Devendra Banhart, 'Cripple Crow' (XL)
Folk hippie sings odes to the lint in his navel.
By Nick Catucci 09.06.05 3:00 AM
"Sometimes, there's a man -- well, he's the man for his time and place.
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Against Me!, 'Searching for a Former Clarity' (Fat Wreck Chords)
Punk politics you can't fit on a bumper sticker.
By Charles Aaron 09.01.05 3:00 AM
There's no better example that the underground rock scene has its head up its collective ass than the lack of appreciation for literate, thrashing Florida folk punks Against Me!
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Prime Directives
Four filmmakers share the secrets behind their best-known music videos. No radio stars were harmed in the making of this article.
By Melissa Maerz 09.01.05 3:00 AM
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Kanye West, 'Late Registration' (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam)
Hip-hop's golden boy tries to hang on to his ego.
By Jon Caramanica 08.30.05 3:00 AM
"If you talkin' 'bout classics, do my name get brought up?" This is Kanye West on "Diamonds From Sierra Leone," the single that preceded the release of his second album, inquiring after -- or pleading for -- the adulation he so nakedly craves.
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Q&A: Gavin Rossdale
"I'm envious of who's playing the 10 P.M. slot on the Roskilde [Festival] stage. That's success in my world."
By Kyle Anderson 08.27.05 3:00 AM
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Gogol Bordello, 'Gypsy Punks: Underdog World Strike' (SideOneDummy)
Not your mother's Ukrainian punk band!
By Keith Harris 08.25.05 3:00 AM
Boring old black-white miscegenation is so 20th century -- to really freak out tight-ass bigots in the '00s, somebody's gotta take the multiethnic gene-pool reconstruction worldwide. Mustachioed Gogol Bordello frontman Eugene Hutz is just the mutt to do it, and your daughter could one day be the honey he does it with.
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