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  • Soundwaves

    By on October 26, 2005

    Abel HALLELUJAH FOR ALEGRIA... The dance compilation you've waited all year to buy is finally available, DJ Abel Aguilera's two-disc Alegria Musica. If this set's...

  • Time Travel

    By on October 26, 2005

    Dolly Parton is a consummate marketer of contemporary music, and one of its most cutting-edge. She combined country-pop a decade before country-pop was cool, and...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 19, 2005

    TAKE COVER FROM COVERS... Soon you'll be hearing a dance cover of Sheila E's ''Glamorous Life.'' And just as with most dance covers of '80s...

  • Spirited Songs

    By on October 12, 2005

    It's a daring move for any performer to record a tribute album, much less an album of songs associated with an icon as beloved as...

  • Acoustic Evolution

    By on October 5, 2005

    Nickel Creek's adventurous third release, Why Should the Fire Die?, finds the precocious trio evolving as artists and exploring a much broader sound. With roots...

  • Quirky Pop

    By on October 5, 2005

    Death Cab for Cutie may or may not be the ''it'' alt-rock band of the moment -- and there are at least a dozen vying...

  • Soundwaves

    By on October 5, 2005

    Garbage DON'T THROW OUT GARBAGE YET... Don't put Garbage in the pop trash heap just yet. A Sept. 23 post to the band's Web site...

  • Electric Bell

    By on September 28, 2005

    ''It's something that I've been wanting to do for a while,'' Andy Bell says of his debut solo record. Electric Blue comes exactly two decades...

  • Toni's Lib

    By on September 28, 2005

    Toni Braxton explains in the liner notes that she was nervous and full of doubt as she made her new album Libra, her first since...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 28, 2005

    Junior Senior D-D-D-DON'T STOP DAFFY DANES... It's official: Those daffy Danes Junior Senior have a new album in the works. And actually it's already for...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 21, 2005

    Lauper SHE BOPS, WE BOP AGAIN... Would you believe Cyndi Lauper has only had one No. 1 club hit? Of course you know which one:...

  • Fab Babs

    By on September 21, 2005

    Barbra Streisand working with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees -- the serious Streisand paired with glib Gibb sounded like a recipe for pop music...

  • Random Happening

    By on September 14, 2005

    It may not be fair to her, but Juliet's debut album Random Order in all likelihood serves as a window into how Madonna's next album...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 14, 2005

    MCLACHLAN'S LINGERING AFTERGLOW... Now two years old, Sarah McLachlan's ''World On Fire'' takes on new meaning in a post-Hurricane Katrina world, when so many of...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 7, 2005

    CELEBRATING THE ''COPACABANA''... This past Sunday ushered in the annual Brazilian Day Festival in New York, honoring Brazil's independence from Portugal. But Tommy Boy is...