Chris Willman
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Van Halen Gets a Fun ‘Jump’-Start With First Roth-Fronted Album in 28 Years
With Diamond Dave back in comedic-showman tow, ‘A Different Kind of Truth’ is good enough to make you forget Sammy Hagar and Gary Cherone ever happened
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Paul McCartney’s ‘Kisses’ a Valentine’s Day Treat
Key collaborator Diana Krall helps keep Paul McCartney’s album of pre-rock standards sweet … and, unlike Rod Stewart’s, subtle
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Madonna Pre-Super Bowl Video Gets Some Cred From NFL, Nicki Minaj, M.I.A.
VIDEOS: Madonna hires her own celebrity cheerleaders in a ridiculous but infectious new video for “Give Me All Your Luvin’”
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Review: Leonard Cohen Has Some New ‘Old Ideas’ — Hallelujah!
77-year-old poet laureate Leonard Cohen merits hosannas for his warmest and best album in 20 years
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Review: Lana Del Rey, the Anti-Adele, Gets Icy in ‘Born to Die’
Lana Del Rey’s coolly jaded album is neither as good as the “Video Games” single or as terrible as the controversial newcomer’s “SNL” appearance
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Review: Miley, Adele, Adam Levine, and Dozens More Ring Dylan’s ‘Chimes of Freedom’
Evan Rachel Wood and Ke$ha are among the improbable interpreters who score in a 76-song Dylan tribute
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Review: Tim McGraw’s ‘Emotional Traffic’ Is Serious and Silly
The uneven album, once the center of legal battle between the singer and his label Curb Records, hints at greatness and settles for affability
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Review: Craig Finn’s ‘Clear Heart’ Holds Steady With Superior Songwriting
Craig Finn’s first album under his own name strips away the raucousness to reveal the haunted quality that’s always been there
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Review: Springsteen Does Another Political Fakeout With ‘We Take Care of Our Own’
If you loved “Born in the USA” — for the right or wrong reasons — you’ll hear anguished echoes in Bruce’s new single, from his new album due March 6
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Thanks to Gaga and Adele, Music Business Finally Improves in 2011
Album sales are up only about 1%, but that’s still great news after a decade-plus of decline
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Agnieszka Holland Illuminates Challenging ‘In Darkness’ Shoot
The Polish filmmaker, whose film is heavily touted for a foreign language Oscar nomination, didn’t curse the darkness when she chose to make a movie that takes place 80 percent underground
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‘Beginners’ Success? Thank Roller-Coasters and Christopher Plummer’s Skinny Jeans
Director Mike Mills tells a Wrap-sponsored screening how he got Plummer and Ewan McGregor ready for their roles as a father who comes out at 75 and his straight son
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Review: Anthony Hamilton Gets ‘Back to Love’ With Musical, Sexual Humility
The R&B star is semi-retro-soul in his balladic style … but really, really retro in his non-explicit lyrics and genre-defying modesty
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Terrence Malick ‘Tree of Life’: Get Ready for the 6-Hour Version?
Plus: “Tree’s” cinematographer gives the secret to succes on working with Malick: “Don’t read the script, don’t speak” — at TheWrap’s Awards Screening Series
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Review: Elvis Costello’s ‘Spinning Songbook’ Almost Worth Head-Spinning Cost
For $200+, you get some of rock’s greatest songs performed live on CD, DVD, and vinyl … and Matthew Weiner and Sandra Oh dancing