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The Best Music Of 2009 (Terribly Belated Remix Version)
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Posted to Music on Fri Jan 29, 2010 at 08:04:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
2010 already? Damn. Well, inquiring minds want to know what tripped your musical triggers in 2009?
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Ida Maria - Fortress 'Round My Heart [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon May 18, 2009 at 06:49:43 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Norwegian singer's much buzzed about album finally gets a US release. Fans of exuberant Pop/Rock should get ready to sing along...
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The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage [Review]
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Posted to Music on Tue May 12, 2009 at 10:43:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The so-called "Best bar band in America" has just released a live album featuring a performance from The Metro in Chicago during their breakout year of 2007. A companion DVD documenting their rise from small, intimate clubs to ever larger venues accompanies the live disc. Also included are a link to five bonus tracks, including three originally contained on a limited edition version of last year's Stay Positive
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The Steepwater Band - Grace And Melody [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 09:42:22 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The best blues-based, neo-classic-rock-band-you've-never-heard-of released a gem of an album last year. Grace And Melody sees The Steepwater Band paying homage to their influences and also staying true to their own sound, while totally destroying the notion that classic rock can't sound fresh in the '00s. These guys don't just rock, they, as the kids so often say, Rawk!
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Mastodon - Crack The Skye [Review]
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Posted to Music on Sat Mar 28, 2009 at 12:29:09 PM EST (promoted by DEMachina). RSS.
Wherein Mastodon gets their prog rock on with amazingly good results.
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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 10:26:16 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's one of the highest rated albums of the year and is getting massive love from all quarters, but does it live up to all the hype?
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U2 - No Line On The Horizon [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 06:34:38 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Last Tuesday saw the release of U2's latest album; the reaction to No Line On The Horizon has been wildly divergent, to say the least.
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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 09:35:54 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
One of 2008's most hyped and blogged about bands released an album that grabbed an 87% rating at metacritic, topped a lot of year-end lists, and helped garner a musical spot on SNL a week ago. Does it live up to all of the glowing attention?
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Freebooters, Scurvy Dogs, And The Plundering Return Of Piracy
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Posted to Etcetera on Fri Nov 21, 2008 at 04:23:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
With the capture of the oil tanker, Sirius Star last weekend, pirates are back at the forefront of the world's attention.
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AC/DC - Black Ice [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 08:43:39 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
They'rrrrrrrrrre back!
After an 8-year hiatus, the the venerable rockers from Down Under are back with a #1 album. How's it sound? Well, clench your fists and start pumpin' or grab your air guitar and start jumpin', 'cuz it's that kind of album.
Here's the video for Rock N Roll Train.
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Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Oct 15, 2008 at 12:39:02 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Oasis has a brand new album out called Dig Out Your Soul. The question here being; does Oasis bring enough rock to the table that you can, you know, actually dig it?
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Lost & Found: The Death Of A True Maverick
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Posted to Etcetera on Mon Oct 06, 2008 at 01:22:50 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The plane wreckage of adventurer extraordinaire, Steve Fossett was found last week in the Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, a little over a year after the aviator went missing.
Fossett, 63, went missing last year during a solo pleasure flight from Nevada; he and his plane were never found -- until this week when hiker Preston Morrow stumbled on the documents hidden under a blanket of pine needles.
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