Tired of end-of-year top 10s? Here’s the eight best albums earworm reviewed in 2011. Think of it as the eight-track of end-of-year best album lists. 8. R.E.M. - Collapse Into Now [Warner Bros] Michael Stipe, Peter Buck and Mike Mills called it quits in September mere months after delivering Collapse Into Now to a – frankly – [...]
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2011: earworm top 10 songs of the year
So…2011. What was that all about? Here’s the songs that wormed their way into earworm‘s ears this year. Which songs soundtracked your year? 10. Beady Eye - Bring The Light Goodness gracious! It’s a Jerry Lee Lewis rip-off from ex-Oasis singer Liam Gallagher’s new band. Oasis were never original either and this belter is still better [...]
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The Black Keys: El Camino – review
The Black Keys: El Camino [Nonesuch Records] The Black Keys seem to be filling the void left by The White Stripes’ self-imposed demise. That’s hardly an original observation but El Camino is hardly an original album. It’s garage rock blues by numbers. But – originality be damned – it’s also immediately likeable. Sure, its dumb [...]
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Amy Winehouse: Lioness: Hidden Treasures – review
Amy Winehouse: Lioness: Hidden Treasures [Island] Vale Amy Winehouse. She died in July this year but it’s hard to shake the feeling that she’d been artistically dead for quite some time. Certainly, that’s the impression given by Lioness: Hidden Treasures; a ragtag collection of cover versions, alternate takes and previously unreleased songs polished up and hustled together [...]
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Roll up….for a free Beatles ebook at iTunes. Apple finally got permission to sell The Beatles’ music via their online music store in November 2010 and have announced they’ve since sold 10 million copies of Beatles songs and 1.8 million full albums. To celebrate, Apple has made a free Yellow Submarine ebook (iBook?) available via the [...]
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