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Rose Hill Drive is Retro, So Deal With Itnew
Moon is the New Earth features several entertainingly excessive blues-rock booglarizers, the groups expands their horizons to include power pop, garagey rave-ups and even vintage psychedelia.
Lil Wayne Proves He Can Make a Cohesive Albumnew
Tha Carter III is pop rap to giggle to and marvel at, from "Phone Home," where Wayne gives his outer-space shtick the full treatment, to "Misunderstood," in which he disses Al Sharpton and imparts that he lives next door to a child molester.
Weezer Phones in Its New Albumnew
The group's latest self-titled release is practically a novelty disc, albeit a notably lazy one.
Weezer Makes One-Third of a Decent Albumnew
The rest, though: unlistenable, nothing to see here, move along.
Dallas Observer |
Robert Wilonsky |
06-23-2008 |
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N.E.R.D. Has Charisma in Spadesnew
N.E.R.D. again delivers amazing beats and shows great instincts for how to get the club hopping.
Tucson Weekly |
Kristine Peashock |
06-19-2008 |
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Tags: N.E.R.D., Seeing Sounds
The Prolific Robert Pollard's Latest is a Doozynew
The hardest-working man in indie rock has released an album that's an unadulterated joy.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-19-2008 |
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The Spill Canvas Makes Music for Young-Adults Who Will One Day Grow Out of Itnew
The high-octane and painfully earnest material here is like that of Dashboard Confessional or Jimmy Eat World, before they decided to stop whining and pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
06-19-2008 |
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KAZE Could Certainly Teach a Course in Agitpropnew
Block 2The Basement -- part of Rawkus Records' plan to release 50 albums by 50 relative unknowns -- perpetuates the image of KAZE as hip hop's selfless lensman, directing the attention away from any personal woes by focusing on the broader malaises of this hip-hop generation.
Alejando Escovedo: The Forrest Gump of Musicnew
Whenever seminal events happened, he was usually in the vicinity.
San Antonio Current |
Gilbert Garcia |
06-18-2008 |
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Coldplay Takes a Stab at Respectabilitynew
Despite some genuinely winning moments, it just doesn't cut deep enough.
San Antonio Current |
Chuck Kerr |
06-18-2008 |
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'Verbs' Shows Off Au's Compositionsnew
Beautiful and restrained instrumental passages lead into maniacal, choral group chants; vaudevillian theatrics nestle against almost-classical backdrops; accordions operate in waltz time.
Willamette Week |
Michael Mannheimer |
06-18-2008 |
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The Explorers Club Channels the Beach Boysnew
Everything on Freedom Wind has been faithfully rendered, from its lush, four-part harmonies to its evocative timpani-rolls to the CD booklet's resemblance to a well-worn record sleeve with the vinyl edges showing through.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Todd Lavoie |
06-18-2008 |
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N.E.R.D. Shows All Technique and No Soulnew
Human emotion cannot be created using ProTools.
Liz Phair Returns From 'Guyville' Exilenew
By rereleasing Exile in Guyville and taking it on the road, she's allowing her fans to revel in that time when she crystallized the experience of taking bad boys to bed.
Wolf Parade Brings Order to Its Packnew
Where once Wolf Parade's top dogs walked divergent paths, their new album finds them working together with brilliant results.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian J. Barr |
06-17-2008 |
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