Universal accidentally leaks new U2 album, “No Line on the Horizon”. (rollingstone.com)
Norwegian iTunes accidentally leaks new Kelly Clarkson album, “All I Ever Wanted”. (rollingstone.com)
Last.fm denies giving up user listening data to the RIAA. (techcrunch.com)
Ticketmaster changes policy after Springsteen scandal. (jdjournal.com)
Another potential nail in the music industy’s coffin, Eminem’s digital royalties suit goes to court. (rollingstone.com)
“Supergroup” Tinted Windows streams an unsurprisingly sugary pop single. (tintedwindowsmusic.com)
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Band:	The Auditor General
Album:	Club Anthems for…

Bio:
The Auditor General started with Jamie Smith writing/recording songs in his bedroom while living “away” in Halifax, N.S. After returning to his hometown of Thunder Bay, ON, Smith, bassist Dave Angell and a host of others have concentrated their efforts and now live in a giant Victorian home that they’ve converted into a recording studio. During the later part of 2008, Jamie and Dave, along with guitar phenom Justin Sillman and rhythm makers Josh Hogan and Ian Mackay, laid down tracks for their debut.

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We wrote recently about the Oscars and how the music categories were lacking. No offense A.R. Rahman… well maybe a little offense. In that review of the Oscars, we touched on some of the great original songs nominated in the past, well here is a playlist of some of the recent greats:

Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - “Falling Slowly” (from “Once”)
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Band:	K'naan
Album:	Troubadour

As a rule, I don’t listen to rap or hip hop. It’s not that I’ve never given the genre a shot, but I have a very hard time relating to what most MCs are talking about. I don’t really get the swagger of that scene. It never really appealed to me.

So would K’Naan, a Somali refugee who now calls Toronto home, be able to at least give me a bigger world view when it came to the hip-hop scene?

Sadly, no. There are very few moments on this album

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Band:	Lamb of God
Album:	Wrath

Lamb of God is one of those polarizing bands; you either like ‘em or you don’t.

Too new school for the purists, too old school for the newbies, Lamb of God occupies a space usually reserved for game-changers. Which is exactly what they are. What they do isn’t new, per se, but how they put various musical elements together is what has put them on hard rock critics radar for a long time.

With their new album “Wrath”, they’ll likely be right back at the top of the

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