http://www.congoo.com/feed/newschannelsfeed.aspx?chid=4&catid=423News Feed for - Pop-music-reviewshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95005090&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-26T01:55:00I had started this weekend with a much brighter outlook on humanity than I ended up with. Why you ask? Well, lots of reasons but one of them was the fact that New Moon (the latest Twilight movie) made Crave Onlinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96474064&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T15:08:00Although death overshadowed the Montreal band's debut album, it was still one of the most life-affirming records of the decade Arcade Fire â?? Funeral (Rough Trade, 2005) There is some debate as to how Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96393290&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T12:23:00A lyrical feast for you this week, with Lady Gaga, Paramore, and Flo-Rida and Akon serving up their meagre morsels. While Sting offers us a piece of his soul cake. Yuk! Lady Gaga â?? Bad Romance It seems Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96390295&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T19:17:00Corinne Bailey Rae made her first concert appearance since her husband's drug overdose death in March, 2008 at a gig in London on Monday night. The Put Your Records On singer performed tracks from her MaleFirst Mens Magazinehttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96451581&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T08:34:00Best live album ever? Who cares. What is beyond dispute is that 1970s Get Yer Ya-Yas Out is certainly the best live album the Rolling Stones ever recorded. And here we are, 40 years after the concerts Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96451537&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T08:34:00Think 1980s pop and Duran Duran have to be two of the first words to pop into your mind. The Birmingham, England quintet have become inextricably linked to the 1980s, its culture, and its music. And, Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96451513&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T08:33:00That former Uncle Tupelo member and current Son Volt leader Jay Farrar would attempt to record an album of songs that pay tribute to Beat Generation hero Jack Kerouac via his novel Big Sur isnt too surprising. Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96451482&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T08:33:00It has been well over a decade since Raekwon dropped Only Built 4 Cuban Linx (known by cassette aficionados as The Purple Tape) and ushered in the Wu-Gambino era. Cut from the same grimy cloth as Kool Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96196502&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-25T08:18:00Hidden Cameras Darren Lee , November 23rd, 2009 09:10 Like some permissive homosexual fetish cult straight out of Jan Moir's worst nightmares, Canadian indie reprobates the Hidden Cameras arrived on these The Quietushttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96283954&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-23T07:26:00Ryan Seacrest was there to introduce on Sunday night, but his American Music Awards performance of 'For Your Entertainment' was a long way removed from the family-friendly confines of 'American Idol.' Los Angeles Timeshttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96196499&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-22T00:59:00The Tabernacle, London W11 | The Rhode Island four-piece use a host of instruments to create their desolate, ethereal folk blues According to their Wikipedia profile, the Low Anthem use no fewer than Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96023892&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-20T23:05:00Forum, 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 Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96027422&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-19T22:54:00Barfly, 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 Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96023881&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-19T22:54:00(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 Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95913029&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-19T22:53:00Troxy, 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, Guardian.co.ukhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378681&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T08:22:00An accident in Mexico City and a providential return from Barcelona seem like very different unrelated events, sharing the Spanish language as their only commonality. But they both became congruent in Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378594&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T08:22:00By Evan Sawdey PopMatters Interviews EditorPop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378448&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T08:20:00John Cowan may be best known for being the vocalist of the progressive bluegrass band the New Grass Revival. And with no disrespect to his formable bass skills, Cowans real selling point isnt his well-to-do Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96378387&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T08:20:00The most impressive thing the band HEALTH is their sense of style. Their musics greatinventive, challenging, energeticbut if everything else them didnt exude so much cool, we might lump them right there Pop Mattershttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96363093&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T02:44:00Unfortunately, the page you were looking for no longer exists at this location. If you want to point fingers, it's probably our fault. What to do? You can go back to the previous page. You can go to the Metacritichttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355531&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T00:51:0055 Kris Allen 78 Amerie 67 Tori Amos 80 Annie 76 Anti-Pop Consortium 75 Arctic Monkeys 82 Atlas Sound 77 The Avett Brothers 67 Backstreet Boys 59 Bad Lieutenant 68 Devendra Banhart 71 Lou Barlow 88 Baroness Metacritichttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355476&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T00:50:0055 Kris Allen 78 Amerie 67 Tori Amos 80 Annie 76 Anti-Pop Consortium 75 Arctic Monkeys 82 Atlas Sound 77 The Avett Brothers 67 Backstreet Boys 59 Bad Lieutenant 68 Devendra Banhart 71 Lou Barlow 88 Baroness Metacritichttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96355408&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-24T00:49:00By This Artist: Strange Little Also On The Web: What The Critics Said All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general Metacritichttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=95932230&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-22T00:15:00The Subo circus leads from Britain's Got Talent, to YouTube phenomenon, via a pitstop at the Priory to a surprisingly subtle debut album When is a record not a record? When it is a souvenir of a phenomenon. Observerhttp://www.congoo.com/news/addstorycomment.aspx?st=96335754&Channel_ID=4&Category_ID=4232009-11-23T19:52:00katiej One of my favorite country singers, Carrie Underwood, recently released her newest album, Play On. I bought it on ITunes the day it came out and have been listening to it ever since. Although I Associated Content