A Song for Every Day
on May 6, 2011
We get it—Rebecca Black’s “Friday” is an awful, terrible song. But let’s not forget that the song is about one of the most anticipated days of the week.
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Head Over Heals
on May 5, 2011
It’s one of those rare albums that—regardless of whether you’ve actually heard it straight through—you’ve probably encountered almost in full just by flipping through radio stations.
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Girl Fight: Europe FTW
on May 4, 2011
Lady Gaga has arrived to ruin pop music forever, with trailer-trash icon Ke$ha and good Christian bitch Katy Perry on her leash, ready to clear out the opposition for her takeover of radio, but a trio of women seems equally hell-bent on saving us from ourselves
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The hippest cat around: Vincent Leon
on May 3, 2011
In a little more than a year, HipCats Entertainment has grown to be a local Phoenix staple, putting on concerts at Phoenix First Fridays, Scottsdale, Ariz., Third Thursdays.
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Grandaddy Captures Y2K Zeigeist
on May 2, 2011
While Grandaddy’s disenchanted view of technology has not come to fruition thus far, its intuition about the future of indie pop was dead-on.
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Feminism, with a Side of Spice
on April 29, 2011
Spice offered some hypnotizing pop songs that were catchy and PG for the kids, but provocative enough for the older listeners. It was the album that launched the girl group into pop stardom.
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From the Seven Dwarfs to Tom Waits: 10 Cover Songs
on April 28, 2011
Some covers are hilarious and some are breathtaking; some end up becoming more famous than the original; some are more bone chilling than the original, yet unknown to the public
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Adele Rolls Deep
on April 27, 2011
Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep” offers nostalgia at its best.
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Bareilles’ Follow-up Not Another “Love Song”
on April 26, 2011
Bareilles’ voice flows more steadily here than it does in her previous single, and it’s a comforting reminder of why she became successful in the first place.
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Music’s Most Obnoxious Couples
on April 25, 2011
Hate ’em or tolerate ’em, they’re here to stay, and we’ve got a sweet little list of the music industry’s most obnoxious duos.
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David Byrne’s Ironic Dystopia
on April 22, 2011
Byrne describes scenes filled with “nothing but flowers,” a kind of oxymoron meant to illustrate society’s misguidance—as if flowers are a bad thing and entirely inconsequential to the glory of fast food and microwaves
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Steven Drozd interview, part two: On “The Heart Is a Drum Machine”
on April 21, 2011
Imagine one of The Flaming Lips composing a (largely) instrumental soundtrack to a documentary about music, and one might have an idea of what this sounds like
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