Year In Review

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  Hip-Hop

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. MADVILLAIN Madvillainy (Stones Throw)Madvillain is a beautiful match-up between rapper/producer Madlib, beat-maker for Lootpack and jazz...

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  Electronic

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. JUNIOR BOYS Last Exit (Domino)Jeremy Greenspan may sing sad, sad songs, but the mastermind behind Hamilton electro duo Junior Boys is qu...

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  Soul

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. LAL Warm Belly High Power (Public Transit)LAL are pretty excited these days. The trio of Rosina Kazi, Nic Murray and Ian Desouza are sit...

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  Pop & Rock

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. ARCADE FIRE Funeral (Merge)It's the debut album by a Montreal band that no one had heard of 12 months ago. Yet a mere two months after i...

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  Punk

  Year in Review 2004

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  1. GREEN DAY American Idiot (Reprise)They haven't reinvented the wheel, but on American Idiot, Green Day reinvented themselves and produced...

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  Hip-Hop

  Year in Review 2005

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  COMMON Be (Geffen) Common's poetic lyricism, clever wordplay and distinctive, raspy voice, along with his willingness to expose his own fl...

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  Folk, Country & Blues

  Year in Review 2005

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  CALEXICO/IRON & WINE In The Reins (Overcoat) Fans of Calexico and Iron and Wine were expecting wonderful things from this union; no one was...

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  Pop & Rock

  Year in Review 2005

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  SUFJAN STEVENS Illinois (Asthmatic Kitty) When informed earlier this year that pre-orders for his Midwest epic Illinois had reached 40,000,...