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Islands - Return To The Sea
Oh, To Be By The Sea...Every so-often an album comes along that is immersed deeply into previous styles and ideas that something new has been delivered. The debut from Montreal’s Islands is one such an album. Doubling as a theme album...
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Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom
A View Through A Keyhole Six years might be an eternity to wait through for one album for some fans. Yet, in just shy of six years since the first trickling of public mention of Mike Patton's "pop" project Peeping Tom, he has either released or...
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Current 93 - Black Ships Ate the Sky
Sailing Circles Around ConventionCurrent 93 continues to echo the moody atmospheres and occasionally tuneful rants of frontman David Tibet's industrial-music contemporaries of the 1970s and 1980s: Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, Nurse with...
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Zeppelin Receive Polar Music Prize
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin were presented with the Polar Music Prize this week. Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and John Paul Jones accepted the award in Stockholm from the Swedish King. They shared the prize with Russian conductor Valery...
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Bitter:Sweet - The Mating Game
Wanted: Sultry Vocals and Soothing BeatsThe thing you'll like best about Bitter:Sweet's The Mating Game is its unobtrusiveness. Producer Kiran Shahani is the star here, while Shana Halligan's vocals support each track's tonality. Our fearless duo...
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Pitbull - M.I.A.M.I/M.I.StillA.M.I
Money Isn't the Only Issue Reggaeton, a mixture of Latin hip-hop and the newest genre of cadera (waist) moving pop, fills the debut album by Miami's Pitbull - M.I.A.M.I. (Money Is A Major Issue). Like many reggaeton artists, the album is filled...
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Pearl Jam Buck the System
Pearl Jam, always looking for innovative ways to work outside the system, has released the video for their latest single off Pearl Jam, "Life Wasted," via Creative Commons, allowing fans to legally copy and distribute the video clip, so long as no...
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Hedgpeth Festival Lineup
Wisonsin's Hedgpeth Festival has announced this year's lineup. Taking place over July 28-29, The Flaming Lips and Primus will be headlining each respective day. Also appearing will be Peeping Tom featuring Mike Patton, Kings of Leon, They Might Be...
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