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Sound And Vision: Foster the People's Chart Challenge — Is There Life After "Pumped Up Kicks"?
posted: December 2, 2011
Foster the People just might be the pop anomaly of 2011. The trio of Los Angeles-based twentysomethings led by founder and namesake Mark Foster looks like a boy band (only cuter), plays instruments like rockers…
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Your Country's Right Here: Jason Boland & the Stragglers Band Relish Red Dirt
posted: December 1, 2011
Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Sugarland and other big-name country musicians makes it easy to overlook some of the considerably less flashy but incredibly substantive performers”and that’s really a shame. Consider Jason Boland & The Stragglers…
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Eye of the Tigress
posted: November 30, 2011
Vanity Theft is part of a pedigreed lineage of female rock bands. The Runaways, The Go-Gos, Sleater-Kinney”you know the sort. Girls who elbow their way through the male-driven rock paradigm and make a place…
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Riffs, Rants & Rumors: Can's Crowning Krautrock Moment
posted: November 30, 2011
Nothing is true, everything is permitted. So goes the famous maxim popularized by Vladimir Bartol‘s 1938 novel, Alamut, and attributed to eleventh century Persian revolutionary Hassan-i Sabbah. If there’s any album falling even nominally under…
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Exclusive Q&A: Primus Gets Their Groove Back With 'Green Naugahyde'
posted: November 29, 2011
You’d be hard pressed to find someone to call metal funky. But, if there was ever a band to excel at bringing the groove”among other things”to the age-old genre, it would be Primus. Then again,…
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Soundcheck: Rihanna Is Ready To 'Talk That Talk'
posted: November 29, 2011
Talk That Talk hit stores November 21, making it the sixth studio album we’ve seen from Rihanna in six years. The busy Barbadian beauty has been touring in support of last year’s platinum-selling album, Loud…
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