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Review: MGMT’s ‘Congratulations’

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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Maybe “Congratulations” isn’t the MGMT album everyone wanted. The band’s first release, “Oracular Spectacular,” was a trippy, independent opus. It filled concert venues, found critical acclaim and scored the band opening slots for acts like Radiohead and Beck.
But maybe that wasn’t MGMT. During the band’s humble beginnings, its members were dorm-room miscreants, playing shows consisting [...]

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Let’s Get Out of Cape Cod Tonight: Vampire Weekend Concert Review

by Kerry LePain Reviews
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In a sold-out show Tuesday night at the Marquee, Vampire Weekend showed Tempe what they’re all about ­– the music.
The lights dimmed for a moment until suddenly a rainbow of colors exploded as band members Ezra Koenig, Rostam Batmanglij, Chris Tomson and Chris Baio took the stage. An enormous picture of Contra’s album cover, a [...]

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Review: She & Him, Volume II

by Kerry LePain Reviews
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First things first … Zooey Deschanel has a great voice. She’s got something jazzy going on, something fresh. It hearkens back to an age when singers could actually, well, sing. She’s surprisingly versatile — occasionally sounding as if she’d fit in perfectly with the likes of Judy Garland. On the piano pounding “Over It Over [...]

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Review: Mary Poppins

by Samantha Lloyd Reviews
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She sings, dances, flies and yes, she’s a nanny. The Disney magic has been brought to the stage of ASU Gammage for the national tour of “Mary Poppins.”
Presented by Disney and Cameron Mackintosh, this musical is based on the stories by P.L. Travers and the classic Oscar-winning Disney film. It follows a small London family that [...]

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“Rewind, Remix, Replay”: An Audible Exhibit at SMoCA

by Jessica Testa Hot Spots
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Contemporary art museums are supposed to be filled with the latest in edge, style and avant-garde artwork. A display of 23 electric guitars? Not so much.
Yet for “Rewind Remix Replay,” the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art becomes an unexpected music venue, housing a massive collection of guitars, boom boxes, turntables, keyboards, synthesizers and nearly every [...]

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Review: Yeasayer’s ‘Odd Blood’

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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After Yeasayer’s 2007 release “All Hours Cymbals,” the group established itself as the indie-visionaries at the forefront of experimental music. Now, the band is continuing that legacy with their newest release, “Odd Blood,” an album packed with enough drum machines and futuristic synthesizers to bring a tear to George Jetson’s eye.
It’s difficult to describe any [...]

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Review: Vampire Weekend’s Contra

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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What’s a band to do? After Vampire Weekend’s 2007 debut earned them every title from “best new band” from Spin to “whitest band” by Stuff White People Like author Christian Lander, the band is at a crossroads on their new disc. Is it better to stick to the tongue-in-cheekiness that earned their debut acclaim, or [...]

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Review: Spoon’s ‘Transference’

by Colin Lecher Reviews
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It’s hard to sound heartbroken when you find the kind of success Spoon found with its last album, 2007’s “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga,” and that’s a shame for a band that does heartbreak so well.
Instead, on its new disk, “Transference,” the band reaches for something harder-rocking, funkier and often darker than its past [...]

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Review: Ke$ha’s Animal

by Kerry LePain Reviews
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Currently holding the position of “top-selling album‘‘ on iTunes as well as three of the top-selling singles, Kesha Sebert, the artist self-styled as Ke$ha, has surpassed the level of quality set forth by her first single “Tik Tok” on her first album, Animal.
True to its name, Animal is wild, uninhibited – at times unpolished – [...]

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Review: Blippin’ the Night Away

by Jessica Testa Reviews
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Social networking Web sites have never really known what to do with music.
Back in the MySpace days, users were forced to listen to whichever song their friends had playing on their profiles. This feature resulted in violent scrolling and clicking efforts to pause the intruding song, and ultimately led to MySpace’s fall as Grand Emperor [...]

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