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  • Wolfmother

    • 8 out of 10
    • Wolfmother
    • Black Sabbath, The White Stripes, The Stooges. There aren't many bands worth their salt that want to be compared to other bands, but when I listen to Wolfmother's self-titled American debut, I can

  • Pressure Chief

    • 6 out of 10
    • Cake
    • Pressure Chief, Cake's latest album, didn't immediately grab me. In fact, it took perhaps half a dozen listens before I started truly enjoying it. Any

  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

    • 8 out of 10
    • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
    • When I first got hooked to Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the only place I could get their debut album, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, was through the band's Web site. I listened to the two tracks a

  • How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb

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    • U2's latest entry is a mostly underwhelming collection of songs that does very little to sound any different from its equally pedestrian predecessor, 2000's "All That You Can't Leave Behind." While

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    • This is Weather Reports quintessential line-up captured live. Jaco Pastorious and Peter Erskine join Wayne Shorter and, of course, Joe Zawinul to create this masterpiece.

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Apple Granted New iPod-, Computer-Related Patents

Apple this week saw six new patents published through the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: one concerning the handling of rewriteable media, such as CD-RWs; one for an iPod holder that could sit inside a car's cup holder; one for managing file extensions; one for "constant-weight encoding and decoding;" and two for iPod shuffle cases and holders.

Neo at MacNN has posted a rundown of the various patents, including images of the iPod-related ones. It's unclear exactly how Apple wants to implement the other ones, if it has plans to use them at all. Companies sometimes patent concepts simply to protect them.

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