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AllMusic Loves 1978
Ten of our editors pick their favorite songs and albums from 1978.
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AllMusic Streams It All: Gangi - Gesture Is
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The Poplist with Evil Eyes
San Francisco is a hotbed of musical activity these days and in this week's Poplist, Evil Eyes take us on a short tour of their SF.
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AllMusic Playlist: Back to School
AllMusic editors give a lesson in their favorite school-themed songs via Spotify playlist and they're calling on you to share your track picks!
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The Poplist with Seapony
Seapony delivered one of the year's indie pop highlights with their album Falling. This week the band's Danny Rowland shows us some weird videos.
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featured new releases
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- Chris Cohen
- Overgrown Path
- After years as a sideman, this multi-instrumentalist steps into the spotlight with a deftly conceived album of psyched-out soft rock.
- Kurt Elling
- 1619 Broadway: The Brill…
- The vocalist pays homage to the classic American pop music that emanated from the iconic Brill Building during the '50s and '60s.
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- Shemekia Copeland
- 33 1/3
- Working again with Oliver Wood as producer, Copeland takes another step away from being a blues shouter toward a more restrained rock/gospel/R&B; groove.
- Waylon Jennings
- Goin' Down Rockin': The…
- Goin' Down Rockin' contains the last recordings of Waylon Jennings, sensitively and tastefully fleshed out a year after his death.
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- James Levine / Fabio L …
- Twilight of the Gods:…
- Sumptuous, expansive orchestral playing and some remarkable vocal performances make this set a good introduction to the Met's impressive Ring cycle.
- Lavender Diamond
- Incorruptible Heart
- Five years after a bright debut, this L.A. indie folk act comes back with an even more radiant collection of electro-touched and soaringly positive songs.
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- Various Artists
- Smetana, Ravel, Huw Watkins:…
- This is part of a fine series of chamber music releases recorded at the Heimbach Hydroelectric Power Station in Germany. It even features a composer-in-residence,…
- Dinosaur Jr.
- I Bet on Sky
- Dinosaur Jr. explores a variety of new sounds, tempos. and textures on I Bet On Sky.
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- Big & Rich
- Hillbilly Jedi
- Big & Rich hired Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora in the hopes of freshening their schtick on the comeback album Hillbilly Jedi.
- Kid606
- Lost in the Game
- Embracing melody and late-night reflection, the latest from this formerly glitched-out beatmaker sounds more adult than ever.
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- Grizzly Bear
- Shields
- Layered yet direct, Grizzly Bear's fourth album is full of fascinating contradictions.
- The Killers
- Battle Born
- The Killers trim away dance-rock but retain their appetite for the overblown on Battle Born.
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- Ben Folds / Ben Folds …
- The Sound of the Life…
- Sarcastic, subversive, geeky, and sweet are hard vibes to juggle, but the Five manage to keep all of the pins in the air.
- Rickie Lee Jones
- The Devil You Know
- The Devil You Know is a collection of rock covers whose arrangements and production gives Jones' voice the room it needs to deliver.
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- Dwight Yoakam
- 3 Pears
- Dwight Yoakam returns with 3 Pears, a colorful, adventurous album that ranks among his very best.
- Aimee Mann
- Charmer
- Filled with synths and big hooks, Charmer is Aimee Mann's brightest, poppiest record in quite some time.
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- Michael Jackson
- Bad [25th Anniversary…
- While the ultimate "follow-up" record couldn't possibly match THRILLER, MJ's 1987 record is a remarkably deep pop record.
- Nelly Furtado
- The Spirit Indestructible
- Nelly Furtado's long-awaited The Spirit Indestructible is a hybrid of the restless adventure of Folklore and the club beats of Loose.
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- The Jackson 5
- Come and Get It: The Rare…
- This collection of 32 unreleased tracks from the group's early days is a colorful blend of coulda-been hits and fun distractions.
- How to Dress Well
- Total Loss
- Total Loss trades the ghostly intimacy of Love Remains for a more straightforward approach, resulting in a prettier, more polished set of songs.
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- Woods
- Bend Beyond
- With strong tunes and a unique synthesis of tight performances and tasteful noise, this is the group's most fully realized album to date.
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- Brother Ali
- Mourning in America and…
- Layered viewpoints, bittersweet situations, and complicated anger flow out of the underground rapper's politically minded album, one of his most compelling…
- Maceo Parker
- Soul Classics
- Parker draws upon his James Brown band legacy on this explosive, funked- and jazzed-up 2011 concert at the Leverkusener Jazz Festival in Germany.
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- The English Beat
- Live! at the US Festival:…
- The English Beat's two appearances at the US Festivals are gathered on this spirited, tremendously entertaining live album.
- Thee Oh Sees
- Putrifiers II
- Combining Castlemania's fractured pop and Carrion Crawler/The Dream EP's ferocious rock with baroque orchestral accents, Putrifiers II looks backward while…
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- Grant Gershon / Los An …
- Górecki: Miserere
- Los Angeles Master Chorale sings with gorgeously blended tone and beautifully shaped phrasing in these lush, luminous works by Górecki.
- The Sea and Cake
- Runner
- An elegant and beautiful work for the Chicago quartet as usual, but with more impressionism than past albums.
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- Robert Pollard
- Jack Sells the Cow
- The second solo LP of 2012 for Guided by Voices frontman Pollard feels dark, static, and uncharacteristically hollow.
- The Gaslamp Killer
- Breakthrough
- The Gaslamp Killer's first album, like his Brainfeeder EPs, is a patternless, collaboration-heavy collage of psychedelic samples and chunky beats.
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- Carolyn Mark
- The Queen of Vancouver…
- Coming three years after Let's Just Stay Here, Carolyn Mark returns with her eighth solo album.
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- Fourplay
- Esprit de Four
- Fourplay's Esprit de Four is a shining example of modern jazz exercised as a truly collaborative endeavor.
- Grateful Dead
- Spring 1990: So Glad You…
- Ferociously locked-in playing and inspired song selections help showcase why the 1990 tour this live set documents was a favorite for many fans.
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- Homeboy Sandman
- First of a Living Breed
- Here, the rapper comes off fast like MGK but literate, articulate, and eclectic enough to deserve a spot on the Stones Throw roster.
- Keith Harkin
- Keith Harkin
- The Celtic Thunder member focuses primarily on cover songs that make the most of his naturally burnished vocal twang and romantic surfer-dude persona.
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- Rangda
- Formerly Extinct
- Formerly Extinct is the powerful and provocative sophomore offering from the instrumental rock trio Rangda.
- Ryan Bingham
- Tomorrowland
- Tomorrowland finds Ryan Bingham exploring the outer limits of Americana, while taking on large topics with ferocity and recklessness.
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- Cleveland Orchestra / …
- Mozart: Piano Concertos…
- Playing and conducting from the keyboard, the brilliant Mitsuko Uchida presents two of Mozart's most popular piano concertos.
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- Le'Andria Johnson
- The Experience
- Le'Andria Johnson's newest is a stomping live set featuring Johnson backed by a band led by her producer, David Blakely.
- Tender Trap
- Ten Songs About Girls
- Tender Trap's sweetly sung, fully energized, indie pop excellence is in full swing on their fourth, and best, album.
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- The Dollyrots
- The Dollyrots
- The Dollyrots' fourth album is self-titled for a reason -- it re-positions them as a purely pop band, instead of a punk/pop band.
- Brooklyn Brothers
- The Album
- A slight yet good-natured set of hipster porch jams that fall somewhere between Bon Iver and Flight of the Conchords.
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staff picks
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
This is a remarkable achievement for a live recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and if it is not the most sublime version of all, then it is at least an outstanding presentation that belongs in any CD collection.
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Down and Out Blues/In Memorium
In 2004, the Beat Goes On label reissued two legendary Sonny Boy Williamson albums, Down and Out Blues and In Memorium, originally released on Chess Records in 1959 and 1965. You can't go wrong with this classic Chicago blues material.
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If Satanism is bad, how come Ghost make it sound so good? All that devil talk can be written off easily while listening to Opus Eponymous, a melodic, Blue Öyster Cult-sounding metal album that can be taken as either forked tongue or tongue in cheek.
