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New Music Releases For Sept. 7 Include Interpol, Sara Bareilles, and Robyn
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What to Download: New Music This Week

Your return from the three-day weekend just got a little easier; not only are there a slew of new movies, there's some new music as well.
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Your return from the three-day weekend just got a little easier; not only are there a slew of new movies, there's some new music as well. Today's releases boast a wide variety: from indie rock to dance to soulful pop, here are the tracks I recommend for your discerning earbuds.

Interpol, Interpol
The lowdown: The New York rockers present their fourth studio album (the last with original bassist Carlos Dengler), with a similar sound to their innovative 2002 debut, Turn on the Bright Lights.
Choice tracks:
"Lights"
"Barricade"
"Success"
Download this album if you: Still have their first album in heavy rotation on your iPod.


Sara Bareilles, Kaleidoscope Heart
The lowdown: The piano-playing pop star is back with her third album, in which she mixes up her sound but still delivers plenty of radio-friendly songs.
Choice tracks:
"Uncharted"
"Gonna Get Over You"
"King of Anything"
Download this album if you: Need a smooth soundtrack for your next girls' night in.

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Christina Aguilera's Album Cover Released and Robyn's "Fembot" Single Both Robot-Inspired
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Pop Stars Go Robotic

I've been digging on Swedish singer Robyn's hot new track titled "Fembots" (you may remember Robyn as a late-'90s pop star?), and before you know it, another blond bombshell goes robotic as well.
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I've been digging on Swedish singer Robyn's hot new track titled "Fembots" (you may remember Robyn as a late-'90s pop star?), and before you know it, another blond bombshell goes robotic as well. Ahead of her first single release, Christina Aguilera has debuted the cover art for her upcoming album, Bionic, which is seemingly inspired by fembots of yore.

What's with all the female robot love? Could it be the popularity of hot Cylons from Battlestar Galactica, or the rise of sci-fi in pop culture? Who knows, but I'm diggin' it!

Listen to New Robyn Song From Body Talk Album "Fembots"
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New Music: Robyn's "Fembots"

Swedish pop singer Robyn has grown up in the past few years as sort of the anti pop star, writing her own songs and doing her own thing.
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Swedish pop singer Robyn has grown up in the past few years as sort of the anti pop star, writing her own songs and doing her own thing. She has the kind of career longevity most chart-toppers dream of, even if she's never made it to Lady Gaga-level in the US. Her latest album, Body Talk, is set to release later this Spring, but I have a taste of it for you now in the form of the song "Fembots," a catchy, sugary beat that asserts that fembots do, in fact, have feelings, too.

It's got a bouncy, electro-pop feel and one of the catchiest choruses ever — even now, I can't purge it from my brain. But that's OK, because it's pretty hot.

To hear the track, just read more

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Music Video: Robyn, "Cobrastyle"
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Music Video: Robyn, "Cobrastyle"

Robyn never fails to deliver bizarre, colorful and uber-fun videos, and this one for "Cobrastyle" does not break her pattern.
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Robyn never fails to deliver bizarre, colorful and uber-fun videos, and this one for "Cobrastyle" does not break her pattern. For one thing, "Cobrastyle" is a super catchy tune that gets me bopping around in my chair. Add Robyn and her band wearing all white and having paint tossed at them (they don't even miss a beat — literally), Robyn dancing frenetically (sometimes "on" us) and Robyn spitting what (hopefully just) looks like paint at the camera in slow motion and we've got a winner. You gotta check this out, especially if you haven't yet heard "Cobrastyle," so read more

Robyn: The Anti-Britney Spears?
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Robyn: The Anti-Britney Spears?

In the May issue of Wired magazine, the Swedish pop star Robyn is hailed as the anti-Britney Spears: She's a good-looking blonde who happens to be a talented songwriter, she's uncompromising when it comes to producing chart-topping hits for a demanding label, and instead of making out with Madonna and divorcing K-Fed, she started her own label and carved out a long and respectable music career.
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In the May issue of Wired magazine, the Swedish pop star Robyn is hailed as the anti-Britney Spears: She's a good-looking blonde who happens to be a talented songwriter, she's uncompromising when it comes to producing chart-topping hits for a demanding label, and instead of making out with Madonna and divorcing K-Fed, she started her own label and carved out a long and respectable music career.


It is striking to see how two charismatic, talented youngsters could start out along a similar path in the music business and end up in such dramatically different places. As Wired somewhat dramatically put it, their different choices "would lead one to hipster stardom and the other to madness."

While Robyn scored a mainstream hit with "Show Me Love" in the '90s, her artistic integrity led her down a different path from the mega-stardom Britney achieved, as she declined to tour with the Backstreet Boys and struck out on her own instead. I, for one, am glad — not just because we don't need another tragic Britney story but also because Robyn's music is different but still catchy. Her new video for a song called "Who's That Girl" seems appropriately timed for the Wired article, as the lyrics make clear she is interested in how we view certain girls in comparison to who they really are inside. Seems like Britney, and a whole host of other starlets, could have benefited from the same self-awareness, no?

What do you think? Is Robyn a welcome antidote to the pop-wreck that is Britney? To check out the totally fun video for "Who's That Girl" — and the wonderment that is Robyn's "Konichiwa B*tches" — read more

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