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Album review: J. Holiday, "M.I.A. The Lost Pages"
J. Holiday makes an impressive return with his new mixtape. (Courtesy of the artist) Love him or hate him, Drake’s 2010 ascent to hip-hop superstardom evaporated the borderline that separated chest-puffing rappers and brokenhearted R&B singers. Flip on your radio...
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Chris Richards
| March 11, 2011; 12:34 PM ET |
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Album review: R.E.M., "Collapse Into Now"
R.E.M. sounds like R.E.M. on "Collapse Into Now." (Courtesy of the band) R.E.M.'s 30-year career can basically be broken into two eras: in form and returning to form. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-honored group spent the '80s building...
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David Malitz
| March 8, 2011; 1:25 PM ET |
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Album review: Mr. Collipark, “Can I Have the Club Back, Please?”
Mr. Collipark's leads a raunchy cast on his latest mixtape. (Courtesy of the artist) Mr. Collipark wants to party like it’s 2005. That’s when the Atlanta-based hip-hop producer had the freaky-deakiest song on the radio with the Ying Yang Twinz’s...
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Chris Richards
| March 4, 2011; 12:55 PM ET |
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Album review: "Mama I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin"
Plenty of myth-enshrouded Mississippi bluesmen who recorded during the Great Depression were eventually recognized as pioneers of the genre. Some, such as Charley Patton, Skip James and Robert Johnson, ultimately, if to varying degrees, found an enduring place in the...
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Bill Friskics-Warren
| March 1, 2011; 2:00 PM ET |
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Album review: Lykke Li, "Wounded Rhymes"
Lykke Li would be better off stripping some layers from her sound. Lykke Li is a singer so popular in her native Sweden that her face recently adorned a Levi's ad campaign that wallpapered the Stockholm subway system. Wearing heavy...
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Chris Richards
| February 25, 2011; 4:54 PM ET |
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Album review: Radiohead, "The King of Limbs"
Radiohead wants you to listen to "The King of Limbs" over and over and over and... Whether or not you consider them God, Radiohead is in the details. For over a decade, the quintet has been championed as the most...
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Chris Richards
| February 21, 2011; 10:30 AM ET |
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