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...Bejar is one prolific guy. Since the last Destroyer album, he has toured with the New Pornographers, collaborated with members of Wolf Parade and Frog Eyes to record the stunning debut of Swan Lake, started a band with his girlfriend, released their album, and managed to maintain the same lineup for more than one Destroyer release. These accomplishments make “Trouble in Dreams,” Destroyer’s polished eighth full-length LP, all the more impressive. “Destroyer’s Rubies,” the group’s critically lauded...
...former Crimson vice president, begins her account with a remarkable story about an incident in 2005 in which a record-setting 104 out of 110 winners of a Powerball lottery chose the same five numbers—using fortune cookies. It was this story, and the discovery that the fortune cookie is not Chinese, that sparked Lee’s mission to learn more about the dessert. This search leads her to examine, tangentially, other facets of the American Chinese food industry: the ubiquity of the take-out menu, the popularity of chop suey, the integral role played by Chinese...
...break. We’ve already got our deal,” Wallach says. “Some of these bands that are really buzzed about fail very quickly if they don’t have any substance. We’re already putting out a record...
...result. “The Odd Couple” is definitely an album unlike any other. It’s certainly not perfect, and those expecting another “St. Elsewhere” may be disappointed by this mellower affair, but it’s a diverse record that surpasses most other work produced in these two artists’ careers. Gnarls Barkley may no longer be able to take advantage of the advertising gimmicks that accompanied their rise two years ago, but Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo have proven that their music can speak for itself...
...electropop tone of the song, and given her current condition (the image of Britney giggling maniacally as she’s being carried out of her house strapped to a stretcher will forever be burned in my head), a Spears-less video was probably the only choice her record company had. But compared to her previous videos, “Break the Ice” is disappointing, and the “to be continued…” at the end suggests we can expect only more of the same. —Victoria D. Sung