New Music Friday Lands Its Deepest Slate of the Year
Critics crowned Jorja Smith's dancefloor turn the slate's sweet spot while stan armies spent release morning streaming war; neither camp is hearing the same album.
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DEA Joins Panettiere Death Investigation With Cause Still Pending
A federal agency joined the probe and the rumor mill treated it as an answer; the coroner's only finding remains a sentence with no answer in it.
Critics Crown Jorja Smith on a Stacked New Music Friday
NPR and the Observer crowned Jorja Smith by Friday evening while stan-army X spent release day fighting Sam-versus-Weezer streaming wars instead.
Rapsody and Julia Holter Release Albums Outside the Pop War
Rapsody and Julia Holter both released career peaks into Friday's release pile while X sorted the day into stan-war brackets their music ignores.
DEA Joins Investigation Into Hayden Panettiere Death
Federal scope widens around a coroner's pending file while X fills the silence with cause theories the record does not support, and the gap manufactures rumor.