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Sloppy sketches from Badly Drawn Boy

Damon Gough always was a little too precious. The splotches of uneven facial hair decorating his plump face reeked of the apathetic/tortured singer-songwriter archetype co-opted from Elliot Smith.


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Nothing graceful about Ours' 'Precious'

The Jeff Buckley comparisons are inevitable, so let's get them out of the way right here and now: yes, Jimmy Gnecco, the lead singer of Ours, sounds like Buckley, and yes, he even looks exactly like Buckley.


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Adding N to (X) yields special f(x)

Concisely classifying a band like Add N to (X) is next to impossible, as its sound is comparable to nothing else in music today, or for that matter, in music at any point in history.


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Reynolds: Back to C-ville with a new sound

Who is Tim Reynolds? If you were to ask the average U.Va. student this question, you'd probably hear something about Dave Matthews and the "Live at Luther College" CD. This response is completely understandable -- Reynolds has been a long-time collaborator with Matthews and has appeared on seven of his albums, even serving as the primary guitarist on the album "Remember Two Things." Indeed, most people cannot identify Reynolds apart from his work with Dave Matthews and would be surprised to learn that Reynolds is an artist in his own making.


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'C.H.O' Challenges Social Norms

Have you ever lain in bed at night and thought to yourself, "I'm so drunk right now that I could either pee in the bed or get up and go to the toilet," and then weighed the pros and cons of each decision?


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Norwegian duo warms up chilled dance scene

Let's face it: 2002 is the year of the dull electronic album. Ventures in ambient, less head-pounding and generally meathead pulse have led to the emergence of the so-called "chill out" album, the post-club downer to provoke profundity and eventually lull the listener into a sonically induced dream. Chill out is, of course, not a bad thing, and many bands have done it incredible justice in years past, but the genre as a whole typically has provided an outlet for substandard electronic outfits to pass off doldrums as depth.

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