
Green Day follows up their 2004 resurgence to the mainstream five years later with "21st Century Breakdown," an album that could easily have been a supplement to "American Idiot."
Britney Spears - Circus - Pop CD Review at TheCelebrityCafe.comSource: The Celebrity Cafe
Excerpt: Britney Spears is back (not that she ever really left)! The pop star's new CD dropped this week, and it does not disappoint. Spears is known for her contagious beats, and Circus carries on this legacy with songs that basically force the listener to sing along.
On The Download: Britney Spears' 'Circus' ReviewSource: nbcbayarea.com
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PLAY IT NOW: Britney Spears Lights Up Los Angeles
PLAY IT NOW: Britney Takes The Boys Toy Shopping In NYC!
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Excerpt: To give a true assessment of a Britney Spears album, one has to listen to it in the context of th …
No Clowning Around on New Spears Album | The Emory WheelSource: The Emory Wheel
Excerpt: With her body re-toned, hair regrown and mood restablized, Britney Spears is poised for a comeback. The weave is gone, the babies and Federline are back in tow, and all shady paparazzi have been banished from Britney's traveling troupe.

Today on Listen In we're rewinding to 2006 with Pepper's fourth record, No Shame, an album which found itself on constant rotation in my car.

It's a day of doubles here at Listen In, with me finally receiving my Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel double album, Dual Hawks.

Have you heard Laura Marling's debut album, Alas I Cannot Swim?

To know Coldplay is love them, and to hate them, and to love them and to - once again - hate them. Only, that is, to turn right back around and love them one last time before you invert your decision for what is positively not the last time.
Coldplay Indulges Experimentation On Fourth AlbumSource: billboard.com
Coldplay lets its creative flag fly on its fourth studio album, "Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends," due June 17 via Capitol. "We're still obsessed with making songs that can be sung to the rafters," frontman Chris Martin says.

When the time came for him to go on, most of the crowd had dissolved. It was well after midnight in Bucktown and the bar was dead, so Presto Descanto performed his new album in its entirety from start to finish for twenty people while the rest of the world really missed out.

Much of Erykah Badu's career has been marked by Afrocetrism, higher consciousness and introspection.

The new CD by Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab is a prime example of factory-made rap music. While the Wu Tang Clan is not usually considered mainstream because of explicit content that makes its music unplayable on airwaves, the members are definitely not underground.

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We all remember music in late 2001/2002 - Nu Metal was still being treated with inexplicable respect, Weezer had publicly announced that they would henceforth suck, Avril Lavigne had burst onto the scene with all her antiestablishmentarian Candian punk rawk …

Ænima! Lateralus! Mer de Noms! Thirteenth Step! 10,000 Days! Every time Maynard opens his mouth for the world to hear, there is a vast sea of slightly crazed and more than slightly dedicated fans which envelope him, prepared to crack open their wallets, and indeed their very sou …

Canadian indie-rock quartet The Weakerthans are not, like many bands today, an every other year (or every year in some cases) record factory. They take their time crafting their songs, letting life inspire them before putting pen to paper or fingers to strings.
The next Springsteen?Source: Scholars and Rogues
Then there's The Killers. I remember a few years back, maybe in 2002 or 2003, my buddy Jeff Lindquist e-mailed me a couple mp3s he'd nicked off an unsigned bands site. Those two tracks were "Jenny Was a Friend of Mine" and "Mr.

Clearly the best thing Britt Daniel ever did was to appear on Veronica Mars.

I had to take my dog to the vet, though I pretty much already knew the outcome. It was not bad, nor good, it was just what I expected: he suffers from allergies. A round of antibiotics and he'll be fine, I'm simply out a couple of hundred bucks.

Terrorism. Consumerism. Fascism. Coup d'etat!

So the White Stripes finally released their latest effort, Icky Thump, on June 19. I held off for a while reviewing this because quite frankly I had no idea what I thought.
Beyoncé: B'day Source: ZMEmusic.com
Everything the singer touches turns to gold thanks to her talent and already experience. But behind her albums and shows there is a careful strategy and just about every move she makes is a tactical one.
Well Suited: -- Spoon's scrupulous new albumSource: New Yorker
The Texas singer-songwriter Britt Daniel has recorded only two songs that are more than five minutes long. He hardly ever plays guitar solos, is a terse interview subject, and would never be photographed wearing an untucked T-shirt.
Alive! by Kiss album reviewSource: ZMEmusic.com
Listening to that album just makes you want to get some high boots and paint your face. Or it makes you want to get up and move like a mad man. Or it makes you sick. It just has an impact, and you can not ignore it.