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• Did You Know: Robyn Guests On Britney's Blackout? by stereogum

  "Thank god we're entering into the homestretch of our years-long wait to see Robyn perform Robyn, but of course local press keeps finding new and exciting ways to keep our anticipation full throttle, running little features here, dropping bits like Robyn's guest duties on Britney's new album there. That's worth..."

• In the Year 2007 by Not on the Guest List

  "My un-ordered year-end list. Note I wrote it to be posted before we entered the new year: Best Albums: I don't really listen to albums cos bands don't really make albums anymore. More like songs put together, but the We Are Wolves, Klaxons and the producers behind Britney Spears made..."

• BRITISH SEA POWER by a PLAGUE of ANGELS

  "BRITISH SEA POWER is one of those bands I'd like to love, but be damned if I can. I've waited patiently, hoped against hope for that great, breakout album, but the wait goes on, the hope fades....Their latest non-great, non-breakout but otherwise-entirely-adequate disc, DO YOU LIKE ROCK MUSIC?, will be..."

• The White Noise Revisits 2007 by The White Noise Revisited

  "Let us show you the year through our ears...Here is the end of year stuff from the White Noise Revisited. To kick off, 21 haiku (what you can’t say in 17 beats, ain’t worth saying) accompanying two 45 minute mixes comprising the best songs lifted from the best albums, singles..."

• Tyra Banks thinks Britney Spears should 'kill herself': report by rawramp

  "The outspoken talk show host was overheard saying Britney - who recently released her comeback album 'Blackout' - should follow in the footsteps of Marilyn Monroe and end her life by taking a drugs overdose. Tyra Banks In the magazine - that hit US newsstands this week - he revealed..."