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• Various Artists, 'Eastbound & Down Soundtrack' (Fat Possum)

  April 11, 2012 – Nice deep cuts from the Slits and MC5 scattered among stripper-pole jams and Kenny Powers dialogue. …
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• Various Artists, 'Opika Pende: Africa at 78 RPM' (Dust-To-Digital)

  October 25, 2011 – One continent, 100 songs, all transferred from old 78s that probably would've never made it to CD otherwise. …
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• Various Artists, 'Fac. Dance: 12" Mixes and Rarities 1980-1987' (Strut)

  October 24, 2011 – Joy Division, New Order, and Happy Mondays: Manchester-based, Factory Records bands who built careers by asserting that post-punk's rigor and austerity was not altogether different from disco's. This comp presumes that you already have the essential stuff and are ready for the B-sides. …
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• Various Artists, 'Phil Spector Presents the 
Philles Album Collection' (Phil Spector Records/Legacy)

  October 18, 2011 – Legendary Wall of Sound producer Phil Spector only recorded one good full-length: A Christmas Gift for You. His other albums are collected here on seven discs. Maybe the hope is to trap young people nostalgic for what they imagine to be the originals' integrity. …
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• Various Artists, 'La Habana Era Una Fiesta' (Vampisoul)

  July 5, 2011 – This 36-track exploration spans 20 years, and feels like it -- exuberant and celebratory, full of flute toodles, razzy horns, percussive cha-cha-cha, and hysterically romantic vocals. It's tough to absorb as a full compilation (unless the infancy of Cuban pop is your specialty), but given that the U.S. narrative of Cuban music is "...then there was Buena Vista Social Club," Vampisoul's work here is worthy.  …
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• Various Artists, 'True Soul: Deep Sounds From the Left of Stax Vols. I & II' (Now-Again)

  June 21, 2011 – 3 Sharecropper's son, art ?teacher, record store/label owner, Lee Anthony nurtured a Little Rock, Arkansas soul and funk scene that produced the Gap Band, among others. Befriending and learning from Sun's Sam Phillips, Stax's Al Bell, and Hi's Willie Mitchell, Anthony brought homespun sonic experimentalism to the greasy funk of groups like the Leaders and York Wilborn's Psychedelic Six. …
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  Various Artists, 'Music From Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' (Interscope)

  June 14, 2011 – No stuntmen were harmed in the recording of this, the cast soundtrack to beleaguered megamusical and late-night talk-show punching bag Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, featuring arena-rock tunes supplied by U2's Bono and the Edge. The collision of Broadway cheesiness and Bono cheesiness is indeed fearsome to behold. …
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• Various Artists, 'Our Lives Are Shaped by What We Love: Motown's Mowest Story 1971-1973' (Light In The Attic)

  June 14, 2011 – 5 Flush with Motown success, Berry Gordy opened an L.A. branch of his Detroit institution to supposedly sign West Coast acts and, in industry parlance, be "closer to the business." His subsequent roster of lesser-known soul and funk artists (along with off-message oddities like psych rockers Lodi) was no match for Marvin, Smokey, Stevie, and Michael. …
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• Various Artists, 'Watch the Closing Doors: A History of New York's Musical Melting Pot Vol. 1 (1945-59)' (Year Zero)

  May 24, 2011 – On the heels of canon-smashing comp Dirty Water: The Birth of Punk Attitude, U.K. journalist Kris Needs returns with a six-volume history of popular music in New York City (plus a 72-page booklet of attitudinal scholarship). These two CDs focus on a '40s–'50s moment when jazz, blues, and folk mingled with doo-wop, early rock'n'roll, and avant-garde composition, linking John Cage to Nina Simone to Frankie Lymon.  …
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• Various Artists, 'Fania Records 1964-1980: The Original Sound of Latin New York' (Strut)

  March 29, 2011 – Founded by Dominican bandleader Johnny Pacheco and Italian-American lawyer Jerry Masucci, Fania brought together various strains of Afro-Caribbean music in 1960s-'70s New York (championing greats Celia Cruz, Ray Barretto, Willie Colón, and Héctor Lavoe). This dance-floor-ready two-CD set is notable for its looser, funkier take on salsa's roots in mambo, soul, and boogaloo. …
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