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Amazon British band Foals' third album Holy Fire starts off on a bad note. First song "Prelude" flips from gauzy atmospherics to an ill-advised funk-rock vibe that continues through the first three minutes of second song "Inhaler." If nothing else, these B-side-level experiments serve to clearly focus what the Oxford band is best at: The ...

Amazon Cuff the Duke have always suffered from a bit of a Rodney Dangerfield complex in the Canadian music hierarchy. They don't have enough hockey-related songs to be as populist as the Tragically Hip, frontman Wayne Petti can't match Joel Plaskett for aw-shucks hoser charm, and the CBC will never love them as much as the Weakerthans, no ...

CBS There's a reason why the Beatles are arguably the biggest musical act in the history of ever. Sure, part of that's the dozens of internationally recognized hit songs they recorded, but there's another side, too -- their cultural impact. This week in musical history is a perfect example of that impact as it features the Fab Four (or ...

Apple Films One of the great questions about this week in music history isn't actually about this week in music history. Rather, it's about that special period in late-May and early June which seems to be particularly good for making babies who turn into important musical figures. Margo Timmins (Cowboy Junkies), Gillian Gilbert (New ...

Everett Collection There are lots and lots of good musicians. Go to any local pub on a Friday night and there's a decent chance you'll be able to see a halfway entertaining singer. The difference between that guy at the pub and the legends known around world are many. There's the hit songs, mainly, but there's also the bizarre, ridiculous ...

Tom Freitag In the latest installment of "Band in a Box" from our friends at Aux TV, Ben Folds Five explain their video for "Do it Anyway." The video features the band and comedian Rob Corddry running afoul of various characters from Jim Henson's Muppet-tastic '80s universe Fraggle Rock who suddenly appear in BF5's recording studio. Via ...