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  Divorcing the iPod - An ascendant speed-metal goddess upgrades her accessories

  Though she may appear polite and placida brief chat reveals that she doesn't do drugs and loves her dogsMarnie Stern is a surge of sugary meth, a million-notes-a-minute rush of guitar bliss. Released in February, her Kill Rock Stars debut, In Advan...

  by Shaun McCormack on June 26, 2007

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  Powder Burns - House dancing finally gets its day (four, actually) in New York City

  On a Sunday morning, long before sunrise, dancers gather downtown at Club Shelter, New York's most respected house party. No one is dressed up or looking for loveinside, they head straight for the dance floor with three changes of clothes in a duffe...

  by Makkada B. Selah on June 26, 2007

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  Cinematic Orchestra's Ma Fleur - Gorgeous washes for non-stoners

  Some folks say Cinematic Orchestra play acid jazz, a/k/a downtempo, a/k/a middling, vanilla sushi beats. This stems from an association with the Ninja Tune label, and it's crap. Saying that Cinematic Orchestra play downtempo is like saying Can played...

  by Garrett Kamps on June 26, 2007

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  Smashing Pumpkins' Zeitgeist - More righteous cherub rock, thank God

  "I don't wanna be alone," sings Billy Corgan on "Tarantula," the first single from the first Smashing Pumpkins album since 2000's Machina discs. Thank Mellon Collie for that: Two years ago, on his disappointing solo debut The Future Embrace, Corgan ...

  by Mikael Wood on June 26, 2007

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  Bryan Ferry's Dylanesque - A dandified tribute comes neither to bury nor to compete

  Image-wise, few male singers have less in common with Bob Dylan than Bryan Ferry. The former Roxy Music crooner's dandified stagecraft, elegant decadence, gleeful irreverence, scrappy irony, and consistent refusal to anchor his art in politics, relig...

  by Carol Cooper on June 26, 2007

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  Pharoahe Monch's Desire - A long-delayed comeback lashes eloquently back at its delayers

  Pharoahe Monch is a word surgeon. In the early '90s, as a member of Organized Konfusion, he and counterpart Prince Po released three tragically slept-on albums before it was cool to be slept on. With Desire, the Queens MC's first project in damn near...

  by Orisanmi Burton on June 26, 2007

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  Slough Feg's Hardworlder - Badass sci-fi metal that it's finally cool to listen to

  If you want to get a good idea where Slough Feg singer-guitarist Mike Scalzi is coming from, check out the graphic novel Slaine: The Berserker, whose main villain, based on a demon lord from Irish oral mythology, is named the Lord Weird Slough Feg. ...

  by Adam Ganderson on June 26, 2007

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  The Last Hurrah!, or Take the 8:15 to Nowhere

  SYNOPSIS In which Uncle LD bids loyal and devoted listeners adieu with a panoply of lovely noises and words. What a year it's been, he muses, half to himself]. He urges all lovers of music and life and liberty etc. to protest the dumbing down of o...

  by LD Beghtol on June 26, 2007

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  Death Disco Redux: Crash! Bang! Smack! Grind! Gnaw! Puke! - A Queer Issue Double Whammy, Part the Second

  SYNOPSIS In which Uncle LD plays more chaotic trash for your delectation in an extended mix of honoring Queer Pride in all its glory or whatever. Actually, Uncle LD wants you to know that while you're keenly listening to this, he's away down south ...

  by LD Beghtol on June 19, 2007

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  The Boy With Fewer Thorns in His Side - The sound of his own wheels no longer drives Ryan Adams, or us, crazy

  Ryan Adams has always convincingly played dress-up, whether portraying the blue-collar balladeer, the petulant if corrigible bad boy, or the corduroy-country star. Granted, his authority on "dime-store gin" and double-shifts at the factory can feel a...

  by Nate Cavalieri on June 19, 2007

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  The Rehab Chronicles - A former Vice party girl confronts her demons, both chemical and adolescent

  Lesley Arfin and I are having coffee the night after her Dear Diary book-release party, which she deems a success. "I had an emergency therapy session yesterday and we meditated, so I was able to just wear my emotions and feel vulnerable," she says....

  by Annie Fischer on June 19, 2007

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  Beauty in the Beast - The mellow and wonderful travails of Nick Lowe, the eternally heartbroken heartbreaker

  At My Age, Nick Lowe's fourth straight utterly fantastic sad-sack country record, has a benevolent, whimsical, grandfatherly air that's both sincere and devilishly deviousa jovial wink to distract you as he reaches around to pinch your ass. Daughter...

  by Rob Harvilla on June 19, 2007

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  Muscling Up and Rocking Out - Some get by with subtlety, but thrashing ferocity works great too

  Pick Hits Wolfgang Muthspiel Bright Side Material This Austrian guitarist is hard to characterize. He avoids power chords and single-note bebop runs, and does without a funk lick or even a blues move. He gets a soft, metallic tone, sometimes tw...

  by Tom Hull on June 19, 2007

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  Totally Use Your Illusion, Dude - Rap stars see how the other half lives

  Da Shop Boyz "Party Like a Rockstar (Totally Dude)" From Rockstar Mentality (Universal Republic) "Party Like a Rockstar" Official remix featuring Shop Boyz, Jim Jones, Chamillionaire, and Lil Wayne (Universal Republic) "Rock Star" Un...

  by Makkada B. Selah on June 19, 2007

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  Big on Japan - Now that he's fled eastward, NYC hip-hop won't have B-Money to kick around anymore

  Brian Hughes, a/k/a B-Money, is feeling pretty sharp for 6:45 in the morning Tokyo time, considering that he just staggered back from a Kyoto party in honor of Golden Week. One of Japan's biggest holidays, its celebratory milestones include Showa Day...

  by Ben Westhoff on June 19, 2007

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  Noise From The Front - For the week of June 27July 3, 2007

  "With me, a change of trouble is as good as a vacation." David Lloyd George The Polyphonic Spree "Running Away," from The Fragile Army (TVT, 2007) [Music listing for July 1] Action Painters "456," from Chubby Dancer (Girl Group, 2007) S...

  by Leigh Jerman on June 19, 2007

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  Fridge's The Sun - More lovely, ethereal post-rock you probably shouldn't stare at.

  Though electronic music royalty, Kieran Hebden likes him some drums. Real drumsnot machines. His past handful of solo records as Four Tet have thumped around with an implicit promise: "We beat and strummed this shit ourselves! Look, Ma: no computers...

  by Garrett Kamps on June 19, 2007

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  The Beastie Boys' The Mix-Up - Not trash exactly, but certainly heavily recycled.

  New York began for me, a Philly schoolboy, the same way it did for out-of-town skaters and college students, graffiti artists, sculptors, stockbrokers, gym teachers, sanitation workers, B-boys, DJs, carpool dads, White Castle burger-flippersbasicall...

  by Zach Baron on June 19, 2007

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  Kelly Clarkson's My December - The real Breakaway, more pathos than pop and worse for it

  Kelly Clarkson's label's rumored hatred of her new albumtheir disapproval of her decision to hire fewer songwriters, coupled with the abrupt cancellation of a too-optimistic tourmakes this a moment of reckoning not just for Clarkson, but for an emp...

  by Theon Weber on June 19, 2007

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  Simian Mobile Disco's Attack Decay Sustain Release - Populist jams for blogs and dance floors both.

  Electroclash never promised to cure loneliness. As two-thirds of now-defunct U.K. psych-poppers Simian, James Ford and James Shaw kinda did. Remixed by French electro duo Justice, Simian's "We Are Your Friends" (ne "Never Be Alone") has kept clubgoe...

  by Marc Hogan on June 19, 2007