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10 Gorgeously Melancholy Albums to Soundtrack Your Summer
A couple of weeks back, we had a look at a selection of indie rock summer anthems, and earlier in the month our Pop for Skeptics maven Rohin Guha nominated a selection of more poptastic summer jams....
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Listen to “Ruin,” a New Song from Cat Power
Fans of Cat Power know all to well that it has been almost six years since The Greatest and a decade since You Are Free, but luckily, the long wait for original material is finally over. Sun, which...
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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Cat Power, John Maus
It’s Friday, and we’re back with another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week, there’s a new Cat Power track (yay!), a new/old John Maus track...
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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Cat Power, Matmos
It’s Friday, and we’re back with another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week brings a pretty eclectic haul of tracks — there’s a Cat Power...
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A Longish List of Long Songs That Are Totally Worth Your Time
As you might have read yesterday, we’re going quietly bananas over the new Swans record, which is definitely our favorite album of August and quite possibly our favorite thus far of 2012. It’s also...
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The 15 Albums You Need to Hear in September
You know summer is well and truly over when the humidity recedes, the days start getting shorter and the big album releases start coming thick and fast. Yep, it’s almost time for the September rush,...
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The Morning’s Top 5 Pop Culture Stories
1. Some leaked photos of Joel Kinnaman wearing his RoboCop suit on the set of Jose Padilha’s upcoming remake are drawing criticism from film bloggers due to its derivative, Dark Knight-inspired design....
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10 MP3s You Need to Download for Free This Week: Why?, Cat Power
It’s Friday, which means another installment of our regular roundup of downloadable MP3 goodness from around the web. This week there’s another new track from the new Why? album, some reissued goodness...
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10 Songs That Make You Cry
Most movie audiences will be choosing between two big releases for the upcoming holiday weekend: Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained and Tom Hooper’s Les Misérables. If you don’t mind secretly sobbing...
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The 50 Albums Everyone Needs to Own, 1963-2013
No one buys albums anymore, goes the music industry truism. And yet, for all that the format’s commercial viability may or may not be on the wane, sitting and listening to a great album from start to...
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A Selection of Great Anthems to Sobriety
Just before New Year’s Eve, we ran a rather lighthearted list of great anthems to getting wasted. It should probably go without saying that we’re not in any way given to endorsing the perniciously...
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Zach Braff’s Music Taste Hasn’t Changed Since ‘Garden State,’ So We’re Naming...
You know the deal: this song will change your life, I swear. Etc. Etc. The first time audiences heard those words coming out of Natalie Portman’s mouth, I think they were interested in, albeit a little...
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Stream Cat Power and Chris Martin’s “Wish I Was Here,” From Zach Braff’s New...
As someone who still listens to the Garden State soundtrack (and who can’t tell if she should be embarrassed about this or not), I trust Zach Braff’s taste. So upon reading that he had Chris Martin of...
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The 5 Best New Songs We Heard This Week: J Mascis, Sophie
A light week on the big bangerz front, so let’s focus on some quality under-the-radar jams to check out this weekend. Fun fact: three of these songs feature clicking/popping noises that draw you in and...
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10 Sad Songs That Will Make You Surprisingly Happy
The UN, which apparently doesn’t have anything better to do, has released what it’s calling a list of the world’s happiest songs, in support of something called the International Day of Happiness. If...
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This Internal-Monolgue-Singing Encaged Gorilla Is Actually Cat Power
Adult Swim’s “gleefully deranged” China, IL has, for its Season 3 finale, added another impressive voice to its extensively talented cast (of voices) — which already includes Jeffrey Tambour, Greta...
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The 15 Albums You Need to Hear in September
You know summer is well and truly over when the humidity recedes, the days start getting shorter and the big album releases start coming thick and fast. Yep, it’s almost time for the September rush,...
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Watch Wayne Coyne, Michael Stipe, the Pixies, and More Pay Tribute to David...
Last night, Carnegie Hall held the first of two major David Bowie tributes being thrown in New York City. The performance did not feature the Roots, but it did feature Michael Stipe, Debbie Harry,...
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Chan Marshall Says Tenth Cat Power Album Coming Soon
Oh, hey. Cat Power (aka Chan Marshall) has a new album on the way — the first since 2012’s Sun, which featured a remix by Nicolas Jaar, vocals by Iggy Pop, and other collaborations. She announced the...
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