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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Ann Powers, Pop Music Critic
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By Ann Powers
ALBUM REVIEW:
The pop queen looks at sex as commodity and liberating force.
April 24, 2008
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By Ann Powers
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
The singer's classic hit bridges the generation gap in a new AT & T ad.
April 22, 2008
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By Ann Powers
POP MUSIC REVIEW:
In pure comic-book adventure, the Seattle show is big on heroics.
April 18, 2008
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By Ann Powers
A bullet in Iraq put Tomas Young in a wheelchair. But with a documentary film and its double-CD music compilation, his story of resolve and redemption has taken wing.
April 20, 2008
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By Ann Powers
IDOL BANTER:
Celebrities do what it takes, as long as it means more donations.
April 10, 2008
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By Ann Powers
POP MUSIC REVIEW:
The Pearl Jam frontman opens his first solo tour with an intimate yet powerful performance in Vancouver.
April 4, 2008
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By Ann Powers
IDOL BANTER:
Chikezie is the latest black male singer to find the going rough. It reflects the challenges that face many R & B crooners.
March 28, 2008
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By Ann Powers
IDOL BANTER
March 27, 2008
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By Ann Powers
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
Can controlling how and when music is released backfire on artists and fans?
March 26, 2008
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By Ann Powers
The band breaks from its latest run to talk about rock, three decades into the game.
March 22, 2008
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By Ann Powers
IDOL BANTER:
With Amanda gone, the remaining fit too neatly into five categories.
March 21, 2008
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By Ann Powers
IDOL BANTER:
The show undertakes the Beatles again. But clearly they dream of different things.
March 20, 2008
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By Ann Powers
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
Austin's South by Southwest sings. And it whispers of industry fears, Next Big Thing dreams and the solid comfort of music's dogged middle class.
March 17, 2008
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By Ann Powers
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
In a genre that often favors the androgynous, Nick Cave, Greg Dulli and Mark Lanegan, and Nick Urata of DeVotchKa are taking an unabashedly manly approach.
March 16, 2008
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By Ann Powers
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
Michael Jackson, unlike Britney and Paris, is too alien to garner the public's sympathy. He should focus on his music.
March 1, 2008
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By Ann Powers
TELEVISION / IDOL BANTER:
Weak execution hacks away at already questionable song selection.
February 29, 2008
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By Ann Powers
IDOL BANTER:
David Archuleta wows everyone on Lennon's classic with an original interpretion -- by the late Eva Cassidy.
February 28, 2008
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By Ann Powers
SHOW TRACKER:
Illness and bouts of timidity marked the performances of most. But a few showed there's a fever burning.
February 22, 2008
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By Ann Powers
POP MUSIC REVIEW:
Was (Not Was) revives its dance/avant-garde mash-up at the Orpheum but is not stuck in the past.
February 16, 2008
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By Ann Powers
ALBUM SPOTLIGHT:
"All the Lost Souls" (Atlantic Records)
"Playlist" (Mercury Records)
September 16, 2007
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POP ALBUM REVIEW:
"It Won't Be Soon Before Long"(A&M/Octone) 
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By Ann Powers
POP ALBUM REVIEW:
Minutes to Midnight (Warner Bros.)
May 15, 2007
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By Ann Powers
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK:
Strength, suffering and survival mark the poetry of three artists on the pop-folk horizon.
November 29, 2006
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By Ann Powers
REVIEW:
The documentary details the controversy that engulfed the Dixie Chicks after Natalie Maines' anti-Bush remark.
October 27, 2006
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By Ann Powers
REVIEW
September 16, 2006
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By Ann Powers
MOVIE / POP MUSIC REVIEW:
The movie "Idlewild" and the music of OutKast can learn from each other. The film plays it straight, but the album takes risks.
August 23, 2006
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By Ann Powers
THE MUSIC OF WAR:
Pop protest, born of unifying slogans, reinvents itself for a new era. But amid the subtle dancefloor digs, brash mash-ups and video clips, is the audience listening?
July 2, 2006
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