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Try It Before You Buy It features free and legal mp3 downloads and full album streams from this week's music releases:
Bad Lieutenant: Never Cry Another Tear
full album stream
Britney Spears: Britney Spears: The Singles...
Today's additions to the list of the online best of the decade (2000-2009) music lists:
Acclaimed Music (top albums & songs)
Anu Kirk (top albums)
Intensities in Ten Cities (songs)
The Love Universe (best albums)
NPR's All Songs Considered...
At the Details blog, Jeff Gordinier critiques Beck's cover of Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne."
We really like Leonard Cohen. And we like Beck, for that matter. Mostly. But this cover of "Suzanne" is an atrocity. It's worse than bad—it's such an insult...
Today's free and legal mp3 downloads:
Beautiful Supermachines: "Oakland 2008" from Shut Up (out November 23rd)
Beautiful Supermachines: "The War Against Cliche" from Shut Up (out November 23rd)
other Beautiful Supermachines posts at...
Tori Amos's holiday album, Midwinter Graces, is in stores tomorrow, as is the Pixies 17-disc Minotaur box set.
Among the discs that have already been sent my way, I can definitely recommend Caroline Herring's Golden Apples of the Sun, Hyperstory's...