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The Big Hurt: Hootie goes country, Roses stay in denial, Spector gets 'demonic'

Music news in brief
I’m still not used to the idea that Darius Rucker (“Hootie” to you and me) is a chart-topping country superstar now.
By DAVID THORPE  |  March 31, 2009
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Y'all come back now . . .

Diminishing returns in 2009
I've always liked the idea of there being some weight to the "nines," meaning: if you're a year, and you're going to perch yourself at the very edge of a decade, you'd better be ready to represent.
By MICHAEL BRODEUR  |  December 31, 2008

On the racks

June 20
Nelly Furtado, Frank Black, Pearl Jam, Fatboy Slim, and Luna.
By MATT ASHARE  |  October 27, 2008
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Didn’t they blow our minds this time

The Big Hurt: Just how rad is the new NKOTB album?
Last week, I offered my fragile body up for a heinous act of self-abuse in the name of science.
By DAVID THORPE  |  September 16, 2008
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Mirror ball

Fables of deconstruction
The stirring pop hits of the day can’t help but reflect the refracting cracked mirror of our nation’s increasingly emotion-laden psyche.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  September 08, 2008
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13 shots to the dome

The 10 hours and 29 minutes of LL Cool J’s career
What to do with LL Cool J?
By RICHARD BECK  |  September 03, 2008
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Izza Kizza

Kizzaland | Souldiggaz/Atmos
Kizzaland’s main draw? It’s Kizza’s elastic snake-charmer flow.
By SAM UBL  |  August 04, 2008
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Beck

Modern Guilt | DGC
It’s music for summer nights of muggy confusion and post-sunset soul searching, and when Beck takes the mic, he rocks some straight-up Shiva shit.
By ZETH LUNDY  |  July 15, 2008
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Who’s that girl (now)?

Madonna pulls some Hard Candy from her purse
I’d wager that Madonna is not much of a fun person.
By DANIEL BROCKMAN  |  April 29, 2008
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Better than Madonna

Pop stars with product to move
Everybody dug Confessions on a Dance Floor , but I’m one of approximately 12 people who liked American Life , Madonna’s weirdly militant 2003 disc.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 22, 2008
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The low end

The bassline house invasion
The British rave revolution of the late ’80s/early ’90s is accurately viewed as the source of the ever increasing number of dance genres in the UK.
By RICHARD BECK  |  February 26, 2008
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Britney Spears

Blackout | Jive
Spears’s fifth studio album is a witchy electro-pop wonder as suspect as those prescription pills photographed in her purse a few weeks ago.
By ELLEE DEAN  |  November 06, 2007
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Chairmen of the boards

Our critics pick the 14 producers with the fattest, meanest beats
Not unlike Swedish, Tagalog, and Esperanto, music is a language, with its own conjugations and (lewdly) dangling participles.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  October 18, 2007
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Will.i.am

Songs About Girls | A+M
There’s something melodious and calm about Will.i.am’s third solo hip-hop/R&B album — but there’s also something boring about its euphonic electro-funk dolor.
By ELLEE DEAN  |  October 08, 2007
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War of the words

50 Cent versus Kanye West
50 Cent has a long history of initiating beefs before he releases a new album.
By RICHARD BECK  |  September 12, 2007
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Happy endings

Bad news begets good tunes
The end is nigh! And I’m not talking about the mortgage market.
By MATT ASHARE  |  September 12, 2007
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Culture clash

M.I.A. confronts American pop protocol
If there were two golden rules worth following for this reviewer gig, they’d be never conflate an artist’s backstory with her product, and never read other people’s reviews.
By NICK SYLVESTER  |  September 05, 2007
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Skill ride

Pharoahe Monch’s timely return
All it took was a Godzilla sample and a simple, forceful “Simon says get the fuck up” for Pharoahe Monch to leave his mark on hip-hop history.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER  |  July 17, 2007
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I'm like a bore

Nelly Furtado, Agganis Arena, June 5, 2007
The Nelly Furtado concert was off to a fine, Lite-Brite sort of start.
By ELLEE DEAN  |  June 06, 2007
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Extremely . . .

Björk rewards — and punishes
Björk has made a career out of exploring extremes.
By MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 21, 2007
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Let’s be Frank

Buddas declares, Loyalties a Must
Despite a seemingly obvious incongruity, mainstream streets-heavy rap continues to percolate here in Portland and beyond.
By SAM PFEIFLE  |  April 18, 2007
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Demon master

Techno legend Carl Craig speaks . . . and spins
Boston hasn’t always been a major stop for big-league DJs. Record Shopping with Carl Craig (QuickTime)
By DAVID DAY  |  April 17, 2007
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Production lines

Timbaland’s shockingly bad Shock Value
The guy builds songs.
By NICK SYLVESTER  |  April 09, 2007
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Afterglow

Justin Timberlake, TD BankNorth Garden, February 6, 2007
When Justin Timberlake says he’s in love with you, what is there to do but believe him? Slideshow: Justin Timberlake with special guest Pink at TD BankNorth Garden, February 6, 2007
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 07, 2007
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Justify my love

He already brought sexy back. Now can Justin Timberlake shed his boy-band image and become a music legend?
Oh, Justin. Even you know that your undeniable charisma and brilliantly executed choreography somehow balance out your post-boy-band status and lack of indie cred. Justin Timberlake on Saturday Night Live, "Dick in a Box" (YouTube)
By SHARON STEEL  |  February 05, 2007
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Finding the balance

Barn Burning are tight and disjointed, loud and soft on Truck
Barn Burning has been through a myriad of changes since releasing its debut, Weatheredbound , in 2003.
By BOB GULLA  |  January 23, 2007
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Guest lists

 What 30 of the Phoenix 's music critics liked this year
What small, private lists like this remind us is that big, honking institutional lists are largely fictions, mirages of a consensus that no longer exists, if it ever really did in the first place.
By PHOENIX MUSIC STAFF  |  January 02, 2007
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Young Jeezy

The Inspiration | Def Jam
In anything resembling a normal world, Young Jeezy would be absurd, a caricature of a stereotype turned into a cartoon.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER  |  December 19, 2006
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Snoop Dogg

Tha Blue Carpet Treatment | Geffen
That Snoop has made his best album since 1993’s Doggystyle is a painful reminder that the hip-hop ambassador has spent the majority of his career coasting.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER  |  December 11, 2006
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Larger than life

Two kinds of triumph from Jay-Z and the Game
Although predictions that Jay-Z, in his comeback, would pull in the biggest sales numbers of the year were proved wrong (at 680,000, his Def Jam release Kingdom Come ranks third behind Rascal Flatts and Justin Timberlake in 2006), that’s hardly the story worth telling.
By MATTHEW GASTEIER  |  December 06, 2006

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