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Blouse, Blouse
The debut full-length by the Portland trio Blouse is full of aural tricks… more »
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger…
It's been nine years since Kelly Clarkson was crowned as the inaugural Am… more »
Kelly Clarkson, Stronger (Delu…
It's been nine years since Kelly Clarkson was crowned as the inaugural Am… more »
Mother Love Bone, Mother Love …
Listening to the scant amount of material recorded by the Seattle glam-pu… more »
P.J. Harvey, Dry
Eighteen years on, the debut album from PJ Harvey still sounds fairly ast… more »
Icon: P.J. Harvey
Polly Jean Harvey was a notable figure in rock music almost from the exac… more »
Six Degrees of Janet Jackson…
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Guns N’ Roses, Use Your …
A Wings cover, a 10-minute mini-opera that recalls Bloodrock's "… more »
Jazmine Sullivan, Love Me Back…
Philadelphia soul singer Jazmine Sullivan has a lusty, untameable voice, … more »
P.J. Harvey, Rid Of Me…
The cover of PJ Harvey's second album shows her in the shower —… more »
P.J. Harvey, 4-Track Demos…
Many attributed the hostile sound of Rid of Me to Steve Albini's engi… more »
P.J. Harvey, To Bring You My L…
Like its studio predecessor Rid of Me, To Bring You My Love fades in slow… more »
P.J. Harvey, Is This Desire?…
On Is This Desire? Harvey utilizes more machine-generated beats than on p… more »
P.J. Harvey, Uh Huh Her…
After the relative splendor of Stories from the City, Stories from the Se… more »
P.J. Harvey, Stories From The …
Perhaps PJ Harvey's most accessible record (complete with Thom Yorke … more »
P.J. Harvey, The Peel Sessions…
PJ Harvey had a particularly fruitful relationship with the tastemaking R… more »
P.J. Harvey, White Chalk…
The cover of White Chalk shows a harshly lit Harvey sitting in a white dr… more »
Guns N’ Roses, Use Your …
Use Your Illusion II feels like more of an odds-and-sods collection than … more »
Stone Temple Pilots, Core…
Many people blame the influence of Eddie Vedder and Pearl Jam when runnin… more »
Muse, Origin Of Symmetry…
Muse's 2001 follow-up to its debut, Showbiz, had a long road to the U… more »
Black Mountain, Wilderness Hea…
Rock music in 2010 is in an odd place. Commercial radio is being pulled s… more »
Marnie Stern, Marnie Stern…
In years past, Marnie Stern's shorthand description usually involved … more »
Screaming Females, Castle Talk…
The New Jersey power trio Screaming Females was walloped by a ton of logi… more »