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Feb 01, 2010
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James “Pants” Singleton has befuddled
listeners since his 2008 debut,
Welcome, a cryptic mélange of early
’80s “boogie” R&B and electro. It was
funky, for sure, but it begged the question:
Was he really serious?
“A
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Feb 01, 2010
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Whether you’re rocker or folkie, a jazzbo or DJ, the ultra-competitive
world of popular music demands creative evolution to ensure your best
shot at longevity. This is the realization that Editors came to as they
prepared for
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Feb 01, 2010
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Yeasayer (left to right)—Chris Keating, Ira Wolf Tuton, and Anand Wilder. After a season spent playing songs
from their woozy, soaring debut, All
Hours Cymbal, at outdoor festivals,
Brooklyn’s Yeasayer wanted to record
a
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Feb 01, 2010
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Blockhead, a.k.a. Tony Simon, is a collage
artist in the truest sense of the
word. With 85 percent of his sound
coming from samples, his is a different
kind of talent: It takes a finely
tuned ear to fit together dozens of
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Feb 01, 2010
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You think you know Norah Jones? She
of the 36-million-selling albums, languorous
songs, and deep blue vocals?
Well, think again. After three sweet
releases of soothing tones in songs so
summery it’s like dipping your toes
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Feb 01, 2010
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When folk country artist Laura Veirs
began writing for her seventh album,
July Flame [Raven Marching Band],
things didn’t go exactly as she hoped.
She wrote a lot—80 songs—but it wasn’t
until she got to about song 40 that
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Jan 22, 2010
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While many producers and bands are collaborating with other artists remotely, Galactic is keeping it decidedly homegrown with their latest album, Ya-Ka-May [Anti-]. Despite the ease of swapping files over the Internet, the band
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Jan 06, 2010
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Hailing from Cardiff, Wales, seven-piece band Los Campesinos! plays a punky, bratty, shouting, sarcastic, and emotionally manic-depressive brand of indie-rock music. Since forming at Cardiff University in 2006, they've been on
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Jan 01, 2010
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There are plenty of well-recorded
albums released every year, but that
doesn’t mean you’ll want to hear
them. Likewise, electronic music can
get people moving on the dancefloor,
but that doesn’t mean the songs are
well
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Jan 01, 2010
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Though much has been made of Miike
Snow’s mysterious blogosphere
coup—highly trafficked remixes of
artists such as Vampire Weekend and
Peter Bjorn and John with no trace
of prior productions—the recipe for
the catchy,
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Jan 01, 2010
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As might be expected, remastering
The Beatles’ entire catalog for
EMI Apple Corps.—a four-year-long
project that included 12 studio albums,
Magical Mystery Tour, and Past Masters
Vol. I and II—brought some stress for
the
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Jan 01, 2010
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To hear Anti-Pop Consortium tell it,
they’ve only been on hiatus since
2002. It’s only after further questioning
that M. Sayyid acknowledges that
the group actually broke up for several
years. “It was definitely creative,
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Jan 01, 2010
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Imogen Heap on Becoming Entranced With
Microscopic Details
Imogen Heap is as hands-on in the studio
as it gets. Other producers have
taught her a lot over the years—most
notably Guy Sigsworth (Björk,
Madonna) with her first
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Jan 01, 2010
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Running their own power-pop kingdom,
California alt-nerd rockers
Weezer perfect themes of partying,
hot girls, mall cruising, and universal
love on their seventh album, Raditude
[Geffen]. Recorded at four different
studios,
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Jan 01, 2010
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Going by the jaw-dropping cornucopia
of sounds on his new album The Colossus,
hip-hop producer RJD2’s got a lot
on his mind—and it’s beautiful stuff. Created
in his home studio in Philadelphia,
Colossus [RJ’s Electrical
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