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2 hrs ago | The Independent

Wilco - Saddled up for the long haul

Wilco has been named the best album of the year by our rock critic, Andy Gill. Fiona Sturges talks to the band's Jeff Tweedy about longevity against the odds and a dream comeback Wilco is a work that radiates confidence and contentment, recalling the simplicity of the band's early LPs A.M. and Being There.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

15 hrs ago | OhNoTheyDidnt

Rolling Stone's Top 100 Albums of the Decade

Almost Killed Me , The Hold Steady 98. Return to Cookie Mountain , TV on the Radio 97.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Streets, Hip-Hop, Alicia Keys, R-N-B, Black Entertainment, The Libertines, Johnny Cash, Country

Tue Dec 08, 2009

USA Today

Today's Pop Five: Meancats' top music documentaries

The Pop Five is a series of reader-created top five lists. Today's contribution comes from Joey L. in Norman, Okla.: 5. I Am Trying to Break Your Heart -- I love docs with a lot of tension, and this one has vomit-inducing tension.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Metal, Metallica

Sun Dec 06, 2009

MassLive.com

The Grammy nominations are in

This year's Grammy nominations were announced this week with no surprises. The most musical artists, to put it nicely, have once again been confined to the end-of-the-program categories.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Fri Dec 04, 2009

Minnesota State University, Mankato, ...

The Reporter's Top 10 Albums of the Decade

Arcade Fire Funeral Anthemic, cathartic, evocative, brilliant; all these words and so many more could describe Funeral, an album that perfectly captures the mood of its time through its exploration of the world, of life, of humanity and of death.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The White Stripes, Black Entertainment, Kanye West, Hip-Hop, Music, Entertainment

Wed Dec 02, 2009

Rochester City Newspaper

Music Interview: Ha Ha Tonka

Ha Ha Tonka guitarist Brian Anderson describes his banda s mix of spirituals and rock as coming from the membersa desire to be a rock band, but coming from the Ozarks.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Entertainment, Music

Sun Nov 29, 2009

St. Cloud Times

Walk down musical memory lane for a look at favorites from years past

For this Thanksgiving Day's column, I decided to reflect on the music of the last 10 years.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Bob Dylan, The Strokes, Bruce Springsteen

Fri Nov 27, 2009

hosted Christian Science Monitor | Christian Science Monitor

Changes to USPS Letters to Santa program upend charities' plans

A US Postal Service revision to its decades-old Letters to Santa program has some charities scurrying to figure out if and how they can continue giving to needy people who write in to ask for help.

Take organizers of a holiday benefit at Chicago's famed Second City theater. For each of the past 10 years, the event has raised more than $1 million for Chicago families living in housing projects or amid desperate circumstances. The recipe was simple and, until this year, always the same: Musicians and actors performed, money got raised, organizers bought goods and delivered a van load each to about a dozen families.

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Related Topix: Life, Charity , Theater, Arts, Pop/Rock

The New Zealand Herald

American pop, rock and alt on their way

Speaking of Twilight mania, Paramore, the band who gained a lot of momentum by giving a couple of songs to the first film's soundtrack, have announced a gig, or two, Downunder.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Paramore, Tennessee, Brand New, Punk, New Zealand, Oceania, World News, Husker Du

Thu Nov 26, 2009

Scoop

Love police present WILCO

Thursday, 26 November 2009, 11:21 am Press Release: The Label     Media Release –EMBARGOED UNTIL 9AM  Thursday 26th November                         Love police present WILCO Tickets on sale Tuesday 1st December ...

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Nov 25, 2009

St. Louis - riverfronttimes.com

Impermanent Vacation: Darin Gray and Glenn Kotche reactivate their instrumental project, On Fillmore

On Fillmore: Breezy vacation on tap. "Cinematic" is a descriptor often assigned to instrumental bands, a catchall term that frequently serves as a polite way of saying "background music." Although On Fillmore creates sparse, mysterious sonic landscapes that occasionally function as film scores, the duo of Darin Gray and Glenn Kotche hates ...

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Related Topix: Edwardsville, IL, Pop/Rock, Music, Entertainment

Mon Nov 23, 2009

The Heights

Top Albums Of The Decade

Blending baroque instrumentals with modern angst and the devasting croon of Win Butler, Arcade Fire's debut can cater to myriad settings: studying, mourning, running, rebuilding your life.

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Related Topix: 9, Pop/Rock, Radiohead, Sufjan Stevens, Indie, The White Stripes, The Strokes

Sat Nov 21, 2009

The Courier-Journal

Digital Downloads | Beck, Wilco, Skip Spence

Record Club is a project more or less headed by Beck that is devoted to the recording - in one day - of an album deemed worthy by RC's rotating members.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Pixies

Fri Nov 20, 2009

Phoenix New Times

Incoming: Jeff Tweedy Plays Phoenix on December 27

Phoenix still can't seem to wrangle a Wilco show but we're getting the next best thing at the end of December as singer Jeff Tweedy plays a solo show at the gorgeous Orpheum Theatre on Sunday, December 27.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Phoenix, AZ, Jeff Tweedy

Thu Nov 19, 2009

Columbus Alive

Headliners: The Sun

The Sun burned out not as a supernova, but with a slow, frustrated fizzle. At least they're ending with an album that's more bang than whimper.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, The Sun, Sam Brown, Spoon, California

Wed Nov 18, 2009

Dallas Observer

Picture Show: Son Volt at The Granada

Son Volt served up a handful of early hits, and lots of the new stuff from The Search , Okemah and the Melody of Riot and this summer's release American Central Dust , last night at the Granada Theater.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Son Volt

Mon Nov 16, 2009

JamBase

Beck, Wilco, Feist Do Skip Spence's Oar

As part of Beck 's Record Club project, Wilco , Feist and others joined forces to work on Skip Spence 's Oar .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Sat Nov 14, 2009

Eye Weekly

The glorious Bastard

Ita s fitting that on this Friday the 13th that we mourn the loss of 'Ol Dirty Bastard, the Wu Tang member we lost today five years ago.

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Related Topix: Wu-Tang, Music!, Rap, Ol' Dirty Bastard, Pop/Rock

Fri Nov 13, 2009

Paste Magazine

Wilco Launches Haiku Contest

The author of the best Wilco-inspired haiku wins a Gibson SG, something that Jeff Tweedy himself would cherish.

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock

Wed Nov 11, 2009

Dallas Observer

Jay Farrar And Son Volt May Have Good Intentions, But They'll Always Pale To Jeff Tweedy And Wilco

Son Volt performs Thursday, November 12, at the Granada Theater. When Uncle Tupelo called it quits way back in 1994, few could have predicted the career paths of the band's two major, alt-country gurus, Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Uncle Tupelo, Music, Entertainment

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