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Continue reading →: “It’s just the arrogance of youth”
Murphy offers everything I want from a dance artist: superb vocal timbre, pretty good lyrics, and a shrewd ear for producers and collaborators. 2007’s Overpowered remains one of the decade’s most consistent albums of any genre.
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Continue reading →: Singles 7/15
This week: Eminem continues his descent, Wavves show I’m over post-adolescent misery even when the guitars yell louder, and I learn what “dougie” means (I think). Songs are rated on a ten-point scale. Click for the review. Cali Swag District – Teach Me How To Dougie (8) Laura Bell Brundy…
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Continue reading →: I Am Love: The aphids swarm up in the drifting haze
If you can get over the image of Tilda Swinton reeling from sexually liberated bliss to the accompaniment of wasps and aphids, then I Am Love has plenty to offer. As in 2001’s The Deep End and last year’s Julia, Swinton gravitates to melodrama because it’s the one genre that…
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Continue reading →: Rating the hits
The year”s singles scores so far, with ten being the highest. 10 Brad Paisley – American Saturday Night 9 Aeroplane – We Can’t Fly 8 Vampire Weekend – Cousins Cali Swag District – Teach Me How to Dougie Rick Ross ft. Ne-Yo – Super High Ne-Yo – Beautiful Monster 3OH!3…
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Continue reading →: Patrick Bateman, step away from my laptop.
I would not have thought it possible that No Jacket Required would sound like a sparkling pop album in 2010. The paradigm for the Sparkling Pop Album has shifted in favor of youth. Part of NJR’s charm is listening to a dorky never-been having fun with sampling keyboards, a mixing…
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Continue reading →: Talk about a slippery slope
Inevitable. The more rights gays gain, the more they want, like sex right on the battlefield.
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Continue reading →: Touch and go
An epiphany while listening to The Cars’ “Tonight She Comes” at a bar the other night: how did Ric Ocasek channel his avant-garde impulses and tastes into the bands he produced and keep his avant-garde-less moments for Cars albums? It’s worth mentioning his band’s sales figures: six-million-plus for the eponymous…
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Continue reading →: “An image of sureness, control and resilience”
This sounds fabulous. And Wineapple’s right: you need a copy of the Bishop-Lowell letters immediately.
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Continue reading →: Singles reviews7/7
This week’s reviews (click on the blurb). Ne-Yo keeps racking’em in. Ne-Yo – Beautiful Monster (8) The-Dream ft. T.I. – Make-Up Bag (7) Sleigh Bells – Tell’em (7) Alphabeat – DJ (6) Mark Ronson & Business Int’ – Bang Bang Bang (4) Diane Vickers – The Boy Who Murdered Love…
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Continue reading →: Good ole boi
When pleasures reveal themselves without effort I’m distrustful. The latest example: Big Boi’s oft-delayed Sir Lucious Jackson: The Son of Chico Dusty. I loved it so quickly that I thought I was getting soft. Luckily Matos reminds me I’m not.
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