Beastie Boys switch gears with instrumental album
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Long known for their relatively epic  waits between studio releases, the Beastie Boys surprised fans  this spring with the announcement that their new record would  arrive a scant three years after 2004&#39;s &quot;To the 5 Boroughs.&quot;
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He started rapping less than four years ago, but the Game is already positioned to become one of 2005's early breakout acts.
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Eminem, Destiny's Child, Snoop Dogg, Lil' Jon and Chingy face off with new albums next week as the record industry gears up for the make-or-break holiday season.
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U2 created an ambitious album that was ready to take on the world. The year also saw noteworthy records by Youssou N'Dour, Animal Collective, Bjork and others.
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TuneCore, a digital music distributor, is expected to announce that Public Enemy, one of the seminal hip-hop groups, will use its service for its new album.
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Almost a quarter of a century since Irish band U2 bounced onto the music scene, the group on Monday releases its latest album, and it looks like Bono and crew are going back to their roots.
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By updating traditional Afro-Peruvian music, the band is mainstreaming black culture in the racially divided nation.
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With a No. 1 debut for its current album "American Idiot," and now Tuesday's news of six Grammy nominations, Green Day has found itself back in the spotlight. But if the punk-rock trio has its way, its Reprise album may yet fuel a crossover into an entirely new medium.
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The cropped, booming electric-bass patterns in Mr. Delgadoâs old band was replaced by a smoother New York salsa swing.
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As standard bearers of the East  Coast hardcore scene in the early 1980s, Bad Brains were partly  responsible for helping the Beastie Boys first get into the  recording studio. Now, one of the Boys is returning the favor,  and a long-awaited Bad Brains record produced by the Beasties'  Adam Yauch will see the light of day this summer.
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Composer Bharadwaj has come up with a foot-tapping album.
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Can we get a hey ya! OutKast is finally coming out with a new   album.
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The Ol&#39; Dirty Bastard brought impressionism to rap. His rap style was a kind of scarily funny addict-talk. It verged on nonsense, but it was too familiar to be a joke.
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Picking the greatest ever hip-hop album is a tall order and Entertainment Weekly admits its list marking 25 years since the birth of mainstream rap is subjective, with Eric B & Rakim at No. 1.
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The rapper Young Jeezy is back with a new album, âThe Inspiration,â released Tuesday, which offers snapshots of life knee-deep in Atlantaâs mean streets.
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Eminem is hard at work on his first  studio album in three years.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - When the Mars Volta put out its latest album, "The Bedlam in Goliath," in January, the act gave its hardcore fans an option that is becoming increasingly popular -- and creative.