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| Name: | Ben Czajkowski |
| Email: | ben.czajkowski@gmail.com |
| Current Roles: | Music Zone Harbinger, Web Admin Minion, Worthless Pile of Crap |
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The 411 Music Top Five 11.17.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2007
(11.17.2009)
The Top 5 songs of the decade continues, heading down the home stretch. This week, the 411Music staff talks about their Top 5 Songs of 2007. They discuss everything from Ozzy Osbourne's "I Don't Wanna Stop" to Kanye West's “Stronger”, Justice's “D.A.N.C.E.” to Sixx AM's "Life is Beautiful", and Rihanna's “Umbrella" to Amy Winehouse's “Rehab”. Stop in, check it out, and leave your lists! |
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All You Cannot Live Without 11.16.09: Point. Click. Read.
(11.16.2009)
More on the Aerosmith drama. Mudvayne's track listing for new album. Updates from Godsmack, Avenged Sevenfold, As I Lay Dying, Oasis, more. Days Of The New will release a new album. Blink-182 member goes solo. Mastodon to re-release Crack the Skye. Tour dates from Sevendust, Daughtry, more. Listen to a full stream from Them Crooked Vultures, new tracks from Slash, Zillion, Mudvayne, more! |
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411 Music Fact Or Fiction 11.12.09: Rihanna, Michael Jackson, Aerosmith, Lil Wayne, DMX, and Piracy!
(11.12.2009)
Does Rihanna still deserve sympathy? Is Steven Tyler of Aerosmith easily replaceable as his bandmates make it out? Should the Lil Wayne rock album ever come out? Does DMX still deserve respect after dropping out of the MMA fight? 411’s Ben Czajkowski and Michael Knowles debate these topics and more in the latest edition of 411 Fact or Fiction: Music! |
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The 411 Music Top Five 11.10.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2006
(11.10.2009)
The Top 5 songs of the decade continues. This week, the 411Music staff talks about their Top 5 Songs of 2006. They discuss everything from Justin Timberlake's “Summer Love” to “SexyBack”, Gnarls Barkley's “Crazy” to TV On The Radio's “Wolf Like Me”, and Tool's "Vicarious" to Michael Jackson's “Give In to Me", featuring Youngbloodz. |
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All You Cannot Live Without 11.09.09: Do You, Uh, Metal, Too?
(11.09.2009)
Is Steven Tyler out as the front... person of Aerosmith? Plus: Slash lines up all-star cast for new solo album. New Red Hot Chili Peppers within a year's time. New Fear Factory track, label! Avenged Sevenfold checks in with an update. Tour updates from Shinedown/Papa Roach, Slayer, Adema, more. Listen to full Flyleaf album stream and streams of seven more! All your rock and metal, it starts the week off here. |
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The 411 Music Top Five 11.03.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2005
(11.03.2009)
This week, the 411Music Writers continue to count down their Top 5 songs from each year of the decade. We're up to 2005, and we talk about everything from Kanye West and Lupe Fiasco's “Touch The Sky” to Kanye West's “Diamonds from Sierra Leone (remix)" with Jay-Z, Arcade Fire's “Wake Up” to Disturbed's "Stricken", and Opeth's “Ghost of Perdition” to Foo Fighters's “Friend of A Friend”. |
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All You Cannot Live Without 11.02.09: Making Your Metal Easier
(11.02.2009)
Corey Taylor of Slipknot as new frontman for Velvet Revolver? Rob Zombie speaks on album delay. HELLYEAH in studio. Stone Temple Pilots to record. Tour dates from Between the Buried and Me, 30 Seconds To Mars, Slayer, Them Crooked Vultures, and more. Listen to full album streams of Weezer, Atreyu, Creed, and more! |
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411 Music Fact Or Fiction 10.29.09: Michael Jackson, Chris Cornell, Sublime, Lohan, Cosby, GNR!
(10.29.2009)
Does Lindsay Lohan need help? Will Michael Jackson's This Is It be the best concert film ever? Who will make a better hip hop album: LeVar Burton or Bill Cosby? Is remaking Cornell's Scream into a rock album a good idea? And finally, Guns N Roses doing lullabies? Is it really that bad? 411's Mitch Michaels and Ben Czajkowski debate these topics and more! |
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The 411 Music Top Five 10.27.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2004
(10.27.2009)
Continuing to count down the decade in songs, the 411Music Staffers talk about their Top 5 Favorite Songs from 2004. They discuss everything from Slipknot's “Duality” to Kelly Clarkson's “Since U Been Gone”, Jay-Z's “99 Problems” to Linkin Park's "Breaking the Habit", and Green Day's “American Idiot”. to Rammstein's “Amerika”. Stop in, leave your lists, and read along! |
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All You Cannot Live Without 10.26.09: Everything You're Comfortable With
(10.26.2009)
Metallica announces DVD release date, track listing. Sublime engaged in legal battle with dead frontman's estate. Mastodon talks movie score for "Jonah Hex". Them Crooked Vulture track listing. Gwar to be re-released. Mustaine talks about Metallica/Megadeth/Slayer/Anthrax tour. Date from Guns N' Roses, Cancer Bats, more. Listen to new Nine Inch Nails, Puscifer, Atreyu, more. |
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The 411 Music Top Five 10.20.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2003
(10.20.2009)
2003 was a good year for music, and this week, the 411Music Critics talk about their top five favorite tracks from that year. They discuss everything from Muse's "Hysteria" to Metallica's “St. Anger”, Britney Spears's “Toxic” to Modest Mouse's “Float On”, and Eminem's "Superman" and Outkast's “Hey Ya!”. Stop in, check out the lists, and leave your own. |
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All You Cannot Live Without 10.19.09: Extreme Music News
(10.19.2009)
John Cena ruins marriages, WWE new opening theme song. Korn frontman talks new album. Slayer's graphic novel "movie". Them Crooked Vultures finally get a release date! Rob Zombie release gets nixed. Flaw in studio! A Perfect Circle, Puscifer news. Motley Crue greatest hits track listing. Tour dates from CKY, Arch Enemy, more. Listen to another Foo Fighters track, Flaw, The Devin Townsend Project, more! |
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Bon Jovi Joins Up With NBC
(10.16.2009)
Veteran rock band scrapes bottom of barrel with The Peacock. |
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411 Music Fact Or Fiction 10.15.09: Michael Jackson, Mudvayne, U2, A Perfect Circle, and More!
(10.15.2009)
Are people acting like vultures around Michael Jackson's estate? Should U2 ever get a Rock Band game? Is A Perfect Circle reunion exciting anymore? Is Mudvayne's album art ink idea worth it? Public bickering over twitter between bands: pointless? Is iTunes extra content hurting the physical CD shoppers? 411Music's Daniel Wilcox and Jeff Modzelewski face off inside! |
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The 411 Music Top Five 10.13.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2002
(10.13.2009)
The 411Music Critics continue to count down the decade with their choices for top songs. This week, they recount their Top 5 Favorite Tracks from 2002. With a little bit of everything, they talk about everything from Nirvana's "You Know You're Right" to Johnny Cash's cover of “Hurt”, The White Stripes's “Fell In Love With A Girl” to Eminem's “Soldier”, Audioslave's “Cochise” to Tim McGraw's "Red Ragtop". Stop in, check it out, and leave your lists! |
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All You Cannot Live Without 10.12.09: No Harmonica Here!
(10.12.2009)
Mudvayne releases information and single from another new album. Tony Hawk: Ride video game announces track listing. Them Crooked Vultures finally talk album info. Machine Head cover Pantera for tribute CD. Puddle of Mudd reveal album title, release date. All That Remains and Shadows Fall bickering back and forth like girls. Tour dates from KsE, Lamb Of God, more. Listen to full streams of Dead By Sunrise, Everclear, Baroness, more! |
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411 Music Fact Or Fiction 10.08.09: 50, Kanye, DMX, Jay-Z and more!
(10.08.2009)
411Music's Michael James and Jay Carroll discuss some of the biggest topics in the world of hip-hip and rap. Is Kanye West headed down a bad road? Should Jay-Z wait to release more material? Did 50 Cent really mean to offend West and Gaga? Will watching DMX get hammered in an MMA be as awesome as it sounds? Will Method Man's tax evasion cause him a trip upriver? And finally, is an Eminem/50 Cent face-off track really a good thing? |
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The 411 Music Top Five 10.06.09: Top 5 Favorite Songs From 2001
(10.06.2009)
Continuing to countdown the decade, the 411Music Critics talk about their Top 5 Favorite Songs from 2001. This week, they discuss everything from Afroman's “Because I Got High" to Weezer's "Hash Pipe", System Of A Down's “Chop Suey” to Drowning Pool's “Bodies”, Jay-Z's “Song Cry” to Michael Jackson's “Unbreakable”, and Jimmy Eat World's “Sweetness” to Alicia Key's "Fallin'". Stop in, read the lists, and leave your favorites from that year. |
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All You Cannot Live Without 10.04.09: Then Again...Rock and Metal News
(10.05.2009)
Rob Zombie moves CD release, names single, releases first new track for listen. Alter Bridge gets tangled in legal webs. 30 Seconds To Mars bumps back release. Candiria, 3 Inches Of Blood old members pass away. Sevendust heading to record new stuff. Radiohead playing with RHCP's Flea, possible new side project. Tour dates from All That Remains, Three Days Grace, Papa Roach, more. Listen to Filter, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Dead by Sunrise, more! Get it while it's still there! |
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Dethklok - Dethalbum II Review
(09.30.2009)
Dethklok's Dethalbum II seeks to pick up where its predecessor left off: leaving you headbanging and blood-thirsty for more. 411Music's Ben Czajkowski has all the details. |
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