From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the comeback album by former mall-fillers New Kids on the Block, The Block, which arrives in stores today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to The Recession, the latest album by the seemingly unbannable Young Jeezy.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the new album by famous Iowans Slipknot, whose album All Hope Is Gone arrives in stores today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the new album by recently reunited Brit-rock standard-bearers The Verve, whose album Forth arrives in American stores today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the new album by power metal outfit/Guitar Hero stalwarts Dragonforce, Ultrabeatdown, which hits stores tomorrow.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today, we're going to switch things up a bit and look at the notices given to the Fred Durst-directed The Longshots, which features Ice Cube as the doting uncle of a female football prodigy and which comes out today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the latest album trying out the "Let's have this old guy sing songs he's clearly not familiar with!" formula, Glen Campbell's Meet Glen Campbell, which hits record stores today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the reactions to the new album by the awkwardly punctuated, oft-fantasized-about outfit The Academy Is..., Fast Times At Barrington High, which hits record stores tomorrow.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is the new album from Swedish pop singer Lykke Li, whose album Youth Novels hits the non-import racks of US record stores tomorrow.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is the new album from teen sensations the Jonas Brothers, whose album A Little Bit Longer hits stores tomorrow (and is probably causing lines to form outside your local Target, Wal-Mart, or other CD-supplying store as I type this).
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. This time out, we're taking a look at writeups for R&B crooner Lloyd's third album, Lessons in Love, which hits stores today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. This time out, we're taking a look at writeups for Bright Eyes mastermind Conor Oberst's solo album, which hits stores tomorrow.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is Harps And Angels, the first full-length by perennial Oscar nominee Randy Newman since 1999, which hits stores tomorrow.
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Usually, we use The Last Word to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews, but this week we'd like to focus attention on responses to Ann Powers' recent L.A. Times think piece on "poptimism," a.k.a. critics paying serious attention to mainstream pop music, a.k.a. critics doing (one of) their jobs. In particular, Powers' discussion of covering American Idol as a music-news story has become something of a bloggers' chew toy. Below the jump, a bit from Powers' original piece and some choice blog responses.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is the new album from churchgoer and radio DJ Alice Cooper, Along Came A Spider, which hits stores today.
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is by the Wayne Coyne-inspired pop-country outfit Sugarland, whose album Love On The Inside comes out in a "deluxe fan edition" today and a plain old edition in a week. (That's one way to keep the people coming back to the record stores, I guess.)
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From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. Today's entry is the much-blogged-about Florida band Black Kids' Partie Traumatic, which hits stores tomorrow.
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