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AllMusic Staff Pick: Dock Boggs Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (1927-1929) October 21, 1997 Appalachian A miner from Virginia who played banjo and sang in his spare time, Dock Boggs released six 78s in the late 1920s before the Depression...

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Dock Boggs
Country Blues: Complete Early Recordings (1927-1929)
October 21, 1997
Appalachian

A miner from Virginia who played banjo and sang in his spare time, Dock Boggs released six 78s in the late 1920s before the Depression upended the market for hillbilly music. Nearly a century later, Boggs’ music sounds like a foreboding message from another time and place, filled with rage, regret, and bad vibes of all sorts. This is Appalachian folk music at its darkest and most engrossing.

- Mark Deming

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Air Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) 2012 Electronic It’s a neat trick that Air began their career with a trip to the moon via Moon Safari and returned to it with this expanded version of their score to Georges Méliès’...

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Air
Le voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon)
2012
Electronic

It’s a neat trick that Air began their career with a trip to the moon via Moon Safari and returned to it with this expanded version of their score to Georges Méliès’ 1912 sci-fi classic. While the duo doesn’t attempt to make this music sound like it was recorded on wax cylinder, many of the cues have a stateliness that suggest a much earlier era as they nod to the traditions of sci-fi scores.

- Heather Phares

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Cat Power You Are Free 2003 Indie Rock Following an album of sleepy covers and her 1998 breakthrough Moon Pix, Chan Marshall amplifed the more idiosyncratic elements of her songwriting on this dynamic and emotionally charged...

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Cat Power
You Are Free
2003
Indie Rock

Following an album of sleepy covers and her 1998 breakthrough Moon Pix, Chan Marshall amplifed the more idiosyncratic elements of her songwriting on this dynamic and emotionally charged album. More charged in its subtleties than her noisy early material and more nakedly sad than her already crushing back catalog, You Are Free finds Marshall at her creative peak.

- Fred Thomas

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Alanis Morissette Under Rug Swept 2002 Adult Alternative Pop/Rock On her third album for Maverick, the idiosyncratic singer/songwriter added catchy pop elements to her tried-and-true formula of quirky lyrics delivered with angsty...

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Alanis Morissette
Under Rug Swept
2002
Adult Alternative Pop/Rock

On her third album for Maverick, the idiosyncratic singer/songwriter added catchy pop elements to her tried-and-true formula of quirky lyrics delivered with angsty attitude. Hope and failure take turns on this carousel, but unlike Jagged Little Pill, Morissette matured and dialed back the rage, offering a more adult take on relationship highs and lows. Highlights include “Hands Clean,” “Flinch,” “Precious Illusions,” and the gorgeous “Utopia.”

- Neil Z. Yeung

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra The Very Best of Bert Kaempfert 1995 Orchestral/Easy Listening Bert Kaempfert may have signed and lost the Beatles, but this collection is a reminder that he never lacked for hit records of his own,...

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Bert Kaempfert & His Orchestra
The Very Best of Bert Kaempfert
1995
Orchestral/Easy Listening

Bert Kaempfert may have signed and lost the Beatles, but this collection is a reminder that he never lacked for hit records of his own, and had his own influence on popular culture around the world. The sound is excellent – everything is crisp and clean, the trumpet sounds like it’s about three feet from the listener – and the annotation and discography information are also very thorough.

- Bruce Eder

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Avengers Died for Your Sins February 23, 1999 American Punk Since most of these cuts are live on stage or in rehearsal, one can best see what the Avengers – one of the two greatest U.S. punk bands that walked this earth in the...

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Avengers
Died for Your Sins
February 23, 1999
American Punk

Since most of these cuts are live on stage or in rehearsal, one can best see what the Avengers – one of the two greatest U.S. punk bands that walked this earth in the late ‘70s – had to offer in their natural habitat. No modern punk outfit can match this breakneck drive, this pulsing energy, and most of all this indomitable spirit of conviction. After all, this is the band that blew the Sex Pistols off the stage at their final gig.

- Jack Rabid

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Paul Revere & the Raiders Just Like Us! 1966 Frat Rock The band’s first album to appear after becoming TV stars on Where The Action Is, which resulted, subsequently, in their transition to AM radio staples and teenage magazine...

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Paul Revere & the Raiders
Just Like Us!
1966
Frat Rock

The band’s first album to appear after becoming TV stars on Where The Action Is, which resulted, subsequently, in their transition to AM radio staples and teenage magazine heartthrobs– especially singer Mark Lindsay. Produced by Terry Melcher who steered a stylistic between the Rolling Stones and the Animals.with a tough R&B edge on the covers “Night Train,” “Doggone,” and, by way of England, “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” and “I’m Crying.” It reached the Top Ten album and achieve gold status.

- William Ruhlman

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Chromatics Closer to Grey 2019 Alternative Dance Surprise release from the ever-mysterious electro-pop masters completely bypassed their long-fabled “Dear Tommy” album, but offered up more of the band’s dark and seething sound,...

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Chromatics
Closer to Grey
2019
Alternative Dance

Surprise release from the ever-mysterious electro-pop masters completely bypassed their long-fabled “Dear Tommy” album, but offered up more of the band’s dark and seething sound, with haunted takes on Jesus and Mary Chain and Simon and Garfunkel covers as well as more Europop leaning originals.

- Fred Thomas

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Bremer/McCoy Utopia 2019 Experimental Featuring the talents of bassist Jonathan Bremer and keyboardist/tape delay artist Morten McCoy, Utopia showcases the duo’s expansive, often hypnotic jazz-, dub-, and classical-influenced...

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Bremer/McCoy
Utopia
2019
Experimental

Featuring the talents of bassist Jonathan Bremer and keyboardist/tape delay artist Morten McCoy, Utopia showcases the duo’s expansive, often hypnotic jazz-, dub-, and classical-influenced sound. Aesthetically, their intimate sound falls somewhere in between Keith Jarrett, Paul Winter, and Mike Oldfield without ever borrowing too heavily from any one source. Together, they create a soft tonal palette that relaxes you as much as it draws you deeper into its harmonic colorscape. They also add strings on several cuts here, which further lends a rich, vinyl-era texture to their sound.

- Matt Collar

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AllMusic Staff Pick: Scharpling & Wurster The Best of the Best Show 2015 Comedy A sixteen disc box set that serves as the secret history of Newbridge, New Jersey, The Best of the Best Show skims the cream from thirteen years worth of telephone...

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Scharpling & Wurster
The Best of the Best Show
2015
Comedy

A sixteen disc box set that serves as the secret history of Newbridge, New Jersey, The Best of the Best Show skims the cream from thirteen years worth of telephone conversations between comedy writer/radio host Tom Scharpling and a dizzying variety of lunatics voiced by drummer/comic Jon Wurster. This ranks with the funniest, smartest, and most original comedy of its time, and it remarkably never wears out its welcome.

- Mark Deming

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AllMusic Staff Pick: The Young Tradition Northern Drive 2005 Indie Pop The duo’s only album is a shining example of what makes indie pop so great: beautiful melodies sweetly sung and tenderly played with bubbling organs, chiming guitars, and majestic...

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The Young Tradition
Northern Drive
2005
Indie Pop

The duo’s only album is a shining example of what makes indie pop so great: beautiful melodies sweetly sung and tenderly played with bubbling organs, chiming guitars, and majestic horns filling up the arrangements with warmth. It’s about as twee as a broken heart and lasts even longer.

- Tim Sendra

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