuff Rihanna offered the fans on her first day on the jet. Some journalists got the flight attendant to hand them full bottles of wine to take to their seats and Tim, the Australian streaker, is now the second most famous person on this plane.
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So what now? Will Rihanna ever appear? Is she too afraid of what we will do? Does she feel like she owes us something? Stay tuned, I suppose. If we go down, at least we went down swinging.

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