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Queens of the Stone Age | ALBUM REVIEW

When the debut by Queens of the Stone Age sneaked out in 1998, it seemed like a lark: Josh Homme and Alfredo Hernandez from Kyuss, tired of frying sludge metal in the desert sun, were now...
March 29, 2011 12:25 AM ET
Screws Get Loose | ALBUM REVIEW

On their 2009 debut, these Southern girls cooked up catchy cowpunk tunes about drunken misbehavior. Having roped in a male band member, they stumble toward shitfaced garage punk on their second album. The road leaves them wasted...
March 29, 2011 12:25 AM ET
The Bands You Didn't See, But Maybe Should Have, at SXSW 2011 | BLOG ENTRY

One thing nobody seems to warn you about South By Southwest is that you can't really trust the schedules too much. Band lineups you'll study online a week or two before the festival don't always correspond with...
March 20, 2011 1:54 PM ET
Bright Eyes Presents Long, Wordy Set and Anti-War Sentiment at SXSW | BLOG ENTRY

The most moving moment of Bright Eyes' hour-and-three-quarters open-air SXSW set at Auditorium Shores Stage (which borders Austin's Lady Bird Lake reservoir) early Saturday evening wasn't a song; it was a statement, following the Nebraska indie-folksters' 17th...
March 20, 2011 1:16 PM ET
Kanye West, Jay-Z, Justin Vernon and More Overwhelm in SXSW's Crowning Blowout | BLOG ENTRY

So hey, here's something that might deflate Kanye West's ego just a little bit: Of the main rap artists billed on his overblown South By Southwest-ending G.O.O.D. Music extravaganza at Austin's ad-hoc VEVO Power Station venue very...
March 20, 2011 12:52 PM ET
Kid Rock Brings Bluesy Hard Rock Bands to SXSW, Making One of the Fest's Highlights | BLOG ENTRY

Leave it to a 40-year-old white guy from Detroit to show up at music's trendiest festival of emerging talent and curate a three-pronged showcase of a style of popular music that barely exists anymore, or at least...
March 19, 2011 1:09 PM ET
Wiz Khalifa, Janelle Monae Do Their Own Things at Atlantic Records Showcase | BLOG ENTRY

Wiz Khalifa and Janelle Monae both grew up in perhaps less-than-stimulating middle-American cities – Pittsburgh, PA and Kansas City KS, respectively, though Wiz’s youth also took in North Dakota and overseas army bases – and both clearly...
March 18, 2011 12:25 PM ET
Peter Buck's the Baseball Project Get Loose and Nostalgic | BLOG ENTRY

As South by Southwest gigs go, the audience seeing the Baseball Project on 5th Street in Austin midnight Wednesday definitely appeared to include a significant quotient of balding older white men up past their bedtimes. Whether this...
March 17, 2011 12:58 PM ET
Rapper Yelawolf Brings a Touch of Redneck to the 'Fader' Fort | BLOG ENTRY

If Yelawolf is a redneck – and his lyrics suggest that, if he’s not one himself, he’s got sufficient first-hand knowledge of the culture – he’s his own kind. He’s a white guy (reportedly part Cherokee, actually)...
March 17, 2011 11:39 AM ET
Burning Fortune | ALBUM REVIEW

Young Toronto trio Cauldron dedicates itself to metal’s lost early Eighties, when thrash and glam bands hadn't yet gone separate ways, and low-rent burnouts in jean jackets imagined themselves stomping like Hannibal's pachyderms across the Pyrenees. Between...
March 10, 2011 10:45 AM ET
Party Store | ALBUM REVIEW

Click to listen to the Dirtbombs' "Cosmic Cars" and "Sharevari" Detroit's music has always driven across racial and genre boundaries. But when a longstanding garage-rock...
February 1, 2011 12:00 AM ET
Catch My Shoe | ALBUM REVIEW

These uncompromising Dutch anarchists first waxed their far-left funk-punk the sameyear the Gang Of Four did: 1979. But the Ex never gave up – just altered their co-ed lineup now and then. Countless releases later,...
January 25, 2011 12:30 AM ET
Strategies Against Architecture IV: 2002-2010 | ALBUM REVIEW

Though best known for helping invent industrial music by clanging metal objects against each other three decades ago, these German dadaists have actually been incorporating coherent melody and rhythm since the mid-Eighties. Lately, they've drawn more on...
December 21, 2010 6:45 PM ET
Dancing For the Cabana Code in the Land of Boo-Hoo | ALBUM REVIEW

A generation after serving as August Darnell's zoot-suited comic foil in Kid Creole and the Coconuts, this ageless Nuyorican jack-of-all-trades reappears with his first solo album in 27 years, and only second ever. It's a hoot, too:...
December 21, 2010 9:00 AM ET
"Christmas In Harlem" | SONG REVIEW

Kanye's tinsel-tinted stocking stuffer sounds uncharacteristically tossed-off, as if he's preoccupied with the Xmas shopping spree he says he's planning. But actual Harlem R&B hopeful Teyana Taylor offers warmth from the wind chill, eventually slipping into the...
December 16, 2010 5:11 PM ET
Only One Flo (Part 1) | ALBUM REVIEW

Flo Rida hit it big by borrowing hooks from euphoric old Eurocheese songs by Eiffel 65 and Dead or Alive. So it's no shock that the first single from the rapper's third album...
November 30, 2010 3:30 PM ET
Number One Hits | ALBUM REVIEW

A Louisiana Democrat who's more convincing quiet-storm smooth than redneck-rock rowdy, Faith Hill's hubby has topped country's singles chart 22 times since 1994. This double disc compiles all of those tracks, which makes it...
November 30, 2010 3:25 PM ET
As U Were | ALBUM REVIEW

Japanese-American hip-hop lifer Lyrics Born may never top Later That Day . . ., his career-defining 2003 album, but he still puts in an honest year's work. Now he's setting his rich-baritoned soul-rap verbosity over Eighties electro...
November 16, 2010 12:41 PM ET
Earth vs. the Pipettes | ALBUM REVIEW

On their first album in four years, once-polka-dotted Brit gal group the Pipettes are now a duo-plus-musicians; two of the three original singers are gone. Sonically, they've replaced theoretical Phil Spector with theoretical astro-disco, most explicitly in...
November 16, 2010 12:26 PM ET
5.0 | ALBUM REVIEW

Aiming to capitalize on "Just a Dream," his biggest hit in a half-decade, Missouri's favorite rapper ends his sixth album with another soft-rock-tinged ballad — "Nothing Without Her," about taming a bad girl. On his way there,...
November 16, 2010 12:22 PM ET