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  • Tyler, the Creator -- the de facto leader of young Los Angeles rap crew Odd Future -- dropped his label debut, Goblin, yesterday. And he got arrested. He's so controversial! No, really, he is so controversial. The 20-year-old's morbid nihilism-rap is heavy on the kind of disturbing imagery and troubling language that would earn any 10th grader an unlimited pass to the guidance office, but a good percentage of critics think he's a genius. Is he insightful or just incite-ful? It depends on whether you can stomach rhymes about raping pregnant girls in the interest of hearing Tyler's gloomy, Pharrell-inspired production skills and curiously clever flow. What we're saying is you might pick up Goblin and get a serious case of buyers' remorse (like that mom with Green Day's Insomniac). To help avoid that scenario, here's what a cross-section of the nation's critics are saying about the disc. Read, educate yourself, and decide whether Goblin is the album for you! (Spoiler alert: This isn't

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  • Three years ago, $10,000 maybe could have bought you a ticket to see Led Zeppelin's one-and-only reunion show at London's O2 Arena. Nowadays, $10,000 will only get you a really old Led Zeppelin shirt. An ultra-rare shirt documenting Led Zeppelin's 1979 performance at Knebworth sold for $10K to some Australian superfan, Bravewords reports (via the Daily Swarm), the most a vintage rock tee has ever fetched. The shirt itself doesn't look all that awe-inspiring, but given its uniqueness -- the shirt was essentially a backstage pass for the show, so it was produced in very limited numbers -- it was deemed the rarest rock tee in history.

    Stormcrow Vintage, an eBay purveyor of awesome and insanely expensive vintage tees, was the lucky seller. "Given this shirt may be one of the only ones in existence, the price tag is completely justifiable. It's a rock relic, beyond rare," said Stormcrow's Kyle Ermatinger, who initially purchased the shirt for $123 from the screen-printing shop that first

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  • Who's Number One: Like a salmon swimming upstream, Adele continues to sell more records each week while nearly everyone else on Billboard's Top 200 goes with the drain-circling flow. 21 moved an additional 155,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, giving the U.K. singer her seventh week at the top. Her momentum is so massive, she was also able to unseat Katy Perry's "E.T." to dominate the Hot Digital Songs chart with "Rolling in the Deep," too. When Adele booked a U.S. theater tour a few months ago, she likely had no clue she was going to become the Biggest Thing Ever (of early 2011) -- time to upgrade to arenas!

    Who's Bummed Out: The Beastie Boys, who haven't had a hip-hop disc debut below Number One since 1992's Check Your Head -- Hot Sauce Committee Part Two clocked in at Two with 128,000. The good news: They beat out seven other Top 10 debuts and are still the three coolest guys in New York.

    So That Means ...: Lots of new and eclectic faces in the Top 10 behind Hot Sauce,

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  • Neil Young is a very active 65-year-old rocker: He's got a new album, Le Noise, an upcoming live album, induction speeches, and possibly the second volume of his mammoth Archives series. You know what's missing? A concert film. Luckily, director Jonathan Demme will have cameras rolling when Young returns to his native Ontario tonight and tomorrow for a pair of shows at Toronto's Massey Hall for a film that will be released later this year. Le Noise was among our favorite albums of 2010, and Young's recent set lists have been top notch, so this is definitely a concert film to look forward to.

    The movie will mark Demme and Young's third -- and final -- collaboration following 2006's Heart of Gold and 2009's Trunk Show. The Massey Hall gigs also return Young to the scene of one of his most storied performances from 1971, as documented on this excellent live album. In addition to winning Oscars for Silence of the Lambs, Demme is also among the best concert filmmakers out there thanks to

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  • Because everyone associates Lady Gaga with inappropriate nudity agriculture, the pop star has announced plans to debut music from her May 23rd album Born This Way on the wildly popular farming game FarmVille. Yes, FarmVille, the bucolic virtual world in which users tend chickens, plow the fields, and decorate cottages to earn points. This is the first time Gaga has gone after the lucrative nerd-farmer market. (She's pictured above demonstrating the proper way to birth a calf.)

    Beginning May 17th, fans can enter GagaVille, a specially designed world in Zynga's game, and hear one exclusive new track per day via an IHeartRadio stream until the 19th (so, uh, three songs). On May 20th, the game -- which will feature Gaga-specific objects like unicorns and motorcycle-riding sheep -- will start including non-exclusive songs. On May 26th, GagaVille will magically vanish, like Gaga's self-awareness.

    "I want to celebrate and share Born This Way with my little monsters in a special way that's

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  • Sigh. We thought the days when politicians viewed rappers as threats to national security had ended with N.W.A and Body Count, but we were sadly mistaken. Yesterday, Chicago MC Common was invited to read poetry at the White House. His appearance should have simply been a famous name lending support to a fading art form, but it turned into an embarrassing display of how Republicans profile rappers. A right-wing site called the Daily Caller sparked the outrage by mocking Common's work and implying it was stupid and violent, which was followed by Sarah Palin tweeting, "Oh lovely, White House..." and linking to the Common story.

    G.O.P.-leaning sites began digging up any material they could find to frame Common as a "gangsta rapper," even though anybody who listens to hip-hop knows Common is probably the least threatening rapper in hip-hop. He may look tough, but his criminal record is spotless. He's written a children's book. He starred in a Queen Latifah rom-com. You can't get less hood

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