Music
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Time Travel
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...
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Soundwaves
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...
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Spirited Songs
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...
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Acoustic Evolution
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...
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Quirky Pop
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...
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Soundwaves
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...
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Electric Bell
''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...
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Toni's Lib
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...
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Soundwaves
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...
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Soundwaves
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:...
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Fab Babs
Barbra Streisand working with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees -- the serious Streisand paired with glib Gibb sounded like a recipe for pop music...
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Random Happening
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...
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Soundwaves
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...
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Soundwaves
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...
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Merry Melody
In 2002, nearly every major entertainment magazine singled out the Norwegian duo Röyksopp as a dance/electronica band to watch, producers of what so many hailed...
