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Liz Phair - Liz Phair
Phairly Good, For PopNormally, musicians don't wait until their fourth album for a self-titled release, which implies that Liz Phair may be starting anew. And Liz Phair is definitely not the ball-busting, girls-can-do-it-too, "bitch-rock" that she...
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Jewel - 304
Oh Three, Oh Sure!0304 falls late on the adolescent Britany dance pop diva movement, and by all rights, Jewel’s spontaneous mid-career genre shift should be blown off as an attempt to leap on a giant pink bandwagon powered by...
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Ghostface Killah - Shaolin's Finest
Ghostface's Recipe BookGreatest hits compilations are like your grandmother’s recipe book – full of timeless tasty dishes that you can savor over and over again. The only problem is that you never seem to match the...
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The Mars Volta - De-Loused in the Comatorium
Volta Has Guts, Spacey Hurts Story-ToriumThe Mars Volta, brainchild of At The Drive In’s Cedric Zavala and Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, is a proudly progressive sound of ambient rock spring-boarded off of ATDI’s exotic punk...
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Dave Gahan - Paper Monsters
Back To Brighten Your Day!Dark, moody and emotionally charged - all of these qualities typify Dave Gahan's work, most notably with industrial forefathers Depeche Mode throughout the last two decades. Thus comes a daunting task of putting out Paper...
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Tricky - Vulnerable
The Tricky Kid Grows UpAs part of the Bristol collective that designed what we call “trip-hop”, Tricky carved out a name for himself by layering dark, atmospheric soundscapes with raspy, haunting vocals. He felt almost...
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Eels - Shootenanny
Acoustic and Electric EELSMark Oliver Everett (you can call him “E”) is the driving force behind EELS. He writes, performs and produces almost all of the songs on EELS newest album Shootenanny! All of his songs are...
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AFI - Sing the Sorrow
A Fire Inside Sweetly Sing the SorrowRarely does a band release an album that, from the first track to the last, feels like a complete collection of songs in a story or concept; songs of equal strength and rhythm complimenting each other as would...
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