JAY-Z: D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)

"If the true concord of well-tuned sounds... do offend thine ear, they do but sweetly chide thee." 

-Sonnet 8

SPINAL TAP: Back From the Dead

"Ay, to eleven, and brought them down again." 

-Pericles, Prince of Tyre

ELVIS COSTELLO: Sacred, Profane & Sugarcane

"When he performs, astronomers foretell it; it is prodigious, there will come some change; the sun borrows of the moon." 

- Troilus and Cressida

DIRTY PROJECTORS: Bitte Orca

"Hum! A fine pate full of fine dirt." 

-Hamlet

IGGY POP: Preliminaires, and PHOENIX: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

"Coward of France! How much he wrongs his fame." 

-King Henry IV Part 1

"Ay, so please your majesty. The French is gone off, look you, and there is most gallant and prave passages." 

-King Henry V

GRIZZLY BEAR: Veckatimest

"Where should this music be? I' the air or the earth?"

-Coriolanus

MARILYN MANSON: The High End of Low

"Let's have that, good sir. Come on, sit down. Come on, and do your best to fright me with your sprites." 

The Winter's Tale