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Matt Pike Needs No Stinking Shirt (Columns)
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Various Artists: Things About Comin' My Way - A Tribute to the Music of the Mississippi Sheiks (Capsule Reviews)
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The blues tune “Sitting on Top of the World” has been covered by everyone from Howlin’ Wolf to Chet Atkins to Bob Dylan to Cream to Ray Charles to the Grateful Dead to Doc Watson and to Jack White.The Mississippi Sheiks were a popular acoustic country string band who recorded 70 songs during the early part of the Great Depression. The group’s best known song, the surreal blues tune “Sitt
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The Best Singles of 2009: The Dead Weather – "Hang You From the Heavens" (Mixed Media)
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We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark."Hang You From the Heavens" is perhaps most representative of how you would expect the Dead Weather to sound. Jack White demolishes the drum kit, particularly the hi-hats, while Dean Fertita and Jack Lawrence hit a slew of grimy notes and tones. As if that's...
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The Best Singles of 2009: Burial and Four Tet - "Moth/Wolf Cub" (Mixed Media)
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We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.While the R. Kelly/Jay-Z collaboration failed miserably, the vinyl-only "Moth/Wolf Cub" single showed that bizarre genre crossovers could work. Four Tet was one of the primary founders of folktronica and Burial was one of the names that made dubstep the hous...
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The Best Singles of 2009: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – "Young Adult Friction" (Mixed Media)
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We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.Artist: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/features_art/t/thepainsofbeingpureatheart-st.jpg Display Width: 200 From its title to its punchline, this song is clever, a coming-of-age-in-a-library tale with bodies pressed a...
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Slipped Disc: Them Crooked Vultures - "New Fang" (Mixed Media)
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Songs that missed our Top 50 Singles list, but at least one of our writers loves.It's always a bit of a bummer when one of the most solar-plexus-punchingly great records of the year comes out in November or December. Some people haven't heard it yet, and others are wary of confusing novelty with quality, so it doesn't make the "Best of" lists as much as it should. Well, I'm here to tell you, Them
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Slipped Disc: The Von Bondies - "Pale Bride" (Mixed Media)
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Songs that missed our Top 50 Singles list, but at least one of our writers loves.The Von Bondies shot their wad in 2008 by releasing a four-song EP with the most stellar tracks off the 2009 album Love, Hate, and Then There's You. Frontman Jason Stollsteimer has gone through bassists and guitarists like flu season Kleenex over the past decade, and apparently decided to embrace that by not listin...
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The Best Singles of 2009: Shakira - "She Wolf" (Mixed Media)
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We've unveiled our 50 best singles of the year, but that's not really a lot of songs. So, here are others bubbling just under that 50 mark.Artist: Shakira Image: http://www.popmatters.com/images/news_art/s/shakirashewolf.jpg Display Width: 200 Shakira"She Wolf" If you were to propose a song by the Latin contortionist sensation Shakira produced by one of the guys from The Apples in Stereo (John ...
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Corinne Bailey Rae to release The Sea on January 26 (video) (Mixed Media)
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Corinne Bailey Rae is set to release her second album on January 26th, a follow up to her Grammy-winning first album. Though the newest release, titled The Sea, isn't out for another month and a half, the album's first single, “I’d Do It All Again”, was recently performed on Later...with Jools Holland. Catch the performance below:
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