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I'm Having Fun Now

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Jenny Lewis and Johnathan Rice are, by all indications, a happy indie-rock power couple. But you wouldn't know it from I'm Having Fun Now. In their solo work, Lewis and Rice are bards of the bummer, and these shapely power-pop numbers are no exception: songs about hard times ("Big Wave") ...

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V Festival 2010: Mika interview

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Published Aug. 18, 2010 at 4:30 a.m.

The pop phenomenon on growing up in Beirut, Paris and London, with toy ... theatres for friends ...

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Release Me

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:32 p.m.

The Like load up their sharp, peppy tunes with zillions of pop references – Tracey Ullman, the Four Tops, Toni Basil, Duran Duran, just to name a few. And with good reason. They're children of the music industry; drummer Tennessee Thomas is the daughter of Attractions drummer Pete Thomas, and ...

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11:59

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Published Aug. 16, 2010 at 5:17 p.m.

Best known for placing sixth on Rock Star: Supernova in 2006, Ryan Star returns with a much-delayed major-label debut album filled with second-rate pop rock and a formula he beats senseless: He takes his brooding rasp from a muttered whisper to an overwrought rock howl about nine times too many ...

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Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin

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Published Aug. 15, 2010 at 11:00 p.m.

Brian Wilson has more than a few things in common with George Gershwin. Both led wildly successful musical partnerships with their brothers. Both combined pop-song punch with harmonic sophistication worthy of the European classical tradition. Both blazed early then flamed out: Gershwin died of a brain tumor at age 38; ...

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Music: James Taylor and Marc Cohn Revive 1970

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 11:45 p.m.

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Pop music has witnessed its share of unlikely comebacks this year but perhaps the least expected is that of the year 1970, just in time for its 40th anniversary ...

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Album: Matthew Dear, Black City (Ghostly International)

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Published Aug. 14, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

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Black City is the fifth album in seven years from electronic pop maestro Matthew Dear (under his own name at least – he also aliases as Jabberjaw, Audion and False) ...

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Weekend Reading, Watching & Listening

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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 6:07 p.m.

Saturday: Milwaukee’s own Jaill is celebrating the release of their Sub Pop debut, That’s How We Burn at Turner Hall Ballroom. Come out and support these guys and be proud of our music community! MP3: Jaill – “The Stroller” Baseball: A Master of Timing, Uecker Returns to the Booth (New York Times) Check out the [ ... ] ...

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The Royal Tennenbaums and 19 More of Our Favorite Pop-Cultural Legos

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Published Aug. 13, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

In 2008, Lego designer and kindergarten teacher Dave Kaleta posted an inspired creation to MocPages, a Lego design sharing site: the iconic characters of Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, in teeny-tiny plastic lego form. An inexplicable two years later, his intricate set (including Margot Tenenbaum’s wooden finger and Richie Tenenbaum’s bird-handling right-hand glove) has been picked up and highlighted all over the internet, in places such as Hipster Runoff and Craziest Gadgets, drawing

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