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    <title>Los Fabulosos Cadillacs:&amp;amp;nbsp;El Arte de la Elegancia de LFC</title>
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        Sony Music...
       
      
        By Alejandro A. Leal
      
      
      Fans of the veteran Argentinean rockers Los Fabulosos Cadillacs ought to be used to a release like El Arte de la Elegancia de LFC. A compilation of rerecorded and reinterpreted B-side tracks, it follows the same pattern that has propelled the band to revered status among the Rock en Espa&ntilde;ol faithful: Every few years, they&#39;re able to rerelease old material that suddenly catches fire. For El Arte, the goal was to get the band together to capture its current sound,
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    <title>Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel: Live</title>
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        Self-released...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel&#39;s latest offering captures two sprawling masses of improvised drones too harmonious to be called avant-garde and too experimental for stuffy modern classical terms. These sounds are the product of two minds sharing a single headspace and letting the music drive &ndash; which is typical of the Atlanta duo. From the onset of the 23:56 minute opener &quot;Live at Eyedrum,&quot; the lines are blurred as each instrument&#39;s respective whines and whirs waver in a dream
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    <title>Blockhead: The Music Scene</title>
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        Ninja Tune...
       
      
        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      Though his production work on albums for Aesop Rock and other elite indie rappers gets a lot more attention, Manhattan beatmaker Blockhead has quietly been releasing consistently strong solo albums in the last half-decade. His tracks for other artists tend to be more in the hard-hitting, slicing-and-dicing, traditional hip-hop vein, but albums such as his latest, The Music Scene, give him an opportunity to be more atmospheric and experimental, and at times, to simply space out. The disc is at
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    <title>White Denim: Fits</title>
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        Downtown Music...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
      White Denim&#39;s Fits wields a dizzying, ADD aesthetic that brims with rhythmic dexterity. By design, nothing stays in one place for too long. &quot;Radio Milk How Can You Stand It&quot; opens with a wash of noise that bursts into rhythms snaking through funk, psychedelia and art-rock terrain. The music careens wildly, crashing against the noise-damaged, Tex-Mex spaz of &quot;El Hard Attack Dcwyw&quot; and the spaced-out dub of &quot;Sex Prayer.&quot; At the half-way point, the group&#39;s meds seem to kick in
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        Downtown Music...
       
      
        By Chad Radford
      
      
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    <title>Soulico: Exotic on the Speaker</title>
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        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      A DJ crew composed of four Tel Aviv beatmakers, Soulico blends U.S. hip-hop with traditional Jewish melodies and Israeli folk in a way that feels exotic to American ears while remaining accessible. It helps that the debut CD, Exotic on the Speaker, features many MCs rap heads will be familiar with, including Ghostface Killah, Lyrics Born, Pigeon John and Del the Funky Homosapien. Mainly, however, the disc succeeds because the tracks bounce, and the Middle Eastern-crossover, party flavor will remind
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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    <title>Echo &amp;amp; the Bunnymen: The Fountain</title>
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Echo &amp; the Bunnymen&#39;s best songs have always swelled with hopeless romance weighed against distress and an almost creepy sense of longing. The sweeping mood of their groundbreaking early &#39;80s records has steadily evaporated since their mid-&#39;90s reformation, but concise pop tendencies have grown in its wake. The Fountain isn&#39;t poorly executed, it&#39;s just a bit samey. Ian McCulloch&#39;s dark croon in &ldquo;Shroud of Turin&rdquo; and the title track evoke everything that ever made the group so fantastic. And Will
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      With their self-titled debut, Londoners The xx drift through a mire of boy-girl, twentysomething sexual and emotional ruminations via sparse atmospheres and occasionally evolved pop melodies that hide mostly in the shadows. But when it comes to the surface in &ldquo;VCR,&rdquo; &ldquo;Crystalised&rdquo; and &ldquo;Basic Space,&rdquo; their simple, economical songwriting soars far beyond their years. Vocalist Jamie Smith coos her regrets, apologies and desires with spaciousness and allure, leaving plenty of room to roam in every song. Romy Croft delivers deep,
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    <title>R.A. the Rugged Man: Legendary Classics, Volume 1</title>
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        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      On his 2004 track &ldquo;Chains,&rdquo; R.A. the Rugged Man raps that he is &ldquo;mad famous for being unknown.&rdquo; This is true. Despite having recorded with everyone from Notorious B.I.G. to Kool G Rap and having once been signed to Jive and Priority, R.A. has only one studio album in a career spanning nearly two decades. Which is why his new greatest hits CD, Legendary Classics, Volume 1, seems strange &mdash; until you realize the Long Island-born MC has enough beloved
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    <title>Hall &amp;amp; Oates: Do What You Want, Be What You Are</title>
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        By Hal Horowitz
      
      
      The most popular male duo in music history (easily besting Simon &amp; Garfunkel and the Everly Brothers, at least in terms of sales) Daryl Hall and John Oates get the belated yet extremely comprehensive box set tribute they deserve. There have been plenty of other blue-eyed soul men, but none have tapped into the zeitgeist with as much pure pop savvy as H&amp;O. They effortlessly captured the smooth soul of their Philly hometown and even though over the years (this
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    <title>Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport</title>
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      The second full-length from U.K. duo Fuck Buttons is an impressive shift toward accessible melodies without sacrificing the experimental grit of their &#39;08 debut, Street Horrrsing. As such, it&#39;s inappropriate to call Fuck Buttons a noise group, per se. Sure, they shun the verses, choruses and whatever else goes into what most people call songs. But the drifting rhythms and crystalline sounds in &quot;Surf Solar&quot; and &quot;Space Mountain&quot; lay out a blueprint for the group&#39;s restrained ears. There&#39;s nothing harsh
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    <title>Nirvana: Bleach Deluxe Edition</title>
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Before there was grunge, there was Bleach, Nirvana&#39;s harsh, &#39;89 debut that dragged punk&#39;s contemptuous sneer through the mud to churn out one damn fine album. Bleach isn&#39;t the voice of a generation that came two years later with Nevermind, but it&#39;s an infinitely better record. &quot;Blew,&quot; &quot;School,&quot; &quot;Love Buzz,&quot; &quot;Negative Creep&quot; &mdash; they&#39;re all raw classics that were too visceral for the masses. Cobain&#39;s half-baked yowls still sound like they&#39;re going to fall apart every time he opens his
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    <title>U2: The Unforgettable Fire - Deluxe Edition</title>
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        By Hal Horowitz
      
      
      Best considered as a warm-up for U2&#39;s next album, the classic The Joshua Tree, 1984&#39;s The Unforgettable Fire finds the quartet retreating from the overt commerciality of War and, with the help of Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, gradually shifting to a more ambient sound. The Eno-Lanois production team would later be the key that pushed U2 toward experimental waters. Although that approach is apparent on a bonus disc of B-sides, non-album rarities, live tracks and extended remixes, songs such
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    <title>Vic Chesnutt: At the Cut</title>
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        By Chad Radford
      
      
      Much like &#39;07&#39;s North Star Deserter, Vic Chesnutt&#39;s At the Cut finds Athens&#39; grim folkie still soaring beyond the devices of a traditional singer/songwriter. Many of the players who made North Star Deserter so bold and beautiful, including members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and former Fugazi vocalist/guitarist Guy Picciotto, have returned. But whereas North Star crystallized Chesnutt&#39;s stark visions into swirls of strings, rhythms and dissonance, here the expansive sound feels natural. &quot;Coward&quot; opens with epic drama, and Picciotto&#39;s
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    <pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 04:00:00 MST</pubDate> 
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        By Ben Westhoff
      
      
      The members of Music Go Music must want you to believe they&#39;re Scandinavian fairies living in the mountains, with only synthesizers and pixie sticks to sustain them. Why else would they give themselves pseudonyms like Gala Bell, Kamer Maza and TORG, and play the airiest, most sugary-sweet dance pop imaginable on their debut, Expressions? The group is actually composed of members of Los Angeles indie-rock outfit Bodies of Water, and this project sees them indulging their love of &#39;80s electro,
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