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by / on May 11, 2013 at 11:35 am / in Pop Music, Reissue, Rock Music, Uncategorized

R.E.M. – Green: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (2013)

If 1987′s Document heralded the moment when R.E.M. started to get away from us, the follow up Green confirmed things: This wasn’t going to be our little secret anymore.

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by / on March 21, 2013 at 9:04 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

The Waterboys – An Appointment with Mr. Yeats (2013)

You could be forgiven for not believing that a new project based on the work of Irish poet William Butler Yeats might be the rocking-est, modern-est thing the Waterboys have put out in some 25 years. But it is.

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by / on March 19, 2013 at 9:08 am / in Dance Music, Pop Music, Uncategorized

Depeche Mode – Delta Machine (2013)

With Depeche Mode’s forthcoming Delta Machine, David Gahan, Andy Fletcher and Martin Gore recall their greatest late-1980s successes. That they are largely no worse for the wear, in particular Gahan, is a wonder to behold.

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by / on March 16, 2013 at 8:31 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

Johnny Marr – The Messenger (2013)

A hired gun and a second fiddle for almost his entire career thus far, Johnny Marr finally slips into the driver’s seat with The Messenger. His debut solo record is his own creation from top to bottom, a propulsive and diverse recording top-loaded with raucous accoutrements and immense souvenirs. NME’s “Godlike Genius” dealt magic in the Smiths and co-wrote songs [...]

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by / on February 27, 2013 at 8:38 pm / in One Track Mind, Rock Music

One Track Mind: The Replacements, “I’m Not Sayin’” from Songs for Slim (2013)

Anyone who was a fan of their dangerously debauched brand of college rock, so long gone now, would have thought that chances of the Replacements getting back together were roughly the same as the odds they’d cover a Gordon Lightfoot song.

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by / on January 31, 2013 at 7:09 am / in One Track Mind, Pop Music, Uncategorized

One Track Mind: Depeche Mode, “Heaven” from Delta Machine (2013)

Dimly foreboding, funereal in the most intriguing of ways, Depeche Mode’s new single “Heaven” moves with a delicious deliberateness. It’s all atmosphere, all feel, completely enveloping.

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by / on January 23, 2013 at 8:11 am / in Pop Music, Streams

Exclusive stream: Chris Stamey, “Anyway” from Lovesick Blues (2013)

Check out an exclusive advance stream of “Anyway,” from Chris Stamey’s upcoming album Lovesick Blues, due on February 5, 2013 from Yep Roc Records.

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by / on January 20, 2013 at 9:58 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

The Pogues – Very Best of (2013)

All you need to know, really, about Irish punk rockers Pogues is right in their name, taken from a Gaelic phrase meaning “kiss my arse.” Confounding expectation, they played softly as often as they played loudly

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by / on January 16, 2013 at 9:12 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

Camper Van Beethoven – La Costa Perdida (2013)

There is a majestic weirdness to Camper Van Beethoven, recaptured in all of its freak-flag glory on La Costa Perdida, their first studio effort in some eight years.

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by / on January 16, 2013 at 7:34 am / in Rock Music, Uncategorized

Dash Rip Rock – Black Liquor (2012)

If you grew up a fan of live music in or around Louisiana in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you knew, without a doubt, that Dash Rip Rock was going to be huge one day.

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