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Searching For Sugar Man Jun 30, 2023

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We discuss a documentary about lost Detroit musician Sixto Rodriguez – once touted as the new Dylan – opens an unexpected window on the secret history of white South Africa

Crock Of Gold - A Few Rounds With Shane Macgowan Jun 08, 2023

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Hear the RBR Team discuss the Shane MacGowan documentary, the tortured vocalist best known as the lead singer and songwriter of the Pogues, who famously combined traditional Irish music with the visceral energy of punk rock.

The National - First Two Pages of Frankenstein. May 25, 2023

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Matt Berninger's murmured musings are placed at the forefront, yet the band follow his every pause and sigh, giving the music the impression of riding a wave; things surge forward, then recede.

Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever May 11, 2023

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Petty's roots rock becomes clean and glossy, layered with shimmering vocal harmonies, keyboards, and acoustic guitars. It's a friendly, radio-ready sound, and if it has dated somewhat over the years, the craft is still admirable and appealing. Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code RBRMUS

Boygenius - The Record Apr 13, 2023

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Born out of chance encounters by three young musicians on uncommon but similar paths, indie supergroup Boygenius collects the talents of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus and results in an exciting and inspired chemistry. Already respectively successful when the idea to collaborate came up, each artist had fine-tuned her own distinctive approach to introspective and often sad-hearted songwriting. These variant approaches come to define the charm of Boygenius. Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours Mar 30, 2023

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Personal tensions fueled nearly every song on Rumours, which makes listening to the album a nearly voyeuristic experience. You're eavesdropping on the bandmates singing painful truths about each other, spreading nasty lies and rumors and wallowing in their grief, all in the presence of the person who caused the heartache. Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

Gorillaz - Cracker Island Mar 08, 2023

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Cracker Island marks something of a retreat for Gorillaz, moving the virtual group away from the excess of The Song Machine, a multi-part series of collaborations that sometimes threatened to collapse upon its own weight. Guests are still featured on Cracker Island -- collaboration is one of the chief reasons Damon Albarn launched the group at the dawn of the millennium -- But how does it hold up with the RBR.Music team? Newsly app http://newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

Young Fathers - Heavy Heavy Feb 20, 2023

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gospel, soul, folk, dub, and hip-hop recombined with punk energy -- and reaffirm that deeply physical music can have a psychedelic quality. Hear the RBR team try to break this wall of sound record down. Newsly app http://Newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

The Strokes - Is This It Feb 01, 2023

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Blessed and cursed with an enormous amount of hype from the press at the time, The Strokes may or may not be completely arty and calculated, but that doesn't prevent Is This It from being an exciting, compulsively listenable debut. Newsly app http://Newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

The Doors - LA Woman Jan 17, 2023

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The final album with Jim Morrison in the lineup is by far their most blues-oriented, and the singer's poetic ardor is undiminished, with cuts that rate among their finest and most disturbing work. The seven-minute title track was a car-cruising classic that celebrated both the glamour and seediness of Los Angeles; the other long cut, the brooding, jazzy "Riders on the Storm," was the group at its most melodic and ominous. A worthy finale from the original quartet. Newsly app http://Newsly.me promo code: RBRMUS

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