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Review: Mavis Staples, “Hope at the Hideout”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , on November 14, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard — Last year, Mavis Staples released a revelatory collection of protest songs (”We’ll Never Turn Back”) that, though such a thing was hardly needed, reaffirmed her vitality in the current music scene. “Hope at the Hideout” is her victory lap, a joyous house party that benefits from a wonderful alignment of the stars: It [...]

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New Bruce Springsteen: “Workin’ on a Dream”

Posted in Music, mp3, tagged , , , , on November 6, 2008 | No Comments »

And here’s the official word on the new record today, from Billboard.
• Bruce Springsteen - Workin’ on a Dream (acoustic version from Obama rally).mp3
The new track list:

“Outlaw Pete”

“My Lucky Day”
“Working on a Dream”
“Queen of the Supermarket”
“What Love Can Do”
“This Life”
“Good Eye”
“Tomorrow Never Knows”
“Life Itself”
“Kingdom of Days”
“Surprise, Surprise”
“The Last Carnival”

Bonus Tracks

“The Wrestler”
“A Night With the [...]

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Album review: John Legend, “Evolver”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , on October 26, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard — John Legend made his mark by showing up fully coated in vintage Philadelphia soul, but this aptly titled third album finds him shelving his silky throwback vibe for a collection of tracks more interested in 808s and heartbreak. “Evolver” opens with shiny 1984 club-bounce (”Green Light,” quickly commandeered by André 3000), moves directly [...]

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The Cubs meltdown: Mystical billy goat ruins another autumn

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, Music, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 5, 2008 | 4 Comments »

GateHouse — Oh, don’t worry, we’ll all line up again next year.
We’ll all slosh around this week and pretend to be mad and besprinkle whatever unfortunate schmucks happen to be in front of us at the copy machine with promises of change. We’ll say, “No more!’, we’ll punch a few walls, we’ll go to doctors [...]

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Review: Pete Seeger, “At 89″

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Billboard — The folk icon’s first record since 2003 is less an album than the audio version of whiling away an afternoon at Seeger’s upstate cabin. It’s a pleasingly indulgent collection of songs, stories and detours that will be something of a treasure for longtime fans and packs at least a dozen treats for relative [...]

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Review: Kings of Leon, “Only By the Night”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard — Record No. 4 finds Tennessee’s most famous rock’n’roll Pentecostals tamping down the hillbilly stomp in favor of more measured, midtempo numbers that simmer more than scorch. “Only by the Night” requires some patience; it sounds a little like one 43-minute medium-simmer track on first listen but begins to reveal its charms on subsequent [...]

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Review: Michael Franti and Spearhead, “All Rebel Rockers”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , on September 6, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard — Michael Franti spent the past few years documenting the chaos in the Middle East, penning a children’s book and, with 2006’s “Yell Fire!,” stoking the kind of pointed political fire for which he’s become so well-known. Like “Yell Fire!,” this set was tracked in Jamaica with go-to producers Sly & Robbie and is [...]

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Tegan’s To-Do List: Books, videos and a driver’s license

Posted in Billboard, Interviews, Music, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on August 19, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard — It’s a big month for Tegan Quin of the sisterly Canadian rock duo Tegan and Sara. She and her twin are embarking on the final leg of their tour behind 2007’s “The Con,” she’s co-headlining a benefit event in New York with author Augusten Burroughs and she’s filming a video for her duet [...]

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An important development regarding pants

Posted in Columns, GateHouse, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , , on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Gatehouse - I am proud to announce today that I have recently doubled my own personal cache of pants.
This is extraordinary news, because I am a pretty big fan of pants. I’ve been known to wear them every day, sometimes. But it’s mostly noteworthy because it represents a triumph on my part: that I was [...]

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Review: Duffy, “Rockferry”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard - The recent surge of Europeans retrofitting and upgrading 1960s soul rolls on in swirling style with this debut from Duffy, a Welsh singer/songwriter from the school of jazzy chanteuses who are here to maximize the international-but-not-too-international-for-Starbucks style, but sound quite lovely doing it anyway. “Rockferry” hits the major notes: “Warwick Avenue” is a [...]

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