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It’s possible that over the past several weeks you’ve noticed the reviews slow to a trickle around these parts. We had our reasons! Cookies weren’t involved! Okay, maybe they were! All of us at Tripwire HQ are pleased to introduce to you today a new chapter in our “take” on music criticism—by handing over the keys. Starting this week and every Tuesday hereafter, we’ll be posting a full album stream through our friends over at LaLa. What we’d like you to do is lend us your brainwaves and tweet whatever crosses your mind while listening. Maybe there’s a riff you can’t get out of your head. A lyric? A moment? An image? If you’re feeling ambitious, spend your 124 characters reviewing the record as a whole. Just toss those tweets over to us at @thetripwire and by the end of the week, we’ll cobble together and share the beautiful mess of a madlib it creates. Or, if you’re a complete Luddite/TwitterHater, you can just leave a review in the comments section. We’re flexible. You’re the boss now.

On the fortieth anniversary of the group’s Motown debut comes I Want You Back!, a gleaming collection of 12 unreleased tracks taken straight out of that storied label’s vault.

About eleven hours ago, at what was then the stroke of midnight, Michael Jackson’s “This Is It” was began streaming over at the King of Pop’s website. It’s an unreleased, “brand new,” never-before-heard, string-polished epic that’s set to play out the credits of the forthcoming Michael Jackson motion picture of the very same name. Michael’s brothers are on backup vocal duty. Something about all of this feels very off. Check it out above, tell us what you think. Or don’t.

Putting to rest all of the rumors that swirled around the press in the wake of Michael Jackson’s passing, an anonymous Los Angeles police official confirmed to the Associated Press yesterday that Jackson’s June 25 death had been ruled a homicide by the Los Angeles county coroner. The cause of death was found to be a lethal dose of the anesthetic propofol, administered to Jackson by his physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, who has been under investigation in regards to his involvement in Jackson’s death.

According to a search warrant for Murray’s practice, the doctor had been treating Jackson for insomnia for six weeks; Murray confessed to a member of the LAPD that he had been trying to wean Jackson off of propofol by mixing lower doses of other drugs to help the singer sleep. On the day of Jackson’s death, Murray administered a cocktail of drugs throughout the day, including intravenous injections of valium, lorazepam, midazolam, and, finally, 25 milligrams of propofol.

CNN has provided a timeline of events leading up to the singer’s death as follows:

– At about 1:30 A.M., Murray gave Jackson 10 mg of Valium.
– At about 2 A.M., he injected Jackson with 2 mg of the anti-anxiety drug Ativan.
– At about 3 A.M., Murray then administered 2 mg of the sedative Versed.
– At about 5 A.M., he administered another 2 mg of Ativan.
– At about 7:30 A.M., Murray gave Jackson yet another 2 mg of Versed while monitoring him with a device that measured the oxygen saturation of a his blood.
– At about 10:40 A.M., “after repeated demands/requests from Jackson,” Murray administered 25 mg of propofol, the document said.

After administering the propofol, Murray remained near Jackson for ten minutes as the singer drifted off to sleep. He then left the room for a few minutes, only to return to find the singer unconscious. Jackson was rushed to the hospital and declared dead on arrival.

In the latest and greatest batshit crazy news from the bizarre postmortem world of Michael Jackson, Jackson’s personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, will be arrested and charged with manslaughter for his involvement in the death of the singer in June. Allegedly, investigators sought to charge Murray with a more severe crime, but without a motive, a second degree murder charge would be difficult to hold up in court. Murray faces charges stemming from his administration of the anesthetic Propofol to Jackson at midnight on the evening he died; the drug contributed to his cardiac arrest. Jackson’s dermatologist, Dr. Arnold Klein, will also be booked, but the case is still building against him.

It’s old news that Michael Jackson owned half of the copyrights to a large portion of Beatles songs, and that Sony/ATV Music Publishing owned the rest. But apparently, according to the US Copyright Act of 1976, songwriters are able to regain control of publishing rights on pre-1978 compositions after 56 years. This is all music to Paul McCartney’s ears. Pun intended, dudes! Behind said Act, McCartney will be able to regain control over Beatles compositions from 1962 in 2018 and songs from 1970 in 2026. So at the tender age of 76, just nine years from now, Paul McCartney (who already is worth about $737 million) will be raking in the dough.