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The American Idol singer's staged gay kiss should not have been cause for complaint – it was his sexually aggressive performance that was objectionable Have you been following the Adam Lambert controversy this week? If not, let me fill you in. Lambert, the runner-up in season eight of American ...
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Our series of oblique angles on the muscial decade continues, with a look at how hip-hop's vigour and invention at the start of the noughties made the last five years of rap seem stale A month or so ago New Yorker pop critic Sasha Frere-Jones wrote a column about the state of rap, starting ...
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Hip Hop
Timbaland
Lil Wayne
Kanye West
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The Modfather confuses hipsters with this avant-garde giveaway
It's come to our attention that Weller and My...
Bloody Valentine's Kevin Shields have recorded a track together, called 7 + 3 Is The Striker's Name (it's available for free from the ...
Paul Weller and Kevin Shields, jamming
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At a time when nu-metal and dad-rock ruled the airwaves, the Strokes rewired rock'n'roll with irresistible songs, inventive guitars and arty arrogance More top 10 albums of the decade The impact of the first Strokes album was immediate and dramatic. But if private school-educated New Yorkers ...
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The Strokes
Late of the Pier – Blueberry (From It's Getting Boring By the Sea . Thanks to extraordinaryrvanp for the suggestion) Radio rip of the first single from LOTP's new LP from producer Erol Alkan's recent 6mix session. Starts off worryingly conventional and Kinks-like before burbling madly off ...
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Baobinga
Although death overshadowed the Montreal band's debut album, it was still one of the most life-affirming records of the decade More top 10 albums of the decade There is some debate as to how many of Arcade Fire's extended family members died during the making of the band's debut album. But ...
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New song from R Kelly promises to plant his 'magic seed' somewhere special. Eurgh "Pregnant! Knock you up! Pregnant! Knock you up!" There is clearly nothing more romantic you can tell a girl . If you're a member of Flight of the Conchords, that is. Urban music guardian.co.uk © ...
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R. Kelly
Flight Of The Conchords
It's a sad day for music as Fiddy abandons his plans for a condom with added extras According to various online sources, the rapper has shelved his new Wrap It Up safe sex campaign after his condoms failed to meet certain standards. Does that mean what we think it means? Apparently, the rapper ...
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50 Cent
If this was the decade in which celebrities bared all, then Winehouse managed to save her dark side for the music, combining misdemeanour with melody, scandal with soul Amy Winehouse opened her second album stating defiantly that she wasn't going to rehab – no, no no – then spent the next nine ...
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Amy Winehouse
Liz Harris's spooky, nocturnal anthems are the product of a restless artistis spirit exploring new sonic dreamscapes I'll admit that I arrived late to the Grouper party. Liz Harris's Portland-based solo project has been going since 2006, developing from a drone-heaby basement act into what has ...
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The stripped-back approach to rock'n'roll inspired many bands during the noughties, but none were a match for Jack and Meg The cricket bat on the cover, along with utterances about cups of tea and the Queen, announced that the White Stripes were a long way from Motor City for their fourth ...
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The White Stripes
Meg White
The clampdown on cameraphones at the London jazz festival is stopping a vibrant and spontaneous art form from reaching a wider audience online The ushers certainly had their work cut out. During this year's 250-gig London jazz festival , the capital's major concert halls tried to curb the ...
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Jazz
Few would disagree with Jay-Z's boast about being the 'best rapper alive' after hearing this gloriously epic album It was billed at the time as his swansong. During a playback at his Baseline Studios in New York, shortly before its release in 2003, Jay-Z was adamant that after this, his eighth ...
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Jay-Z
West Africa produced many outstanding releases during the noughties, but the Malian singer's stark and haunting album was the most remarkable By normal industry standards, waiting until you're 53 to make the best album of your career is perhaps leaving it a bit late. But then not much about ...
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From Hip Hop Weekly to the Source, urban music magazines offer a mixed approach to covering rap's inner conflicts What was I thinking? After two and a half years of striving to inspire a heated debate with an outmoded combination of impassioned polemic and old-school Bernstein and ...
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Hip Hop
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Observer Music Monthly starts the countdown to the
10 best albums of the decade with this melancholic...
masterclass from dubstep's dark knight In an era when musicians revealed their private lives to the public via MySpace and Twitter, when even the ...
Albums of the decade No 10: Burial – Untrue
Welcome, one and all, to the latest edition of Music Weekly. This week's show kicks off with art beast Gonzales, who happens to be in the middle of a residency at London's Pigalle club. Laura Barton met up with the Canadian musician to talk about being "welcomed into the bosom of the French", ...
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Shy FX's jungle landmark, Sound of the Beast, was one of the big tunes of the 1994 Notting Hill Carnival. It had roots in the past, but the police sirens and dive-bombing bass created a truly modern noise Like the Clash's White Riot, Sound of the Beast begins with a police siren so realistic ...
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The Beast
Last week was all about a cry for help. This time we want you to suggest songs about reaching maturity Sometimes I feel like a motherless child. Particularly when my mum is on the phone telling me off for not remembering my aunt's birthday. Fortunately, that only happens once a year, the rest ...
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The former Genesis frontman on fan funding, reliable filters, and why he would commission an alternative to The X Factor When I blogged about the lack of women in the music industry , one manager claimed that this is because girls are less interested in who worked on a record than what the ...
