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Listen Cat Power Rips It Up, Starts Again
September 6, 2012 – On Sun, her first album of new songs since 2006, Chan Marshall leaves behind her sad, sparse sound.
Watch Harmony, Teenagers And 'The Complete Story Of Doo-Wop'
September 6, 2012 – Street Corner Symphonies is a 15-volume year-by-year survey of doo-wop by scholar Bill Dahl.
Listen When Ian Hunter Is 'President'
September 4, 2012 – Ken Tucker says Hunter reaches back into rock's past while linking it firmly to the present.
Watch Shoes: After 18 Years, The Power-Pop Band Re-Ignites
August 31, 2012 – Ken Tucker says Ignition retains the same pop-rock rigor heard in the band's 1970s records.
Watch Fire Up Your Kid's Imagination At The 'Science Fair'
August 17, 2012 – Laura Veirs, Mates of State and more contribute to an album encouraging children to pursue science.
Listen Dan Auerbach Likes It Fast, Simple And Loud
August 6, 2012 – Ken Tucker says the Black Keys member works wonders producing JEFF The Brotherhood and Hacienda.
Watch The xx Teases New Album 'Coexist' With The Simplest Of Love Songs
July 16, 2012 – From a new album, the spare ballad "Angels" feels a bit like the introduction to a more lavish song.
Listen The dB's: Still Plaintive After All These Years
July 3, 2012 – Falling Off the Sky sweeps aside decades and nostalgia to achieve a vital sound for today.
Listen Fiona Apple's 'Wheel' Of Extravagant Emotions
June 26, 2012 – Ken Tucker says Apple's stripped-down sound is a backdrop for her ideas about love's complications.
Listen On 'Banga,' Patti Smith Pays Homage To Friends
June 14, 2012 – Banga is Smith's 11th studio album, and her first collection of original material since 2004.
Listen Trailer Trash Tracys: A Shoegazer's Dream
June 14, 2012 – Cool but still beautiful, "Candy Girl" is touching, revealing and almost painfully intimate.
Listen The Untold Story Of Singer Bobby Charles
June 13, 2012 – Bobby Charles recorded a memorable body of work, despite living in isolation and not performing.
Listen The dB's: After A 25-Year Absence, A Vital Return
June 12, 2012 – In "That Time Is Gone," the dB's singer needlessly questions the wisdom of his own band's comeback.
Listen Tim Fite Finds The Essence Of Innocence In 'Teenagers'
June 7, 2012 – In "We Are All Teenagers," Fite nails the adolescent unease that lingers into adulthood.
Listen Japandroids: One Part Classic Rock, One Part Punk
June 6, 2012 – The duo, which sounds like Tom Petty after some Red Bull-and-vodkas, hones the scream to an art.