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I haven’t really been updating in a while because I’m lazy and unmotivated, but here, in no particular order, are 25 rather good albums from 2009 that you should seek out. These are not the only worthwhile albums released this year, but they’re the ones I’ve been listening to a lot and/or came to mind [...]
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Some people think they’re always right. Julian Casablancas may be one of those people, if his antics and comments over the years are to be taken in earnest. Never one to mince words, Casablancas has always carried himself with the effortless cool of a rock star who just doesn’t give a shit, most recently popping [...]
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Jay-Z isn’t a businessman — he’s a business, man. And when you’ve branded your image to the point where you’re simultaneously managing a clothing line, sports club and record label, it’s fair to say the Hova has landed. The new quandary becomes maintaining your self-proclaimed street cred whilst juggling decidedly non-street multi-million-dollar finances — something [...]
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Yo La Tengo bassist James McNew recorded four-track projects as Dump beginning some time around 1991, temporarily pausing to focus on the band’s albums before resuming his alter ego in 1998. The result was That Skinny Motherfucker with the High Voice?, a cassette tape comprised of seven Prince cover songs (its title a reference to [...]
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It must be said: The first thing that springs to mind from the opening bars of “My Propeller,” the first cut off the Arctic Monkeys’ latest effort, Humbug, is the unmistakably sleazy gutter-croon of Josh Homme. This noticeable trend, in fact, continues over the course of the entire record, with Queens of the Stone Age’s [...]
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