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3/22/2011
While critics have always toasted her restless creativity, the music industry has struggled with understanding Nellie McKay from the start. Aside from being a sly jab at a Norah Jones album, Get Awa …
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3/22/2011
The kind of sophisticated tastemaker who gives Latin lounge a good name, Buenos Aires-born Federico Aubele combines his melodious acoustic guitar riffs with electronic beats and wispy female vocals for …
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3/22/2011
By 1987, the bloom was well off new wave's rose, and as you can hear in "Double Trouble" from their final album, Door To Door, the Cars tried to change with the times, abandoning the spikier edg …
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3/22/2011
After cheekily launching their career by sending a demo of "Just What I Needed" to Boston's #1 radio station - and landing in heavy rotation, thanks to the one-two punch of DJ support and listener resp …
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3/22/2011
So, you're not from Boston or Irish, but still want to understand what makes Dropkick Murphys the most essential shamrock punk-folk band since the Pogues? Take one listen to "Worker's Song" and you'll …
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3/22/2011
When Shane MacGowan sang on the mid-tempo-but-manic Dropkick Murphys song "Wild Rover and Good Rats," the longtime Pogues leader essentially passed his pint glass to the young Bostonians. Much like the …
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3/22/2011
Rare treasures await in our Lloyd Cole Deep Cuts. A healthy shot of underrated album tracks includes the jangle-pop beauty "Perfect Blue," the acoustic-electronic merging of a contented "I Am No …
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3/22/2011
A philosophy student at the University of Glasgow, Lloyd Cole wasn't quite the usual rock star when he and his band the Commotions emerged in the early '80s as jangle-pop trailblazers - so while the wo …
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3/22/2011
The back-to-basics members of Rise Against had been together for only two years when they cut The Unraveling with Mass Giorgini, a bassist/producer best known for his work with Screeching Weasel …
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