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OneRepublic
- 9 Hours ago
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by 64 N/A User Score: Generally favorable reviews Based on Based on 0 votes Album Info Label: Interscope Release Date: 17 November 2009 Discs: 1 disc Genre(s): Rock Summary This is the second album for
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Susan Boyle breaks CD order record
- 9 Hours ago
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Susan Boyle's debut album has broken a pre-order recordSusan Boyle was unknown a year ago - but now her upcoming album has become the largest global CD pre-order in the history of Amazon. SuBo's album
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The Decemberists
- 15 Hours ago
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Forum, London There is no doubting Colin Meloy's ambition for his music. The last time he brought the Decemberists to London from Oregon, the band opened their set with a 20-minute folk-prog-metal epic
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Plastiscines
- 11/19/2009
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Barfly, London It's amazing what a French accent can do to the word 'bitch'. Coming from the lips of Plastiscines singer and guitarist Katty Besnard, it's more caress than insult, even when squawked at
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Rihanna: Rated R
- 11/19/2009
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(Mercury) Difficult to look past the lyrics â?¦ Rihanna Even by the standards of the R&B video â?? never the most opaque or subtle of the visual arts â?? the promo for Rihanna's single Russian Roulette
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Monsters of Folk
- 11/19/2009
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Troxy, London It's their first London show, and Monsters of Folk have found their spiritual home at the Troxy. 'A temple of the roaring 20s painted in the colours of the roaring 80s,' says Jim James,
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AC/DC: Backtracks
- 23 Hours ago
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With gross earnings topping an astronomical $105 million, to say that its been a good year for AC/DC is a bit of an understatement. With a third generation discovering the bands music, theyre now more
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Sufjan Stevens: Run Rabbit Run + The BQE (CD/DVD)
- 23 Hours ago
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Grab your laypersons guide to orchestral music terminology. Its time for a couple of non-folk conceptual albums from arty wunderkind Sufjan Stevensactually, one is rearranged by Osso. Both of these albums
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Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound
- 23 Hours ago
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Given Joan Baezs centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise this documentary is that it wasnt made much sooner. While Bob Dylans career has been
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Lowlights: Further/Free
- 23 Hours ago
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, the title of the last Lowlights record, was a perfect name for the bands sound. Their lush country music has the deep feel of being isolated out in the vast, wide-open parts of America. And that stark,
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Jesca Hoop: Hunting My Dress
- 11/15/2009
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A Californian resident in Manchester, Hoop comes hotly tipped, helped by a CV that includes a spell as Tom Waits's childminder. Waits's description of her music as 'like going swimming in a lake at night'
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Muse
- 11/15/2009
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Muse manage to sound like the Zep by way of Europe â?? when they're not quoting Abba, that is. By Kitty Empire While Muse's Matt Bellamy prangs away portentously on the piano during 'United States of
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Various - Rough Trade Shops - Indiepop '09
- 11/19/2009
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As London's most influential record store for the past three decades, Rough Trade has been responsible for providing many a fledgling artist a stepping stone from the underground to a far wider audience.
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Real Estate: Real Estate
- 11/19/2009
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In todays culture, the blogosphere moves with such spitting tenacity, and wields such a ruly force over independent music, that once-loved darlings of the self-appointed press become enemies of the state
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Ola Podrida: Belly of the Lion
- 11/19/2009
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David Wingo, the man behind Ola Podrida, has clearly learned a thing or two from his past, back when he used to score films for his pal David Gordon Green. Slipping in the subtle evocative sound, establishing
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Stars of Track And Field: A Time For Lions
- 11/19/2009
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Theres a rule of thumb among the music industrys more professionally-minded producers and songwriters that three minutes and 30 seconds is the ideal length for a pop song. Its long enough for the rousing
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Annie: Dont Stop
- 11/18/2009
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Originally scheduled for a 2007 release, Annies follow-up to 2004s Annimal finally hits shelves and desktops in late 2009. The period in between saw the nearly inevitable leak of an album that resembles,
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Dunkelbunt: Raindrops and Elephants
- 11/18/2009
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There are few pop music embarrassments more humiliating than trying too hard to sound fresh and falling flat. Likewise, mashing sounds and styles together with little apparent focus may earn you elite
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People Under the Stairs: Carried Away
- 11/18/2009
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Fun-loving hip-hop is rarely this good. Californias have this subgenre of hip-hop on lock. Sure, this duo makes the occasional serious cut and these guys, in the words of Rakim, aint no joke. There are,
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Joakim: Milky Ways
- 11/18/2009
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House music has certainly come a long, long way since its origins in the legendary Chicago nightclub The Warehouse back in the late 70s/early 80s with DJ Frankie Knuckles speeding up disco 12-inches to
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John Mayer
- 11/18/2009
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Mayers expression never wavers, and in many ways thats the albums greatest victory. 70 Sputnikmusic Battle Studies, by comparison is relaxed and laid back, its feet in the air and stripped of extravagance
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Album review: 'The Seventh Seal,' by Rakim
- 11/19/2009
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Above, Rakim's 'The Seventh Seal.' By Patrick Varine GateHouse News Service Print This | After revolutionizing the way that rappers rap with musical partner Eric B, Queens MC Rakim cemented his place
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