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Music review: The National, Boxer
Dark and brooding but filled with heartbreakingly gorgeous pop, The National's latest album soars.
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Music Review: The Afghan Whigs - Unbreakable (A Retrospective 1990-2006)
The Afghan Whigs make a compelling case for their diverse, hard-edged rock in this look back at their 1990s heyday.
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Book Review: The Rough Guide To The Blues by Nigel Williamson
The Rough Guide explores the vast world of the blues in a new encyclopedic book and an excellent CD compilation
Brace yourself – for a movie about giant robots that turn into trucks and tanks, it's an amazing piece of summer entertainment.
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Music Review: Yoko Ono - Open Your Box ; Yes, I'm A Witch
Artists from Cat Power to the Pet Shop Boys remix Yoko Ono in two new CDs that offer a fresh look at her legacy
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Music review: So Real: Songs From Jeff Buckley
Is it necessary? Maybe not, but a new compilation of Jeff Buckley's work takes samples of his one album and scraps of the rest of his work to create a retrospective.
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Music Review: Lou Reed Takes Berlin Back on the Road
A remastered version of Lou Reed's once-reviled, now hailed dark 1973 album accompanies a new European stage show.
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Music review: The Traveling Wilburys - The Traveling Wilburys Collection
Finally – the two discs by the late great Traveling Wilburys super-group return to print, in a new collection by Rhino Records.
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Music Review: Motown Number 1's Volume 1 and Volume 2
Forty years of Motown hits boiled down to two superb, concise compilation CDs, with barely a bad song on them.
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Music Review: The Stooges - The Weirdness
It may be clutzy, it may be goofy, but the Stooges' first album in more than 30 years still kinda rocks
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