Dierks Bentley is a second-tier Nashville star and he works awfully hard at it On his seventh studio album you can hear him laboring He strains his thin singing voice on ballads like the title track a
Read more »Giant Anthology: The Profile Records Rap Anthology
This menagerie of thrilling mostly overlooked jams begins in rap’s naive era when “I’m on the cover of TV Guide” passed as a big-time boast New York-based Profile Recordsstruck
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Synth doodles and squeaky-cutesy vocals abound on this Brooklyn trio's aggressively adorable debut But Hospitality have more to offer than mere sweetness Check how the wistful ballad "Eighth Avenue" l
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A single CD of short edits is an odd thing for a prog-techno act who specialize in spacious songs that often run for more than 10 minutes The live "Cowgirl" is nothing and the dubstep moves are clumsy
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This live in-studio set remakes highlights from 2011’s excellent The Whole Love a homespun survey of Wilco’s avant-garage skill set Changes are subtle – guitar noise is rearrang
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Give Lana Del Rey credit At least she didn’t break down and cry on Saturday Night Live She’s a starlet to music bloggers who’ve been buzzing over her for the past year But for the re
Read more »Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan
This collection assembled in honor of Amnesty International's 50th birthday is stuffed with 80 artists from Pete Seeger (folk-music deity b 1919) to Miley Cyrus (hot mess b 1992) Revelation and humor
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Tim McGraw is country's tough-but-tender specialist at ease enough in his Stetson to forsake macho posturing and plunge into emotional thickets His 11th LP is his most assured with a dozen sharp songs
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In 2008 these kids made the Brooklyn scene with a song that got heavy iPod-commercial rotation ("Bruises") and an album of spookily sexy PJ Harvey-meets-Eurythmics synth pop they claim was designed fo
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Maybe it's her recent divorce or maybe it's her subsequent hook-up with Bon Iver's Justin Vernon but Canadian folkie Kathleen Edwards has given her sound a makeover on her fourth album With Vernon co-
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