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  • The Dandy Warhols' latest album, <em>...Earth to the Dandy Warhols...</em>

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    Album Reviews | Eclectic alt-rockers out with a dandy hit

    THE DANDY WARHOLS ... Earth to the Dandy Warhols ... Beat the World Records Like the Pop Art legend who inspired their name, the Dandy Warhols are at their best when borrowing from the hipster world in which they're fully immersed. Past alt-rock hits Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth, Cool as Kim Deal and the swaggering, Stones-y blues of Bohemian Like You (which has now become ubiquitous, thanks to those Ford commercials) all create who-does-that-sound-like moments.

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  • New Music | In stores Tuesday

    Blues Traveler, North Hollywood Shootout (Verve). Features the single You, Me and Everything. Eva Cassidy, Somewhere (Blix Street).

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    Album Reviews | Glen makes you believe

    GLEN CAMPBELL Meet Glen Campbell Capitol Meet Glen Campbell, in which the country singer covers modern rock songs by Green Day, Travis, U2 and the Foo Fighters in his own style, is one of the season's more pleasant surprises. The new CD's punny title marks the singer-guitarist's return to Capitol Records, the label for which he recorded his most lasting works in the '60s and '70s, including Wichita Lineman and Rhinestone Cowboy. Audio Available

  • New Music | In stores Tuesday

    Staind, The Illusion of Progress (Atlantic) Shwayze, Shwayze (Geffen Records) Amy MacDonald, This is the Life (Decca U.S.) Ice Cube, Raw Footage (Lench Mob Records)

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    Album Reviews | DJ's got a future classic

    DANNY TENAGLIA Futurism Silver Label/Tommy Boy Fans of superstar DJ Danny Tenaglia are used to grooving all night and all day to his marathon, 16-hour sets (yes, 16 hours) in the world's biggest nightclubs. Audio Available

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    You'll be tickled pink by young Brit troubadour

    JOHNNY FLYNN A Larum Lost Highway ½ Every so often comes a new voice so unique and assured that the level of talent is never in question: Norah Jones, The Strokes and Amy Winehouse come to mind. Add to that list 25-year-old British troubadour Johnny Flynn, whose baby face masks a truly old soul. His brand of energetic, traditional folk-rock predictably brings to mind the Waterboys and Proclaimers, but intricate nods to the Grateful Dead, Jethro Tull and Bob Dylan also permeate A Larum...

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    But fans will love it to death

    ALICE COOPER Along Came a Spider Steamhammer ˝ Missed Steven lately? Longtime Alice Cooper fans will recognize the little psycho who had a thing for necrophilia, violence and black widow spiders on Cooper's classic concept album Welcome To My Nightmare (1975). Like filmdom's Michael Myers, Jason and Freddy, you can't keep a good ghoul down. Schizo Steven has popped up on several subsequent albums and slithers back in a big way on Cooper's latest horror show set to music, Along Came a Spider...

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    Take her as she is -- an acquired taste

    SUGARLAND Love on the Inside -- Deluxe Fan Edition Mercury Nashville ˝ Jennifer Nettles' in-your-face performing style is akin to the sensation of diving into a chilly swimming pool. Even if you know what to expect, her nasal twang still feels like a full-body slap. Thing is, she's got a terrific voice once you get used to it.

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    Pretty good, when all is said and done

    VARIOUS ARTISTS Mamma Mia! -- The Movie Soundtrack Decca ABBA's music is so infectious that it can make a musical plot in which beautiful people live on an even more beautiful Greek isle and just break out into ABBA songs instead of normal conversation like ''Pass the tanning oil, please'' seem perfectly natural.

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    We're loving those strong disco beats

    DANCE HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR Hercules and Love Affair Mute ˝ Disco will never die -- it just keeps reinventing itself. Audio Available

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    You don't hear anything like this on radio

    RAY SCOTT Crazy Like Me Jethropolitan Records You won't hear '70s-styled Outlaw country on mainstream radio. But thanks to the growth of online music sites, edgier, more interesting artists like Ray Scott and Jamey Johnson are free to make country music that harkens back to the Outlaw style popularized by rabble-rousing icons like Waylon Jennings. (Johnson's impressive Jennings-styled song cycle That Lonesome Song is out Aug. 5 on Mercury Nashville but don't expect pop-oriented radio to support it... Audio Available

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    Long wait for terrific Journey

    JOURNEY Revelation Nomota LLC The revelation of Journey's new album and lineup is not that this is the best Journey album in 25 years or that the San Francisco band found its new lead singer via YouTube. Audio Available

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    Album reviews | Coldplay exits the comfort zone

    POP COLDPLAY Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends 5 Capitol ˝ At first listen to Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends, Coldplay's fourth studio album, you might wonder: What is wrong with Chris Martin? Audio Available

  • New Music | Due in stores Tuesday

    Chicago, Stone of Sisyphus (XXXII) (Rhino Records). Originally recorded in 1993. Coldplay, Viva La Vida (Capitol).

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    Album reviews | Bluesy Mann keeps heartache coming

    AIMEE MANN @#%&*! Smilers SuperEgo Records Aimee Mann will forever reside in '80s lore for singing the hit Voices Carry for her band 'Til Tuesday. But her true career-defining moment would come more than a decade later when she parlayed a friendship with Magnolia director Paul Thomas Anderson into contributing eight haunting songs to the film's soundtrack, including the Oscar- and Grammy-nominated Save Me. (Anderson was so enamored of Mann's songs that he actually used her lyrics to inspire the... Audio Available

  • New Music | Due in stores Tuesday

    Adele, 19 (Sony). Up-and-coming British soul singer is hailed as one of ''the new Amys'' (as in Winehouse), hopefully minus the self-destructive tendencies.

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    Album reviews | Best Thing comes for those who wait

    USHER Here I Stand LaFace Records ˝ The first third of Usher's new album, Here I Stand, spurs concerns that he has lost his magic touch. As on his previous albums, the R&B hitmaker called on hip-hop's elite for help, recruiting Young Jeezy, will.i.am, Jay-Z and his wife Beyoncé and Lil' Wayne. Audio Available

  • New Music | Due in stores Tuesday

    Ashanti, The Declaration (Universal Motown). Features first single The Way That I Love. Disturbed, Indestructible (Warner Bros.).

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    Album reviews | Back-to-back Bachs make for a fine set

    BACH: The Art of Fugue Pierre-Laurent Aimard Deutsche Grammophon ˝ BACH: Fugues Emerson String Quartet Deutsche Grammophon. These two releases from the yellow label offer a complementary pair of discs exploring Johann Sebastian Bach's fugues.

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    Personal songs with emotion, complexity

    JORGE VILLAMIZAR Jorge Villamizar Warner Music Latina Quietly heartbreaking, sharply humorous and ultimately, surprisingly hopeful, Jorge Villamizar's solo debut is the most personal music he has made.

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    Album reviews | Just say yeah-yeah-yeah to Welsh idol

    POP DUFFY Rockferry Mercury/Rough Trade ˝ Welsh singer-songwriter Duffy, 23, will earn plenty of comparisons to Amy Winehouse for her debut CD, Rockferry, but here's hoping that doesn't brand this former waitress a knockoff. Audio Available

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    Album reviews | Will the real Clay Aiken please wake up?

    POP CLAY AIKEN On My Way Here RCA/19 Clay Aiken has a message for his Claymates, that odd cult following that maintains an obsessional devotion for the singer. On The Real Me, written by Natalie Grant, the American Idol runner-up sings, ``I'm tired of the song and dance / Living a charade / Always on parade / What a mess I've made of my existence / But you love me even now.'' Audio Available

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    Album reviews | Neil Diamond turns out another winner

    NEIL DIAMOND Home Before Dark Columbia ˝ If 12 Songs, Neil Diamond's striking 2005 collaboration with producer Rick Rubin, renewed your love of Diamond's songwriting, the pair's follow-up, Home Before Dark (out Tuesday) is a must-have. Audio Available

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    Pushing 50 and Madonna's still in vogue

    MADONNA Hard Candy Warner Bros. Once again, Madonna has reinvented herself. On Hard Candy, her 11th studio album and swan song on longtime label Warner Bros., the Queen of Pop veers toward hip-hop by recruiting ubiquitous producers Timbaland and Pharrell Williams. But fans who might wince at the thought of Madonna relinquishing control can relax -- the results sound surprisingly natural, not forced attempts to cash in on the latest trend.

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    Album reviews | A whole lotta packaging going on

    ASHLEE SIMPSON Bittersweet World Geffen Records ˝ Ashlee Simpson has become a tabloid darling for dating Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz, getting caught lip-syncing her hit Pieces of Me on Saturday Night Live, and, of course, for simply being Jessica Simpson's little sis (she even recorded a song, Shadow, detailing her bitterness over Jessica stealing most of the limelight). Audio Available

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