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  Grace Jones Amazingly Hula-Hoops Through Full Jubilee Performance

  June 5, 2012 – For a stretch in the '80s, Grace Jones parlayed her marble-weight voice, androgynous persona, and deeply chic sensibility into some excellent disco records, helped in no small part by her selection of top-notch Jamaican rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare. …
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  New Albums from Glasvegas, Animal Collective, and More

  January 6, 2009 – Here's a rundown of the essential albums available online and in record stores today: Glasvegas, GlasvegasScot rockers reduce pint-waving masses to puddle. Read Review >> Animal Collective, Merriweather Post PavilionFormer freak-folk crew embrace dance-music euphoria. Read Review >> The BPA, I Think We're Gonna Need a Bigger BoatPotluck at Fatboy's house -- Iggy, bring the pasta salad! …
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  Grace Jones, 'Hurricane' (PIAS America)

  November 3, 2008 – Radical and chic in equal extremes, this 63-year-old model/singer/actor epitomized disco, new wave, and black boho culture in the late '70sand early '80s, ?before vanishing like a dusky Marlene Dietrich. Finally released in the U.S. with an equally sensuous dub disc, her austere and deluxe '08 comeback album feels like a transmission from a distant galaxy, where even cult legends still have Beyoncé's recording budget. …
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