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The 32nd studio album from Bob Dylan – his first since 2001’s triumphant ”Love and Theft” – features the legend in fine form, delivering a poignant, wistful record wit...read more
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So we all know that Pavement’s best two albums are Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain, right? Not so fast. There’s been a major reassessment of Pavement’s 1995 a...read more
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Another great compilation from the Eccentric Soul series, this time drawing on such a treasure trove that two discs are needed to contain its bounty. Forty tracks of Chicago soul and funk from the ...read more
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The latest crop of hazy, likably half-engaged sounding pop records-- a good many of which have come through the Captured Tracks label that's responsible for this shimmering gem of a record -- ...read more
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We've heard it all before -- sunny melodies and sharp-edged harmonies leavening lyrics about problems and heartache and things not working out and wanting to just escape from it all. But this Best ...read more
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You may think that four years is a long gap between albums, but take a look at the Beasties' discography: They've always taken their time with new releases. (And this time they had to give MCA a ch...read more
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Lo and behold, Danger Mouse -- who first achieved notoriety with his
Jay-Z/Beatles mashing project The Grey Album -- has stealthily become
one of American music's real auteurs. His latest effor...read more
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Perhaps music's most commanding presence, Leonard Cohen drifts back into the foreground of our consciousness with his twelfth album, Old Ideas, and proves that not only is his magic undiminished, i...read more
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Wilson Pickett's
first album, from 1965, was a bit of a hodgepodge, including singles
from as far back as 1962. Three of these tracks were actually issued as
singles by The Falcons (for whom ...read more
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As the third full-length album released by the Meters, Struttin may not appear to be drastically different than its predecessors, at
least not on the surface. After all, the title of the lead sin...read more
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This seminal New Orleans funk group's 1969 debut album features the semi-hit
"Cissy Strut" and its follow-up, "Sophisticated Sissy." -All Music Guide
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The title is a tip-off, as is the garish, blaxploitation-chic photo on the cover -- Rejuvenation, the Meters'
second album for Reprise, should be seen as a bit of a new beginning
for the quinte...read more
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The choice of Curtis Mayfield to score the blaxploitation film Superfly
was an inspired one. No other artist in popular music knew so well, and
expressed through his music so naturally, the sha...read more
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The Sound of Sexy Soul is the Delfonics' second long-player and builds upon the notable impact of their first, La La Means I Love You.
This album provides the trio a platform for their next batch...read more
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While La La Means I Love You is the trio's debut LP, the Delfonics had actually been working with producer Thom Bell as far back as their 1966 single "He Don't Really Love You." By the time this al...read more
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After greatly increasing their visibility with Skin Tight, the Ohio Players became even more visible with Fire
-- an unpredictable masterpiece that boasted such explosive horn-driven
funk jewels ...read more
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As one of the first albums Herbie Hancock recorded after departing Miles Davis' quintet in 1968, as well as his final album for Blue Note, The Prisoner is one of Hancock's most ambitious efforts. A...read more
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Roots is Curtis Mayfield's visionary album, a landmark creation every bit as compelling and as far-reaching in its musical and extra-musical goals as Marvin Gaye's
contemporary What's Goin' On. Op...read more
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Released at the tail end of the '60s, Hot Buttered Soul set the precedent for how soul would evolve in the early '70s, simultaneously establishing Isaac Hayes and the Bar-Kays as major forces withi...read more
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1971's Here Comes Shuggie Otis was the debut album by the guitarist and songwriter, issued by Columbia, when Shuggie was only 18. Produced and arranged by his father, R&B legend Johnny Otis, th...read more
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Life must be good when you're Damon Albarn, once an angry young(er) man embroiled in a nonstop war of meaninglessness with the bushy eyebrows of Oasis about -- well, who really knows what, probably...read more
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Been a spell since you've heard from Grizzly Bear, hasn't it? You can sate yourself but good with this short-but-quite-sweet EP from the band's guitarist Daniel Rossen, who seems to have the spirit...read more
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Jack White hasn't made a timid move in his life (as far as we know it), so it was hard to keep our expectations in check for his first bona fide solo album. We shouldn't have bothered trying -- Blu...read more
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