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  Best & Worst Moments of Coachella: Day Two

  April 18, 2010 – BEST BALLSY MOVE: MGMT "Kids" is to MGMT's Andrew VanWyngarden, as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" was to Nirvana's Kurt Cobain: a ubiquitous pop track that made them famous, but ultimately worked against their artistic vision, as fans continued to demand the sound the band wanted to leave behind. And Saturday night at Coachella, MGMT did just that, omitting their most popular song while playing to some 40,000 people. Ballsy! …
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  Corinne Bailey Rae Launches Tour with Powerful Show

  April 7, 2010 – All that was missing Tuesday night at the kickoff to Corinne Bailey Rae's 16-date North American tour was a collection plate. Everything else surrounding the British songstress' concert cried religious experience - the setting, Vibiana, a 134-year-old decommissioned cathedral in downtown Los Angeles; the audience, 500 or so devout fans; the proselytizer, influential radio station KCRW-FM; and the music, 14 chapters of heart and soul en …
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• Corinne Bailey Rae, 'The Sea' (Capitol)

  January 13, 2010 – This English folk-soul chanteuse broke out four years ago with a breezy self-titled debut that made Norah Jones sound like a deep thinker. In 2008, though, Rae's husband died unexpectedly, and on The Sea you can hear her grief. It's a darker, grittier effort suffused with a kind of shell-shocked melancholy. …
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• Al Green, 'Lay It Down' (Blue Note)

  May 27, 2008 – This R&B equivalent of Loretta Lynn's Van Lear Rose pairs Al Green, the dapper philosopher king of Memphis soul, with producers James Poyser and Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson of the Roots. The result doesn't prove that Green's still got it; I Can't Stop, his 2003 reunion with Hi Records impresario Willie Mitchell, already did that. …
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