Madness, 'The Liberty of Norton Folgate'
Despite being enamored with ska’s Jamaican skank, Madness never forgot their working-class British roots. And the band’s first album of new material in a decade owes a greater debt to the Kinks than to Prince Buster.
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Solillaquists of Sound, 'No More Heroes' (Anti-)
This Orlando crew is like a bizarro world Black Eyed Peas. SoS’s Swamburger, a forceful, hyperliterate MC, and Alexandrah, a beguiling vocalist, have a will.i.am/
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Q&A: Hole's Eric Erlandson
It's hard to imagine a more "colorful" bandmate than Courtney Love. And for 10 years, guitarist Eric Erlandson maintained his shaggy-haired stance alongside rock'n'roll's most unpredictable frontwoman in the group Hole.
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Discovery, 'LP' (XL)
To call this synth-slathered electro-R&B side project from Ra Ra Riot’s Wes Miles and Vampire Weekend’s Rostam Batmanglij a genre experiment implies it’s a failure. It’s not.
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Moby, 'Wait for Me' (Mute)
Let's be honest: Moby has been treading water ever since 1999's multiplatinum Play. Sure, there was some interesting music -- as well as some banal crap -- on his last three albums, but overall he's been a man without a compass. Wait for Me isn't exactly a statement of clarity, but it's easily his loosest, most consistent work in quite a while.
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The Last Temptation of Steve-O
At 8:00 on a cool, sunny April morning, Stephen Glover walks barefoot across a leafy side street in Pasadena, California, toward a white Chevy pickup. The blue oxford shirt he borrowed from his roommate is unbuttoned and hanging open.




