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It’s difficult to say that the Goo Goo Dolls have done anything “cool” since they abandoned their brash, sloppy, early-Replacements roots. But the fact that their first compilation — 2001’s What I Learned About Ego, Opinion, Art & Commerce — didn’t include their biggest hits and instead focused on album…

So much about Coheed and Cambria’s work cries out for ridicule: the ’70s-art-rock-derived instrumental wankery, the skyscraping, get-your-Geddy-on vocals… Somehow, though, the act’s fourth album, No World for Tomorrow, works in spite of itself. World represents the final chapter of The Amory Wars, the epic tale of Claudio Kilgannon, who…

This release commemorates the 25th year of a jazz supergroup — pianist Keith Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock, and drummer Jack DeJohnette — one of the longest-running bands in jazz history. They are frequently referred to as Jarrett’s “standards trio,” as their repertoire consists of jazz and (pre-rock-‘n’-roll-era) pop perennials such…

Frequent New Times contributor Sire Esq has just dropped a new digital mixtape that’s worth checking out. It’s got a solid mix of local and national hip-hop bangers that you need in your life so check it out as links for listening to it and a full tracklist are below:…

It was just a few weeks ago that we covered the story on Cash Money CEO and artist Birdman’s migration to Miami, and just last week we told you about his highly appreciated pre-Thanksgiving turkey giveaway. But as of last night Bryan “Birdman” Williams became a fowl of a different…

BY ANDY VIHSTADT My Grammys Weigh a Ton Outkast has been keeping 10 the Hard Way (most likely dropping in 2009 now, according to this) and next year’s solo effort from Big Boi on the down low. While you’re waiting for info, here’s something new from the duo courtesy of…

Avenged Sevenfold Avenged Sevenfold In the past, Avenged Sevenfold’s meathead simplicity pretty much excused all its bad behavior and even worse musical choices. It was as if the five members picked up, pored over and appropriated the Metal Band Rulebook before ever learning a single guitar chord. But that’s what…

There’s a moment in the 2002 Spanish film Habla con Ella (“Talk With Her”) when an opening shot of a man swimming underwater pans out slowly and a gorgeous song begins to play. With the accompaniment of live guitar and a small orchestra, the tune, “Cucurrucucu Paloma,” instantly captivates all…

For music lovers with a long enough memory, it’s a big deal that Black Janet is reconnecting. Ask anyone who was on the scene in the late ’80s and early ’90s and they’ll tell you that South Florida was once a rich breeding ground for musical talent — much of…

Chris Brown has been well-known to the screaming underaged masses for a minute now, but he broke out to a wider audience at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards. There, he perfectly parroted “The Gloved One” ‘s Moonwalk dance, prompting Justin Timberlake to tell the world he felt old. This…