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We here at The Smoking Section love playlists (as evidenced by our monthly Crew Love posts). So when Grooveshark approached us to create a TSS-approved compilation, we happily obliged. Read the rest of this entry »

du-du-du-du-Damn. Phallynn, Your Thick Thursday

L.A. Blogger Kevin Cogill Sentenced For Guns N’ Roses Leak [Reuters]

Compiled List Of Musicians Who’ve Filed For Bankruptcy [Noise Addict]

T-Mac Goes from Number 1 to Number 3 [The Hoop Doctors]

Kmart’s Christmas in July: Inspiration or Desperation? [Time]

“Are We There Yet?” Heads To TV [Reuters]

Man’s Impotence Gets Nationally Televised [Warming Glow]

You Know What The Premier League Needs? AIDS [SbS]

Ten Toons of the Dark Knight [Gunaxin]

Play Cloths “Bighead Jack” Tee [CtotheJL]

Trae The Truth Honored By Houston Artists & Politicians [HHDX]

Courtney Love Banned From Using Hole [Daily Swarm]

Chuck D Partners with Music Marketing Website Uplaya [XXL]

Carmelo’s New Sig, The Jordan Melo M6 [Sole Collector]

Words By Patrick M.

Graphics By P.

Guns N’ Roses, or what’s left of them, will release Chinese Democracy this year, an album more than 17 years in the making. There was a time, before Autotune, when GNR represented the best music had to offer. Following 1987′s Appetite For Destruction they could legitimately claim to be the biggest rock stars in the world. Perhaps enjoying the mountaintop a little too much, the band took four years to follow up with the excessive, erratic (and admittedly enjoyable) Use Your Illusion I and II. But while taking their time dawdling at the top, music passed GNR by. A week after Use Your Illusion‘s release, Nirvana came out with Nevermind and suddenly the coolest guys on the block, Axl and Slash, were out-of-touch douchebags. Read the rest of this entry »