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MIKAEL WOOD

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The Dead Weather | Horehound

Third Man (2009)
It's no coincidence that four of the 11 songs on the Dead Weather's debut — "I Cut like a Buffalo," "3 Birds," "Rocking Horse," and a cover of Bob Dylan's "New Pony" — make reference to the animal kingdom.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  July 22, 2009

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Björk | Voltaic

Nonesuch (2009)
As befits an artist who doesn't do much in the conventional manner, Voltaic is a live album unlike many you've heard before.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  July 07, 2009

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The Jonas Brothers | Lines, Vines and Trying Times

Hollywood (2009)
For a group of guys who made their name as the boy band of whom no mom could disapprove, the Jonas Brothers have developed some pretty repellent ideas about the fairer sex. In what seems like every other song here, they whine about how crazy and needy and bitchy young women can be.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  June 23, 2009

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Tiga | Ciao!

Last Gang (2009)
This Montreal-based electro-house dude made his name with slyly straight-faced covers of Nelly's "Hot in Herre" and Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night," and on his second studio disc, he doesn't appear hugely concerned that his original material should sound all that original.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  June 15, 2009

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Busta Rhymes | Back on My B.S.

Universal Motown (2009)
Increasingly surrounded by Soulja Boys and Lil Waynes, Busta Rhymes has of late taken on the look of hip-hop's Father Time.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  June 02, 2009

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Jason Lytle | Yours Truly, the Commuter

Anti- (2009)
Give Jason Lytle credit for consistency: throughout his first solo album, he clings to the syrupy space-folk sound he pioneered on such self-consciously widescreen epics as The Sophtware Slump.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 18, 2009

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Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band | Outer South

Merge (2009)
"That's the thing about charisma," sings Conor Oberst in a song on his new, non–Bright Eyes release, Outer South. "It makes everyone believe."
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  May 12, 2009

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The Thermals | Now We Can See

Kill Rock Stars (2009)
This is the fourth album from the lovably scrappy Portland (Oregon) trio, but it might as well be their 400th.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  April 21, 2009

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Mastodon | Crack the Skye

Reprise (2009)
"Mastodon are a full-on metal band for people who think they're too cool to like metal," writes Will Hermes in his four-star Rolling Stone review of the latest from these veteran Atlanta bone crushers.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 31, 2009

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Condo Fucks | Fuckbook

Matador (2009)
In the unlikely event that you haven't already discovered this on the Internet: the Condo Fucks are not the "legendary New London, CT trio" they're described as on Matador's Web site.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 23, 2009

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The Soundtrack of Our Lives | Communion

Yep Roc (2009)
In the mind of Ebbott Lundberg, who's led this Swedish psych-garage outfit for nearly a decade and a half, Who's Next posed a question in need of an answer.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 17, 2009

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U2 | No Line On the Horizon

Interscope (2009)
You don't need me to tell you whether the songs on the new U2 album reflect the social, political, economic, and religious turmoil that seems it's been defining global affairs since before we can remember.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  March 10, 2009

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Black Lips | 200 Million Thousand

Vice (2009)
These Atlanta-based garage-punk brats have figured out an effective way to distinguish themselves from the countless other bands working the same stylistic turf.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 24, 2009

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Nels Cline | Coward

Cryptogramophone (2009)
Cryptogramophone (2009)
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 18, 2009

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Heartless Bastards | The Mountain

Fat Possum (2009)
"I made a lot of choices, most have not been wise," sings Erika Wennerstrom on the third album by her Ohio-based garage-rock trio.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  February 09, 2009

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Review: Lisa ''Left Eye'' Lopes, Eye Legacy

Mass Appeal/Koch (2009)
The posthumous hip-hop release has become such a music-biz commonplace.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  January 27, 2009

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Review: Antony and the Johnsons' The Crying Light

Secretly Canadian (2009)
Secretly Canadian (2009)
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  January 20, 2009

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Review: Musiq Soulchild | Onmyradio

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Atlantic (2008)
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  December 15, 2008

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Scott Weiland | “Happy” in Galoshes

Softdrive/New West (2008)
It might be one of the year’s worst albums, an underwritten, overarranged mess of factory-floor guitar fuzz, go-nowhere vocal melodies, limp electronic beats, and lyrical clunkers
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  November 24, 2008

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T-Pain | Thr33 Ringz

Jive (2008)
T-Pain’s third studio album won’t surprise fans of the Tallahassee-based hip-hop maestro.
By: MIKAEL WOOD  |  November 18, 2008
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