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Malkmus finds gold sound with 'Trash'
By ROBERT HILSON | Mar. 5, 2008Being single sucks. Just ask Stephen Malkmus.
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Ghostland Observatory ditch guitars, go dance
By ROBERT HILSON | Feb. 27, 2008It's hard to take Austin, Texas, duo Ghostland Observatory seriously.
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Raveonettes score with 'Lust, Lust, Lust'
By ROBERT HILSON | Feb. 20, 2008After all the impotent posturing in modern rock music, hearing a band for once back its chic style with actual substance comes as quite a turn-on. When a group looks as cool as The Raveonettes, an equally impressive sound equates to a sinfully good album.
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The Avenue takes on: New Jersey and the Spice Girls
By ANA MONTANO | Feb. 20, 2008How far would you go to see one of your favorite groups from the '90s reunited in concert? For me, the answer was New Jersey.
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Gainesville band gains popularity
By CAITLIN C. HEALY | Feb. 13, 2008What's in a name? For Gainesville band Oh Fortuna, everything.
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British Sea Power releases third album
By ROBERT HILSON | Feb. 13, 2008The English foursome British Sea Power's third release "Do You Like Rock Music?" opens with the ominous mantra, "we're all in it."
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Pop artists remix Jackson songs
By ADRIAN RUHI | Feb. 13, 2008Whether you like it or not, Michael Jackson's "Thriller" is the most popular album of all time.
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Hot Chip dissapoints
By ROBERT HILSON | Feb. 6, 2008In indie rock, there's a time-tested tradition of tacking tongue-in-cheek titles onto unassuming works.
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Album ditches elitism
By ADRIAN RUHI | Feb. 6, 2008So this is what Ivy League indie rock sounds like? And it's not mired by snobbishness and elitism?
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Campaign songs slightly inspirational, annoying
By DAVID LEE COMBS | Feb. 6, 2008In 1840, presidential candidate William Henry Harrison blew up the charts with the still-bangin' political anthem "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too." A twelve verse-long indictment of his opponent Martin Van Buren, the song probably had all of the novel appeal a Crazy Frog jam would generate today.
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Volta's 'Bedlam' is lengthy chaos
By ROBERT HILSON | Jan. 30, 2008It is truly one of popular music's finest examples of irony that a duo so notoriously prone to hyperactivity produces music only for those with the most enduring attention spans.
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Top 40 mash-up artist 'talks' number ones
By KRISTIN BJORNSEN | Jan. 27, 2008Avenue: What is your number one song of 2007?
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Cat Power's second album of covers a cohesive collection
By ROBERT HILSON | Jan. 24, 2008Usually, when a highly regarded artist like Cat Power releases an album of covers, any reasonable analysis will load up on derisive quips and cheeky one-liners referencing bar bands, karaoke or Axl Rose impersonators.
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Cat Power’s second album of covers a cohesive collection
By ROBERT HILSON | Jan. 23, 2008Usually, when a highly regarded artist like Cat Power releases an album of covers, any reasonable analysis will load up on derisive quips and cheeky one-liners referencing bar bands, karaoke or Axl Rose impersonators.
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Magnetic Fields loses pull on new album
By ROBERT HILSON | Jan. 16, 2008Stephin Merritt, the mastermind behind the New York lo-fi outfit Magnetic Fields, is attempting to be the new plastic surgeon of indie rock.
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Omnipresent iPods depreciate music
By DAVID LEE COMBS | Jan. 16, 2008I'm not here to argue with you.
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Lupe cool on new album
By ADRIAN RUHI | Jan. 9, 2008Lupe Fiasco may have established himself as a skateboarding geek on his debut, "Food & Liquor," but on his brooding sophomore set, "The Cool," he shows why he is one of the most clever storytellers in music.
