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So, for his contribution to Milczarski — apparently and others, along with early Doug Aitken’s Song 1 project — in Music on DVD the sole member of which various artists have covered renditions of tracks from her AiDS: The Band — has the standard I Only Have Eyes For breakthrough lp Tapestry. Clockwise Jeff Healey Band Various Artists one foot on either You for a 360° film projected on a The recording quality is from left: side, judging by his Darryl circular Washington museum — Live in Belgium Legends of Folk: murky, but the talent shines Norah Jones, hilariously lunkheaded Marilyn Manson Beck turns in a ghostly old-school -Rock The Village Scene Want Darryl Sterdan through. rendition of The Flamingos’ Folk folk-rock ditties about to review your homemade, SterDan and Rufus doo-wop version, complete with icy HHH1/2 Download: Crying in the HHH coffee and cigarettes, original song? E-mail us an Rain; It’s Too Late CD Reviews Wainwright. tones and shoo-bop shoo- dirt and — best of online link where he can hear bop vocals. beck.com Yep, it’s yet another posthumous live CD/DVD Old folkies never die — all — how hard it it so it. If he chooses yours, he’ll Norah Jones tell readers if it sucks or not. Rikers from Toronto bluesman they just become talking write a song.“i just can’t Little Broken Hearts believe this process takes Send the link to Islands Alt-Pop The Walkmen Healey. But it isn’t just the heads in the endless series [email protected] Post-Punk Heaven same old-same old. During of reverently superficial so f---ing long,” he whines on HHHH this solid if unspectacular documentaries typified by This Song is Untitled.“i tried HHH “The detachment you can feel to make it perfect but i f---ing One breakup is not 82-minute show from a this predictable pBS pledge- DarrYL’s throughout our younger records did it wrong.” if it were any One man’s enough for Jones. Three years 1993 Belgian festival, the drive offering.Thankfully, VErDIcT is gone,” says Walkmen frontman dumber, it would be prison is after her rueful The Fall, the singer-guitarist plays a few in addition to the usual .“We felt brilliant. H1/2 LISTeN another’s singer chronicles another songs standing up (thanks blah-blah from the usual FoR youRSeLF like it was time to make a bigger, “Lowbrow paradise. failed romance on this moody more generous statement.”That to a waist-high ’60s suspects such as John Toronto quintet fifth disc. luckily, the lovelorn statement is titled Heaven and stand) and his rhythm Sebastian, the 50-minute high jinks.” rikers share a name with a arrives June 5, but here’s the first star finds a musical match in section is expanded with a disc includes complete jail, and perhaps rightly so: producer , who taste — a suitably upbeat title keyboardist and two backup performances from Dylan, track constructed from jangly soundcloud.com/aids67 Between ryan Kennedy’s cloaks her tales of jealousy, vocalists. So there’s that. Baez, Ochs, Hardin and big Springsteenish baritone shimmering and spry others. But no tote bag, sadly. betrayal and regret in a drums. A little slice of ... you know. and his mates’ unabashed lightly hazy, gently twangy thewalkmen.com (and unswerving) devotion netherworld of reverb-soaked to the chiming post-punk alt-pop and roots. Heartache and synth-heavy new-wave meets hipness. anthems of acts such as Download: Take it Back; God Only Knows coming up psychedelic Furs, and Happy Pills Between recording hours-long , this disc finds songs, encasing things in creepy them happily serving life in Marilyn Manson gummy molds and apparently NEXTWEEK the ’80s. Born Villain collaborating with anyone and Dr. Dee Download: I’m on the Radio; Goth-Metal everyone who asks, God only Fascination knows where and HHH1/2 his Flaming lips found the time Fortune Kip Moore You can’t kill the bogeyman. to cover this Beach Boys classic Chris Brown from pet Sounds. But they did — Gordon Lightfoot Dry the River Curtis Stigers Skip the Foreplay Up All Night Just when you thought it was and with all the spaced-out bliss All Live Shallow Bed Let’s Go Out Tonight Nightlife After Hours Country-Rock safe to write off Manson, he follows up 2010’s mournful and brought the music. Jim lindberg, these SoCal punk Watson cut his fourth and reverb-noise guitar abuse Glenn Frey rises again like the slasher- All Days Are Night: Songs for The resulting discs — 1998’s vets roar back to life with their studio disc at home with you’d expect. A short, sweet trip. Folk Folk-Rock Jazz-Pop Partycore HHH HHH HHH HHH H flick anti-hero he deserves Lulu with one of his poppiest flawless Mermaid Avenue and 10th disc. Clearly rejuvenated his eponymous band. But flaminglips.com 1/2 1/2 1/2 Strangeland He’s a little bit to be. The shock rocker’s outings. Stylishly produced by its spottier 2000 sequel — by new frontman Zoli Téglás, while the results are indeed Keane country. And a eighth album finds him and backed by were landmarks. On the eve these old dogs sound more somewhat more informal and lightfoot is a Canadian Mumford & punks? The Stigers has apparently Hey kids! Do you suffer from little bit rock ’n’ musing about destructive members of Wilco, Miike Snow, of Guthrie’s 100th birthday, motivated than they have in intimate than usual, this is no institution. Ditto Massey latest Americana-addled never met a song he musical ADD? Can you not Death Dreams pS i love You roll. Georgia- love, pondering his humanity the Dap-Kings and more, our this superior box collects both a decade, ripping through 12 rustic, stripped-down curio. charTs Hall. So it makes sense exports from the UK couldn’t cover. And make sit through 30 full seconds born singer- and quoting Macbeth — while hero bares his heart atop a , a third CD of strong inspirational punk and hardcore Watson’s haunting melodies that the folk legend’s latest folk scene, this quintet’s his own while he’s at it. of anything — be it hardcore, guitarist Moore spent his riding a downward spiral of ’70s soundtrack of Beatle-pop, leftovers, a 1999 making-of anthems with the speed, power and swooping falsetto live album was cut in the members also boast The smoky singer and metal, hip-hop, house, listening to the likes of slow-grinding goth-metal and piano-rock, country, philly soul DVD and 48 pages of artwork, and passion of kids half their coalesce with the quartet’s venerable Toronto venue. hardcore and emo pedigrees sax man swings in a new party-rock or ? This 2WEEKSaWay Springsteen and petty, and glam-slam. Sound and fury and more. He came to play. notes and lyrics. All roads lead age. Welcome back. layered and cinematic orch- 1 Stronger And if that isn’t quite enough — meaning that a few of direction with this eclectic Montreal sextet may be the (What Doesn’t Kill You) Trespassing it shows on his debut disc. signifying maturity? Go figure. Download: Out of the Game; to Woody. Download: Waste Another Day; pop into a work that inhabits history and nostalgia for you, their artfully rustic, falsetto- 10th release, pushing his answer — they randomly Adam lambert His twangy blue-collar tales Pistol Whipped; Kelly Clarkson Download: Welcome to the Ball Download: California Stars; Stand Strong its own world. the 73-year-old assembled it fuelled ruminations on recent jazz-crooner persona fuse those genres into a of trucks, beer and girls in All You Fascists Download: Lighthouse; 2 Glad You Came from gigs between 1998 and Shakers, demons and the into rootsier terrain with disjointed, cacophonous and Heroes sundresses are told within Billy Bragg & Wilco Patrick Watson Morning Sheets Wanted 2001, when he and longtime Bible Belt are bolstered by smouldering blues and basically unlistenable barf- Willie Nelson a musical landscape of Rufus Wainwright Mermaid Avenue: Pennywise Adventures In Your Part Of Me guitarist Terry Clements some muscular beats and soul renditions of gems fest of thrashing, screaming, heartland rock reminiscent 3 (who died in early 2011) gritty guitars. A little too by everyone from Dylan to pumping and bleeping. Best Storm & Grace Out of the Game The Complete Sessions All or Nothing Own Backyard Katy perry lisa Marie presley of Steve Earle, John Pop-Rock Folk-Rock Punk Orch-Pop [email protected] were still in perfect health. serious for their own good, Dinah Washington and Steve of all: Your folks will hate it. Mellencamp and The Boss. 4 We Are Young Nicely done. but hey, at least they’re Earle to Jeff Tweedy. it’s a Download: Shots; Shape Shifter HHHH HHHH HHH1/2 HHHH Fun. Double your pleasure. @darryl_sterdan Download: Baby Step trying. date. Destination Nowhere Santana Download: Somethin’ Top of his game, more like. The late Woody Guthrie They chose All.Three years Home is where the art is. Call Me Maybe Back; Wreck of the Edmund Download: New Ceremony; Download: Things Have blogs.canoe.ca/ent 5 ’Bout a Truck; Reckless Singer-pianist Wainwright supplied the lyrics. Bragg after parting ways with singer Montreal singer-pianist Carly rae Jepsen Fitzgerald The Chambers & The Valves Changed All release dates subject to change (Still Grow’ Up)