Matisyahu, 'Light' (Epic)
No longer content to be the world’s foremost Hasidic reggae star -- what an ingrate!
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Cobra Starship, 'Hot Mess' (Decaydance/Fueled By Ramen)
The marquee attraction on these crafty electro-emo pranksters’ third album is “Good Girls Go Bad,” a sasstastic collaboration with Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester.
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Maxwell, 'BLACKsummers’night' (Columbia)
This neo-soul trailblazer hasn’t released a new album since 2001’s Now, but after returning to the stage last fall, Maxwell is coming back with a flourish: Dude says this is the first installment in a planned trilogy. Grittier and less New Age-y than his previous work, BLACKsummers’night suggests that Maxwell spent his sabbatical doing more than yoga.
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The Fiery Furnaces, 'I'm Going Away' (Thrill Jockey)
How does a year without a new Fiery Furnaces album feel?
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Inside the Michael Jackson Tribute
This morning, a few hours before the start of the Michael Jackson memorial service, the Staples Center courtyard resembled a dense jungle of cables and microphones and satellite dishes, beefy camera guys shooting pictures of other beefy camera guys shooting pictures of other beefy camera guys. An alien landscape in which every human somehow seemed comfortably at home.
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Dave Matthews Band, 'Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King' (RCA)
The first sound you hear on the new Dave Matthews Band album is the bleat of LeRoi Moore's saxophone -- appropriate for a disc titled in honor of the founding member, who died unexpectedly last August following a freak ATV accident.




