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Pasta Primavera — Okay.  So Mr. West has leaked out another un-mastered track from 808s & Heartbreak called “Coldest Winter” and guess what?  Yup…he’s rockin’ the auto-tuner again.  Actually, something about this track is kind of appealing to me…t... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Takka Takka @ Pianos (more by Ryan Muir) today in NYC * DANCE (stay tuned) * Nick Lowe @ Zankel Hall * Baltimore Round Robin (early and late) * Kirsten Ketsjer @ Dead Herring * Pierced Arrows @ Maxwell's * Ben Kweller, Whitley @ Bowery Ballroom... more info

Paste Magazine — By now you've probably heard about Kanye West's bizarro listening party this week for his upcoming LP 808s & Heartbreaks . More than 700 guests showed up for the L.A. exhibition curated by artist Vanessa Beecroft, not to mention the 40 nude women i... more info

Stereogum — Kanye has totally gone emo on us: Strip away the Auto-Tune on "Love Lockdown" and "Heartless" and you have yourself a pop-radio dude self-deprecatingly singing about his heartache (over a Tears for Fears sample, no less). Maybe Pete Wentz should sug... more info

Idolator — New York's Power 105 debuted another song from Kanye's 808s And Heartbreak last night: "Coldest Winter," which is pretty much Kanye singing his own version of Tears For Fears' "Memories Fade." over some big, booming drums and his heart being split r... more info

Rolling Stone — Photo: Getty Tracks from Kanye West’s 808s & Heartbreak continue to leak out. Yesterday it was “Heartless” and today we have the Tears For Fears-sampling “Coldest Winter.” Fifteen years after Black Sunday’s release, Cypress Hill have bee... more info

TMZ — I scream. You scream. We all scream for ... wait -- Kanye's smiling?!?!Turns out Kanye's new favorite Ben & Jerry's flavor has changed from Hawaiian Punch Paparazzi to Strawberry Say Cheesecake.Can you taste the difference? See Also Kanye No... more info

Pop Crunch — New York Magazine has slammed Grammy Award-winning college dropout Kanye West for plagiarizing articles and posts from its Vulture blog and passing them off as original content on his popular University City website. In this heated post published o... more info

Bridging The Atlantic — I googled 'Friday 5' this morning and stole this photo from MuchMusic. These songs are awesome, just like that little kid breakin' it down.I only got on the Of Montreal train after Hissing Fauna... leaked a couple years back and it was in my top 5 th... more info