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not sidelined: Agent Fresco

From the band's Facebook: Important message for all of you, who are attending the AK Extreme festival next weekend. I am terribly sorry to announce, that I can not perform or attend the festival. I am at...

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live: Other Lives at American Airlines Center, Dallas, Mon. 3/5/12

Heading into the Radiohead concert last night, it wasn't certain which group of fans would leave more fulfilled. On one hand, the true believers, who are generally indifferent between King of Limbs, Hail to...

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clear your schedule: Music websites that aren’t this one

Electroacoustic übersite Fluid Radio has added a user forum to its webzine/record label/radio station/online retailer/photography/iPhone app format. Seriously, for the website you thought already had everything... In our first of two novelty sites, The Best...

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Listen to Andrew Bird’s Film Score for “Norman”

I'll have to admit that I'm a little confused as to what exactly is going on here. Andrew Bird was drafted to compose the entire score for the 2010 film Norman but apparently that score...

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Natacha Atlas responds to Wikipedia

(email|facebook|twitter) The user-driven internet has its issues, to be sure. Natacha Atlas addresses one of them here. It's engaging throughout, but this excerpt reads like an executive summary: --- Wikipedia may have been a good idea...

"Freddie Mercury meets Shirley Bassey"

In what promises to be a lively interview, Adam Lambert discusses the unreleased Muse track “Soaked,” which he covers on his (ironically titled?) debut For Your Entertainment.

Listen to the Muse version below. I simply can’t post anything from Adam Lambert’s album. It is so overproduced and overmixed and overhydrated that it begins to sound exactly the same way a video game looks. I was a fan during his run on American Idol, and believed the comparisons to Matthew Bellamy to be fair. Both have a cocky, high-flying, and acrobatic vocal style, and both straddle the fence between delicate and brash. So Lambert’s performance of “Starlight” made sense, as did this cover:

“Soaked” is a slightly odd Muse track, to be sure. But For Your Entertainment is hands-down the disappointment of the year. We were expecting glam metal wrapped in progressive rock. But what we got was a Britney wrapped in a Justin.

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