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  • September 2008

    • New Kids Score Block Party

      Newsday  |  Sep 2, 08 10:46 AM CDT

      New Kids Score Block Party

      (Newser) - Critics applaud the comeback album from reunited boy band New Kids on the Block, which, while it “may not break any ground musically,” is in fact “the best album of their multi-platinum career,” writes Glenn Gamboa in Newsday . “The best cuts” on The Block “exude an understated confidence the old New Kids never had,” Mikael Wood adds in the Los Angeles Times . More »

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      music review  • album  • boy bands  • New Kids on the Block

  • August 2008

    • Tokio Hotel Rocks Screaming Tweens

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Aug 24, 08 10:53 AM CDT

      Tokio Hotel Rocks Screaming Tweens

      (Newser) - Having dominated Europe, German rockers Tokio Hotel are threatening to go mainstream in the US, if the reception their riff-heavy pop metal earned among screaming preteens in San Francisco this week is any indication. "The best way to describe the glam-metal-emo-pop-tween group," Aidin Vaziri writes in the Chronicle , "is like the Jonas Brothers for girls who prefer chipped black nail polish and fishnet stockings to unicorn puffy stickers and purity rings." More »

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      Germany  • Britney Spears  • San Francisco  • Miley Cyrus  • MTV  • music review  • pop music  • Jonas Brothers  • heavy metal  • Tokio Hotel

  • July 2008

    • Bubble-Grunge? Cyrus Oddly Downbeat on Breakout

      Los Angeles Times  |  Jul 22, 08 12:20 PM CDT

      Bubble-Grunge? Cyrus Oddly Downbeat on Breakout

      (Newser) - As Miley Cyrus’ second album under her own name hits stores today, the 15-year-old admitted on Good Morning America that her now-infamous Vanity Fair photos were a “mistake.” But just like those racy pics, the tougher tunes and “feel-bad downers” on Breakout are anathema to her bubbly Disney alter ego, Hannah Montana, the Los Angeles Times reports. More »

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      Miley Cyrus  • Hannah Montana  • music review  • celebrity interview  • album release

    • Country Fans to Crossover Simpson: Cross Back

      Kenosha News  |  Jul 21, 08 11:08 AM CDT

      Country Fans to Crossover Simpson: Cross Back

      (Newser) - Struggling pop star Jessica Simpson’s country crossover got off to a rocky start Saturday when her debut performance at Wisconsin’s Country Thunder Festival drew a decidedly mixed reaction from the crowd, the Kenosha News reports. "I just don't hear the country in her; I don't hear the twang. She's not good enough to be here," said a country fan. More »

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      celebrity  • music industry  • Wisconsin  • music review  • Tony Romo  • country music  • Jessica Simpson

    • Rage Frontman's New Band Sounds Familiar

      Mother Jones  |  Jul 20, 08 6:05 PM CDT

      Rage Frontman's New Band Sounds Familiar

      (Newser) - Rage Against the Machine fans probably won’t be disappointed with One Day As A Lion , the new project from frontman Zach de la Rocha: It sounds, well, "pretty much kinda-sorta exactly like Rage Against the Machine,"  writes Gary Moskowitz in Mother Jones . The first song, online this week, “could easily be mistaken for a middle-of-the-set song performed by Rage at Lollapalooza in the early 90s.” More »

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      music  • music review  • Beastie Boys

  • June 2008

    • My Morning Jacket Spreads Rock Gospel

      New York Times  |  Jun 23, 08 4:33 PM CDT

      My Morning Jacket Spreads Rock Gospel

      (Newser) - My Morning Jacket is officially an arena-rock force, Nate Chinen raves in the New York Times . The Southern-rock darlings walked the line between spiritual and sanguine before a sold-out Radio City Music Hall on Friday, playing the majority of new album Evil Urges , which "features some of its strongest songs alongside some of its strangest." More »

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      concert  • music review  • indie rock

    • Dion's AC/DC Tribute 'Worst Cover Ever'

      Total Guitar  |  Jun 23, 08 11:59 AM CDT

      Dion's AC/DC Tribute 'Worst Cover Ever'

      (Newser) - Celine Dion's rendition of AC/DC's Y ou Shook Me All Night Long has been voted the worst cover ever, according to Total Guitar magazine. The UK mag called the duet Dion performed with Anastacia in Las Vegas 6 years ago an "offense" against music. "The No. 1 worst cover song—Celine Dion covering AC/DC—is sacrilege," said magazine editor Stephen Lawson. More »

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      music  • music industry  • music review  • Celine Dion  • cover song

  • May 2008

    • Scarlett's Waits Tribute: Unnecessary, But Not Bad

      Village Voice  |  May 14, 08 1:15 PM CDT

      Scarlett's Waits Tribute: Unnecessary, But Not Bad

      (Newser) - “Even the most sympathetic critics,” writes Tom Breihan for the Village Voice , have to grant that Anywhere I Lay My Head, Scarlett Johansson’s Tom Waits tribute album, “is a fundamentally ridiculous enterprise, almost stunning in its total lack of need to exist.” That said, Breihan thinks the record is actually pretty good, made stronger by the fact that it sounds absolutely nothing like Tom Waits. More »

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      celebrity  • music  • music review  • Scarlett Johansson  • Tom Waits  • cover song

  • April 2008

    • Keys' Attack Releases Old Rut

      Pitchfork Media  |  Apr 2, 08 10:33 AM CDT

      Keys' Attack Releases Old Rut

      (Newser) - The Black Keys had hoped collaborating with Ike Turner would finally push the band out of its tired “garage minimalism,” writes Pitchfork’s Roque Strew. Though Ike died in December, the band already had material that expanded its sound. Attack & Release is its “most adventurous album to date,” mixing the expected “crossroads-blues” style with the “futuristic accents” of producer (and Gnarls Barkley-ite) Danger Mouse. More »

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      music review  • blues  • Ike Turner  • Danger Mouse  • minimalism

  • March 2008

    • Winehouse More Than a 'Genius Junkie'

      New Yorker  |  Mar 2, 08 5:09 AM CST

      Winehouse More Than a 'Genius Junkie'

      (Newser) - It's tempting to chalk up the popularity of singer Amy Winehouse to her headline-grabbing bent for self-destruction, writes Sasha Frere-Jones in the New Yorker . But that would be a mistake. He takes a closer look at Back to Black , with its "perfect" single "Rehab," and finds much to treasure. What might initially come off as mere imitation of classic soul and R&B is actually a novel evolution, he argues. More »

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      music  • Amy Winehouse  • music review  • pop music  • Mark Ronson  • R  • Sasha Frere-Jones

  • February 2008

    • Black Crowes Squawk at Sham Maxim Review

      San Francisco Chronicle  |  Feb 27, 08 2:42 PM CST

      Black Crowes Squawk at Sham Maxim Review

      (Newser) - Pick a number, any number: Maxim 's 2.5-star rating—out of 5—for the Black Crowes' latest album was little more than a guess, the magazine admitted yesterday. No advanced copies were released, the San Francisco Chronicle reports, but that didn't stop Maxim's critic from decreeing in the March issue that Warpaint "hasn't left Chris Robinson and the gang much room for growth." More »

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      music  • journalism  • music review  • magazine  • reviews  • Maxim

    • Thriller Revives 'Prettiest Star'

      Rolling Stone  |  Feb 12, 08 4:32 PM CST

      Thriller Revives 'Prettiest Star'

      (Newser) - Thriller 's 25th anniversary reissue shows why Michael Jackson was once "the coolest, slinkiest, prettiest pop star alive,” Rob Sheffield writes in Rolling Stone . Six “lame” remixes by stars like Fergie, Akon, and Kanye West apparently indicate the best-selling album of all time "cowed" the cover artists, who "know nobody will ever play their versions twice," he adds. More »

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      music review  • Kanye West  • Michael Jackson  • Thriller  • Akon  • Fergie

  • January 2008

    • Xiu Xiu's Women Breaks Ground

      Tiny Mix Tapes  |  Jan 30, 08 2:06 PM CST

      Xiu Xiu's Women Breaks Ground

      (Newser) - One of indie music’s most intense projects, Xiu Xiu is always innovating, and sixth album Women as Lovers is no slouch—at least its first half, says Tiny Mix Tapes’ Julie. Frontman Jamie Stewart has dropped electronics, hired a virtuoso drummer and reversed his recent “stasis.” But Women 's troubled finale is par for Stewart, who has “yet to make a front-to-back vital album.” More »

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      Beatles  • music review  • electronics  • lyrics  • indie pop

    • Critics Split on Jukebox

      Pitchfork Media  |  Jan 22, 08 3:17 PM CST

      Critics Split on Jukebox

      (Newser) - Indie crooner Cat Power's second album of covers is dividing critics. Many agree that Jukebox is a state-of-the-career effort, but they part ways on where the musician (real name: Chan Marshall) stands. After transforming from blues folkie to soul singer and overcoming depression, the Marshall who “savored” her songs is gone, says Pitchfork’s Stephen Deusner. More »