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• List ‘Em Carefully: The Top 10 Greatest Album Closers of the Decade

  
  Consequence of Sound — Authority: 639
  With the decade coming to a close, as a music fan it’s hard not to look back at all these years from a musical standpoint. A lot of truly historical albums were released during the past ten years, as we have attempted to assess through our various decade-oriented lists . Whether it was the IDM infused rock of ...
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• List: Best Albums of the Decade 100-91

  
  Swear I'm not Paul — Authority: 504
  Part Two of my countdown of the top 110 albums of the decade. You can find 110-101 here . But for now, heres 100-91... 100. Pete Yorn - musicforthemorningafter (2001) Sometimes you make something so good with your first attempt that you can never hit those high standards ever again. Donnie Darko ...
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• Best of the Oughts: Albums 61-70

  
  living in misery — Authority: 416
  And so the list continues...Its actually getting really good around here. I still listen to several of the following records on a regular basis. Dan Bejar makes two appearances on this ten. Three of the bands feature strong female performers. The top two bands on this section of the list are scattered throughout the ...
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• Winter 2k9 Mix

  
  Butter Team — Authority: 99
  Oh snap, 500th post. Its been a pleasure. Butter Team Winter 2k9 Mix (right click to download mp3) Tracklist: 1. The Avalanches - Little Journey 2. Royksopp feat. Fever Ray - This Must Be It (Thin White Duke edit) 3. Discovery - Osaka Loop Line 4. Fleetwood Mac - Dreams (Mingus Rude/Avalanches edits) 5. ...
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• Shearwater chart course to The Golden Archipelago

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 550
  Shearwater If there was a reason I finally got off my ass this past month and got my turntable fixed up with a shiny new cartridge, it’s this. Shearwater’s forthcoming The Golden Archipelago . The Austin band’s latest album, which is due out on February 23, has enormously high standards to live up to ...
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• Norah Jones announces spring tour (Reuters)

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  NEW YORK (Billboard) – Her new album is entitled " The Fall ," but Norah Jones is waiting until spring to embark on a 36-city tour, which kicks off March 5 in Tulsa, Okla. The trek will see the veteran jazz-pop singer play midsize theaters in major cities such as New York , Los Angeles and ...
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• child of the noughties: it’s bound to melt your heart for good or for bad;

  
  [last year's girl] — Authority: 124
  This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series best of the noughties Surprisingly to nobody, in the end I couldn’t steer clear of the “best of the decade” chat that is dominating the blogosphere at the moment. Last time around, of course, there wasn’t a “blogosphere” – and I wasn’t really listening to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bobby Bs 50 Albums Of The Decade: The Thrilling Conclusion (#5 - 1)

  
  It's Not The Band I Hate, It's Their Fans — Authority: 418
  For ramblings on how I came to compile this list go here . And for commentary on previous selections: [ #50-46 ] [ #45-41 ] [ #40-36 ] [ #35-31 ] [ #30-26 ] [ #25-21 ] [ #20-16 ] [ #15-11 ] [ #10-6 ] Drum roll please.... 5. Illinoise - Sufjan Stevens (2005) Forget about simply putting out a concept ...
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• Song within a Song Mix

  
  Music For Kids Who Can't Read Good: both challenging and delicious — Authority: 521
  While it’s fairly common for artists to perform a cover every once in a while, it’s much rarer (and more interesting) for a band to incorporate a cover into one of their own songs. The “song within a song” is cool for a number of reasons. It’s much harder to pull off then just sampling the track in your ...
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• Best of the Decade – Music Edition (81-90)

  
  Words of Wisdom — Authority: 131
  Last week we began an ambitious expedition through the best music of the past decade and I posted the albums ranked 91-100. Today we will tackle the next ten, numbers 81-90. Let me know what you think. 90. U2 – No Line on the Horizon (2009) I’ve long been a fan of U2, but have rarely found their complete ...
  2 weeks ago

• Bobby Bs Top 50 Albums Of The Decade (#15-11)

  
  It's Not The Band I Hate, It's Their Fans — Authority: 418
  For ramblings on how I came to compile this list go here . And for commentary on previous selections: [ #50-46 ] [ #45-41 ] [ #40-36 ] [ #35-31 ] [ #30-26 ] [ #25-21 ] [ #20-16 ] 15. The Stage Names - Okkervil River (2007) Okkervil River are the decades greatest examples of combining self reflection ...
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• Eclectic24 Album Preview: Norah Jones’ “The Fall”

  
  Music News & Events — Authority: 428
  I was lucky enough to preview this album myself over the weekend and it is not only an edgier departure from Norah’s previous work, but some of the best songs she’s ever written. On this collection, the Grammy award-winning artist embraced the gui... Read and post comments | Send to a friend
  3 weeks ago

• Pullin’ Tubes: The Fall Of Norah Jones

  
  Hidden Track — Authority: 511
  Over the summer, we revealed the details surrounding Norah Jones’ fourth studio album The Fall. For her latest record, Jones has traded the piano for electric guitar - an instrument she’s no stranger to having strapped one on for more than one of her many side projects over the past few years. Jones is backed ...
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• Norah Jones: The Fall

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 150
  Norah has taken a new direction on the The Fall, experimenting with different sounds and a new set of collaborators, including Jacquire King, a noted producer and engineer who has worked with Kings of Leon, Tom Waits and Modest Mouse. Jones enlisted several songwriting collaborators, including Ryan Adams and Okkervil ...
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• Review: Halloween Midnight Ramble

  
  Hidden Track — Authority: 511
  Originally, the purpose for The Midnight Rambles at Levon Helm’s Woodstock home-recording studio - otherwise referred to as The Barn - was to serve as a way for the legendary drummer of The Band to recoup money from his mounting medical bills after battling and overcoming throat cancer. Helm’s iconic and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Listen to Norah Jones The Fall

  
  Spinner — Authority: 739
  Filed under: New Music Norah Jones gets more interesting with every record. Two years ago she released Not Too Late, a sometimes sparse and subtle collection which still sold like the proverbial hotcakes. It included the spine-tingling Wish I Could, a song which carried a gothic chill you wouldnt normally ...
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• B. B. King, Talib Kweli, Phoenix, and More On Sale Now

  
  Big Apple Music Scene — Authority: 121
  Cast Spells and Good Old War. Images via: Dave Clifford, Us/Them Lots of good stuff on sale today, including all of the shows for Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, which will host Marianne Faithfull , St. Vincent , Dirty Projectors , and many others. Good Old War and Cast Spells (solo project ...
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• NPR & Norah Jones: Two Things That Guarantee I Pass Out Asleep

  
  Cinematically Correct — Authority: 126
  Am I the only person that just doesn’t get the seemingly universal appeal of Norah Jones? Sure, she’s a very talented musician but man, those songs all sound the same and listening to one of her albums in entirety is equivalent to downing a bottle of NyQuil. While it would take a massive style upheaval [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Willie Nelson On Austin City Limits, 1974 & More ACL Goodness

  
  Hello Vegetables — Authority: 129
  I was watchin’ M. Ward & Okkervil River on Austin City Limits this morning, and somehow slid over onto the internet, where I discovered that the PBS website is showing the pilot episode of ACL — Willie Nelson in 1974. That’s like discovering gold: Willie Nelson on Austin City Limits, 1974 And if you ...
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• Noah & The Whale and Robert Francis at The Horseshoe in Toronto

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 550
  Frank Yang When Noah & The Whale made their debut Toronto appearance back in September of last year , I noted how effectively they were able to offset the inherent twee-ness of their debut Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down in a live setting simply by turning up the rock – not only did those songs survive ...
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