Blogs
Star Time
[Updated December 5, below] Reading Dave Thompson’s I Hate New Music: the Classic Rock Manifesto, listening to the new Lil Wayne mixtape Dedication 3 and discovering that Ashlee Simpson […]
Voodoo Notebook dump: Day Two
Next to Nine Inch Nails, Lil Wayne was the biggest draw Saturday and generated the most excitement. That didn’t make him punctual; in fact, his DJ was 10 minutes late […]
Space is the Place
Lil Wayne has often referred to himself as an alien (as in Martian), and doing so on Tha Carter III has prompted writers to revisit the theme of the Afronaut, one […]
Lil Wayne and the Music Industry
Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III is a hit in a hitless industry, prompting some meditation on how that is. Here’s The New Yorker‘s Sasha Frere-Jones: I appeared on WNYC’s Soundcheck […]
Lil Wayne’s a Hit
According to the New York Times, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III‘s first week sales are the best this year, selling over 400,000 on the first day and estimated to go […]
