Hot on the heels of the news that Chinese Democracy has been leaked (see the blog directly below this one) comes what I assume is the first review of the years-in-the-making album from noted rock scribe Chuck Klosterman. The review is full of his usual overblown, overwritten hyperbole, but that doesn't mean it isn't studded with some good-to-great lines, and it's pretty consistently interesting, in any case -- frankly, it's at least twice as interesting and entertaining as I anticipate the actua
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Today in Backbeat Online:
• The Fray is previewing new songs live at Snow Daze in Vail.
• Talking golf and rock in a Q&A with Dead Confederate's Hardy Morris.
• Apollo Sunshine's Sam Cohen gets the Backbeat Q&A treatment, too.
• Checking out A Shoreline Dream's video short.
• Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album leaks. Axl Rose can't be stoked.
• Speaking of Chinese Democracy, Chuck Klosterman votes "yes."
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