Music: Adult Alternative
Currently listing articles 1156-1101:
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Music Review: Gene Clark/Carla Olson - In Concert— Not one simply for the Byrds, Collectors Choice unearths a gem of a performance from a pair of country-rock's finest.
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Music Review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Momofuku— "'Well Momofuku told me, 'Son you gotta make some money / If you want to use the car to go ridin' next Sunday.'" — "Summertime
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Music Review: Barenaked Ladies - Snacktime— A CD that you could play for your kids on long car trips and you could all enjoy the sound that is pure BNL.
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Interview with Glen Phillips: The Secrets of Secrets Of The New Explorers— "It's the reason the word is 'play' when you're talking about working with instruments"
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Music Review: Glen Phillips - Secrets of the New Explorers
— Secrets reveals another side of Phillips' record collection.
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Former Toad The Wet Sprocket Singer Glen Phillips Interview Part 1: "Indie Music Has Never Been Better"— Part 1 of my interview with Glen Phillips...
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John Mellencamp's Life, Death, Love and Freedom To Be Released in HD-Audio July 15— Mellencamp will be the first to use T-Bone Burnett's new HD-Audio format
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Music Review: Elvis Costello and the Imposters - Momofuku
— Elvis Costello's latest album; look for the deluxe reissue in 25 years.
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Former Toad The Wet Sprocket Frontman Glen Phillips Guests On B-Sides Concept Album Program Tonight
— A critical piece of the soundtrack of my life...
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A Destination Site For "Sonic Boomers" Who Like It Loud— Finally! A place on the web for those folks not yet quite ready to hang up their rock and roll shoes.
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Looking Forward: New Albums From Weezer, Roxy Music, And More— Plenty of singer/songwriter releases coming up.
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Music Review: Robert Forster - The Evangelist— The former Go-Between mourns the loss of his onetime band cohort.
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Tom Waits Announces Tour— Clap hands: Waits will hit the road this summer.
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Music Review: T Bone Burnett - Tooth Of Crime— There are not many composers of any genre who are as capable of creating music that rewards its listeners to the extent that T Bone
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The Rockologist: The Politics Of DancingRocking— Revolution rock still lives. You just gotta' look a bit harder to find it.
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Music Review: Steve Winwood - Nine Lives— Winwood's best work in years, Nine Lives would be an album-rock smash in another time and place. Yes, it's that good.
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Music Review: The Diga Rhythm Band - Diga Rhythm Band— World Music before world music even existed.
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Counting Crows' Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings - A Listening Companion: Interview With Adam Duritz Pt. 2— Anyone who thought contributing a song to the Shrek 2 soundtrack was a sign of happier times ahead was obviously wrong.
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Music Review: Richard Hawley - Lady’s Bridge— Mellow Brit singer-songwriter strums his way through a disappointing solo effort.
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Vinyl Tap: The Replacements - Let It Be— Accept no substitutes. The Replacements' Let It Be is a roarin’ little record I want my turntable to play and play again.
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Music Review: Mississippi Heat - Hattiesburg Blues— Mississippi Heat cherish the traditions of those who came before while having the vision to see how they can build on them.
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Introducing Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings: Interview With Counting Crows' Adam Duritz
— "The Internet is the best thing that has ever happened to music in the history of music."
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Music Review: Carole King - Tapestry: Legacy Edition— Even if you already have multiple versions in your collection, you'll want this one, too.
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Music Review: Babylon Circus - Dances Of Resistance— Remembering what it means to be human is probably the best "Dance Of Resistance" we have at our disposal.
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Music Review: Everclear - The Vegas Years— 1990s rock icons Everclear retrench with a covers record paying homage to their idols.
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Random Shuffle - Regina Spektor, They Might Be Giants, Elvis and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy— I'm putting my music collection on shuffle and talking about karaoke, marital differences, getting older, and other random silliness.
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Music Review: Murder by Death - Red of Tooth and Claw— Best enjoyed with a pint in hand
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Music Review: Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You— If you've not listened to Kimya Dawson yet, you're missing out on some of the best and most human music going.
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Music Review: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark – Live: Architecture & Morality & More— The wait was worth it!
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Liner Notables: Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Armed Forces, 2002 Rhino Edition— "The highly charged language...is full of gimmicks and almost overpowers some songs with paradoxes and subverted cliches piling up into private and secret meanings."
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Book Review: Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica (33 1/3) by Kevin Courrier— Eric Whelchel tackles Kevin Courrier's informative if uneven take on Trout Mask Replica, one of music’s most challenging albums.
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Music Review: The Black Keys - Attack & Release— Whether you've loved them for years or never heard of them before, Attack & Release demands your attention.
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Music Review: Kenia - Simply Kenia— Kenia's first release in a decade shows that some things just get better with time.
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Music Review: The Black Crowes - Warpaint— These guys never run out of hands, do they?
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Book Review: Doolittle by Ben Sisario— Sisario examines and discusses Doolittle's themes of violence, death, and the horizontal tango - and the dark sense of humor resting just below the surface.
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Music Review: The Lemonheads - It's A Shame About Ray (CD+DVD Deluxe Edition)— Theme to an endless bummer...
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The Friday Morning Listen: Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You
— I needed a big dose of sincerity.
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Re:Collection - Pink Floyd: The Division Bell— Beef, art, and David Gilmour. Life is weird.
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Music Review: Matthew Ryan - Matthew Ryan VS Silver State— The whole album is fantastic (wonderful, brilliant, just insert whatever word you choose).
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Album Review: The Ike Reilly Assassination - We Belong to the Staggering Evenings— The greatest American band of the 21st Century.
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Music Review: Joe Jackson — Rain— With his superb new album, Joe Jackson continues to defy stereotypes and confound expectations
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Music Review: R.E.M. - Accelerate— R.E.M is back. Sort-of. And with loud guitars.
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Music Review: Sara Bareilles - Little Voice— Singer/songwriter Sara Bareilles and her CD, Little Voice, have more to them than meets the eye
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Music Review: The Black Crowes - Warpaint
— The Black Crowes recover their musical mojo and rediscover their own voice on the distinctly downhome sounding Warpaint.
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Music Review: Counting Crows - Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings
— Counting Crows are back and have created an album sure to create fond memories.
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Music Review: Grayson Capps - Songbones— Grayson Capps writes songs of power and grace, and Songbones is a wonderful showcase of that talent.
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Music Review: B-52s - Funplex— The Athens, Georgia goof-butts release their first new album in sixteen years.
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The Friday Morning Listen: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand— The Friday Morning Listen: 5th Anniversary Edition!
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Music DVD Review: Barry Manilow: Songs of the Seventies— Barry Manilow serenades with songs from the seventies.
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Music Review: Whiskeytown - Stranger’s Almanac— Stranger's Almanac is the must-have collection for Whiskeytown fans, as well as fans of Alt-Country and, particularly, Ryan Adams.
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Music Review: Gary Louris - Vagabonds— On his first solo album, Gary Louris expands on the sound of the Jayhawks, adding blues, gospel, and a dash of psychedelia to the mix.
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Music Review: Umbrella Tree - The Church & The Hospital— A smorgasbord of innovative ideas and ambition, some of which end up crashing ignominously to earth
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Music Review: Jason Ringenberg - Best Tracks And Side Tracks: 1979 – 2007 — The alt-country legend releases a two-disc retrospective of solo material.
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Music Review: The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia— I have a feeling we may be talking about Saturnalia for years to come.
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Audio Book Review: 3rd i by Basil Eliades— A turbulence to dive for: poetry and music as performance art.
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Music Review: Auktyon - Girls Sing— Auktyon is proof positive and that East and West can meet in harmony and make beautiful music together.
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