1. Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love" For an expensive, industry-produced ballad, "Bleeding Love" sure is violent. With Pussycat Doll looks and Mariah Carey's voice, reality TV winner Leona Lewis sings of scars and severed veins. Taken literally, it's a scathing song about a woman cutting herself and blaming the object of her infatuation for making her do it�"You cut me open," she cries, voi...

I was out last week, so I only just caught Stereogum's awesome "In Memoriam 2008" feature, a hilarious Oscar-styled tribute to the bands that broke up this year. Really, there were no big loses. Bands like Georgie James and Be Your Own Pet were too fleeting to really mourn, while Phantom Planet was past its expiration date anyway and Velvet Revolver beat the Vegas odds by at least a couple of year...