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Year-End, Best-Of Music Lists Suck... Except For This Onenew
Tsar, Dropkick Murphys, and Straylight Run garnered top honors in this year-end, best-of music list.
Boulder Weekly |
Vince Darcangelo |
12-30-2005 |
Reviews
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Media New Year’s Resolutions for 2006
Who could possibly be in more need of guidance for the next year
than the big media outlets that have besieged us during the previous
365 days?
Random Lengths News |
Norman Solomon |
12-29-2005 |
Media
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Politics Played Major Role in 2005 Filmsnew
It seemed like every week in 2005, another feature opened that contained some critique of the American character or metaphor for modern-day issues.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
12-29-2005 |
Reviews
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Luscious Listsnew
Tucson Weekly music critics join the rest of the universe in recapping their 2005 faves.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong and Annie Holub |
12-29-2005 |
Reviews
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How the Jazz Year Endsnew
Evidence of jazz's engagement with the world's greater events, trends and circumstances emerges from three items that pop out as one muses on the year past.
New York Press |
Howard Mandel |
12-29-2005 |
Music
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Healthy Distrustnew
On the surface, 2005 was another banner year for hip-hop. But beneath the surface there was an underlying restlessness -- a cultural and an aesthetic agitation that was both hidden and violent.
Riverfront Times |
Sam Chennault |
12-29-2005 |
Music
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Overlooked in 2005new
Most of the CDs on this list are by artists you've likely never heard of, but a couple are by neglected but trusty war-horses.
Riverfront Times |
Scott Faingold |
12-29-2005 |
Music
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Hip-Hop Year in Reviewnew
A tight focus reveals hip-hop thriving in dozens of niches, even if none of the resultant albums can completely refute the sense that the genre is still stuck in a holding pattern.
Riverfront Times |
Dan Leroy |
12-29-2005 |
Music
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They Did What?new
2005 contained more than its share of "WTF?!" moments.
Riverfront Times |
Garrett Kamps |
12-29-2005 |
Media
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Let There Be Rocknew
One writer counts down the ten albums that make it easy to avoid fretting about your old-fashioned, Rockist ways.
Riverfront Times |
Rob Harvilla |
12-29-2005 |
Music
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Heady Metalnew
When it comes to heavy metal, 2005 will be remembered as the year the promising Sounds of the Underground tour debuted, metalcore dominated the scene and Iron Maiden got egged at Ozzfest.
Riverfront Times |
Jason Bracelin |
12-29-2005 |
Music
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Pop Rocksnew
In 2005, pop music was rock music. Even the biggest top-40 starlets liked their guitars cranked up to a sassy 11. Here are the shiniest and catchiest of 2005's snap and fizz.
Dallas Observer |
Annie Zaleski |
12-29-2005 |
Reviews
New Rubblenew
Comebacks are out. Repackaged credibility — an artist reaching back to the sound of his or her prime, coached by an admiring junior — was the new remastering in 2005.
The Year in Gamingnew
There was a lot of talk about a lack of good ideas, games becoming too expensive, studios getting too bloated, games being too violent and Nintendo losing their minds. But 2005 proved that even a down year can still provide a lot of excitement.
Montreal Mirror |
Erik Leijon |
12-27-2005 |
Video Games
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Good, Bad and Bigfoot Autobiographiesnew
The Montreal Mirror reviews the year in books, including categories like Best Anti-diet Book and Trend That Must End: The Pornoir.
Montreal Mirror |
Juliet Waters |
12-27-2005 |
Books
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