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ALL MUSIC "Widely acclaimed today as the first ever openly (and genuinely) gay rock star, an iconic status which only seems to harden as time passes, Jobriath can also be described among the saddest casualties in modern musical history."
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VILLAGE VOICE "To more than a few of us internet rap dorks, Lupe Fiasco is exactly what the world needs. I don't even think there's anything horribly wrong with commercial rap these days, and I'm still ridiculously amped to see what this guy can do. He's a great rapper: warm and eloquent and humanistic, with a pleasantly expressive voice and a thing for internal rhymes. He engages with politics without getting too pedantic about it, and he has a fluid and gorgeous way of describing internal conflicts and crises of faith and self-doubt. The idea that he might become a major rap star is a tantalizing possibility, and it's given a lot of us hope that big-business rap might break out of its slump by expanding its boundaries beyond its current fixation on trap-star bravado, which has produced plenty of great music but which has convinced the labels to throw their weight (so to speak) behind half-formed jokers like Yung Joc and Rick Ross. An early, unfinished version of Lupe's debut album Food & Liquor leaked to the internet a few months ago; I went a bit overboard when I called it one of the year's best albums as it was, but it does give us a sketchy picture of a major artist emerging. Since the album leaked, though, things haven't been going all that well for Lupe."

MUSICROOMS According to Lupe Fiasco, "The title (of my album) reflects on me being Muslim and being from the streets. In Chicago, instead having bodegas like in New York, the majority of the corner stores are called ‘Food and Liquors.’ The store is where everything is at, whether it be the wine-o hanging by the store, or us as kids going back and forth to the store to buy something. The ‘Food’ is the good part and the ‘Liquors’ is the bad part. I try to balance out both parts of me.”

MONSTERS & CRITICS "1999 - Joe Thomas, co-producer of Brian Wilson`s 1998 album 'Imagination,' countersues Melinda Wilson, the musician`s wife and conservator. The suit claims that Melinda Wilson 'schemed against and... manipulated both Brian and Joe, and misused [the joint venture] in order to secure the full benefit of Brian`s star-status for herself.'"

CBC "[Dylan] recalls former Beach Boy Brian Wilson's technique of laying down records with four tracks, an effect that cannot be recreated with today's studio sessions."

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NME "The Beach Boys' Brian Wilson is to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the release of the band's classic 'Pet Sounds' album by performing it in full at a one-off show."

"The star will play the LP, as well as host of other classics, on November 1 at the Royce Hall at the University College of Los Angeles. Scritti Politti will support."

GUARDIAN UK "Carlin is much less opinionated than Leaf, which sometimes pays dividends. Rather than casting Mike Love as 'a mean-spirited troglodyte', as Leaf did, he gives credit to his desire to keep the band going, while noting that Love talks about Smile as a 'corporate opportunity' and recalling a quote he gave when Brian was in Landy's hands: 'I just want my cousin back. I want to write hits with my cousin!'"

AND: Carlin vs. O'Reilley:

MEDIA MATTERS "Bill O'Reilly baselessly attacked Oregonian columnist Peter Ames Carlin for 'vilifying' O'Reilly 'by using far-left website propaganda material.' Carlin had written a column noting specific examples of O'Reilly's personal attacks, many of which Media Matters had previously documented."

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taken from Linder. Works 1976-2006 edited by Lionel Bovier, published by JRP|Ringier in Zurich.

NY TIMES VIA INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE "As his subtitle suggests, the author is enamored of the Wilson myth - it's a selling point, after all, and it's not without truth - but Carlin is too scrupulous to ignore more nuanced shadings and contradictions; his Wilson is both a victim, too fragile for this world, and a passive-aggressive manipulator, a man who, at times, willfully squandered his talent. Carlin tells his story well and sensitively, and only rarely lapses into glib rock-critic-ese."