Best Sellers of 2011
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Nine Types of Light begins (typically) cryptically -- for one thing, the opening tune is called "Second Song" -- but unmistakably positive, signaling a more emotionally upbeat TV on the Radio on it...read more
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"My country 'tis of thee / Sweet land of liberty" sings Merrill Garbus, a.k.a. Tune-Yards, leaning into the last word to show just how different her idea is than that of our founders. On her second...read more
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It's album number 17 for one of postmodern music's elder statesmen, as well as his first set of all-new material in seven years. And yet, as kaleidoscopic as Tom Waits's sound is, Bad as Me seems t...read more
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Just another typical Wilco album. By which, of course, I mean a two-record sprawl that encompasses so many forms of pop -- rootsy, alternative (whatever that means), orchestrated and borderline exp...read more
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Bradford Cox is so ably advancing so many different narratives at the same time that he should be like, really well-known and widely admired. He is? Well, good. The Deerhunter capo's latest as Atla...read more
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