The question is this: can Liam Gallagher ever be an elder statesman of anything? In an England swamped in punk and new wave variants, Oasis' Britpop now borders on adult--which isn't to say it's stodgy. The group's newest spins the psychedelic style as a textural wonderland.

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If you think Brandi Carlile's unlucky in love, you haven't heard Meiko. Like Carlile, the L.A. songstress makes a husky-voiced post-coffeehouse pop--and makes art out of feeling forlorn. Along with Priscilla Ahn, expect her to vie for diarist of the year.

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The Upcoming Releases panel at Bandwidth 2008. Left to right: Chuck Fishman (Cisco), Michael Scherotter (Microsoft), Kurt Wolff (CNET Download.com), and Dave Goldberg (formerly of Yahoo Music).

The Bandwidth music tech conference in San Francisco attracts folks from all corners of the music industry: ...

Tim Westergren, the founder of popular Web radio start-up Pandora, has said in an interview with The Washington Post that his company may be close to a shutdown.

"We're approaching a pull-the-plug kind of decision," Westergren said in the article, published Saturday. "This is like a last stand for ...

Brooke's new LP is required listening, and not only for folk junkies. "The Works" sets old Woody Guthrie lyrics to new Brooke tunes, a whopper of a project that the songstress proves equal to. Her bittersweet sort of melody is a great match for Guthrie's wry sensibility.

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Inspired by beaches, ocean and sun, Pacific! seeks to remind us sonically about the stuff we love scenically. The pair that make up Pacific! are electronic music light bearers who sound more like Daft Punk-loving French producers than Swedes who dream about the sea.

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Junior Sanchez is a favorite of many dance-music heads who know their stuff, rocking the turntables for almost two decades and enjoying the perks that come with being a favorite nearly the whole way. In recent years, Junior's electro-indie-rock and hip-hop tastes have led him to start his own ...

The Sony Walkman NWZ-A828K includes Bluetooth headphones and high-quality earbuds.

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Don't you wish companies would just include great headphones with their MP3 players, instead of those cheap tin cans they call earbuds? In a bid to prove their sonic superiority over the iPod, many competitors are finally ...

Hailing from rural Massachusetts, teenager Sonya Kitchell is coming of age with her fresh approach to singing and songwriting. Much like Norah Jones, Kitchell hooks you in with her quiet-is-the-new-loud vocals and delicate arrangements.

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Rep is on it when he describes his "Unclosed Mind" disc as music first and hip-hop second. The tight rhymes and chopped rhythms are critical, but this is really melodic storytelling. The dreamy final effect can recall the Roots at their most abstract.

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