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The Kids are all right
Cold War Kids sure have grown up fast.
The soulful, Southern-influenced California rockers' energetic live shows and self-released EPs generated a wave of worldwide, blogger-fueled buzz not long after the group formed in 2004. The band also appeared at...Tags: Crimes, Music Industry, Travel, Theft, Crime, Law and Justice
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Summers second wind
Summer's coming to a close. Scary, eh? Sure, there are still a few months of humidity ahead of us but, in many minds, July 4th is the season's unofficial halfway mark. So with the recent passing of the holiday weekend, we're taking stock of summer's...Tags: Coldplay (music group), John Legend, Marc Anthony, Arts and Culture, Music
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Keeping the jukes jumping
Special to The TimesDon MULLER stands in his living room, grinning like a caffeinated teenager, clearly dazzled by the magic he has wrought. The playroom in his Van Nuys ranch home features four classic jukeboxes crowded around a small dance floor, and lightbulbs are...Tags: Fairfax (Fairfax, Virginia), Guns N' Roses (music group), Dining and Drinking, Jane's Addiction (music group), Game Playing
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Saturday reviews
Kanye West In case there was any doubt: Kanye West is a superstar, reconfirmed tonight by his sea of fans, backup singers, dancer, deejay, band -- including a string section -- and on-point enthusiasm. But, regardless of where he resides since rocketing...Tags: Gnarls Barkley, Dance, Coheed and Cambria (music group), England, Kanye West
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Top albums of 2006
It's incredibly difficult to pick the best albums of 2006, but one thing's for sure: The Grammys blew it this year. Again. Save for the Dixie Chicks' stellar "Taking the Long Way," the Album of the Year nominees sound like a 101.9 WTMX playlist, not a...Tags: Ghostface Killah, Arctic Monkeys (music group), Lindsey Buckingham, Justin Timberlake, Bob Dylan
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The New Pornographers
Metromix StaffALBUM: "Challengers" Backstory: A couple years back, frontman Carl “A.C.” Newman moved to Brooklyn from his native Vancouver and recorded most of this album at a Park Slope studio. Longtime collaborator Dan Bejar dropped by for chunks of...Tags: Park Slope, Jethro Tull (music group)
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Aural orgy
Rock stars don't get to see their friends and family too often when they're on the road. While touring to promote "Twin Cinema," its third album of hook-laden power pop, The New Pornographers has solved that problem; friends and family are the band's...Tags: Family, Television, Entertainment
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A SAMPLING OF FESTIVALS
29TH ANNUAL MONTREAL JAZZ FESTIVAL Through July 6: Leonard Cohen, Woody Allen, James Taylor, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Aretha Franklin, Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea and Stanley Clarke and more over 10 outdoor stages and 10 concert halls in...Tags: Arts and Culture, Robert Earl, Relentless7 (music group), Chuck Berry, Robert Plant
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Y'all get down now, ya hear?
Fasten your seatbelt: "The Dukes of Hazzard" pulls into theaters Friday. If you're in a fit for countrified flavor after the flick but think Chicago can't deliver southern-fried soul, hold your horses. There are plenty of places (and we're not talking...Tags: Restaurants, Waylon Jennings, Minority Groups, Dining and Drinking, Bars and Clubs
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Album Review: Marianne Faithfull's 'Easy Come, Easy Go'
On her latest full-length collection, Marianne Faithfull, the queen of torch songs for the damaged soul, reteams with producer Hal Willner for another beautifully haunting tour of a landscape littered with the detritus of shredded hearts. "I sit in my...Tags: Marianne Faithfull, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Dolly Parton, Merle Haggard
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Neko Case finds a home behind the mike
Sleep is a luxury for some people, and Neko Case is really craving some right now. Turns out the singer's hotel on the Sunset Strip is party central, with a bar right outside her window and drunken chatter deep into the night. "My sleeping cards," she...Tags: Tornadoes, Emergency Incidents, Alzheimer's Disease, Radio Industry, Wilco (music group)
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Perking up
They don't mind the grind
Dave Gibbs knows better than to interpret "new" too broadly when it modifies "music."
"Every year you get the new Stooges, or the new Velvet Underground, or the new Pixies," says Gibbs, the singer-guitarist of 1990s garage-...Tags: The Airborne Toxic Event (music group), Starbucks Corp., Hotels and Accommodations, Matthew Sweet, Dining and Drinking
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