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  • Soundwaves

    By on October 5, 2005

    Garbage DON'T THROW OUT GARBAGE YET... Don't put Garbage in the pop trash heap just yet. A Sept. 23 post to the band's Web site...

  • Electric Bell

    By on September 28, 2005

    ''It's something that I've been wanting to do for a while,'' Andy Bell says of his debut solo record. Electric Blue comes exactly two decades...

  • Toni's Lib

    By on September 28, 2005

    Toni Braxton explains in the liner notes that she was nervous and full of doubt as she made her new album Libra, her first since...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 28, 2005

    Junior Senior D-D-D-DON'T STOP DAFFY DANES... It's official: Those daffy Danes Junior Senior have a new album in the works. And actually it's already for...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 21, 2005

    Lauper SHE BOPS, WE BOP AGAIN... Would you believe Cyndi Lauper has only had one No. 1 club hit? Of course you know which one:...

  • Fab Babs

    By on September 21, 2005

    Barbra Streisand working with Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees -- the serious Streisand paired with glib Gibb sounded like a recipe for pop music...

  • Random Happening

    By on September 14, 2005

    It may not be fair to her, but Juliet's debut album Random Order in all likelihood serves as a window into how Madonna's next album...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 14, 2005

    MCLACHLAN'S LINGERING AFTERGLOW... Now two years old, Sarah McLachlan's ''World On Fire'' takes on new meaning in a post-Hurricane Katrina world, when so many of...

  • Soundwaves

    By on September 7, 2005

    CELEBRATING THE ''COPACABANA''... This past Sunday ushered in the annual Brazilian Day Festival in New York, honoring Brazil's independence from Portugal. But Tommy Boy is...

  • Merry Melody

    By on August 31, 2005

    In 2002, nearly every major entertainment magazine singled out the Norwegian duo Röyksopp as a dance/electronica band to watch, producers of what so many hailed...

  • Peters Principle

    By on August 24, 2005

    In 1996 Bernadette Peters made her solo concert debut in New York City. Peters, 48 at the time, was well more than two decades into...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 17, 2005

    KNAPP'S ''SOAKIN WET'' REPRISE... Just last weekend, many D.C. dance denizens got soaking wet playing in the rain and the thundershowers in New York. The...

  • Youthful Exuberance

    By on August 10, 2005

    ''These words are my own,'' Natasha Bedingfield declares at the start of her debut album Unwritten. And the words Bedingfield claims? None other than the...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 10, 2005

    Avenue D ''D'' STANDS FOR ''SLUT''... Enough with all those preening and posing girly-girl dance divas who sing slutty songs you can tell they don't...

  • Soundwaves

    By on August 3, 2005

    VAN HELDEN'S COMING CRUNK ROCK... If you haven't noticed, the guitars are surging in dance music, strumming out the new big thing: dance rock. Next...