8/12/2015
A casual listen to these introductory tracks seems, simply, to reveal the impressive skills of a blues-inspired folk guitarist . . . and so it does, but listen a little closer and it becomes clear that …
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8/12/2015
Coming across the music of Joanna Newsom for the first time is, by turns, as delightful, rich, and bewildering as watching films by legendary stop-motion animators like the Brothers Quay and Jan Svankm …
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8/12/2015
Death, religion, Elvis . . . the way Nick Cave handles these recurring themes marks him as one of the sharpest alternative rockers out there, at once sophisticated, hard-core, and literary. It makes se …
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8/12/2015
Multilayered, otherworldly synths; emotive melodies; lush orchestration — there's no mistaking a Vangelis soundtrack. His incredible scores for Chariots of Fire, Blade Runner, and 1492 …
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8/12/2015
Led since its late-'80s formation by charismatic leather-clad hell-hound Dave Wyndorf, New Jersey's Monster Magnet has taken stoner rock to astral heights, cleverly pouring a host of retro elements — i …
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8/6/2015
Brixton-rooted dance-floor legends Basement Jaxx — the heavyweight production tag-team of Simon Ratcliffe and Felix Buxton — ensured that the turn of the millennium was a loud, electrifying, and funky …
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8/6/2015
Il vient de loin, de l'Allemagne et du Canada, via bien sûr le Rwanda. On peut même dire qu'il revient de loin comme en témoignant ses débuts discographiques en 2002. Corneille a décidé de s'exprimer a …
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8/6/2015
La scène française a vu récemment émerger de nombreux talents, mais rares sont ceux dont le rayonnement a dépassé le cadre hexagonal. Dionysos est de ceux-là. De Dan Presley, mentor de Faith No More, à …
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8/6/2015
"24 Horas" is a life-affirming and optimistic track taken from the venerated Re album, which more than one critic has hailed as being the "Mexican answer to Sgt. Pepper's." "Avientame" is …
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