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    <title>CD Review: The Dead Weather, Horehound</title>
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        By Leilani Polk
      
      
      White Stripes&rsquo; frontman Jack White takes a behind-the-scenes role in his latest project, The Dead Weather, which brings together lead singer Alison Mosshart (of London-based lo-fi post-punk duo The Kills), Raconteurs&rsquo; bassist Jack Lawrence, and Queens of the Stone Age guitarist Dean Fertita. The foursome involved weren&rsquo;t fucking around when they went into the studio to produce the 11 tracks on Horehound (released July 14 on Third Man Records). Written and recorded in a mere three weeks, the hard rock
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    <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Phish, Joy</title>
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        By Leilani Polk
      
      
      Phish announced they were calling it quits a month before dropping their 10th official studio album in 2004. Their last release under Elektra, Undermind was a brilliant work, moody and driving psyche rock studded with upbeat pop and the odd goof-off. But its dark and melancholy moments were too much a reflection of Phish&rsquo;s own unhealthy state at the time and the shadow of their imminent demise hung over the music, making it easy to appreciate but hard to enjoy.
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    <title>CD Review: Islands, Vapours</title>
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        By Leilani Polk
      
      
      Montreal rock ensemble Islands made an indie splash in &rsquo;06 with their breezy, mellifluous popadelic debut, Return to the Sea. The adventurous and progressive second effort, Arm&rsquo;s Way, followed on a wave of dramatic symphonics in &rsquo;08. The third, Vapours (out Sept. 22, today, on Anti-), finds the band moving in a New Wave-wheeling and dance music-dealing direction. Vapours also marks the return of drummer and founding member Jamie Thompson, who split shortly after the release of Sea. &ldquo;I wanted
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    <title>Album Review: The Stone Roses, The Stone Roses (20th Anniversary Edition)</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      In 2006, writers for the English music magazine NME voted 1989&rsquo;s The Stone Roses the &ldquo;greatest British album of all time.&rdquo; I would not go that far.But I will assert this: Anyone who aspires to a rock music collection considered definitive should make unequivocally sure that the Manchester, England band&rsquo;s debut album is part of it. In 1989 I was well ensconced as a full-time pop music critic, so it&rsquo;s with a twinge of embarrassment that I rave about an
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CD Review: Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs</title>
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        By Cooper Levey-baker
      
      
      Yo La Tengo has been around for so long, and been so good for so long, I thought they&rsquo;d pretty much exhausted all the indie rock tricks out there. And then I heard &ldquo;If It&rsquo;s True,&rdquo; track number six from the band&rsquo;s newest LP, Popular Songs (Matador, out Sept. 8). It opens with a dusty bass groove that wouldn&rsquo;t have been out of place as a B-side to The Temptations&rsquo; &ldquo;My Girl.&rdquo; Then the syrupy strings slide in, singers/spouses Georgia
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CD Review: Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn, Break Up</title>
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        By Ivan Pena
      
      
      Scarlett Johansson and Pete Yorn Break Up (Rhino)Inspired by Serge Gainsbourg&rsquo;s duets with Brigitte Bardot, singer-songwriter Pete Yorn teams up with actress Scarlett Johansson for Break Up, a sweetly-produced and easy-to-enjoy album. The nine-song collection goes by quickly and has ScarJo and Yorn seductively singing saccharine melodies over Beach-Boys-style production. It&rsquo;s a mellifluous session, but the songs are a little too sappy for my taste. Recorded back in 2006, the album is set to be released next Tuesday, September 8.
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CD Review: The Apples in Stero, #1 Hits Explosion</title>
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        By Ivan Pena
      
      
      The Apples in Stereo #1 Hits Explosion (Yep Roc)With 17 years of pop rockin&rsquo; under their belt, The Apples in Stereo collect their best tunes on one album, #1 Hits Explosion. For seasoned fans, this may not be a choice album as it&rsquo;s really just a recap of what they&rsquo;ve been enjoying for years. For noobs like, me the album is a great primer. With bright 60&rsquo;s pop rock &mdash; think Beatles, Beach Boys and Velvet Underground &mdash; Apples in
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CD Review: Juliette Lewis, Terra Incognita</title>
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        By Ivan Pena
      
      
      Juliette Lewis Terra Incognita (The End Records) Imagine a bluesy version of Mars Volta&rsquo;s De-Loused in the Comatorium with controlled drumming, Juliette Lewis&rsquo; explosive vocals and pop song structure. This is what a great Omar Lopez-Rodriguez-produced release sounds like. Evoking Janis Joplin, the 12-track album is darker than anything Lewis has done before. OLR&rsquo;s expert influence is blatant all throughout the album (guitar work, song keys, effects), but man, does it work. Highlights: &ldquo;Hard Lovin&rsquo; Woman&rdquo; (for Janis fans) and
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    <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>CD Review: Matt Hires, Take Us to the Start</title>
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        By Taylor Toothman
      
      
      The warm, breezy pop of Tampa native Matt Hires isn&rsquo;t just something to hum along to on your way to the beach. Hires&rsquo;s debut album, Take Us To The Start (F-Stop/Atlantic), is cleverly-crafted and interesting, full of sincerity and catchy melodies highlighted by his enveloping, gravelly tenor. The album&rsquo;s single, &ldquo;Honey, Let Me Sing You A Song,&rdquo; begins quietly then bursts into the chorus as Hires begs his lady not to run away, to listen to his words (as they
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    <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>40th anniversary of Woodstock brings new CD releases</title>
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        Complete concert sets by Sly, Janis, Santana, Airplane and Winter....
       
      
        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Uh-oh, the 40th anniversary of Woodstock is about a month and a half away. Did you remember? If not, it&#39;s probably due to the distinct lack of buzz, seeing as there is no official concert scheduled, although boosters keep adding &quot;as yet&quot; in hopes that original co-producer Michael Lang will manage to put together a show in New York&#39;s Prospect Park. A handful of mostly lame events are planned for different parts of the country, and a tour called Heroes
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Regina Spektor, far</title>
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        By Leilani Polk
      
      
      It&rsquo;s been three years since Soviet-American songstress Regina Spektor first enchanted us with the soul-pop perfection of Begin to Hope and proved herself a storyteller with a keen sense of detail and drama, a confident singer with a broad vocal range &mdash; from high and pure to low and sensual &mdash; and a poet with a unique use of words and an alluring inflection, not as if English were her second language, but as if she&rsquo;s established a whole new
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Maxwell&amp;#39;s, BLACKsummers&amp;#39;night</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      It was not all that long ago that a self-imposed eight-year hiatus by an R&amp;B singer was tantamount to quitting the game. Labels wouldn&rsquo;t have it; fans would forget.Singer Maxwell&rsquo;s retreat for most of the decade into &ldquo;pedestrian life&rdquo; has done nothing to hurt his career. BLACKSummer&rsquo;snight, his first release since 2001&rsquo;s Now just entered the Billboard 200 chart at No. 1 with sales of 316,000. Maxwell&rsquo;s re-arrival happens at a precipitous time, amid a listless modern soul scene where
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    <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Tom Morello &amp;amp; Boots Riley, Street Sweeper Social Club</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      It was fated that one day they&rsquo;d collaborate. Audioslave (and former Rage Against the Machine) guitarist Tom Morello and Boots Riley, rapper for the Coup, are two of the most stridently radical musicians to ever plug in. Get &rsquo;em together and you get Street Sweeper Social Club, 11 songs and nearly 40 minutes of unremitting agitprop set to thunder beats and monster guitar riffs.Every song rails against something: bosses, politicians, capitalism, materialism, the System. Virtually every song advocates the violent
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Wilco, Wilco</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Jeff Tweedy doesn&rsquo;t sound any happier. I&rsquo;ve always found the Wilco leader&rsquo;s apparent discomfort in his own skin to be one of the reasons the band was capable of compelling music (although by no means always).On &ldquo;Solitaire,&rdquo; one of the many somber, introspective tunes on Wilco&rsquo;s self-titled seventh studio album, Tweedy sings in his trademark laconic style, &ldquo;Once I thought without a doubt/ I had it all figured out/ The universe with hands unseen/ I was cold as gasoline/ Took
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Review: Mos Def, The Ecstatic</title>
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        By Eric Snider
      
      
      Hip-hop seems adrift, with no particular faction dominating the pop psyche (or the charts). Bling-rap isn&rsquo;t resonating as much lately, these being trying times and all. The current landscape is perfect for a multi-facted, thinking artist such as Mos Def, whose fourth studio album, The Ecstatic, continues his impressive body of musical work. The 35-year-old Brooklyn native &mdash; who has, perhaps more than any other rapper, made a mark in film, TV and theater &mdash; has never had much use
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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