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<title>Phoenix</title>
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<category>Indie Pop</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:53:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Phoenix first hit American indie audiences, they were already tight with Beck and the French band Air. Hailing from the Parisian suburbs, Phoenix began putting their act together like any other suburban band -- in the garage. The band comprised of vocalist Thomas Mars, bassist Deck D'Arcy and guitarist Christian Mazzalai (his older brother Laurent "Branco" Brancowitz joined them in 1995 after playing in Darlin' with Thomas Bangalter and Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, who would later become Daft Punk). On their first album, 2000's <i>United</i>, they lay down R&B-influenced grooves with 1980s-inspired synth pop to create their trademark sound of breezy, indie electro-pop. Their follow-up, 2004's <i>Alphabetical</i>, helped push the band a little further beyond the French music scene with the help of single "Everything is Everything." Next came extensive touring, the release of 2006's <i>It's Never Been Like That</i> and more touring. Phoenix made their biggest impact yet on the American audience when they performed on <i>Saturday Night Live</i> prior to dropping 2009's <i>Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix</i>.
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<title>Beck</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Beck Hansen spent his formative years in coffeehouses creating a suburban, angst-ridden persona that would eventually lead to a multiplatinum career and inspire legions of 7-Eleven slackers. Since the surprisingly successful 1994 single "Loser," Beck has continued onward and upward with a number of diversely creative, genre-jumping releases. He has emerged as one of the most colorful post-modern popsters -- from the contemplative <I>One Foot in the Grave</I> to the Dust Brothers-produced, folk-hop masterpiece <I>Odelay</I> and the futuristic party funk of <I>Midnite Vultures</I>. With albums like <I>Mutations</I> and <I>Sea Change</I>, Beck has shown that he's just as capable conveying the wounds of a broken heart as he is rapping about Cheez Whiz. Perhaps hoping to win back the post-modern tag, the troubadour returned to the beats in 2005 on the barrio-themed <I>Guero</I> and again in 2008 with <I>Modern Guilt</I>, produced by the equally trickster-like Danger Mouse. Magnetism and quirky charm dutifully intact -- he once threatened to play K-Mart retail stores exclusively -- Beck continues to party way past bedtime, singing, dancing and raking it in like it's 1999.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Cake</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Cake originally brought their brand of postmodern, sarcastic, genre-jumping, fun rock to wiseguys (and girls) everywhere in the early 1990s. Funk, hip-hop and both jam and alt rock came together, birthing a smash hit known as "The Distance" in '96. The song became one of the biggest competitive team sports soundtrack numbers since Queen's "We Are The Champions," Blur's "Song 2" or even Gary Glitter's "Rock And Roll Part 2." Cake work best when singer John McCrea is at his driest, serving up sardonic, trumpet-driven quips. They originally garnered a devoted following through constant exposure to the great suburban playground that is Sacramento, Calif. (by way of U.C. Davis parties). Despite lineup changes and a major label segue, Cake continue to innovate pop music with their formulaic blend of tuneful guitar bursts, mariachi-derived trumpet, funky-white boy rhythms, and McCrea's deadpan King-Missile-meets-Steven-Wright vocals.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Gorillaz</title>
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<category>Experimental Rap/Hip-Hop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:47:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Gorillaz' image may be cartoonish, but with artists like Del the Funky Homosapian, Dan the Automator, and members of Blur, Cibo Matto, and Tom Tom Club contributing, their music is anything but lightweight. Experimental in nature and obtuse in scope, the Gorillaz' sound melds Damon Albarn's sharp pop sensibilities with Dan the Automator's eclectic bass-heavy, beat-driven hip hop. And although the combination doesn't always gel, when they hit the mark, it's usually with a bull's eye. Perhaps it was the cartoon facade, or the side-project feel of the collaborative, but when the Gorillaz's self-titled debut was released in 2001, critics predicted a short shelf life for the band. Despite this, the Gorillaz's album went platinum and the group scored a couple of hefty hits with "Clint Eastwood" and "19-2000." But when most of the members of the group went back to their day jobs, most assumed that was the end of them. But in July 2005, the band released its follow-up, <I>Demon Days.</I> As the title suggests, the Gorillaz's sophomore effort casts a darker shadow; however, this is tempered by slick-sounding beats and a variety of happy-go-lucky blips and bleeps. The group scored a radio hit this second time around with the single "Feel Good, Inc."
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>Citizen Cope</title>
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<category>Adult Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 11:24:55 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Citizen Cope -- born Clarence Greenwood -- ardently and soulfully explores the sounds of blues, hip-hop, rock and country. Richly textured violins play a lonely melody in the midst of acoustic guitar and classic organ, while Greenwood spins lazy yarns as blue as hip-hop lyrics can be. The country bumpkin earnest soul of groups like Outkast and the Goodie Mob is present, as is the slowly rocking blues and hip-hop combination favored by Beck and post-House of Pain Everlast. Everything is harmoniously orchestrated to tell a tragic tale of desperation and greed appropriate for passing time in a boxcar.
- Alex Henning]]></description>
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<title>Tegan and Sara</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Tegan and Sara each rise to complement the other's vocal strengths. One plays the clenched-jaw bad cop, taking few breaths between her breakneck assault; the other is the softer, cooing good cop. Their songs work off the yin yang seesaw that the Indigo Girls have down pat, but they update the music for a younger demographic by adding Techno beats to the non-traditional genre of Urban Folk.
- Jennifer Maerz]]></description>
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<title>Andrew Bird</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Few artists better exemplify the term chamber pop than violinist, whistler, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird. Born in the small agricultural community of Elizabeth, Illinois, Bird took up the Suzuki method for violin as a boy and eventually completed a bachelor's degree in violin performance from Northwestern University. His first solo album, <i>Music of Hair</i>, was self-released in 1996. In 1997, he joined the Squirrel Nut Zippers just in time to release their blockbuster <i>Hot</i> releases, though he left the band shortly after. His work with the Zippers and countless other cameos didn't distract from his solo career though, and he released four more records -- 1998's <i>Thrills</i>, 1999's <i>Oh! The Grandeur</i>, 2001's <i>The Swimming Hour</i>, and 2003's <i>Weather Systems</i> -- before the minor commercial breakthrough of 2005's <i>The Mysterious Production of Eggs</i>. In 2007, Bird's eclectic chamber pop became the black sheep of blues label Fat Possum records, when the label released <i> Armchair Apocrypha</i>.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Bjork</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Bjork is hard to pin down and trace. Pointing to her pre-solo incarnations as a jazz singer, a Crass Records punk and an international indie-pop star with the Sugarcubes only shows a fraction of her depth. Since her <I>Debut</I>, in 1993, she has created a symbiosis between academic music and pop, her hands holding a score by Karlheinz Stockhausen while her feet dance to the faceless sounds of rave culture. Masterfully, her music never flies out into obscurity or stoops to obviousness. Working with innovative producers and remixers, such as Nellee Hooper, Howie B., Mark Bell, Matmos and, most recently, Timbaland, she has been able to consistently change strategies, keeping her sound contemporary, gently nudging at the edges of the mainstream. While she takes these adventurous turns through her career, her versatile voice is unmistakable. She displays wide emotional range from the contained rage of "Army of Me" to the explosive joy of "It's Oh So Quiet" to the ethereal bliss of "All Is Full of Love." While her music is always challenging, her fine art and screen side-projects are equally thought-provoking. For the Palme D'Or-winning Lars Von Trier film <i>Dancer In the Dark</i>, she won a Best Actress award for her leading role at Cannes in 2000. She would later collaborate with long-time boyfriend and fine art star Matthew Barney on the eerie and indulgent film <i>Drawing Restraint 9</i>.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Animal Collective</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:48:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There aren't many groups like Animal Collective. The only bands that spring to mind are the Flaming Lips and Mercury Rev. As with both of them heavy weights, Animal Collective is a profoundly avant-garde project that just so happens to make some of the most hummable jammers of the 21st century. They drawn inspiration from an absurd number of influences, including but not limited to Brit pop, experimental noise, vintage psychedelia, minimal techno, industrial, golden oldies, post-hardcore, dub and world music. Far more important, however, is how Animal Collective has synthesized all this good stuff into a phantasmagoric brand of tribal pop that's not at all pretentious or overly cerebral. In fact, it shimmers with a uranium-enriched sincerity best understood by nervous teens all strung-out on first loves, energy drinks and hormones. Of course, this is an aesthetic that's taken the band years to develop. Most ears will find early albums like <i>Here Comes the Indian</i> and the underrated <i>Danse Manatee</i> too extreme in their sonic freakery, but more recent works -- <i>Feels</i>, <i>Strawberry Jam</i>, <i>Merriweather Post Pavilion</i> -- will surely blow away those craving impeccably well-crafted indie rock.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>They Might Be Giants</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:37:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The duo of vocalist/guitarist John Flansburgh and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist John Linnell have been bringing their zany brand of pop to the public since their self-titled '86 release on the Bar/None label. The band's sound, propelled by angular beats combined with accordion, keyboards and guitars, is quirky and melodic, with Flansburgh's nasal voice heightening their natural lyrical irony. Through a series of popular college radio releases, their lyrics remain light but their music is a complex weave of instrumentation and odd time signatures.
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<title>Air</title>
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<category>Downtempo</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Originally gaining recognition for their down-tempo cocktail funk of "Modular Mix" and "Casanova 70" on the French SourceLab compilations of 1997, Air released their full-length debut the following year. An incredibly ambitious and successful melange of Serge Gainsbourg by way of Vangelis, <i>Moon Safari</i> is awash in strings, vocoders, analog synths, fluttering electro pulses and soulful backbeats. Everything from the rare groove of "La Femme D'Argent" to the Euro-pop of "Kelly, Watch the Stars!" is vaguely familiar, but never so successfully arranged until this point. Live, they are prone to wearing white jumpsuits while strategically placed fans blow wind through their hair, and there is no shortage of body-popping electro-funk. In the end, you are left with perfect road trip music -- assuming you're driving to the moon.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>G. Love and Special Sauce</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[G. Love's flowing rhymes sing and cajole over the upright bass and funky drumming of Special Sauce, with the whole package wrapped in a warm blanket of Philly soul. Elements of folk-blues and Dylan, as well as a love for both basketball and old-school Rap, result in deep grooves slathered in tremolo-soaked pawn-shop guitars, jazzy chords, and G. Love's distinctive blend of rapping and singing.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Eels</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since 1995, Mark Oliver Everett has been keepin' it eel. That is to say, he <I>is</I> the Eels much in the same way that Mark Linkous is Sparklehorse or that Anton Newcombe is the Brian Jonestown Massacre. Everett, or "E" as he likes to be called, began his obsession with a four-track recording device in his early twenties following an adolescence filled with a juvenile delinquency that only his sister's guitar could tame. As his songwriting improved, E moved to the City of Angels where he landed a solo deal on Polydor Records. Following the semi-success of two albums, he left Polydor to form the Eels with drummer Butch Norton and bass player Tom Walter. They were quickly picked up by DreamWorks records and released <I>Beautiful Freak</I> in 1996, which birthed a hit song and video with "Novocaine for the Soul," snagging them a Brit Award as well as many comparisons to both Beck and Blur (perhaps due to the music's witty lyrical salad and floating, rhythmic grooves). Despite a studio collaboration with some of Hollywood's A-list session men, the band's next two albums didn't propel them into mainstream megalomania, as many had predicted. Their fourth and fifth long players also failed to break Eels into the big top, but they secured the band a sturdy fan base and cult following more loyal than what most artists receive from repeated airplay.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Placebo</title>
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<category>Brit Pop/Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[These young men blend Britpop with sonic noise and hip-shaking glam rock to create something all their own. Androgynous singer Brian Molko sounds a lot like Geddy Lee (he'll deny it, but listen for yourself). Placebo's songs are kinetic and wiry at times, but alternately gritty and rocking in a way last heard when Suede imitated Bowie. When the band uses retrospection as embellishment over their foundation, you hear the true Placebo -- not to say that their version of "20th Century Boy" doesn't rock as hard as Marc Bolan's.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Bat For Lashes</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:04:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The opening track on British songwriter and singer Natasha Khan's debut record came to her in a dream, one that inspired the former film student and then-nursery school teacher to a second career in music. According to Khan, the dream focused on a black horse that came to her window and invited her to take part in a mythical quest. In the waking world, that quest led to Kahn writing songs filled with themes of otherworldly kingdoms, fanciful allegories and woodland creatures, and eventually setting them to tape for a heady blend of darkly psychedelic indie pop. Recorded between her home city of Brighton and London, the record, <i>Fur and Gold</i>, found a home on the Echo Label and was released in September, 2006. Praised by the British press for her artful presentation and lolling songcraft, Kahn put together a live band and hit the road, supporting likeminded indie songstresses CocoRosie. She soon went back into the studio and released the more electro-centric follow-up, <i>Two Suns</i> in 2009.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Ween</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dean and Gene Ween's eclectic post-modern pop defies categorization. With a wry sense of humor, in the spirit of the Dead Milkmen's "Bitchin' Camaro" or Tenacious D's "Kyle Took a Bullet for Me," Ween have thumbed their noses at any serious concept of popular music. Each album is, in fact, more a collection of Song Parodies rather than meticulously penned, Bic-worthy anthems. Their synth-driven stabs at soul, R&B, and Punk have truly achieved life-of-the-mushroom-party status. And with song titles such as "Hey Fat Boy (As*hole)," "Reggaejunkiejew," and "Mister Would You Please Help My Pony?" Ween are dead-set on having the last laugh.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Scissor Sisters</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:54:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Nothing new under the sun? Perhaps not, but New York's Scissor Sisters make the most of influences ranging from glam-retro (vintage Elton John) and classic electropop (the Human League). Their riotous, flashy (in more ways than one) style won them a huge U.K. audience in 2004, thanks in part to a cheeky cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb." Those who checked out the act's self-titled debut album were pleased to hear a full-blown <I>Goodbye Yellow Brick Road</I> homage in "Take Your Mama," as well as the hope-filled emotional change-up of "It Can't Come Quickly Enough." Now making commercial inroads in their homeland, Scissor Sisters have eyebrow-raising tunes for days, not to mention hairstyles and attitudes that make them one of the most complete pop-party packages since the heyday of the B-52's and the Go-Go's.
- Jaan Uhelszki]]></description>
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<title>Stereolab</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Clean, soapy bliss like a new bottle of bubbles. The looped wand waves through the wind and casts out dreamy, melancholic analog waves. A picnic on a sunny day with estranged French relatives; both familiar and foreign, you recognize the references, but you cannot help but notice they are out of context. The chanteuse's optimism creates absurd words of revolution and the empty promise of future days.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>The Sundays</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With a classic British Jangle Pop sound interwoven with Harriet Wheeler's siren singing, the Sundays wowed indie kids everywhere with their 1990 debut <i>Reading, Writing & Arithmetic</i>. Although they were more commercially successful for their gossamer cover of "Wild Horses," the Sundays could hold their own as songwriters, as proven on the hit "Here's Where The Story Ends." Unfortunately the band never made it huge in the mainstream as British journalists had predicted. The Sundays would later be criticized for making the same record three times, but as the old saying goes, "If it ain't broken, why fix it?"
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Badly Drawn Boy</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:52:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Expertly folding samples, beats and random noise into mind-bending pop songs, Badly Drawn Boy follow the example set by Beck, further blurring the line between indie rock and electronica.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Mickey Avalon</title>
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<category>Alt Dance</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Brazilian Girls</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:42:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With an Argentinean, an Italian/German and two Americans in their ranks, the Brazilian Girls don't exactly live up to their name. But when you're making such sultry, border-crossing electro-pop, labels don't really matter. The group came together in New York City and honed their sound in small clubs there, fronted by the dynamic Sabina Sciubba. Their multilingual 2005 debut set critics and fans buzzing.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>Soul Coughing</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[New York City's Soul Coughing offer the kind of groove-oriented expertise that can only come from years of playing and research. With resumes that read like syllabi for independent studies in avant jazz, these Knitting Factory-educated, experimental scenesters offer a fusion of jazz, Funk, hip-hop and electronica. The rhythm section shines brightest with well-produced, well-tuned tones of loose, snappy drums and stand-up bass. Vocalist M. Doughty sets lazy, poetic verse to the beats, barely getting words out before the entrancing rhythms and low-end have nodded by. Arrangements are crafty enough to hold the shortest attention spans, while melodies vary between jazzy walks and brooding introspection. This is smart music that's not afraid to party once in a while.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Mike Doughty</title>
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<category>Adult Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:13:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Mike Doughty</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Fort Knox, Kentucky, native Mike Doughty rose to fame fronting '90s alt-rock staple Soul Coughing. After the rocky break of that group in 2000, Doughty returned to a solo career, promoting an LP, <i>Skittish</i>, that was recorded in 1996 and was ultimately rejected by Warner Brothers. His second studio LP, <i>Rockity Roll</i>, came in 2003 and eventually caught the ear of Dave Matthews, leading to an arrangement in which Matthews' label, ATO, issued Doughty's third LP, 2005's <i>Haughty Melodic</i>.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Eisley</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:44:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eisley twirled dreamily onto the scene just in time to fill the footsteps of a disbanding Sixpence None The Richer. A tragically hip, mostly-sibling act, Chauntelle, Stacy, Sherri and Weston DuPree linked arms with family friend Jonathan Wilson. Equally popular in the Tyler, Tex. Vineyard Church community as in the local coffeehouse scene, their career mirrored this cross appeal as they topped Christian charts while opening for mainstream artists like Coldplay. The sisters on the mic are intoxicating and should not be listened to while operating heavy machinery. Ballads like "I Wasn't Prepared" are unsettlingly hypnotic, distantly reminiscent of uneasy indie rock ballads like Cat Power's "Werewolf."
- Amy Bartlett]]></description>
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<title>David Byrne</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 1 Aug 2009 10:41:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The former leader of new wave icons Talking Heads, David Byrne's solo work may not have had the commercial impact of his old band's records, but it has been just as explorative. Byrne's obsession with global rhythms (see the Samba-fied '89 release <I>Rei Momo</I>), combined with his unusual vocal range (which alternates between yelping nervousness and a sort of cold melodic soul) and adventurous instrumentation has led to a critically successful solo career, spanning the fourth-world soundscapes of his 1981 collaboration with Brian Eno, <I>My Life in the Bush Of Ghosts</I> to albums like <I>In Spite of Wishing and Wanting</I>, a soundtrack of sorts produced for the Belgian dance company Ultima Vez.]]></description>
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<title>Yeasayer</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:43:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yeasayer is four Brooklynites who combine global rhythms, infectious vocal lines, and a futuristic brand of mysticism into one heady brew. The band won early acclaim after 2007 performances at the South by Southwest music festival, swiftly becoming a favorite of the ever-fickle blogosphere. The eclectic quartet cites everyone from Cyndi Lauper to Prince and Leonard Cohen as an influence, and the end result is a melange of pop references. While they have certain affinities with fellow New Yorkers in Animal Collective or Gang Gang Dance, Yeasayer favors an organic approach--serving up tribal rhythms with a dense, psychedelic flair--relying on old-fashioned instruments in addition to the synthesizers and electronics. Anand Wilder handles keys and intricate guitar fretwork, backed up by Luke Fasano on a futuristic drum kit and Ira Wolf Tuton on bass. Live, charismatic front man Chris Keating hollers and swoons, arms outstretched like he's beseeching the heavens to bring more cosmopolitan disco funk. Yeasayer is surrounded by a veil of mystery--they appeared seemingly from thin air, determined to inform the masses that 'by 2080 only enlightenment can prevent terror.' But of course.
- Scott Indrisek]]></description>
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<title>CocoRosie</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:41:34 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[For many years, the only thing the Cassady sisters -- better known as CocoRosie -- had in common was a shared Bohemian upbringing. Their childhood was spent traipsing from state to state with their teacher/artist mother during the school year and from reservation to reservation with their Cherokee father, a Waldorf teacher and shaman, in the summer. The sisters didn't get along, and after Sierra went to boarding school at 14, they didn't see each other for 10 years. During that estrangement, Bianca quietly began writing songs, while her big sister moved to France to study opera at the Paris Conservatory. One day in 2003, Bianca, who had been living in Brooklyn until she took off to travel the world, showed up at Sierra's Paris apartment. The reunited sisters shut themselves in Sierra's bathroom, which had the best acoustics, and began composing and recording their first album, <i>La Maison de Mon Reve</i>. That recording, which is every bit as delicate and ethereal as its title, established CocoRosie's incandescent electro-folk-hop sound, got them a deal with Tough & Go (which released the album in 2004), and led to gigs with indie luminaries like Devendra Banhart, Ratatat, and Antony and the Johnsons.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Brendan Benson</title>
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<category>Power Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sugary pop ditties about tying up women in chairs, drinking tea, and being attracted to cross-eyed girls. Brendan Benson's sugar-sweet music (some of which was co-written by Jason Falkner) sounds like a cross between glittery Glam rock and endearingly nerdy Indie pop. Bonus points for working with the Waxwings as well as the multi-talented Topper Heyland Rimel who played in bands such as The Deeds, Robots In Disguise, The Blindig Boozers and The Origin.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Sponge</title>
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<category>Contemporary Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Spirited, anthemic Power-Pop custom-tailored for your favorite commercial alternative radio. Pounding beats, overdriven, jangly guitar tension, and fist pumpin' vocal growl keeps the kids daydreaming through eighth-grade science.
- Kelly Bauman]]></description>
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<title>Luscious Jackson</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:38:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Luscious Jackson move around musical styles like the Philadelphia 76er from whom they borrowed their name. It's fitting that the band signed with the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal label, because their eclectic, always danceable music is as hard to pin down as the Beasties themselves. From funky, bass heavy hip-hop-inspired beats to lackadaisical indie guitar riffs, these former punk rockers traverse many a style, always leaving their smooth, pop-friendly vocals space to deliver their biting and personal lyrics.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Kenna</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:43:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kenna Zemedkun could be just another talented but unnoticed artist were it not for Malcolm Gladwell, who profiled him in his book <i>Blink</i>. This brought Kenna into that sweet spot of Gladwell intelligentsia, music-industry watchdogs and fans of...here is the problem, for Kenna is not easily categorized. If you're reading this, chances are you like electronica, synth pop, house or even post rock. Or perhaps you read <i>The Tipping Point</i> and <i>Blink</i> and hate feeling completely out of it. Kenna's music straddles all of the above and more, and while some might feel that leads to jack-of-all-trades-and-master-of-none territory, his undeniable talent still shines forth. Thus, despite rave reviews from all quarters, he failed to sell well and is arguably no further along in his career with album No. 2 (<i>Make Sure They See My Face</i>) than he was with his debut, <i>New Sacred Cow</i>. Knowing more about Kenna won't help much: he loves U2, the Beatles, Stevie Wonder and so forth; he's the eldest son of an immigrant Ethiopian family; he grew up in Cincinnati; and he supported Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan on tour. Perhaps it's best that you just listen to his music. You never know, you might like it.
- Nicholas Baker]]></description>
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<title>The Beta Band</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:56:20 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Beta Band are a raggle-taggle group of Scots and Brits who stirred up loads of justifiable interest for their genre-bending pop experiments. While the band do incorporate a DJ, their sound is a mainly organic one that manages to tie together folk, hip-hop, and psychedelia into one cohesive headphone-friendly jam. What comes out of listening to the Beta Band is their obvious desire to make music and to not be pop stars. They don't seem to take themselves too seriously, titling records like <I>Los Amigos Del Beta Bandidos</I> while constantly referring to their work as "awful." One might be quick to assume that their shuffling, bass-heavy psychedelia was the work of drug-soaked pranksters, but the band has been quite adamant about the lack of contraband around them. Instead, until their dissolution in 2004, they continued to toss out the occasional brilliant song alongside steel drums, raps, spoken rambles, congas and general head nodding-ness for what is unwittingly some of the coolest Jam Rock in the world.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Lou Bega</title>
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<category>Mambo</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Skipped Mambos Nos. 1 through 4, but did not skip Monica, Erica, Rita, Tina, Sandra, Mary, or Jessica. Fun fact: actually German! (And Sicilian and Ugandan, sort of.) Recommended: "Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...)"]]></description>
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<title>Jason Lytle</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:30:04 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Sneaker Pimps</title>
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<category>Trip-Hop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 10:43:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in the late 1990s, this rock/electronica crossover act helped set a standard for the Alt Dance genre alongside such likeminded radio darlings as Morcheeba, Portishead and Garbage. A polished blend of easy Trip-Hop beats and pop guitars highlight Kelli Dayton's addictive, throaty vocal stylings.]]></description>
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<title>Autour de Lucie</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Autour de Lucie play romantic Alt-Pop with dreamy French female vocals and warm-toned instruments that sound like they're plugged into vintage amplifiers. The music is made up of a refreshing formula that strays far from the tired, toneless grind of guitar distortion usually found in bands that play the X Games stage. Mixing an alchemy of Dream Pop, Power Pop, French Pop, and the slightest tinge of yesteryear's Brit Pop, Autour de Lucie float into well-written songs with easygoing changes, soaring choruses, and a subtle passion that you don't have to speak French to understand.]]></description>
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<title>Handsome Furs</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:09:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Handsome Furs formed in 2006, when Wolf Parade guitarist Dan Boeckner started a concept project with his drum machine-operating fiancee, Alexei Perry. The concept worked well and they booked a European tour before they'd written a song. They holed up in an apartment belonging to members of the Arcade Fire and wrote their debut, <i>Plague Park</i>, which was issued by SubPop.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Mr. Bungle</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:29:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Impossible to pigeonhole for more than a minute at a time, Mr. Bungle have marched an inspired path of lunacy for the past 15 years. They've evolved from mask-wearing Death Metal-ers to the genre-jumping, largely studio-based band they are now, their music growing increasingly more elaborate in the process. Yet certain characteristics have remained consistent, chief among them a dark sense of humor and a knack for skillfully borrowing/rearranging elements from diverse sources (Ennio Morricone, the Beach Boys, Slayer, Perrey-Kingsley). Their 1991 debut, often tagged as "Funk Metal," reaches a level of circus-esque pipe organ-drenched sickness quite different from the genre's currently popular strains. The subsequent <I>Disco Volante</I>, however, defies categorization, moving even further from traditional songwriting territory as it shifts violently between sections of Bop-ish jazz, Melvins-esque sludge, Lounge, Metal, and flat-out Noise. 1999's <I>California</I> again surprised listeners with its sunny pop approach, meanwhile retaining the expected levels of warped inventiveness and leaving fans asking, "What's next?"
- Will York]]></description>
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<title>Panda Bear</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Panda Bear first made his mark with Animal Collective before unleashing his solo effort on Paw Tracks. No, we're not recounting a role-playing game from the latest furry convention. We're talking about the Beach Boys-loving, loop-layering, indie-industrial-experimental fan o' pastiche drummer/singer/producer Panda Bear, a.k.a. Noah Lennox. Lennox is a Baltimore boy who, after spending his high school years making music and starting a label (the short-lived Soccer Star Records), moved to New York and formed the experimental, post-psychedelic outfit Animal Collective with guitarist Avery Tare (a.k.a. David Porter) in 2000. Fleshed out with the addition of Geologist and Deakin, the menagerie -- oops, make that group -- released a handful of critically acclaimed albums. In 2004, Lennox began dividing his time between performing and recording with the Collective and working on his own material. 2007 saw the release of his third solo album, <i>Person Pitch</i>.
- Rachel Devitt]]></description>
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<title>Broadcast</title>
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<category>Dream Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 7 Nov 2009 11:26:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Broadcast are one of the most innovative, cinematic pop bands to ever exist, helping kick-start the new millennium by setting the bar high with their nonpareil artistic songcraft and packaging. Their sound is both kinetic and organic: Post-Rock beats merge with antiquated tape loops, analog circuitry, oscillations, ring modulators and endearingly demure vocals that seem wistfully romantic at certain times and androgynously aloof at others. There's something about Broadcast's post-retro sound that would fit in perfectly on the Douphonic roster -- their bubbly, champagne-textured backing vocals, organ drones and otherworldly sound of someone playing something that sounds a lot like a sea of hands rubbing homespun tones out of a field of Waterford crystal drinking glasses. Perfect Dream Pop.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Spacehog</title>
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<category>Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:30:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Spacehog used to be a Madchester band called Hollow Men. After leaning heavily on the wah-wah pedal and big flares, they tightened up their act, dove headfirst into a vat of yesterday's glitter and became Spacehog. Mining roots from the Glam-ily tree, Spacehog fused the Bowie-esque inflections of singer Royston Langdon with his brother Ant's Mick Ronson/Marc Bolan style of guitarrorism. Drummer Johnny Cragg uses his bionic arms to pound out otherworldly rhythms last heard from Keith Moon. Although Cragg has yet to adopt the double bass set up, his rhythmic ingenuity and skilled dedication to hitting things with sticks is a sheer joy to hear or watch live, especially when the guitar player rocks the blue-glitter motorcycle helmet on stage.]]></description>
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<title>Gang Gang Dance</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 11:11:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Gang Gang Dance started gigging around New York City in the early 2000s, they were the last band anyone ever expected to make a great pop album. Early shows -- no doubt inspired by fellow New Yorkers No-Neck Blues Band -- were half performance art, half mystical ritual, with the band deconstructing noise rock, homemade electronica, free jazz, hip-hop and world music from Africa and Asia. Drummer Tim DeWitt and keyboardist Brian DeGraw had previously played together in the Cranium, an experimental post-hardcore outfit from Washington, D.C. They were strange, but not like Gang Gang Dance. Then things started to change. Each new album documented a band striving to alchemically transform all the weird stuff mentioned up above into a novel and all-too-fantastical breed of dance pop. After two challenging albums, they succeeded with the release of <i>God's Money</i> in 2005. Over an undulating latticework of phantom bass drops, tribal percussion and crystal synths, vocalist Liz Bougatsos chirps, cries and coos like some kind of post-nuclear gypsy. In 2008 Gang Gang Dance upped the ante with the wonderfully psychedelic <i>Saint Dymphna</i>, which actually boasts a dancefloor anthem or two -- sort of.
- Justin Farrar]]></description>
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<title>Cornershop</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:12:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[What's a corner shop? It's a place where you can get just about anything you need in tiny boxes, right? A place where necessities like toilet paper and razor blades often share shelf space with exotic condiments from the proprietor's own culture. Well, that's what this band gives you: songs with little bits of all the good stuff you can find in bigger packages elsewhere, plus the occasional bit in Punjabi, courtesy of singer Tjinder Singh. Hard to say exactly why it works so well, but the mix of Indie Rock guitars, dance club grooves, and cross-cultural instrumentation never sounds as forced as you might fear. Singh makes party records for people who usually prefer to discuss literature.
- Tim Quirk]]></description>
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<title>Scarlett Johansson</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:13:48 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Even though Scarlett Johansson's career as a singer is a hobby compared to her gig on the big screen, her approach to vocal performance is a far sight more ambitious than the average Hollywood starlet's. Johansson made her first venture as a singer in 2006, contributing a track to a non-profit compilation of songs recorded by actors. (She managed to fit this into the same year she became a spokesperson for L'Oreal and showed up on the cover of <i>Vanity Fair</i> in the buff!) And her auspicious 2008 debut, <i>Anywhere I Lay My Head</i>, flaunted some discerning taste: it was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio, and featured David Bowie, members of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and 10 Tom Waits covers.
- Nate Cavalieri]]></description>
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<title>Primitive Radio Gods</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 3 May 2009 08:33:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With their mix of Trip-Hop rhythms and New Wave atmospherics, the Primitive Radio Gods caused quite a stir with their verbosely titled hit, "Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand." Although subsequent releases weren't as commercially successful, the PRG maintained their creative drive, imaginatively putting old school samples next to fresh, trendy beats.
- Linda Ryan]]></description>
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<title>The Go! Team</title>
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<category>Post-Modern Pop</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 8 Oct 2009 11:45:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[This U.K.-based pop collective is based around a live band and churns out dirty pop songs that sound like they were produced and recorded up in the attic. But that's just the beginning: then they reconfigure the songs in the studio, adding some trickery and samples, and occasionally a mic-rocking emcee. The result is twee garage pop that also kills on the dancefloor.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Richard Ashcroft</title>
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<category>Brit Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When you have an ego as large as Richard Ashcroft's, it's impossible not to put out solo material. Not that his ego is a bad thing, mind you. The ex-frontman for Wigan, England's the Verve has always been somewhat of a visionary. He once told a journalist that when he was eleven years old and the other kids were playing with action figures, he was more concerned with contemplating life and death. Ashcroft's lyrics dive headfirst into the spiritual and the subconscious -- it is refreshing that he is not afraid to expose the raw nerves of unconditional love and relationships between people. This is what has always put him light years ahead of Noel Gallagher, Ian Brown, Damon Albarn or any of his so-called contemporaries. With the release of his first solo album <i>Alone With Everybody</i>, Ashcroft unleashes musical spirituality by injecting something usually not present in most commercial music: human soul and musical numinousness. With sweeping, swirling love songs such as "You On My Mind In My Sleep," Ashcroft forgoes the ego and exposes his heart in the company of otherworldly guitar drones, string accompaniment and weeping pedal steel notes. It is here the listener realizes that this man's forte is the love song. Even on the more up-tempo (and Pro Tools-laden) hits such as "Come On People (We're Making It Now)" and "I Get My Beat," we find Ashcroft confident and triumphant in his amorous temper. His songs reveal a young man who is completely enamored with the shortness of life and the time we have to live it.
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<title>Inara George</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 9 Oct 2009 10:32:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Cibo Matto</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Both New York transplants from Japan, Yuka Honda and Miho Hatori played music together for a number of years before forming Cibo Matto in the mid-'90s with Sean Lennon on bass. Cibo Matto, roughly translating to "crazy food" in Italian, is a hybrid sound of hip-hop rhythms, ethereal vocal harmonies, mellow lounge cool, trip-hop sampling, and lyrics about food. Their sound shifts subtly from song to song, but the food theme skewers their efforts together -- hence "Birthday Cake," "Artichoke," and "Sci-Fi Wasabi."
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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