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The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger


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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 10:15 a.m.

The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger – a collaboration of Sean Lennon and Charlotte Kemp Muhl – release their debut album, Acoustic Sessions in October of this year. I haven’t heard anything from the forthcoming release, but did pick up a Jardin du Luxembourg, a two-song collection that showcases their affinity for pop music [ ... ] ...

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Review: Faces Reunion Gets Lively Start in London


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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 8:07 a.m.

Ronnie Wood sauntered onto a small stage at London's British Music Experience last night and asked the 400-odd guests, "Are you ready to hear some experimentations in rock and roll?" Faces then launched immediately into "Miss Judy's Farm," officially kicking off one of rock's most anticipated reunion tours — albeit ...

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The Faces: British Music Experience, 02 Arena - review


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Published Aug. 12, 2010 at 5:29 a.m.

An intriguing chemistry was at play at the Faces' first public showing since ... the band reunited. Rating: * * * ...

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Magic Kids - Memphis


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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 6:00 p.m.

Tennessee pop sprites prove more than just Beach Boys copyists ...

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Arcade Fire, 'The Suburbs' (Merge)


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Published Aug. 11, 2010 at 6:13 a.m.
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On an album full of moments when hope turns haunting, the ghosts hang heaviest on the spellbinding "Suburban War," which comes roughly halfway through Arcade Fire's blazingly intense third album. Against solemn ringing guitar, Win Butler sings about a man remembering an old friend. Once, the two grew their hair long and vowed to escape, past the fences and pavement, to a place where they could battle on behalf of what was pure. Years pass in a shiver of violin and piano, and now they find

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The Wombats Go "Synth Pop"


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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 11:37 p.m.

Murph claims that keyboards have taken over from guitar on new song ...

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Ra Ra Riot, 'The Orchard' (Barsuk)


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Published Aug. 10, 2010 at 11:36 a.m.

This sextet's poetry-quoting, cello-chugging debut came with plenty of stop-start, hum-along rockers, as if the band was out to prove that liberal-arts fops could soundtrack keggers. But here, they deliver the sort of mid-tempo, orch-pop fussiness that they'd been praised for transcending. A few tracks possess a quicker pulse, like the intriguingly twitchy "Massachusetts" and the aerobic, bass-driven fairy tale "Boy," while "Too Dramatic" resurrects the band's crowd-pleasing ambitions, with a

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Katy Perry, 'Teenage Dream' (Capitol)


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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 6:29 p.m.

When Katy Perry revealed the title of her sophomore album earlier this year, the members of dream-pop duo Beach House took to Twitter and vented about the linguistic proximity to their own latest, Teen Dream ... Yet if anyone seems qualified to invoke the fantasy life of America's youth, surely it's the woman who sealed her transition from Christian-pop piety to electro-glam abandon with "I Kissed a Girl." ... Teenage Dream won't disappoint parents looking for reasons to worry about their

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James Blackshaw, 'All Is Falling' (Young God)


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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:39 p.m.

For his ninth LP of pastoral plucking, British guitarist James Blackshaw graduates from gifted fingerpicker to masterful composer, combining John Fahey's tender arpeggios and Terry Riley's cycling rhythms. Presented as a 45-minute suite, All Is Falling sweeps his electric 12-string into a tangle of keening cellos, dive-bombing violins, pinprick glockenspiels, and clacking percussion. It's essentially a chattering crescendo of melody and tension, with piano-based snowdrifts giving way to

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Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, 'Hawk' (Vanguard)


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Published Aug. 9, 2010 at 3:37 p.m.

Isobel Campbell wrote and produced nearly all the songs on her previous two collaborations with former Screaming Trees/Queens of the Stone Age growler Mark Lanegan, and this time, the ex–Belle and Sebastian singer-cellist takes complete control of the album's direction. Yet her wispy voice recedes further into the background, as the genial creak of folk-pop prodigy Willy Mason complements Lanegan's foreboding rumble, and James Iha lends tastefully bluesy guitar. Overall, Hawk faithfully

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