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05.27.2009 9:31 am

Out this week: Grizzly Bear, Phoenix

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Grizzly Bear Veckatimest (Warp)

Veckatimest is the long-awaited follow-up to Grizzly Bear’s critically hailed album, Yellow House. Neoclassical composer Nico Muhly and Beach House singer Victoria Legrand contribute.

Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (Glassnote)
These are some of the most direct and enjoyable songs they’ve made to date.…

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05.07.2009 10:59 am

Out now: Peaches, Mastodon

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Peaches I Feel Cream (XL)

Peaches does it again, this time producing, along with the likes of Simian Mobile Disco and Digitalism, her most pop-sounding album to date.

The Vaselines Enter the Vaselines (Sub Pop)
Includes new mixes and re-mastered versions of material, never-before-heard demos and live…

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04.14.2009 4:52 pm

Out today: Silverspun Pickups, John Doe

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Silversun Pickups Swoon (Dangerbird)

Swoon is a thick, layered listen, burgeoning with rich strings and crunchy guitars.

John Doe & the Sadies Country Club (Yep Roc)

X’s John Doe cuts a straight-ahead country album collaborating with the Canadian roots rock combo the Sadies.

Dengue Fever Sleepwalking Through Mekong (M80)

The…

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04.01.2009 11:50 am

Out this week: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Peter Bjorn & John

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Peter Bjorn and John Living Thing (Almost Gold/Startime Internat)

The Swedish trio returns with this darker, less bubbly album than their breakout Writer’s Block.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! (Interscope/DGC/Dress Up)

Never content to stay in one musical place for very long, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs…

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03.24.2009 10:50 am

Record Store Day to bring flurry of rare releases

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I got a note from Jim Utz of Vintage Vinyl in which he shares a phenominal list of vinyl releases set for Record Store Day, Sat., April 18. I for one will be getting in line early that day to pick…

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03.17.2009 2:30 pm

Out today: Nick Lowe, Willie

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Nick Lowe

Quiet Please: The New Best of Nick Lowe (Yep Roc)

Much of this double-disc set is devoted to the mellow, deeply felt country-rock and torch songs that have been Lowe’s specialty since 1994’s The Impossible Bird.

Willie Nelson Naked Willie (RCA Nashville/Legacy)

Willie Nelson and…

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03.11.2009 2:25 pm

Out this week: Kelly Clarkson, Cursive

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Kelly Clarkson All I Ever Wanted (RCA)

All I Ever Wanted doesn’t completely abandon the tougher rock edges of My December, but it does ditch the brooding in favor of angry spunk, all the better to prove that the girl who sang “Since…

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03.08.2009 12:02 pm

New Yeah Yeah Yeahs album streaming on MySpace

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Karen O and her triple Yeahs have a dancy new album, It’s Blitz, coming out that can be streamed now on their MySpace page — www.myspace.com/yeahyeahyeahs. When I checked, the usual music player was only showing five songs, but click…

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03.04.2009 9:56 am

Out this week: U2, Neko Case

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U2 No Line on the Horizon (Interscope)

After scrapping sessions with Rick Rubin and flirting with will.i.am, U2 reunited with Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois (here billed as “Danny” for some reason), who not only produced The Joshua Tree but pointed the group…

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02.24.2009 3:07 pm

Out today: Black Lips, Chris Isaak

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Black Lips 200 Million Thousand (Vice)

On the Black Lips fifth studio album not much has changed on the surface. Maybe they are a little more together, more focused and tight, but they still have enough ramshackle swagger and loose as a goose…

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