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The singer-songwriter on the rejection and self-discovery that fueled her influential 1992 debut Tori Amos' first seasonal album Midwinter Graces, with its placid arrangements and guest vocals by her nine-year-old daughter, sounds light years removed from her first solo release, 1992's Little Earth ...

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"We are still capable of potentially doing our best-ever album" Look back at the decade in our new issue, on stands now: the 100 Best Albums and Songs, Top 10 Movies and much more. The Rolling Stone editors picked eight stars — from Bruce and Beyoncé to Radiohead and U2 — who not only made the best ...

Your picks for the best albums, songs and artists of 2009 Top Singles of 2009 10 "Waking Up in Vegas"   BY KATY PERRY

The third installment of Bradford Cox's big day out at the 2008 Pitchfork Music Festival finds him jamming with Jay Reatard (who engages in some NSFW activity with a flower at one point) and King Khan to fill time before Cut Copy's dramatic closing set, and then after playing with Spoon. (Here's an ...

Photo by Kirstie Shanley Hold Steady frontdude Craig Finn, talking baseball? An event as commonplace as finding A-Rod rocking The Immaculate Collection in his car. Craig Finn talking baseball on the internet, however? Now that's something. Minnesota Twins fan numero uno Finn will take to the web ...

"Where do you go?" No Age singer-drummer Dean Spunt asks on "Goat Hurt", from the out-of-print Dead Plane EP. (The song will also be on a limited-edition 10" be available at next week's Fuck Yeah! festival in the duo's L.A. hometown.) Spunt's asking the question philosophically, but the video for th ...

The 2008 Offset Festival goes down August 30 and 31 just a half hour outside of London in the Hainault Forest Country Park, but it's set off from the hustle and bustle of the big city by more than just a few dozen kilometers. Offset also boasts both a "beautiful forest location" and a treasure tro ...

André 3000 has been on a hell of a run lately. A merely good guest verse on Fonzworth Bentley's " Everybody " was the lowlight amid recent output that also includes standout appearances on both the best hip-hop track of last year-- UGK's " Int'l Players Anthem (I Choose You) "-- and one of this year's ...

EASTWEST is offering its users a unique opportunity to double the amount of the company's new PLAY-powered products in their audio toolkit at a greatly reduced rate. Users visiting the EASTWEST website from now until Oct..

IMSTA is proud to announce that its long awaited Piracy Survey is now ready. This is the chance end-users have been waiting for to say what is on their minds to the music software companies. The survey will run until Dec..

Camel Audio unveils Alchemy, a new virtual synth which they've been working hard on for the last four years. Described as the ultimate sample manipulation synthesizer, Alchemy features additive, spectral and granular syn..

Clavia is pleased to announce the Nord Stage EX models. The Stage EX units have gone through a hardware change and also received a cosmetic makeover. The new features are : • Increased memory capacity for the piano sampl..

Arturia has just released version 2.2 of its Analog Factory software. New Features : - Better management of the key parameters: 4 LCD's now displays the parameter controlled by the "Key parameter" knobs. - New set of per..