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A cartoon band, Gorillaz may have started from behind Jamie Hewlett’s caricatures but permanent frontman Damon Albarn didn’t pretend to be anything other than flesh and blood at Outside Lands in its headlining set Friday night. Albarn stepped up to the crowd in dark jeans and a black shirt, bereft
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As consumers of art, one of the issues we often face is how much stock to put in the artist when evaluating their works. Especially today, when many works of art comment upon a world that’s growing volatile in many respects, an artist’s personal identity becomes undeniably intertwined with their
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GRADE: A A Moon Shaped Pool — Radiohead’s ninth LP — opens with a red herring. The album opener “Burn the Witch” is a concept that has been floating around the band for more than a decade — teased, referenced, but never released in full. It arrives with a flourish
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There seems to be a lot riding on Noel Gallagher’s shoulders. He’s been in the music scene for over 20 years, and with the raging popularity of Oasis to prove his ultimate success, there must be a next step for the 47-year-old rocker. And what better step would there be
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Solo acts are usually one of two things:a horrendous idea, rooted in anartist’s overconfidence in his or her talent or a way for a musician to break from what he or she knows to experiment a bit. Bands have combusted from one artist wanting to do his own thing, while
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Two years after the explosive bust up of world-famous, record-selling British band Oasis, the legendary Noel Gallagher has completed a much-anticipated solo record. The venerated songwriter’s new look, bearing the moniker Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, released its self-titled album this week in the U.S. And following fifteen years of
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As the title suggests, this week we have some major label record releases and some not-so-big label concerts. Either way, it’s a solid week in the sonic spectrum. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds, the solo project of Oasis songwriter Noel Gallagher, will be giving his debut self-titled solo album a
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