Pop Albums: With tweets and clips and – oh, yeah – songs, Kanye West shines brightest in a fragmented firmament.
Being a pop music fan these days is more about songs than albums. By now, that’s a certainty, if not a cliche: iPods and MP3s broke the CD into little pieces, and now we’re all free to assemble our personal playlist puzzles.
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In election’s shadow, rally draws laughs, activism
WASHINGTON (AP) – In the shadow of the Capitol and the election, comedians Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert entertained a huge throng Saturday at a “sanity” rally poking fun at the nation’s ill-tempered politics, fear-mongers and doomsayers.
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