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Music

We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery [Review]

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Posted to Music on Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 03:01:04 AM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

With its sophomore effort, We Are Scientists mines the early 80s to produce a thoroughly enjoyable 11-track album.

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Music

None Hit Blunders

Steve Urkel.

Posted to Music on Thu May 08, 2008 at 02:36:46 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Those bands that never quite took off.

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Music

Timbaland: Scream [Review]

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Posted to Music on Sun Apr 20, 2008 at 12:31:40 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Hip Hop producer cum artist Timbaland recently released a new single off his album "Shock Value" and associated music video, "Scream" which co-starred two women from the Pussycat Dolls.

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Music

REM - Accelerate [review]

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Posted to Music on Wed Apr 09, 2008 at 07:28:44 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

REM finds the guitars and brings the rock on their latest.

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Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) [review]

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Posted to Music on Tue Apr 08, 2008 at 09:54:57 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

R & B songstress drops an album full of funky, freakadelic weirdness that reaches for parts unknown.

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Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull [review]

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Posted to Music on Mon Mar 24, 2008 at 07:11:20 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Earth's newest slab o' guitar drones finds the band making a cinematic statement and throwing open the doors for fans new to their sound with their most accessible album yet. For those with adventuresome tastes and a liking for slowly unfolding guitar notes, The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull, the latest album from Drone specialists Earth, will be sure to please.

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SciTech

[REVIEW] Musicophilia -- The New Book From Oliver Sacks

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Posted to SciTech on Mon Feb 11, 2008 at 02:32:09 AM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.

Oliver Sacks is an accomplished neurologist who uses his scientific background to discuss how we sense our world in a popularly accessible manner. His latest book, Musicophilia explores one of his great loves, music, and the clues it can provide to comprehending how our brain works.

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Sport

Music At The Super Bowl

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Posted to Sport on Sun Feb 03, 2008 at 11:21:56 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Tom Petty was half-time performer at this year's Super Bowl. He played "American Girl", "Free Fallin'", "I Won't Back Down", and "Runnin' Down A Dream", and reviewers seemed to agree that he was his usual professional self.

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Music

The Best Albums Of 2007

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Posted to Music on Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 07:02:32 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Well, the year's almost up and that means that it's time to make yourself heard and let everyone know what you listened to the most this year.

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Observe as I emulate Superman, Robocop and Pres. Roosevelt then spray a woman with a water pistol.

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Posted to Music on Sun Dec 09, 2007 at 07:16:33 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Summer Hip-Hop single "Crank That" has worked its way up to #1 in the charts and embedded itself in our culture. But at what cost?

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Music

Time to Spice it Up!

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Posted to Music on Fri Dec 07, 2007 at 05:35:44 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.

Sunday, December 2nd marked the kickoff of the eagerly awaited Spice Girls reunion tour. The group, together for the first time in a decade, performed to an excited crowd in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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Steve Earle - Washington Square Serenade [review]

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Posted to Music on Fri Oct 12, 2007 at 06:29:51 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

What happens when hard-core troubadors find love and pull up roots? Well, you get a little something like Washington Square Serenade, the latest musical offering from firebrand alt-country icon and leftist posterboy, Steve Earle.

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