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March 28, 2011

Blakroc is a collaboration between The Black Keys and an all-star line-up of hip hop artists.

Album Review: Blakroc

Album Review: Blakroc

David Safar • Mar 28, 2011

Blakroc is a collaboration between The Black Keys and an all-star line-up of hip hop artists.

Album Review: Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame

Album Review: Dr. Dog - Shame, Shame

David Safar • Mar 28, 2011

Dr. Dog started out as a garden variety indie-rock band based in Philadelphia. Over the past nine years and six albums, the band's sound has varied from psychedelic rock to lo-fi 60's pop.

Album Review: Eels - Tomorrow Morning

Album Review: Eels - Tomorrow Morning

Jade • Mar 28, 2011

I'm all for not judging a book by its cover, but Eels front man Mark Oliver Everett is known for lyrically wearing his heart on his sleeve.

Album Review: Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer

Album Review: Cee-Lo Green - The Lady Killer

Mark Wheat • Mar 28, 2011

Almost everyone agrees that Cee-Lo's hit single "Forget You" (wink wink!) is the best song of the year.

Album Review: Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane

Album Review: Elvis Costello - Secret, Profane and Sugarcane

Bill DeVille • Mar 28, 2011

Way back in 1981, Elvis Costello released Almost Blue, an album recorded in Nashville and produced by the legendary Billy Sherrill.

Album Review: Vampire Weekend - Contra

Album Review: Vampire Weekend - Contra

Mark Wheat • Mar 28, 2011

Ezra Koenig, Chris Baio, Rostam Batmanglij, and Chris Tomson formed the band Vampire Weekend early in 2006, when they were finishing up their studies at Columbia University on the Upper West Side of NYC.

Album Review: The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love

Album Review: The Big Pink - A Brief History of Love

Mar 28, 2011

Do you remember your first encounter with love? It was probably more like a teenage infatuation, which is far shorter, lived and concentrated but sometimes just as painful or sweet.

Album Review: The New Pornographers - Together

Album Review: The New Pornographers - Together

Steve Seel • Mar 28, 2011

With the fifth album from Vancouver's The New Pornographers, Together, can we still call a band that's probably now more defined as a primary vehicle for most of its members a "supergroup"?

Album Review: Roma di Luna - Then the Morning Came

Album Review: Roma di Luna - Then the Morning Came

Bethany Barberg • Mar 28, 2011

From the first track on Then The Morning Came, the latest release from local group Roma di Luna, listeners may be able to tell that this band has gone through a transformational period: entering parenthood.

Album Review: Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard

Album Review: Ra Ra Riot - The Orchard

Barb Abney • Mar 28, 2011

The Orchard is very apt title for the sophomore release from Ra Ra Riot, the six-piece indie band whose debut, 2008's The Rhumb Line, was a sleeper indie hit that year.

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