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Fleet Foxes getting more praise
I've made quite a few references to the Fleet Foxes over the last few weeks. I try to stop writing about them but they won't let me.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Scrooge tunes and fa la la la la songs
MUSIC FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE SICK OF CHRISTMAS...
DVD REVIEW: Shakira: barefoot on her 'Oral Fixation Tour'
I have to admit that when I heard about Shakira's new DVD/CD release, "Oral Fixation Tour," (Epic), I wondered what the point was. After all, the original album was released more than two years ago, and memories of her "Hips Don't Lie" duet with Wyclef Jean have been eclipsed by the sordid pop spectacle of "A Shot of Love With Tila Tequila."
MUSIC REVIEW: Jam band records a hip-hop powered tribute to its broken home
In the weeks and months following Hurricane Katrina, much of the music made for and by the broken city of New Orleans was understandably mournful, the sound of a city and people shattered and abandoned. It's not that there was a want for ambition - those months saw a heartening flurry of post-storm records and tribute concerts from the music community. But it was tough to get over the sense that that they were there to make sense of the melancholy.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Sigur Ros, Angels & Airwaves and more
SIGUR ROS "Hvarf/Heim" (XL) 3 ½ stars
MUSIC REVIEWS: Barenaked Ladies, Marc Cohn
BARENAKED LADIES "Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan" (Shout! Factory) 3 stars
MUSIC REVIEW: Jay-Z's `American Gangster' is solid
AMERICAN GANGSTER. Grade: A. "Storytellers: Jay-Z" debuts on VH1 on Thursday at 9 p.m. EST.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Britney Spears, The Eagles, Neil Young, Carrie Underwood, Backstreet Boys
BRITNEY SPEARS "Blackout" (Jive) 2.5 stars
CONCERT REVIEW: Neil Young, 21st century schizoid man
For a 62-year-old rock veteran, Neil Young still has a lot of ideas competing for attention in his brain. So many, in fact, that a Neil Young performance might be acoustic or electric, laid-back country or full-on garage rock. It might be political, conceptual, or just impenetrable.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Dave Gahan, The Eagles, Carrie Underwood
Classic rockers take the 'Long Road Out of Eden,' Carrie Underwood's 'Carnival Ride' is forgettable fare, Dave Gahan steps outside Depeche Mode for second solo album.
MUSIC REVIEW: The Backstreet Boys
UNBREAKABLE. Backstreet Boys still want it that way and offer it over and over again. Grade: C-plus
MUSIC REVIEW: 3 Fox Drive
3 FOX DRIVE AND FRIENDS, "Christmas Grass Vol. 3," Koch Records. 10 tracks.
MUSIC REVIEW: Too bad Britney can't black out this phase of her career
BLACKOUT. Britney Spears' new CD, out today. The title says it all. Grade D.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Juanes, Josh Turner, Gary Allan, Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
JUANES "La vida ... es un ratico" (Universal Music Latino) 4 stars
MUSIC REVIEW: Serj Tankian truly goes solo on his first solo album
Serj Tankian, lead singer for System of a Down, may be one of the most politically active figures in music - a member of Amnesty International, an advocate of free speech, a vocal critic of the current administration - but even he can get tired of democracy.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Leann Rimes, Deborah Harry, Cafe Tacvba, Felix Da Housecat
LEANN RIMES "Family" (Curb) 2 ½ stars
MUSIC REVIEW: Annie Lennox digs into her `sense of outrage' for a dark new album
Forget about sweet dreams. Annie Lennox is singing about dark and ominous things on her new CD, "Songs of Mass Destruction." With that magnificently powerful voice, she roars about war, poverty and slitting her wrists.
MUSIC REVIEW: Deborah Harry resumes her solo career with `Necessary Evil'
I don't like flashbacks in movies/I like the story to proceed/I don't like talking about the old days/Except if it tells where the future will lead.
MUSIC REVIEW: `Chrome Dreams II': Young confronts mortality without sentiment
Two years ago, Neil Young suffered a near-fatal brain aneurysm. He followed it with one of the most beautiful albums of his career, "Prairie Wind" (2005), and then one of the angriest, "Living With War" (2006).
MUSIC REVIEW: Semisonic's Dan Wilson finally (!) gets out his first solo album
Having endured record-label purgatory with his bands Semisonic and Trip Shakespeare, Dan Wilson knew better than to sit around waiting for his first solo album to come out after finishing it in 2005. So he kept working.
MUSIC REVIEWS: Annie Lennox, Herbie Hancock, Matt Haimovitz
ANNIE LENNOX "Songs of Mass Destruction" (Arista/Sony BMG) 4 stars
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