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Album Review: The Wanted –“The Wanted”
You've seen it all before, America. From New Kids on the Block to N'SYNC to One Direction, The Wanted seem, in their short time in the American consciousness, to be aping a pretty familiar blueprint....
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Album Review : Marilyn Manson – Born Villian
Marilyn Manson, we hardly knew ye. Over a decade removed from his watershed moment, he's been giving pretty much the same interview he's been giving since shocking the world with his semi-lucid mission...
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Album Review – John Mayer “Born and Raised”
It's difficult to review the music John Mayer creates as a separate thing from his reputation as an incorrigible douchebag. Take, for example, the quote I found to help illustrate his artistic...
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Album Review: Public Image, Ltd – This is PiL
Watching the seminal Don Letts documentary The Punk Rock Movie, it's pretty immediately apparent that John Lydon and the rest of the original UK punk bands were as much influenced by Jamaican dub...
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Album Review: Hot Chip – In Our Heads
Electronic music used to be fun. At pretty much the exact moment Radiohead started making it, everyone forgot that dance music only ever existed as a soundtrack to unspeakable fun. What started as a...
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Album Review: Paul Simon – Graceland (25th Anniversary)
Inspired by a newfound love for South African music, Paul Simon took the journey of a lifetime to a recording studio in a nation gripped by Apartheid, bringing back to New York the puzzle pieces of...
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Album Review: Fiona Apple – The Idler Wheel…
Growing up is a difficult thing for anyone, least of all an artist like Fiona Apple. She's made a (reluctant) career of being an angst-ridden perpetual-teen weirdo. In the six years since Extraordinary...
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Album Review: Mumford and Sons – Babel
Mumford and Sons, from out of absolutely nowhere, have positioned themselves as cultural touchstones. While the band recalls turn-of-the-century bluegrass and anything else ever described as High and...
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Album Review: Benjamin Gibbard – Former Lives
Oh boy. The moment the blogosphere erupted with the news that Death Cab For Cutie's Ben Gibbard and lovable actress Zooey Deschanel, America's foremost indie-pop power-couple, had split up, we knew...
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What Makes A Great Cover Song
I play a lot of great cover songs, but they do not always translate into a great cover song performance. Among my duo and trio band, I also play as a dueling pianist. Quite often we're forced to rush...
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