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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame LIVE DVDs giveaway
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The Poplist with ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
The group's eighth album, Lost Songs, is a reliably powerful blast of frustrated politics and fiery passion.
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The Poplist with the Hounds Below
The Detroit band wants to show you some scary videos! From "It" to "Lidsville", see what evils lurk in the minds of the Hounds.
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AllMusic Playlist: Hall Yeah!
AllMusic editors get smooth, soulful and soothing with a playlist for Daryl Hall's birthday, and they're calling on you to share your track picks!
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I Love Techno Fest giveaway
One of Europe's most eclectic electronic music events is back, and we're celebrating by giving away a tote bag, T-shirt and sunglasses to a lucky winner!
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AllMusic Q&A; with Jeff Lynne
ELO frontman, singer/guitarist and producer Jeff Lynne chats with Stephen Thomas Erlewine about his new solo record and re-creations of ELO's biggest hits.
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featured new releases
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- Of Montreal
- Daughter of Cloud
- This collection of outtakes and B-sides feels more like an album than a compilation, showing the band at both its most tender and psychotic.
- Gary Clark Jr.
- Blak and Blu
- Texas guitar whiz Gary Clark Jr. embraces both the past and future of the blues on Blak and Blu, his major-label debut.
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- U.S. Girls
- Gem
- U.S. Girls touch on and best all previous work with this mixed bag of a record, flowing seamlessly from noisy pop to glam rock.
- Black Moth Super Rainb …
- Cobra Juicy
- Cobra Juicy continues a slow move away from deep-friend psychedelia towards more refined and accessible freaked out electropop.
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- Valery Gergiev / Londo …
- Tchaikovsky: Symphonies…
- Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra play Tchaikovsky's early symphonies with fire and energy on these fantastic sounding SACDs.
- Fontanelle
- Vitamin F
- On their first release in a decade, this Portland collective skillfully replicates the sound and feel of early-'70s large-group jazz-funk fusion.
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- Oren Ambarchi / Robin …
- Connected
- This soundtrack composed for a dance performance finds Fox's cold electronics and Ambarchi's earthy experimental guitar tones melding transcendentally.
- Marc Minkowski / Les M …
- Schubert: Complete Symphonies
- Marc Minkowski's period style set of Schubert's symphonies is highly recommended as one of the definitive cycles on CD.
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- Jason Lytle
- Dept. of Disappearance
- Lytle's second solo album expands the musical scope of his first, but keeps things relatively simple and sneakily emotional throughout.
- Martha Wainwright
- Come Home to Mama
- Produced by Cibo Matto's Yuka Honda and featuring guitarist Nels Cline, Wainwright mixes her poetic writing with layered pop aesthetic.
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- Ben Gibbard
- Former Lives
- Death Cab for Cutie frontman offers the first material under his own name with 12 songs written during an eight-year period.
- ZZ Ward
- Til the Casket Drops
- ZZ Ward's debut album mashes together blues-rock, hip-hop, hard rock, and neo-soul, all guided by her powerful vocals and self-assured songwriting.
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- Mika
- The Origin of Love
- Mika goes in a dance-inspired direction on his third album, but he's at his best when he sticks to witty pop.
- Trey Anastasio
- Traveler
- On Traveler, Trey Anastasio's taste is impeccable and his musical instincts are as canny as ever.
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- Ben Harper
- By My Side
- By My Side is a handpicked, career-spanning selection of 11 of Ben Harper's most enduring ballads, plus a brand-new track.
- Donald Fagen
- Sunken Condos
- With Sunken Condos, Donald Fagen has released his liveliest -- and best -- record since his 1982 solo debut, The Nightfly.
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- Godspeed You! Black Em …
- 'Allelujah! Don't Bend…
- On their first new album in a decade, 'Allelujah Don't Bend Ascend, Godspeed You! Black Emperor prove they still have plenty to say.
- Brandy
- Two Eleven
- One of Brandy's best albums, Two Eleven is modern R&B; through and through, filled with aching ballads and grown slow jams.
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- K'NAAN
- Country, God or the Girl
- Bono, Nas, and Nelly Furtado join the singer/rapper on this well-rounded effort that offers more personal songs along with his usual political material.
- Mac DeMarco
- 2
- With 2, this Canadian indie weirdo takes steps away from his cartoonish beginnings toward something a little more grown up.
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- A Fine Frenzy
- Pines
- Thirteen meditations on biology and topography that successfully blend folk, indie rock, and ambient pop.
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- Dethklok
- Metalocalypse: Dethalbum…
- The most famous (imaginary) band in the universe returns with their third tome of apocalyptic death metal, Dethalbum III.
- Jamey Johnson
- Living for a Song: A Tribute…
- Living for a Song is Jamey Johnson's stellar, star-studded tribute to the legendary songwriter Hank Cochran.
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- Jason Aldean
- Night Train
- Jason Aldean's fifth album, Night Train is a big, slick, somber throwback to the sounds of 1994.
- Matmos
- The Ganzfeld EP
- In just three songs and less than half-an-hour, experimental electronic envelope-pushers Matmos manage to go all over the map.
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- Night Moves
- Colored Emotions
- This dreamy debut is a richly layered affair, somewhere between slick '70s radio pop and the twangy wildness of Beachwood Sparks.
- Tamaryn
- Tender New Signs
- Tamaryn's second album keeps all the allure of their debut while adding more shape to their seductive dream pop.
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- Smoke & Jackal
- EP No. 1
- Midnight urban blight alt-rock from Kings of Leon bassist Jared Followill and Mona vocalist/guitarist Nick Brown.
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- Various Artists
- A Very Special Christmas:…
- By playing it safe, Very Special Christmas: 25 Years isn't as quirky or fun as the original 1987 album.
- Scotty McCreery
- Christmas with Scotty…
- American Idol winner Scotty McCreery turns in a familiar and friendly Christmas album.
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- Pinback
- Information Retrieved
- Information Retrieved finds indie duo Pinback easily finding their melodic ways after a five-year break.
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- Kem
- What Christmas Means
- Kem's What Christmas Means, featuring five original songs and a duet with Ledisi, is filled with the same moods as his proper studio albums.
- Bobby V
- Dusk Till Dawn
- Dusk Till Dawn should satisfy Bobby V fans who expect more of the same and couldn't care less about development or refinement.
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- Earlimart
- System Preferences
- Aaron Espinoza and Ariana Murray return for a nice, easy album of dream pop and Beatles-inspired alt-pop.
- Boys Noize
- Out of the Black
- From the Front 242 generation to the Deadmau5 kids, beat nuts get their fill on this aptly titled set of dark neo-electro.
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- Majeure
- Solar Maximum
- As emotional as it is precise, Solar Maximum gives Majeure's electro-prog a wider palette of sounds and moods.
- Chelsea Wolfe
- Unknown Rooms: A Collection…
- Spare, haunting, and gorgeous, these songs find Wolfe exploring the fragility and versatility of her voice instead of continuing with Apokalypsis' dark dirges.
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- Harry Christophers /
- Palestrina, Vol. 2
- The Sixteen presents the second volume of their series of the masses and motets of Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina.
- DJ Vadim
- Don't Be Scared
- Don't Be Scared, featuring input from Fat Freddy's Drop and Michael Kiwanuka, will strengthen DJ Vadim's reputation for eclecticism and forward thinking.
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- Marin Alsop / Baltimor …
- Mahler: Symphony No. 1
- In this 2008 recording of Mahler's First, Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra perform the authorized four-movement version.
- Bill Laswell
- Means of Deliverance
- Means of Deliverance is a wildly creative endeavor featuring Bill Laswell on the Alien, an acoustic fretless bass by Warwick.
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- Boston Spaceships
- Out of the Universe by…
- This collection cherry-picks the best of five albums made by this Guided by Voices spinoff band between 2008-2011.
- Christina Perri
- A Very Merry Perri Christmas
- The unfortunately titled A Very Merry Perri Christmas pairs five holiday staples with one seasonal original.
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- Gov't Mule
- The Georgia Bootleg Box
- The Georgia Bootleg Box captures the original Gov't Mule trio at its very best during a three-night run in 1996.
- John the Conqueror
- John the Conqueror
- This blues-rock trio's debut isn't especially original, but it is hard-driving and genuine.
recent releases
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staff picks
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The electrifying and almost accessible (check out the wondrous "Good News for Pus Pickers") Steve Albini-helmed fifth outing from generally unclassifiable Christian freak-folk/post-punk/art-rock/creep-twee/nurse-core collective the Danielson Famile, never lets up, yet never lets you down.
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After much time spent apart making solo albums, The Go-Betweens' Grant McLennan and Robert Forster decided they still had more chapters to add to their story. This wonderful reunion album was full of heart, wit and great songs...even a few of their best like "He Lives My Life" and "Spirit."
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This transatlantic quintet featured New York downtowners from Curlew (Tom Cora, Pippin Barnett) and European folky avant-proggers (Momo Roussel, Jean-20 Huguenin, Bratko Bibic), who combined brash rock, timbral experimentalism, and skewed European folk dance rhythms in a meld that today's Gypsy punk fans ought to hear.
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