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Good and Plenti

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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Interpol frontman Paul Banks steps out with an alter ego and a surprisingly inviting side project.

Music for Cougars

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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This is without a doubt the best album featuring a Hollywood news magazine host that you’ll hear this year—unless Billy Bush finally gets around to releasing his death metal record.

The Ruminant Band

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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Fruit Bats are part of the proud, if recent, tradition of excellent, neo-Americana collectives that inexplicably record for former grunge haven Sub Pop Records.

Ellipse

Tuesday, August 4th, 2009

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IMOGEN HEAP Ellipse (RCA) British chanteuse Imo gen Heap creates tapes tries of affecting—if un specific—emotion by stitching together bleeps, bloops, and, above all, scraps of her own haunting voice. With her focus on the atmospheric, it’s no wonder that Heap’s biggest success has come via soundtrack work: Her transporting “Hide and Seek” perfectly captured the mid-2000s emo [...]

Straight Outta Suburbia

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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In Morrisville, Pennsylvania’s Asher Roth, we finally have someone who raps about life on the cul-de-sac. But how will it play to the hip-hop nation?

The Sounds Crossing the Rubicon

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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The Sounds’ secret weapon is Maja Ivarsson, a peroxided yowler with the rough-hewn glamour of Debbie Harry and the pop sensibility of Gwen Stefani.

Jarvis Cocker Further Complications

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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On which our foppish hero hooks up with legendarily cranky punk producer Steve Albini and dials up the rawk.

The Mars Volta Octahedron

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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Since their days fronting art-punkers At the Drive- In, the men of the Mars Volta—singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala and guitar hero Omar Rodriguez-Lopez—have relished the art of surprise: jazz rhythms colliding with metal riffage or proggy excess.

Rob Thomas Cradlesong

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

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Beginning with his chart topping mid-nineties run fronting Matchbox Twenty, Thomas has had the not altogether-unpleasant distinction of being among the most loathed—yet still wildly successful—musicians on the planet.

Icadon - Head on the Dance Floor

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

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Icadon New Single - Head on the Dance Floor from his debut album, Sex, Haze & Hip Hop!!! The mixtape album and DVD available on 6/11/09 featuring our 2009 Penthouse Pet of the Year Taya Parker.