Recently Buzzed Music
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The Slip
Give away his music for free, apparently. "This one's on me," reads the note on Nine Inch Nails' Website, where visitors can download The Slip in a variety of file formats â for nary a red cent. Reznor has been sticking it to the Man with distribution gambits for a while now. In 2007, he urged fans to "steal" NIN's Year Zero online to avoid getting gouged by his then-label, Interscope, and stashed USB drives containing "clues" to the whereabouts of additional music in the bathrooms of concert venues on his European tour.
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Subtle, ExitingARM
ExitingARM is Subtle's "pop" album. And by that they mean it's their most accessible album to date, and an answer to a problem that's plagued them since they started: How do you make something dense and personal, a body of work that demands time and dedication-- and then hook a wide new audience, hang onto their ears, and make them understand it? Their new album highlights what's always been catchiest about Subtle's music: it's full of short, fast bangers that you can enjoy out of the corner of your ear. But scratch the surface, and you find something far gnarlier-- the most intricate realization yet of the vision of frontman Doseone, a.k.a. rapper, poet and visual artist Adam Drucker.
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The Duke Spirit - Neptune
When The Duke Spirit came onto the stage with the broody, dark, "I Do Believe" playing through the speakers, the tone was set for the night...to an extent. What that song failed to capture was the unchained energy that would be released as soon Liela Moss took the microphone. Her brand of unchecked skill was something to behold as she channeled the likes of Janis Joplin, Beth Gibbons, and even Björk...
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Elephant Shell
Many songs on this spiky Canadian quartetâs full-length debut are best appreciated with a Websterâs Unabridged Dictionary close at hand â especially with lines like âDead lovers salivate/Broken hearts tessellate.â Tokyo Police Clubâs 2006 EP, A Lesson in Crime, earned them copious blog love and frequent comparisons to the Strokes, but Elephant Shell makes clear that the bandâs ambitions are as much literary as musical.
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Supreme Balloon
Ever since the IDM scene they emerged from in the late 1990s withered away and died, Matmos have thrived, in the process making a compelling case for themselves as electronic music's resident white coats. Beginning with 2001's A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure, the combined output of Martin Schmidt and Drew Daniel so far this decade has seen them work within the form of some pre-established conceptual constraint.
All the Buzz About Music*
*Artists are ordered by Descending BuzzRank
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| Monica |
| Madonna |
| TLC |
| Rihanna |
| Mariah Carey |
| Alicia Keys |
| Usher |
| Brandy |
| Ciara |
| Gwen Stefani |
| Fergie |
| Hilary Duff |
| Faith Hill |
| Shakira |
| Mya |
