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Idolwatch: A (Very) Little Bit Country

It was Country Night on American Idol, which meant poppified versions of recent country hits that were extremely poppified to begin with. My weekly reviews are up: the pictures won’t be updated with photos of last night until later in the day, at which point all references to clothing and hairdos may actually make sense. [...]

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How YouTube Saved Ben Folds (For Me, Anyway)

Flipping through the cable channels this morning, I caught the tail end of a Hilton Hotels commercial that uses a snippet from Ben Folds’ Landed, his beautiful single from the Songs for Silverman album. When I hear a old song like the Violent Femmes’ Blister in the Sun used in a Wendy’s commercial, I may [...]