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Get In Tune: Our Favorite Acoustic Albums

By Jonah Bayer • 1 day ago

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This week, Justin Bieber announced plans to release his second unplugged album in January, joining a long line of artists who have made amazing collections without running up a crazy electricity bill.
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Here we recap some of our favorite acoustic albums that range grunge icons to today’s most popular songwriters. Justin, you’ve got a lot to live up to with this album, so good luck!
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Bright Eyes — Back in 2005, Bright Eyes released two albums: The electronic-influenced Digital Ash In A Digital Urn and the acoustic collection I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning. Both have held up well, but looking back, this stripped-down disc features some of his most powerful material to date, such as “We Are Nowhere And It’s Now” and “Poison Oak.” Alienation never sounded this transcendent.
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Elliott Smith — Elliott Smith was still a relatively unknown songwriter back in 1995 when he released his self-titled album; however, things didn’t stay that way for long after people heard it. This extremely moody album featured heartfelt meditations like “Needle In The Hay,” which were dark and melancholy but also featured an underlying theme of hopefulness. Sadly, the latter feeling didn’t last.
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Nirvana — Nirvana were thought of as a loud, overdriven act when they released MTV Unplugged In New York in 1994. Kurt Cobain & Company’s somber takes on “All Apologies” and “The Man Who Sold The World” confirmed them as the most exciting band in rock and showed that they were as versatile as they were visceral in the process.
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Monsters Of Folk — What do you get when you put Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, M. Ward and production guru Mike Mogis in the same room? You get an extremely accomplished album that bridges the common ground between all four artists without sacrificing an ounce of artistry or integrity.
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Alice In Chains — Alice In Chains’ Sap EP wasn’t nearly as well-received as Nirvana Unplugged but this five-song, largely acoustic collection still sounds as good today as it did when it was recorded almost two decades ago. It also showcases the incredible vocal range of the band’s fallen frontman Layne Staley.
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Bruce Springsteen — Bruce Springsteen is one of the most prolific artists of all-time, but his ’90s and ’00s output has been a little spotty, making We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions even more impressive. The Boss’ only album of material that he didn’t write is an amazing reinterpretation of classic tunes by Pete Seeger and ushered in a new era in Springsteen’s career.
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Mumford & Sons — Mumford & Sons seemed to come out of nowhere two years ago to release Sigh No More, and for many music listeners the album sounded like a gift from God. Rarely does a debut album come along that’s as fully formed and engaging as this one and while we love their latest disc Babel their first collection will always have a special spot in our hearts.
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Beck — Beck is an amazing example of an artist who was born in the alternative scene but managed to segue into serious artistry — and the real turning point in his career was his 2002 collection Sea Change, which is full of moving but somber songs such as “Lost Cause” and “The Golden Age.”
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Bob Dylan — We couldn’t write an article about memorable acoustic albums without paying tribute to the man who popularized the genre, Bob Dylan. Although Dylan has tons of legendary collections, we’d recommend you start with Blood On The Tracks and go from there.
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Tags : Beck, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, justin bieber, Nirvana

5 Things We Really Wish Bands Would Stop Doing

By Emily Zemler • 3 days ago

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Last week, Paramore announced that they will unveil their fourth album next year. They also announced that they will be naming the disc after themselves … and personally, we absolutely hate it when artists self-title albums that aren’t their debut. This got us thinking about some of the other annoying things musicians have been doing lately. And we want them to stop. So, bands and artists, please consider this a helpful guide on what not to do. Thanks in advance.
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1. Self-titling albums that are not your first album
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Why would you self-title your third, fourth or, if you are The Cure, 12th album? We know that you are trying to say “This is who we are now so please ignore our formative releases and pretend that this is the album that defines us” but what you’re actually saying is “We’re too lazy to come up with a real album title.” It makes sense to self-title your debut, because that’s the world’s first introduction to you, but it’s just obnoxious to assume that a record four discs into your career is in anyway more self-defining than your prior. If you wrote a book, you wouldn’t name it after yourself, right? No. This note is especially for Paramore and their upcoming fourth album… Paramore.
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2. Unnecessarily drawing out your album promo
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Paging Carly Rae Jepsen (and every other pop artist in America). It is not news when you release your single cover art or when you “reveal” a still from an upcoming music video. Just give us the info, all at once. It doesn’t make you more newsworthy when you announce an album, album title, a tracklisting, album cover art, single, single cover art, single video teaser, single video and single remix as separate pieces of news. Let’s be realistic: It’s all the same thing!
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3. Faking us out with “special guests”
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Did you realize that The Black Keys’ Patrick Carney is on Ke$ha’s new album? No? Well that’s because you would have no idea unless someone told you that he plays drums on one song on the disc. Does that make him a special guest on the album? Not exactly. Iggy Pop, who sings on one of the pop star’s new tracks, is a special guest, because we can actually tell when we hear the song. As in, it makes the song bigger than it would be without him. No one ever really talked about how Tommy Lee played drums on the Jack’s Mannequin album, much like Carney, which means they don’t really qualify as special guests.
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4. Re-packaging old albums as new releases
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Did we really need any of the music on Nicki Minaj’s Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded – The Re-Up or on Lana Del Rey’s Born To Die (Paradise Edition)? Not at all, but the artists and their record labels certainly made you think you did. It’s been a trend over the past few years for musicians to release an album and then re-release it a few months later with a few bonus tracks and maybe a DVD. Most of those bonus tracks are usually crap (eh-hem Nicki). Why do you need another copy of the same album? Let’s stop worrying about releasing every single track you’ve ever made in the studio and start worrying about putting out good ones worth the fans’ time.
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5. Wearing baseball caps onstage
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This is the most inane of these grievances ,but also the most annoying. It’s just not appropriate for a musician to wear a baseball cap onstage. It covers your face and makes you look like you don’t care. Jack Antonoff from fun. recently donned a red hat during the KIIS Jingle Ball and in the mix of all the dolled up pop stars and Ne-Yo’s fedora, it just looked lazy (sorry to single you out, Jack, but come on). Let’s save the baseball hats for baseball games, please.
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Tags : carly rae jepsen, Nicki Minaj, Paramore

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles' Karaoke Date: One Direction Star and Conor Kennedy's Ex Party, Hold Hands

Taylor Swift and Harry Styles have an unfair advantage when it comes to karaoke.

After One Direction's Madison Square Garden concert Monday night, Harry, Niall Horan, Zayn Malik, Liam Payne and Louis Tomlinson hit up New York City's Hudson Hotel with the "I Knew You Were Trouble" singer for some late-night fun.
Taylor herself had just come from a gala where she was honored by—awkward alert?—ex Conor Kennedy's family.
Harry and Taylor spent Sunday together, too
In a series of blurry pictures, Harry, 18, and Taylor, 22, can be seen holding hands as they show off their vocal skills. An eyewitness tells E! News Taylor "spent the early part of the night hanging out with the parents, but once karaoke came on, she and Harry joined [other 1D members] onstage for the rest of the night." For one of the last karaoke songs, Taylor and a gal-pal sang a One Direction song, according to a witness.
A One Direction fan account on Twitter captured Taylor and the guys paying homage to another boy band: the Backstreet Boys! In one shot, Taylor, Harry and Niall appear to be quite invested in a karaoke performance of BSB's 1998 hit "I Want It That Way."
"Haylor is real, y'all," Sunny Jacob, a 1D fan, tweeted along with a picture of the duo.
Taylor rocks the Jingle Ball stage in L.A.

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A witness tells E! News Emma Roberts and a girlfriend were also in attendance at the karaoke get-together. At the end of the night, when the light cames on, the One Direction guys, Taylor and pals took a turn on Playstation. Harry and Taylor "were clearly having fun," says a witness.
Later on, shortly after 4 a.m., Harry and Taylor, holding hands again, were spotted going back to the Red singer's hotel.
The next morning around 11:30 a.m., Harry and Taylor were snapped leaving the Greenwich Hotel separately.
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