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Parke Puterbaugh  |  Feb 25, 2009  | 
Do the Math/Heads Up/Concord
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The Bad Plus have made their first album that's, well, not so good.
Billy Altman  |  Feb 26, 2009  | 
Blue Corn
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She's been recording for a decade, but Texas singer/songwriter Ruthie Foster was a fairly well-kept secret on the folk/
Parke Puterbaugh  |  Feb 26, 2009  | 
Domino/Epic
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Don't get me wrong: I have nothing against dance music, party tunes, or any other escapist entertainment.
Jaan Uhelszki  |  Feb 26, 2009  | 
Capitol
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Lily Allen gives bad girls a good name.

On her flashy debut, Alright, Still (

Brett Milano  |  Mar 02, 2009  | 
Red House
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Jorma Kaukonen as a grizzled old bluesman doesn't seem too far-fetched.
Brett Milano  |  Mar 03, 2009  | 
Interscope
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If you read the album title a certain way, No Line on the Horizon sounds pretty funny: Wouldn't that be the
Rob O'Connor  |  Mar 05, 2009  | 
ATO
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Let's hear it for Kitt Kitterman!

Who?

Brett Milano  |  Mar 10, 2009  | 
Spill
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There's a certain kind of female singer/songwriter that seems to flourish in New England: thoughtful, emotionally intense, a
Rob O'Connor  |  Mar 10, 2009  | 
Attack/Lost Highway
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Okay, one of the labels involved with releasing this new Morrissey album is the alt-country leader Lost Highway,
Billy Altman  |  Mar 11, 2009  | 
New West
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They've sung and played on each other's albums since the early 1990s, but Written in Chalk is only the seco
Mike Mettler  |  Apr 19, 2009  | 
Zoë/Rounder
Music •••• Sound ••••
Where there's smoke, there's fire.
Jeff Perlah  |  Apr 22, 2009  | 
Reprise
Music ••••½Sound ••••
Review
Epic
Brett Milano  |  Apr 26, 2009  | 
Capitol
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It's no surprise that, after going semi-conceptual for The Crane Wife in 2006, the Decemberists have now gone al
Brett Milano  |  Apr 28, 2009  | 
Nonesuch
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It took Elvis Costello (via the 2006 collaboration The River in Reverse) to remind the world
Billy Altman  |  May 04, 2009  | 
Columbia
Music •••• Sound •••½
Before delving into anything pro or con about Bob Dylan's latest album - a collection that, right out of the

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