The Second Coming, A Proud Slut and YouTube Stars: This Week's New Music Summarizes the Whole Year
Rich Juzwiak · 09/19/12 05:00PM
This week, the music industry looks something like Christmas. It's not that the new music releases are gifts, per se (quite the contrary), but there are so damn many high-profile albums after a relatively dormant summer. This kind of flurry is usually reserved for the holidays. And what's more, together they give as full of a picture of the state of label-based pop music in 2012 as any recent concurrent set of albums. Really, all this week is missing is a neo-boy band. Let's explore: