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I’m starting a new series of posts that will list the upcoming album releases.  Here’s the first list:

August 16
*Killswitch Engage – Atonement
*Sleater-Kinney – The Center Won’t Hold

August 23
*Raphael Saadiq – Jimmy Lee
*Tanya Tucker – While I’m Livin’
*Taylor Swift – Lover
*Vince Gill – Okie

August 30
*!!!(Chik Chik Chik) – Wallop
*Bon Iver – I,I
*Common – Let Love
*Lana Del Ray – Norman Fucking Rockwell
*Sheryl Crow – Threads (duets album)
*The Alchemist – Powers
*Tool – Fear Inoculum
*Trisha Yearwood – Every Girl

Yesterday Michelle Obama invited some poets to the White House and one of them was Common. Sarah Palin is bitching about it because of Common’s lyrics about Bush back in 2007. Well aside from that crap, here’s his performance.

Common has opened up an online book club called “The Corner Book Club” and is geared towards getting youth interested in reading. The sites called commongroundfoundation.com and will have material to enlighten the minds of teenagers. Common explained “My mom was a teacher and growing up she always stressed the importance of education. So when I look back its not a surprise for me to use words as a tool to make change and to inspire children for their future.” That’s really great of Common.