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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Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga [Review]

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Posted to Music on Tue Oct 02, 2007 at 08:06:54 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Here's a record to put on your short-list for album of the year. Spoon's 6th album, with the baffling title (supposedly named after a piano sound on one of the songs on the album) of Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga, is one of the best albums to yet wash ashore in the veritable sea of excellent releases that 2007 has so far seen.

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Band On The Run: Life -Vs- Life On The Road

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Posted to Music on Sun Sep 30, 2007 at 10:09:23 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

While groups like the My Morning Jacket, Kings of Leon, Band of Horses and Midlake have received critical acclaim as great new Americana/roots rock/alt-country/ (insert your favorite label here) bands and have consequently gained national followings, Two Cow Garage has been almost completely ignored, and I can't for the life of me figure out why.

The above scenario plays out all over the world; somewhere, everywhere, there's a band talented enough to attain greatness and acclaim, but is still unable to reach that damn brass ring dangling right before their eyes. How does if affect their lives, this unquantifiable quest for recognition?

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M.I.A. - Kala (Review)

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Posted to Music on Sun Sep 09, 2007 at 01:51:02 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

What we have here is quite possibly the most over-hyped and over-rated album of 2007. The critics are falling all over themselves to heap praise upon the newest joint from M.I.A., but how good is it, really?

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"Y'all Should All Get Lynched" - Brutal Dis Track May Be Grammy Bound

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Posted to Music on Tue Sep 04, 2007 at 12:11:29 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Hip-Hop beefs -  while amusing to those who follow such things - are certainly nothing new. But there are some who are beginning to wonder if the ubiquitous presence of YouTube isn't ruining the concept - such as it is - behind the dis.

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Fountains Of Wayne - Traffic And Weather (Review)

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Posted to Music on Tue Aug 14, 2007 at 04:52:42 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Finally, after a four year wait, Fountains Of Wayne have seen fit to drop their latest Power-Pop confection upon an unsuspecting public. And I'm happy to say that Traffic And Weather has been well worth the wait.

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The White Stripes - Icky Thump (Review)

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Posted to Music on Fri Jul 27, 2007 at 04:32:14 PM EST (promoted by Acefantastik). RSS.

Like an over-caffienated zombie lurching about in fits and starts, Icky Thump, the latest offering from The White Stripes busts out of the gate with the menacing, yet shambolic title track; a harbinger of things to come.

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A Band Reconsidered: Squirrel Nut Zippers

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Posted to Music on Thu May 24, 2007 at 09:07:41 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

One of the better one hit wonder bands of the 90s is back on the road. Kind of.

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Thinking of these songs is working up an appetite... looking forward to some heavy alcohol delight!

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Posted to Music on Sun May 13, 2007 at 10:19:05 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Everybody has a favorite song they cannot stand, but love to hate. There are even entire websites on the internet devoted to the most loathed products of the music industry.

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Lyrics Legionaires Take On Hip-Hop

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Posted to Music on Sat Apr 28, 2007 at 04:23:08 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Did you see it coming, this red-headed stepchild of Don Imus and Oprah?

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Etes-vous prêt à danser ?

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Posted to Music on Sat Mar 03, 2007 at 10:03:24 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

"I was saying things that since I was saying them in English, they were funny."

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Policing The Grammy Awards

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Posted to Music on Sun Feb 11, 2007 at 09:39:50 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

Sunday night brings us the 49th installment of the Grammy Awards, and one band that's way past its glory days promises to overshadow the entire proceedings. Ladies and gents I give you the Police.

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