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Forty minutes into her latest album, Joanna Newsom voices the under-two-minute "On a Good Day" with a calm drawl: "Hey hey hey, the end is near." Never mind that two more discs of music—including five more eight-minute pieces—still lie ahead, she quietly assures: "Stay true to the path that you have chosen.

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Hendrik Weber's first two albums of luminous minimal house as Pantha du Prince -- 2004's Diamond Daze and 2007's This Bliss -- remain some of the most crystalline electronic music of the new century. On his third full-length,

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While author/poet/activist/proto-rapper Gil Scott-

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Is there a band that better embraces the trajectory of dweeb chic than

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Much like countrymen Clinic, the Bristol pair of Gee and Scott wear masks and funny hats and are smitten with '60s pop, ska, and '70s agit-punk. But Malachai's mashes are terse, loopy, and murky, spurring Portishead's Geoff Barrow to release their first single.

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Ever since Kieran Hebden dropped the idyllic laptop classic Rounds in 2003, he's chased his free jazz muse almost exclusively, collaborating with percussionist Steve Reid on a handful of thorny improv albums and layering chaotic skronks on 2005's Everything Ecstatic.