Christmas has come a few days early for Justin Bieber haterz: The man-boy "bitch banger" announced yesterday that he plans to retire from the music biz after his latest album drops so he can focus more on sleeping with South American prostitutes.

Sinead O'Connor has written another open letter to Miley Cyrus today. This one begins with a simple and beautiful question: "Who the fuck is advising you?" O'Connor asks. "Because taking me on is even more fuckin’ stupid than behaving like a prostitute and calling it feminism."

In an open letter ostensibly intended for Miley Cyrus, legendary singer-songwriter Sinead O’Connor makes several powerful statements concerning the current state of music, the music business, and the world writ large that every single person should read, irrespective of their wrecking-ball-riding and/or sledgehammer-licking experience.

Big Music is harshing hip, tech-savvy narcissists' mellows: Record label EMI is suing Vimeo for encouraging lip dubs, wherein flipcam-possessing twenty-somethings make video of themselves dancing around and lip-syncing to their iPods.

White-hot (hot-white?) rhythmic-rhymer of words Asher Roth released his album this week. I got Tom Breihan (Pitchfork), Touré (The Daily Beast), and Byron Crawford (XXL) to cut through the obligatory talking points.