Tribute albums are trouble, because they’re usually terrible. And tipping your hat to a band like Fleetwood Mac is a complicated act, not to mention one that requires singular talent. There’s plenty of the latter on Just Tell Me That You Want Me: A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac which includes indie favorites…
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After seven years of total silence, Fiona Apple has finally reemerged to make the big, brassy entrance we’ve been waiting for. Her rapturous new album The Idler Wheel drops tomorrow, and the singer has added a second leg to her summer tour. She’ll stage her return at San Jose’s Civic Auditorium on…
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I won’t mince words: Kimbra’s debut album “Vows” is profoundly boring, though it shows potential. The twenty-two-year old jazz songstress from New Zealand emerged victorious in her duet with Gotye on “Somebody That I Used to Know.” While that song’s expiration date was many moons ago, there’s a chance Kimbra’s for now…
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You might believe the Dum Dum Girls to be coy, which they are. And you might believe them to be precious, or ditzy, or immature about their craft—which they most certainly are not. On their second album Only in Dreams, the band has grown considerably, bucking accusations of triviality and affectation.
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Adam Yauch, member of legendary hip-hop trio the Beastie Boys, has died this morning after succumbing to cancer. The 47-year-old known as MCA formed the group, then a punk band, with Adam “Ad Rock” Horowitz and Mike “Mike D” Diamond in the late 70s.
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John ‘Juan’ Maclean’s early electronic music was cold, angular, and removed from the blend of arpeggiated disco and romantic synthpop that colored releases like “The Future Will Come” and “Everybody Get Close,” The Juan Maclean’s most recent album. As the title might suggest, things have gotten warmer, with live instrumentation adding more…
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Artists are born unionists. Theirs is a talent that requires support, because if can’t be learned, it must be protected. It’s why they tend to cloister together, in the hopes that a collective effort will yield individual growth—power in numbers and such. The independent artists organization RAW: natural born artists is one…
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It’s a travesty that as of this morning, there are only 162 comments on the new Fiona Apple single “Every Single Night”, posted three days ago to her SoundCloud page. Looking to flood your respective social media channels with something? Look no further: let the oversharing commence.
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Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner has a voice like that of a lesser god, demoted because he couldn’t go through the trouble of administering to a needy world. However plaintive the backdrop – alt-country, indie, soul – Lambchop songs all seem like minor pastoral tragedies, strung together with ellipses that transition nicely from…
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Fahrenheit, the slick downtown restaurant and lounge, really hit its stride in the last couple years with inspired cuisine, a rarefied but relaxed ambience, and a series of DJ monthlies that’s breathed some life into an occasionally stale downtown scene. Tomorrow evening they’re celebrating their seventh anniversary with champagne, of course. And…
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