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Aimee Mann: I Know Theres A Word

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2008-07-16 16:07:39 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
...observes Mann. Sometimes it reminds me of graphic art. You have to choose a couple of simple, arresting images and what words you have need to contain the essence of what you want to say. Its not a novel; its only three-minutes that people are spending with you The best pop rock shows a high level of craftsmanship. The care that goes in, from...
 
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Dr. Dog: Gettin To That Thing

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2008-07-24 18:07:05 by ronpendleton in PlayOrDownload Music News
...observes McMicken. Having chosen totally randomly from at least 50 or 60 songs from this giant pile, about two weeks into recording someone noticed there were glaringly obvious connections between all this stuff. It was so easy to take one song and define another with it. All of them were holding hands in a way, and it became easier to see...
 
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Goodbye, O.P.: Oscar Peterson, 1925-2007

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2007-12-25 02:28:27 by David in WFIU: Night Lights Jazz Blog
...observes , one of the great piano figures of his time an inspiration to virtually every jazz pianist who followed him, his influence equaled only by his slightly younger contemporary Bill Evans. A mainstay of Norman Granzs Jazz at the Philharmonic tours , an early devotee of Art Tatum and Nat King Cole who found his own voice of swing, soul,...
 
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Jeff Chang on Jay-Z in The Nation

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2007-01-20 08:34:00 by Ted Swedenburg in popculcha
...observes Corporate media's massive economies of scale favor a drastically limited scope of rap archetypes that, not coincidentally, traffic primarily in stereotypes of black sexuality and criminality. Labels make fewer signings, so there are fewer "types" to represent. Furthermore, those signings tend to fill old boxes: the party girl in furs...
 
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2007-08-15 15:14:00 by Jeremy in Fingertips
 
...observes that while things have changed over the last generation, he does not see the album dying out any time soon I think maybe the cd was an agent in the trend away from the great rock albums of the 70s, but a focus on albums is still quite common in many realms of music. I keep encountering great new albums in metal, jazz, country, and...
 
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A Baker's Dozen of Moving

2007-12-24 10:44:00 by whiteray in Echoes In The Wind
 
...observes Christmas are now at their destinations, Id wager that nearly as many are still in motion, heading toward their holiday celebrations with that odd mixture of anticipation, anxiety and exasperation that holiday travel brings When I was a kid, our holiday traveling was simple: driving about a hundred and thirty miles from St. Cloud to...
 
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Bleep of faith

2007-12-06 04:10:50 by Testindustries in Test
 
...observes. I could have put out an LPs worth of Freak, but if youre going to release an album you need diversity. I dont have the patience to sit through 70 minutes of a sub-sub genre, there has to be something fresh all the time Premacy, one of the tracks on Sheath is nearly six years old. I really enjoyed listening to them all again, even if...
 
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The Magnetic Fields "Distortion"

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2008-01-13 22:05:00 by Sonic Process in Sonic Process
...observes in the unaccompanied introduction that "sober life is a prison, shitfaced it is a blessing, sober nobody wants you, shitfaced they're all undressing". The song then steps out with a swaggering confidence, though look closer and it's not difficult to spot its more vulnerable underbelly Distortion proves an appropriate name for the...
 
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Thao-ism 101: Songs ready to put a spring in your step

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2008-02-07 22:35:29 by Kimberly Chun in SFBG: Noise
...observes with a curious mixture of urgency, bemusement, and off-the-cuff nonchalance - but before you've even finished scratching your noggin over that one, in come the horns to send the song into rousing, theatrical flourishes. Its follow-up, "Bag of Hammers," benefits from a jovial guitar-funk pattern and subtle mouth-percussion bubbles...
 
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Angela Johnson

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2008-02-08 23:31:00 by mike ashley in soul news
...observes, "It's not who the artist is, it's who the producer is behind the artist that made them sound that way. If you name any of the artists out here, they have not been able to do anything without those producers. I think it's because of the superstardom of the producers that (artists) are able to put out records. Record labels want the...
 
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