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album release stories: 51 news summaries

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 Madonna's
 Candy Not
 So Sweet 

Hard Candy lacks a key ingredient: the pop diva herself

Apr 30, 08 12:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - There is something noticeably absent in Madonna’s new record, writes Rashod Ollison in The Baltimore Sun: Madonna. Her 11th studio album, Hard Candy, “is a mostly stale piece of self-consciously fluffy pop” in which the superstar “plays it safe.” Enlisting younger hit makers like Justin Timberlake,... More »

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pop music • album release • Madonna • Rock and Roll Hall of Fame • dance music

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 Portishead Better with Age 

More than dinner music, Third could 'utterly pulverize boredom'

Apr 16, 08 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - If Portishead’s new album comes off as cheesy, it’s only because it’s easily digestible, Sasha Frere-Jones writes in the New Yorker. While the album, Third, is “delightfully abrasive,” the Brits have “accepted that being soothing, despite their perverse streak, is part of what they... More »

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music • New Yorker magazine • album release • rock music • Portishead

 B-52s Shimmy Again 

Wacky New Wave band releases its first new album in 16 years

Apr 14, 08 2:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sixteen years after the release of their last album, the B-52s are still rocking the cosmic party, this time with the all-new album Funplex. The Georgia band still performs regularly, but "if we're going to keep doing this, we need new material," guitarist Keith Strickland told NPR. "... More »

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music • album release • rock bands • rock music • dance music • B-52s • Kate Pierson • Keith Strickland

Dolly Parton Releases Album on Own Label

Backwoods Barbie
hits No. 2, gives an iconic career new life

Mar 23, 08 3:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - More than a decade after Nashville spurned her for a crop of up-and-comers, Dolly Parton is releasing a new album on her own label--and having the last laugh, as Backwoods Barbie hit Billboard's No. 2 on Billboard in its second week. That's thanks to new technologies that are creating end-run... More »

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music • music industry • country music • album release • record industry • Dolly Parton • Billboard charts • Nashville • Backwoods Barbie • record contract

 Austrian Monks Nab Record Deal

Austrian monks to record Gregorian chant album

Mar 23, 08 2:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Amy Winehouse and Cistercian monks wouldn't seem to have much in common, but now they've got the same record label, the BBC reports. Universal Music's search for "sacred singers" to record a Gregorian chant album turned up an Austrian monastery dating back to 1133. "It was beautiful, beautiful... More »

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YouTube • Catholic Church • Universal Music Group • monks • album release • Gregorian chant • Cistercian order • Heiligenkreuz monastery • recording contract • monastery

Queen Readies First Album
in 13 Years

Record will be out
in the fall, kick off European tour

Mar 19, 08 10:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Freddie Mercury may be long gone, but the rest of Queen still wants to ride their bicycles. The band today said its first album in 13 years will be released in the fall, followed by tours of Europe and Latin America, Agence-France Press reports. The album, which will feature frontman... More »

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music • Europe • Queen • rock and roll • tour • album release • Freddy Mercury • John Deacon • Paul Rodgers

The Cool Kids Take Hip-Hop Back to the '80s

Miss the days of
LL Cool J? Give this Chicago duo a listen

Feb 27, 08 3:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Hip-hop sensation the Cool Kids might come off as too, ahem, cool for school, catapulting from an online hit to Pitchfork Music Festival performer and MIA's fall tour opener—without ever releasing an album. But Chicago Magazine paints Antoine Reed, 20, and Evan Ingersoll, 23, as two inexperienced Chicagolanders whose... More »

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music • MySpace • Chicago • hip-hop • LL Cool J • album release • The Cool Kids • Antoine Reed • Evan Ingersoll • M.I.A. • Pitchfork Music Festival • Beastie Boys

Radiohead
to Webcast Show on New Year's Eve

Tech-savvy group celebrates 'new' CD

Dec 27, 07 9:52 PM CST
(Newser) - Radiohead will celebrate the CD release of its buzz-generating new album In Rainbows by streaming a pre-recorded concert on its website at midnight on New Year’s Eve. The band broke new ground by first releasing the album online under a pay-what-you-want formula. The New Year's Eve show will include... More »

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webcast • concert • album release • Radiohead • Thom Yorke

Radiohead Denies Report That Fans Aren't Paying

Company said 62% chose not to pay in experimental album release

Nov 9, 07 3:59 PM CST
(Newser) - Just how successful has Radiohead's experimental pay-if-you-want online album release been? That's in debate as the band denies a report that just 38% of fans opted to pay for In Rainbows, and most paid under $4. Radiohead said the the figures from comScore Inc. are "wholly inaccurate," reports... More »

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music industry • music downloads • music sales • album release • Radiohead • online music • comScore

Grizzly Bear Makes New Friend

Band's new EP isn't just an encore, critic says

Nov 6, 07 11:55 AM CST
(Newser) - At first glance, Grizzly Bear's new EP, Friend, appears to be a reworking of material from the band's well-received Yellow House. Not so, writes Pitchfork Media critic Ryan Schrieber. Although the new disc contains old songs and covers, these are thoroughly transformed, making Friend "a very well-disguised,... More »

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music • album release • music review • grizzly bear

Kanye Prevails in Battle of the Hip-Hop Stars

It's still early, but Graduation is outselling
50 Cent's Curtis

Sep 12, 07 10:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the much-hyped battled between two music titans, early sales indicate hip-hop fans are going West. Kanye West’s latest album, Graduation, has been outselling rival 50 Cent’s Curtis—by 2 to 1 at one Hollywood store, the LA Times reports—since the two went on sale yesterday.... More »

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50 Cent • Kanye West • Virgin • CDs • musician • hip-hop • music sales • album release • Newbury Comics • Curtis • graduation

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