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Q-Tip Beats 'Democracy' to the Punch with 'The Renaissance'new
All this talk of Chinese Democracy finally seeing the light of day has overshadowed another album many of us -- at least those in the hip-hop community -- thought would never come to be: Q-Tip's second album, The Renaissance.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
12-08-2008 |
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Raphael Saadiq Brings It Back to the Past With His Current Releasenew
Saadiq worked on The Way I See It for two years while creating singles for other performers. Like most of his music, it contains a sound reminiscent and respectful of the music he grew up listening to on the streets of Oakland.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
09-29-2008 |
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Tags: Raphael Saadiq, The Way I See It
I Love Stars For the Same Reason You Hate Themnew
Stars, to me, are perfect—the urgent, unmuffled whisper of acutely self-aware melodrama.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
09-22-2008 |
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Tags: Stars, Sad Robots
Super Consumers: A Lyrically Subversive Radio-Ready Anthem Factorynew
With a name like Super Consumers and a debut EP called Terrorism, you might expect something like anarchist punk.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doug Wallen |
09-08-2008 |
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Rachael Sage's 'Chandelier' is Pleasant Enoughnew
There's an entire genre of musicians who cite Ani DiFranco as an influence including Sage, whose existence as a touring and recording artist is owed almost exclusively to DiFranco.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Staff |
09-08-2008 |
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Yup, Meryl Streep Can Sing ABBAnew
The album's a comprehensive affair featuring the vocal talents of the big-name cast, including Streep, Colin Firth, Pierce Brosnan and newish-comer Amanda Seyfried in a role Mean Girls star and triple-threat-wannabe Lindsay Lohan would most likely kill for.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Staff |
07-21-2008 |
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Did You Say Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis?new
Sometimes weird combos can work. Like pineapple pizza. R.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
07-14-2008 |
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Rick Rubin Makes Over Jakob Dylannew
Seeing Things, Jakob's first solo affair, sounds characteristically Rubinesque in its quiet ruminations on all things sad (war, mostly, on "Valley of the Low Sun" and "War Is Kind"), and its back-to-basics instrumentation.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
06-30-2008 |
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Stop Trying to Make Alanis Morissette's Latest 'Jagged Little Pill, Part 2'new
The thing is, Flavors of Entanglement is a breakup album, but it's not, y'know, raw like Pill. Its anger is contained, matured. Ripe and self-possessed.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
06-23-2008 |
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Al Green's New Album Will Make You Wish You Were a Better Mannew
If there's one male vocalist who can make the most secure of men feel inadequate about the way he's been living his life, it's Rev. Al. Even after all these years Green still performs with all the authority of a man who has lived, who has accomplishments he's proud of and mistakes he's tried to rectify.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Craig D. Lindsey |
06-03-2008 |
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Tags: Al Green, Lay It Down
Sure, Mocking ScarJo is Trendy Right Nownew
By now we all know Maxim hottie Scarlett Johansson has released an album of Tom Waits covers. But, y'know, Anywhere I Lay My Head is actually not so bad.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
05-27-2008 |
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The Breaks Combine Blues, Edgy Pop and Tight Arrangementsnew
Tale of Two Cities doesn't fit easily into one style, with the blues moments alternating with more edgy pop, flowing into more singer-songwriterly areas as well.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Mike Shanley |
05-19-2008 |
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When Tristan Prettyman Get So Popular?new
a) Who is this chick? b) Why is she suddenly so insanely popular? c) Why do I have no idea who she is? d) Why does this unfamiliarity make me feel so inadequate?
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
05-05-2008 |
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Accept Make a Rising as a Group of Weirdosnew
Then their songs seem less like showy acts of theatrics and more like pleasantly batty pop dressed in flamboyant robes.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Doug Wallen |
03-31-2008 |
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Danity Kane Strikes Againnew
They all just blend together into some generic cash cow that sings, sighs and, yes, meows, impressively enough through 16 plasticy R&B tracks.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
03-31-2008 |
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