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Nirvana's box set takes the best band of the '90s and reveals the very worst
Michaelangelo Matos
Nirvana
With the Lights Out
Geffen
The primary thing you will learn from Nirvana's three-CD, one-DVD, rag-and-bone banquet With the Lights Out (Geffen) isn't that...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Burnt Sugar
Black Sex Yall Liberation& Bloody Random Violets
Trugroid
Yes, you read that title right: Black Sex Yall Liberation & Bloody Random Violets, no comma, no...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Ada
Blondie
Areal
Ellen Allien
My Parade: DJ Mix by Ellen Allien
Bpitch Control
Ricardo Villalobos
Thé Au Harem D'Archimède
Perlon
So you're in your...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Talking Heads
The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
Sire/Rhino
In 1982, Sire released The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads, a live double album that existed primarily...
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Music
Sonic Youth's new album: Another brick in the wall of sound
Michaelangelo Matos
Sonic Youth never saved rock, and that's the best thing that never happened to them. In the early '80s, no one outside of New York's Lower East Side cared much about the band....
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
various artists
Greensleeves Rhythm Album #50: Marmalade
Greensleeves
various artists
Grime
Rephlex
The version is the lingua franca of all dance music. To "version,"...
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Books
Disco tales of the $3,000 record needle and the Donna Summer cake
Michaelangelo Matos
What if Hamlet weren't the story of a preening prince, but of a gravedigger who talks to skulls? Or, even better, what if disco had more to do with the record-needle...
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Music
The Hold Steady's high-voltage crunch happens to sound great in bars. But please don't call them a bar band.
Michaelangelo Matos
Craig Finn is full of shit. Last June, after the late, great hometown post-punks Lifter Puller reunited at the Triple Rock, I wandered around the venue and passed Finn, the...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Junior Boys
Birthday
Kin import
Junior Boys
High Come Down
Kin import
IDM, the "intelligent dance music" spawn of Aphex Twin and his disciples, is embracing the...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
various artists
Goodbye, Babylon
Dust-to-Digital
Harry Smith, Harry Smith, Harry Smith. There, did I get him out of the way yet? Aw hell, I didn't--too bad. Because in its...
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Music
The Cinematic Orchestra bring their blue note funk to the silver screen
Michaelangelo Matos
Whatever genre they ply their trade in, most Miles Davis fans aspire to the more salubrious aspects of his celebrity (i.e., not the drug problem): The restless creativity, the...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Yo La Tengo
Summer Sun
Matador
When it's said that a band reduces everything to a yawn, the line is usually meant to pock their integrity. But when the band is Yo La...
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Music
Dancing till the break of dawn with Röyksopp's 'Melody A.M.'
Michaelangelo Matos
Over the past five years, the main avenue of exposure for dance music artists hasn't been club play or (ha ha ha) radio. It's been television ads. Think of Dirty Vegas's "Days...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Triple R
Friends
Kompakt
The play between tension and release defines much of the music I love. But with microhouse, those binary categories are flouted: The best of the...
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Music
'Rolling Thunder Revue' examines the mystique of Bob Dylan
Michaelangelo Matos
Bob Dylan
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 5
Columbia/Legacy
Certain rock myths come tainted with the scent of incredibility. Read a few British music magazines and you'll hear...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Various Artists
Total 4
Kompakt
Ellen Allien
Weiss.Mix
Bpitchcontrol
Here's a ready-made compare/contrast. Total 4 (the latest compilation from Cologne, Germany...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Missy Elliott
Under Construction
Elektra
Missy Elliott may project herself as a dynamo, but she's less a superhuman than an ideal older sister or best friend--someone who...
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Music
Sifting through the bones of an infamous Halloween rave bust
Michaelangelo Matos
Amid the corporate accounting scandals and a pitched national defense debate, Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Delaware) found the time on June 18 to introduce his own vital bill to...
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CD Review
Michaelangelo Matos
Various Artists
Boom Selection_Issue 01
Boom Selection import
How can you parse a monument like Boom Selection_Issue 01? Don't be silly: You can't. So here are the basics....
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Music
The laddish Brit-Hop of the Streets heats up England's clubland
Michaelangelo Matos
The Streets
Original Pirate Material
Vice/Atlantic
Chico Marx once asked, "Why a duck?" and ensured himself immortality. So let me ask: "What's a Duck?" The source of my...
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