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  • Music in Brief

    May 08, 2007

    The Eames Era's self-released second album, Heroes & Sheroes, is the best yet from a band that keeps threatening to pull...

  • Music In Brief

    May 01, 2007

    In retrospect, J Dilla's Ruff Draft EP sounds like a transition disc bridging the relatively straightforward beat...

  • Music in Brief

    Apr 24, 2007

    Since the end of Grant Lee Buffalo, Grant-Lee Phillips has been such a consistently impressive solo artist that he's become a little easy...

  • Music in Brief

    Apr 17, 2007

    It's an up-and-down week, with pairs of albums that show how to do certain kinds of music dead-on, and alternately, how to miss the...

  • Music In Brief: Music On DVD Edition

    Apr 10, 2007

    On Columbia/Legacy's reissue of Blue Öyster Cult's Some Enchanted Evening, the second disc contains an hour of video from...

  • Music in Brief

    Apr 03, 2007

    Hug is the alias of Swedish techno wunderkind John Dahlbäck, who issued a number of impressive sides before reaching legal drinking age....

  • Music in Brief

    Mar 27, 2007

    The new Golden Afrique Vol. 3 (Network Medien) isn't quite in the company of the first two volumes in the Golden Afrique...

  • Music in Brief

    Mar 21, 2007

    There's never a bad time to fall in love with Stax, the soul label that, from a converted Memphis movie theater, delivered some of the deepest,...

  • Music in Brief

    Mar 13, 2007

    What makes The Weirdness (Virgin) an album by The Stooges, and not just another lame Iggy Pop solo record with guest...

  • Music in Brief

    Mar 06, 2007

    Tupac Shakur left behind such a formidable legacy that rappers can spend their entire careers exploring just one aspect of it. A good example is...