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"I wake up/Check my phone/Jump in my whip/And off I go," Jake Bugg sings on "Kingpin." It's a song about the lush life of a drug dealer with a steelback giddyap that connects Eddie Cochran to the Smiths' "What Difference Does It Make?" And that knack for yoking today's restless energy to yesterday's jangle is what makes the 19-year-old U.K. chart-topper likable. Bugg's debut was at its best giving '62 Dylan and Buddy Holly a cocky Oasis charge, and the Bugg Man backed it up by calling fellow roots lovers Mumford & Sons "posh farmers with banjos." Dude has balls as big as Rickenbackers.

On Bugg's second album, Rick Rubin oversees an expanding sonic palette and a tougher sound; the punk-fired "What Doesn't Kill You" and grungy country rock of "All Your Reasons" push up against MacDougal Street serenades like "Pine Trees," an alienated epistle that could've been cut in a winter cabin. At times his folkier moments can be a touch too comfy. He's best when he pushes at the confines of his throwback sound: "Kitchen Table" stretches out with soul-jazz keyboard tickle and real-life post-breakup lyrics that don't try to play the London tough guy or woodsy troubadour: "I've not been seeing you for some time now and still you choose to hold my hate/But after how I handled it you're hardly to blame." It's just a 19-year-old kid, being honest.

By Mike Powell

November 18, 2013 THE WANTED - WORD OF MOUTH

The Wanted are a boy band with a man's disposition: They drink, they get into arguments, and they tend to see women as passive creatures waiting around in heels to be redeemed or get their hearts broken. They cloak their casual misogyny in trying to look sensitive, alternating rakish club pop like "Walks Like Rihanna" with post-Coldplay ballads in which everyone gets a chance to brood. In either case, the sound is big and lead-footed, using gang choruses to remind you to have fun and string sections when things stiffen and get sad. The truth? The promise that they're gonna pour their love all over you is twice as charming – and half as creepy – as the one that they're gonna keep you safe.

2/5 stars

Various Artists

New Orleans Funk 3: The Original Sound of Funk Soul Jazz

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New Orleans music has gotten its due in recent years, thanks to everything from archival MP3 blogs (Home of the Groove is excellent) to Treme. Here, expert excavators at U.K. label Soul Jazz focus on NOLA's visionary nutters. Soul shouter Eldridge Holmes explains the "good way to make whoopee," a sitar creases Lee Dorsey's "What You Want," and although she's "in a world of trouble" with her man, Betty Harris sounds as merry as a funeral parade.

Polica

Shulamith 3/5 stars

 Joe Gross

November 18, 2013

On some level, Poliça – led by singer Channy Leaneagh and producer Ryan Olson – couldn't sound more like they were from Minneapolis. On their second album, the followup to 2012's buzzy Give You the Ghost, these kids blend distant, white-on-white melodic minimalism with early-Prince electro burp-'n-grind. Leaneagh gets into bad love on the surprisingly rock "Very Cruel" and complicated love on the thunderous "Matty," while, on "Tiff," Bon Iver main man/fellow Midwesterner/Kanye collaborator Justin Vernon shows up to backstop lines like "Have the bullet/ He has the gun." Apparently, America's Portishead can be found skinny-dipping in Lake Minnetonka.

Daughtry

Baptized

19/RCA

 Chuck Eddy

November 19, 2013

Seven years after he placed on American Idol, Chris Daughtry and his band are opening up their would-be grunge to more nuance: folk instruments and synths, smoother high notes tempering Daughtry's bellow, "boom-b'boom" vocal-bass hook lightening the gender war in "Battleships." The sound on Baptized somehow links U2 to Rascal Flatts, adding Springsteen stances in "Wild Heart." More unexpectedly, there's also a banjo shuffle where Daughtry chooses Van Halen over Van Hagar, catalogs some of his other heroes and wonders who wrote Hole's songs. "Long Live Rock & Roll," it's called – a defense, perhaps, against anybody claiming guys like him helped kill it.

The Flaming Lips

Peace Sword

Warner Bros.

By Joe Gross

November 18, 2013

This six-song EP sounds like a warm cocoon shedding itself. The title track – a very Lips-ish slice of made-of-stars melody and Wayne Coyne's voice multitracked to infinity – was written for the film version of the classic science-fiction novel Ender's Game. But since no prog act worth its stash turns down a chance to be inspired by sci-fi, the Lips secreted five more clouds – tunes "inspired by" the movie, including the vaguely martial "If They Move, Shoot 'Em" and the wonderfully titled 10-minute "Assassin Beetle – the Dream Is Ending." Also, the lyrics may have plot spoilers: In the immortal words of Public Enemy, consider yourself...warned!

News stories

News stories

                Rooster stabs man to death at a cock fight. He got stabbed by a sharp blade attached to the rooster. Jose Luis Ochoa was only 35 years old when he died. He was declared dead 2 hours after the incident. Reports KTLA "an autopsy concluded Ochoa died of an accidental 'sharp force injury' to his right calf." According to the Bakersfield Californian, Jose Luis Ochoa was fined $370 for cock fighting the year before his death.

            Man impersonates a sheriff to get a discount on doughnuts. Charles T. "Chuck" Barry was seen on surveillance video displaying his fake badge and firearm, Pasco Sheriff's Office said. When Barry was not allowed to get this discount he said “See I am a cop!” and then he held up his firearms. According to a jail official, he was released on a $5,150 bond.

            Colombian man Sergio Estevez sets world record for most coffee beans eaten in one hour. On November 6^th the Guinness World council recorded Sergio’s amazing record. He ate 14.3 pounds of Colombian coffee beans. Sergio has been features on Colombian talk show “La gente hablar en voz alta.” He’s being honored locally and was awarded a prize of 10,000 Pesos. Equivalent to about $800. He will be featured in the 2014 issue of the Guinness World record book.

            A burglar was scared off by a skilled ax-thrower she grabbed the axe she keeps next to her bed when she felt a man trying to take he watch off in her sleep. She chased the man out of her house and off her property. "I would’ve gotten him right in the spine or the back of his head," she said. "I hit what I aim for." 22 year old Nicholas Illoa, was arrested for burglary.

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