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  OK Go, '180/365' (Paracadute)

  June 21, 2011 – For a band that specializes in one-shot videos, this live album culled from the YouTube kings' 2010 tour sure has a lot of edits. Featuring 15 songs -- ten from last year's Of the Blue Colour of the Sky -- performed in 14 cities, it starts jarringly, ?occasionally segues abruptly, and fails to contrive a complete, satisfying show over its 58 minutes. …
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  Arctic Monkeys: The Graduates

  June 17, 2011 – After a historic debut and hype that would have undone lesser bands, Alex Turner and mates' fourth album in five years proves they're only getting better, if not quite bigger. …
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  My Morning Jacket Deliver Brilliant Bonnaroo Set

  June 11, 2011 – For generations in the South, one little-discussed ritual of youth has had a persistent influence -- the ceremonial cranking of southern rock (ironically or not) in your parents' car while driving to the laser light show. …
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  Black Lips: The Road Warriors

  June 10, 2011 – Or,How to Succeed in (the Music) Business Without (Looking Like You're) Really Trying (and While Occasionally Peeing in Your Best Friend's Mouth). The Black Lips clean up just fine. …
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  Skylar Grey: The Changeling

  June 10, 2011 – The radical transformation of the woman behind some of hip-hop's biggest hits. Holly Brook didn't have a problem fitting in. Instead, as a prim singer-songwriter who cooed chamomile lullabies in a lilting voice, she fit in so well that she never got noticed -- not even after appearing on a hit single. …
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  Bright Eyes Bring Fireworks in New Clip

  June 10, 2011 – "Jejune Stars" is one of the highlights from Bright Eyes' latest album The People's Key - a balls-out, New Wave-style "song of redemption." Conor Oberst and Co. …
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  Patrick Stump: The Gambler

  June 8, 2011 – Fall Out Boy's frontman wagers his personal fortune on a new solo project, and he'll sleep on the floor if he has to. Patrick Stump says he made enough money as the singer for pop-punk chart-toppers Fall Out Boy to retire, modestly...to a suburb. But his band's hiatus afforded him the chance to make what he calls an "outsider R&B" project, and he's staking his own earnings to bring Soul Punk (out this summer) to life. …
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  Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., 'It's a Corporate World' (Quite Scientific)

  June 7, 2011 – "It's a corporate world / I'm a corporation cutting back," sings Joshua Epstein on the zippy title track of this duo's debut, and it's not a bad business plan: With their wacky name, costumes, and synth-spiked pop rife for licensing, they have already caught the ear of major labels looking for a more cooperative MGMT. But when the hooks of their surprisingly humble songcraft dull, Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. …
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  City and Colour, 'Little Hell' (Vagrant)

  June 7, 2011 – "I'm slowly sinking into the slough of despond," wails Dallas Green on the third studio album from City and Colour, his alter ego when not fronting the much noisier Alexisonfire. Don't mistake him for a whiner, however. Just as his piercing voice and languid tunes echo Neil Young's rustic side, a Neil-like tough-mindedness runs through Green's stark meditations, which confront despair head on. …
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  Arctic Monkeys, 'Suck It and See' (Domino)

  June 7, 2011 – Five years ago, the only people who seemed impervious ?to Monkeymania were Arctic Monkeys themselves, who ?took the record-breaking U.K. sales and breathless next-Beatles hosannas with a calm detachment that belied their teenhood. …
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