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Review: Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion

Domino (2009)
Animal Collective began as a band of fringe weirdos, but over time they've dropped the freak from their folk.

By: MICHAEL PATRICK BRADY | January 06, 2009

Review: Factory Records: Communications 1978-92

Rhino (2009)
The whole Factory Records stereotype of thin, earnest men in long raincoats complaining about the cold and the damp to absolutely no chicks whatsoever over frenetic machine-made beats is with us for a reason.

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | January 06, 2009

Review: Gilfema + 2

ObliqSound (2009)
With rising jazz-guitar star Lionel Loueke in the mix, Gilfema are shaping up to be a jazz supergroup.

By: JON GARELICK | January 06, 2009

Review: Have Nots, Serf City U.S.A.

Bankshot
Poverty sucks, but buying stuff is awesome, so I have mixed feelings about capitalism.

By: BARRY THOMPSON | January 06, 2009

Review: Mallu Magalhães

Vivo (2009)
Mallu Magalhães is a teenage girl from São Paulo who was raised on a steady diet of old Beatles, Dylan, and Johnny Cash records.

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | January 06, 2009

Review: Let Freedom Sing! Music of the Civil Rights Movement

Time/Life (2009)
In any given Black History Month, the three-disc Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement would be a powerful anthology.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | January 06, 2009

Review: Musiq Soulchild's Onmyradio

Lukewarm-Lanta
Atlantic (2008)

By: MIKAEL WOOD | December 15, 2008

Review: Little Willie John's Nineteen Sixty Six

Kent Records (2008)
Rare soul

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | December 19, 2008

Review: Akon's Freedom

Droppin', poppin', etc.
Back in April 2007, R&B singer and rapper Akon dry-humped a 15-year-old girl on stage, an incident that led to some overblown criticism in the conservative media.

By: DAVID BOFFA | December 15, 2008

Review: Anthony Hamilton's The Point of it All

Zomba
Anthony Hamilton is like a latter-day Bill Withers, with a gruff, straight-talkin' voice that can holler at you from across the room and then downshift to a gentler, fatherly tone once you draw close.

By: ZETH LUNDY | December 16, 2008

Review: Instro Hipsters A Go-Go!

Throwback Throwdown
Psychic Circle (2008)

By: DEVIN KING | December 15, 2008

Review: Kanye West's 808s and Heartbreak

West Coasts
Roc-A-Fella (2008)

By: RICHARD BECK | December 15, 2008

Review: Angil & Hiddentracks - Oulipo Saliva

Chemikal Underground

By: GUSTAVO TURNER | December 09, 2008

Review: Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison

Legacy Edition
Early rocker turned country icon Cash hit California's Folsom like a lightning bolt on January 13, 1968, delivering two raw shows to a captive audience.

By: TED DROZDOWSKI | December 09, 2008

Review: Fennesz - Black Sea

Touch
In the music of Christian Fennesz, there's a fine line between what's being done for you as a listener and what's being done to you.

By: MICHAEL BRODEUR | December 17, 2008

Review: Miles Davis - Kind of Blue:

Columbia/Legacy

By: JON GARELICK | December 12, 2008

Review: RTX - JJ Got Live RaTX

Drag City

By: DANIEL BROCKMAN | December 09, 2008

Review: Nina Simone - To Be Free

RCA/Legacy
Nina Simone was her own gospel, a sinuous force of uncompromising power and righteous beauty.

By: ZETH LUNDY | December 09, 2008

Review: Jeffree Star's Cupcakes

Popsicle (2008)
Why am I listening to this pitch-corrected-to-death excrement when we should all be watching Jeffree Star's Cunt of Love (or something to that effect) on VH1?

By: BARRY THOMPSON | December 02, 2008

Review: Tom Jones' 24 Hours

S-Curve (2008)
At 68, Tom Jones has decided it's about time he became a songwriter.

By: JEFF TAMARKIN | December 02, 2008

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