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...popular hitmaker (Green Green Grass of Home, Skid Row Joe) and influential ambassador, but he was best known for mentoring and performing with Dolly Parton, whom he launched on TV's syndicated 1960-79 Porter Wagoner Show. Last summer Wagoner made a national comeback with the critically acclaimed indie-album Wagonmaster. To promote it, he opened for rock's White Stripes, firing up, for at least one more night, an adoring capacity crowd at Madison Square Garden...
...Departed”; no doubt, there will be an Oscar nod for Crowe, Washington, and the film. The film creatively examines social issues revolving around race, honesty, and integrity while presenting the analytical nuances of these concepts. Plus, Jay-Z made an entire album in honor of the film, so I guess that’s cool too.—Staff writer Erin A. May can be reached at emay@fas.harvard.edu...
...Boys, Boys, Boys. How far you have fallen from grace. I speak of the Backstreet Boys, of course, who reunite on their sixth studio album, “Unbreakable.” The album is the first new material from the Backstreet Boys in two years, and the first project since Kevin Richardson departed the group. Nothing would please me more than to report that the Backstreet Boys had produced an album that reattained their infectious pop peak, complete with shimmy-inducing songs of unrequited love and perhaps a chart-topping ballad or two. Unfortunately, those who remember the heartthrob...
Provided Britney Spears can keep herself out of jail or rehab, she’ll be able to take some satisfaction in pulling off a big comeback with “Blackout.” Spears’s first new album since 2003’s “In The Zone” attempts to put aside recent troubles and defiantly declare that none of it matters. While “In The Zone” was a statement of independence from her handlers and the constraints of teen pop, “Blackout” confronts listeners...
...kind of songs you might have written when you were 12, adopting various musical styles and rigging them up with lyrics that walk the line between juvenile and crass. Only they do it surprisingly well—most of the time, anyway. Now, on their 11th full-length album, Ween seems to have lost some of the magic that earned them a name in the alternative music genre. “La Cucaracha” focuses heavily on satirizing various musical styles, and strays away from Ween’s traditional biting high school humor. One of the biggest problems...