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CD Review: Steve Earle
Rob O'Connor  |  Apr 27, 2011  | 

Named after the last single that Hank Williams released before his death, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive is swamped in Steve Earle’s contemplations of mortality. His father died weeks after Earle began writing the album.

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CD Review: Suzanne Vega
Billy Altman  |  Sep 02, 2007  | 
Beauty & Crime Blue Note
Music •••• Sound ••••
Ever since she first appeared in the mid-1980s, Vega has reflected in her music the boo
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CD Review: The Flaming Lips' Embryonic
Rob O'Connor  |  Jan 07, 2010  | 
Embryonic (Warner Bros.)
Music •••• Sound •••••

Wayne Coyne envisioned Embryonic as an old-fashioned double album whose 70 minutes would meande

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CD Review: The Fleshtones
Steve Simels  |  Mar 03, 2008  | 
Take a Good Look! Yep Roc
Music ••• Sound ••

Over the course of their 30-years-and-still-going-strong career as the world

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CD Review: The Hives
Rob O'Connor  |  Dec 13, 2007  | 
The Black and White Album A&M/Octone
Music •••• Sound ••••

Hip-hop producer Pharrell Williams collaborates on a danceflo

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CD Review: The Kennedys
Rob O'Connor  |  Jan 27, 2008  | 
Better Dreams Appleseed
Music •••½ Sound ••••

No matter what the situation, Maura Kennedy's sweetly parsed vo

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CD Review: The Magic Numbers
Billy Altman  |  Jul 24, 2007  | 
Those the Brokes Astralwerks
Music ••½ Sound ••½
How you react to the Magic Numbers' second CD probably depends
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CD Review: The Magnetic Fields
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Mar 03, 2008  | 
Distortion Nonesuch
Music •• Sound •

The gimmick on the previous Magnetic Fields album, i, was that every song star

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CD Review: The Nightwatchman
Jeff Perlah  |  May 30, 2007  | 

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CD Review: The View
Ken Richardson  |  Jun 03, 2007  | 
Hats Off to the Buskers 1965/Columbia
Music •••½ Sound ••½
Entering the U.K. charts at No.
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CD Review: The White Stripes
Mike Mettler  |  Jul 05, 2007  | 
Icky Thump Third Man/Warner Bros.
Music ••••½ Sound ••••
Jack and Meg White continue to gather no moss.
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CD REVIEW: Tori Amos
Brett Milano  |  Jun 03, 2007  | 

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CD Review: Velvet Revolver
Ken Richardson  |  Jul 16, 2007  | 

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CD Review: VHS or Beta
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Oct 03, 2007  | 

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CD Review: Ween
Rob O'Connor  |  Jan 05, 2008  | 

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