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The Big Hurt: The Whitney price hike, Francis Bean's cat, Shakira's sea lion adventure

Music news in brief
It seemed a little suspicious when, hours after Whitney Houston's death, the prices of her various greatest hits albums shot up by several pounds in the UK iTunes store.
By DAVID THORPE  |  February 22, 2012
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The week’s neglected press releases

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Another slog through the PR dregs — because if I didn't do it, who would?
By DAVID THORPE  |  February 15, 2012
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The Big Hurt: The miracle of Japanese Wikipedia

The miracle of Japanese
In a break from my usual bad-jokes format, I bring you something so strange and wonderful that I just had to share it with the world.    
By DAVID THORPE  |  February 08, 2012
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The Big Hurt: Hot 100 Debuts

Who charted?
I love writing these chart-watching editions of "The Big Hurt," but I don't do it too often, and for a depressing reason: the same shit stays on the charts week after week.
By DAVID THORPE  |  February 01, 2012
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The Big Hurt: Bush break-in, Barenaked Ladies at Bud Light, Madonna vs. Gaga, and Juliette Lewis vs. Lana Del Rey

Music news in brief
We've all given serious thought to buying an expensive Tiffany ring, flying to the UK, and busting into KATE BUSH's house to propose marriage.
By DAVID THORPE  |  January 24, 2012
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The Big Hurt: This week in image problems

Bieber's adulthood, Manson and Trent's arson, Snoop's weed, Adele's weight, and Jay-Z and Beyoncé's baby
Poor Biebs. He just wants to be the wholesome kid next door, but with his 18th birthday creeping up, America's youth-stealing culture just can't wait to liquor him up and lay him.
By DAVID THORPE  |  January 17, 2012
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The Big Hurt: Marky + Biebs, Sinéad's divorce; plus, Nelly, Jay-Z & Kanye, Slim Dunkin, and R. Kelly

Music news in brief
BIEBERWATCH! Last year, Paramount hinted at plans for a major JUSTIN BIEBER vehicle: some kind of basketball movie teaming our twink swag hunk with former teen throb "MARKY MARK" WAHLBERG.
By DAVID THORPE  |  January 11, 2012
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The Big Hurt: What we'll hear — or not — in 2012

The hype ahead
Considering the year ahead, I figured I'd look at some obvious picks for 2012's biggest newcomers.
By DAVID THORPE  |  December 29, 2011
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The Big Hurt: Weighing 2011 against decades past

The year in context
We can't truly understand 2011's place in music history until we weigh it against its counterparts from decades past, preferably in some sort of arbitrary jerk-off critical exercise. Hey, here's one
By DAVID THORPE  |  December 20, 2011
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The Big Hurt: Unnecessary press release roundup

Aggregating
No matter how lazy music writers get, we can't spin every press release into a freebie news story, or even a scrap of "Web content" (shudder) for whichever shit aggregator pays our parking tickets.  
By DAVID THORPE  |  December 14, 2011
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The Big Hurt: Satellite High's Dad-Rock EP

Jammin' with pops
San Francisco rapper Jay Friedman, a/k/a Satellite High, has fully captured the platonic ideal of dads.
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 29, 2011
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The Big Hurt: Trey Songz's 'YUUP!,' Juelz Santana's terrorist threat, Fat Joe's 'gay mafia,' and Adam Ant's mental health

Music news in brief
In case you were wondering how many guys are allowed to say "yup," the answer is one.
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 21, 2011
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The Big Hurt: November Juggalo update

Persecuted, sued, and snitched on
Much clown love, my ninjas!
By DAVID THORPE  |  November 18, 2011
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The Big Hurt: The Stone Roses and other tales of the living dead!

Music news in brief
In the spooky spirit of the Phoenix Halloween Goth special, a chilling tale of a band returning from the dead!
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 25, 2011
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The Big Hurt: Smash Mouth chicken out

Scrambling
In the end, some eggs were eaten and a bunch of money was raised to help sick kids, which is great. But did Steve Harwell truly meet the egg challenge? No!
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 19, 2011
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The Big Hurt: Tupac's sex tape, Too $hort for Yee, so-long Steve Jobs

Music news in brief
A hell of a week.
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 17, 2011
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The Big Hurt: The gnome-stealing legends of Britpop failure are back! Do we care? Maybe!

Marion return!
Here's the biggest news of the year, if you're me or Michael Marotta or one of maybe three other idiots in the world who'd actually care: Marion is reforming.  
By DAVID THORPE  |  October 05, 2011
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The Big Hurt: This week in music merchandising

Good times!
I love watching a credible artist make a decent living. That's why I take such audibly-giggling delight in keeping readers abreast of the latest honest-buck news, which is coming fast and furious this week.  
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 28, 2011
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The Big Hurt: The Game outs 50 Cent, Gucci Mane goes to the slam; plus, Julian Lennon's new titles, and more

Music news in brief
I have nothing against the music of British rapper TINIE TEMPAH — I don't think I've even heard it, to be honest — but boy am I ever sick as heck of reading that name in print.  
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 21, 2011
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