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Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz. [1]

169 relations: AbsolutePunk, Acclaimed Music, Alexis Petridis, AllMusic, Alternative Songs, André de Ridder, AnyDecentMusic?, Asha Bhosle, Australian Recording Industry Association, Autobahn, Baroque pop, Barry Gibb, Bashy, Bauer Media Group, BBC Radio 1, Beats Per Minute (website), Beirut, Billboard (magazine), Billboard 200, Blues, Bobby Womack, Britpop, Capitol Studios, CBC News, Chicago Tribune, Chung King Studios, Concept album, Consequence of Sound, D-Sides, Damascus, Damascus Opera House, Damon Albarn, De La Soul, Derby, Diabetes mellitus, Disco, DIY (magazine), DJ Semtex, Dubstep, Electro (music), Electroclash, Electronic music, Electropop, Empire Ants, Engelbert Humperdinck (singer), Entertainment Weekly, European Top 100 Albums, Exclaim!, Filter (magazine), Funk, ..., Gaon Album Chart, Gaon Music Chart, Garage rock, Gorillaz, Greg Kot, Grime (music genre), Gruff Rhys, Hip hop music, HipHopDX, Hook (music), Hot Press, Howie Weinberg, Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, IFPI Greece, ITunes, ITunes LP, ITunes Store, Jamie Hewlett, Jew's harp, John Lydon, Kano (rapper), Kelvin Mercer, Kitty Empire, Krautrock, Lagos, Lenta.ru, Little Dragon, Lo-fi music, Los Angeles Times, Lou Reed, Mark E. Smith, Metacritic, Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist), Miles Marshall Lewis, Mojo (magazine), Monkey: Journey to the West, Mos Def, MSN Music, Murdoc Niccals, Music Week, National Post, Newsbeat, NME, NME Radio, NPR, On Melancholy Hill, Orchestration, Oricon, Oricon Albums Chart, Parlophone, Paul Simonon, Pazz & Jop, Peter Paphides, Pitchfork (website), Pop music, Pop-rap, PopMatters, Primary Colours (album), Prometheus Global Media, PureMédias, Q (magazine), Quadrophenia (film), Rhinestone Eyes, Rob Sheffield, Robert Christgau, Rockdelux, Roger Daltrey, Rolling Stone, Rolls-Royce Limited, Sex Pistols, Simon Tong, Sinfonia Viva, Slant Magazine, Snoop Dogg, Soft rock, Soul music, Space age pop, Spin (magazine), State (magazine), Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Stylo (song), Superfast Jellyfish, Surf music, Swanson, Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique, T-shirt, The A.V. Club, The Age, The Fall (Gorillaz album), The Guardian, The Horrors, The Independent, The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society, The New York Times, The Observer, The Times, The Village Voice, The Who, The X Factor (UK TV series), TheGuardian.com, Tom Waits, Tommy (1975 film), Top 100 Mexico, Tophit, Trip hop, Triple J, UK Albums Chart, UK Dance Singles and Albums Charts, UK Singles Chart, Uncut (magazine), Village Voice Media, Virgin Records, Virtual band, Voyeurism, Wired (magazine), World music, Yahoo!, Yahoo! Music, Yukimi Nagano. Expand index (119 more) »

AbsolutePunk

AbsolutePunk was a website, online community, and alternative music news source founded by Jason Tate (the most recent CEO).

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Acclaimed Music

Acclaimed Music is a website created by Henrik Franzon, a statistician from Stockholm, SwedenMatt Rosoff, "The critics vs.

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Alexis Petridis

Alexis Petridis (born 13 September 1971 in Sunderland) is a British journalist, head rock and pop critic for the UK newspaper The Guardian, as well as a regular contributor to the magazine GQ.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative Songs

Alternative Songs (also called Alternative and formerly known as Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Modern Rock Tracks) is a music chart in the United States that has appeared in ''Billboard'' magazine since September 10, 1988.

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André de Ridder

André de Ridder is a German conductor of classical music mainly working in Great Britain.

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AnyDecentMusic?

AnyDecentMusic? is a website that collates album reviews from magazines, websites, and newspaper.

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Asha Bhosle

Asha Bhosle (born 8 September 1933), is an Indian singer.

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Australian Recording Industry Association

The Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) is a trade group representing the Australian recording industry which was established in 1983 by six major record companies, EMI, Festival, CBS, RCA, WEA and Universal replacing the Association of Australian Record Manufacturers (AARM) which was formed in 1956.

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Autobahn

The Autobahn (plural) is the federal controlled-access highway system in Germany.

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Baroque pop

Baroque pop (sometimes called baroque rock) is a fusion genre that combines rock music with particular elements of classical music.

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Barry Gibb

Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb (born 1 September 1946) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music.

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Bashy

Ashley Thomas (born 4 February 1985), also known by his stage name Bashy, is an English musician and actor, from Kensal Rise, London, England.

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Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group is a European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines, over 400 digital products and 50 radio and TV stations around the world.

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BBC Radio 1

BBC Radio 1 is a British radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in modern and current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7pm, including electronic dance, hip hop, rock, indie or interviews. It was launched in 1967 to meet the demand for music generated by pirate radio stations, when the average age of the UK population was 27. The BBC claim that they target the 1529 age group, and the average age of its UK audience since 2009 is 30. BBC Radio 1 started 24-hour broadcasting on 1 May 1991.

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Beats Per Minute (website)

Beats Per Minute (formerly One Thirty BPM) is a New York City and Los Angeles-based online publication providing reviews, news, media, interviews, features, and more from both the independent and mainstream spheres of the music world.

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Beirut

Beirut (بيروت, Beyrouth) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bobby Womack

Robert Dwayne Womack (March 4, 1944 – June 27, 2014) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Britpop

Britpop is a UK based music and culture movement in the mid 1990s which emphasised "Britishness", and produced brighter, catchier alternative rock, partly in reaction to the popularity of the darker lyrical themes of the US-led grunge music, an alternative rock genre, and to the UK's own shoegazing music scene.

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Capitol Studios

Established in 1956, Capitol Studios are located in the landmark Capitol Records Tower in the heart of Hollywood, California.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, United States, owned by Tronc, Inc., formerly Tribune Publishing.

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Chung King Studios

Chung King Recording Studios, formerly known as Chung King House of Metal, was a New York City recording studio founded by John King with financial backing of the Etches brothers and engineer expertise of Steve Ett, which became a site of many classic punk and hip hop recordings.

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Concept album

A concept album is an album in which its tracks hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than they do individually.

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Consequence of Sound

Consequence of Sound (CoS) is a Chicago-based online magazine featuring news, editorials, and reviews of music and movies.

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D-Sides

D-Sides is a 2007 compilation album by the British virtual band Gorillaz.

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Damascus

Damascus (دمشق, Syrian) is the capital of the Syrian Arab Republic; it is also the country's largest city, following the decline in population of Aleppo due to the battle for the city.

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Damascus Opera House

The Damascus Opera House (officially Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts) (دار الأسد للفنون والثقافة) is the national opera house of Syria.

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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop trio formed in 1987 on Long Island, New York.

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Derby

Derby is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England.

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Diabetes mellitus

Diabetes mellitus (DM), commonly referred to as diabetes, is a group of metabolic disorders in which there are high blood sugar levels over a prolonged period.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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DIY (magazine)

DIY is a United Kingdom-based music publication, in print and online.

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DJ Semtex

DJ Semtex (born John Fairbanks; 1974) is an award-winning English DJ, author and presenter for BBC Radio 1Xtra's flagship hip-hop show (airing Friday nights from 21:00 to 23:00) and Spotify's Who We Be podcast.

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Dubstep

Dubstep is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in South London in the late 1990s.

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Electro (music)

Electro (or electro-funk).

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Electroclash

Electroclash (also known as synthcore, retro-electro, tech-pop, nouveau disco, and the new new wave) is a genre of music that fuses 1980s electro, new wave and synth-pop with 1990s techno, retro-style electropop and electronic dance music.

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Electronic music

Electronic music is music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments and circuitry-based music technology.

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Electropop

Electropop is a variant of synth-pop that places more emphasis on a harder, electronic sound.

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Empire Ants

"Empire Ants" is a single by virtual band Gorillaz, released on their third studio album Plastic Beach.

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Engelbert Humperdinck (singer)

Engelbert Humperdinck (born Arnold George Dorsey; 2 May 1936) is an English pop singer.

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Entertainment Weekly

Entertainment Weekly (sometimes abbreviated as EW) is an American magazine, published by Meredith Corporation, that covers film, television, music, Broadway theatre, books and popular culture.

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European Top 100 Albums

The European Top 100 Albums chart was the European adaptation of the ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart.

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Exclaim!

Exclaim! is a monthly Canadian music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists.

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Filter (magazine)

FILTER was a seasonal American music and off-beat entertainment magazine which was founded in 2002.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gaon Album Chart

Gaon Album Chart, part of Gaon Music Chart, is a national chart that ranks the best-selling albums, including mini and single albums, in South Korea, provided by the Korea Music Content Industry Association.

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Gaon Music Chart

The Gaon Music Chart tabulates the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in South Korea.

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Garage rock

Garage rock (sometimes called 60s punk or garage punk) is a raw and energetic style of rock and roll that flourished in the mid-1960s, most notably in the United States and Canada, and has experienced various revivals in the last several decades.

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Gorillaz

Gorillaz are a British virtual band created in 1998 by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett.

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Greg Kot

Greg Kot (born March 3, 1957) is an American writer, author and journalist.

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Grime (music genre)

Grime (also known as, Eskibeat, 8Bar, Sublow and UK Bashment) is a genre of music that emerged in London in the early 2000s.

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Gruff Rhys

Gruffudd Maredudd Bowen Rhys (born 18 July 1970 in Haverfordwest) is a Welsh musician, composer, producer, filmmaker and author.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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HipHopDX

HipHopDX is an online magazine of hip hop music criticism and news.

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Hook (music)

A hook is a musical idea, often a short riff, passage, or phrase, that is used in popular music to make a song appealing and to "catch the ear of the listener".

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Hot Press

Hot Press is a fortnightly music and politics magazine based in Dublin, Ireland, founded in June 1977.

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Howie Weinberg

Howie Weinberg is a music mastering engineer who has worked with numerous bands.

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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble

Hypnotic Brass Ensemble (also known as The Bad Boys of Jazz) is an eight-piece, Chicago-based brass ensemble consisting of eight sons of the jazz trumpeter Phil Cohran.

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IFPI Greece

International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Greece, or simply IFPI Greece, is the Greek branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Greece.

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ITunes

iTunes is a media player, media library, Internet radio broadcaster, and mobile device management application developed by Apple Inc. It was announced on January 9, 2001.

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ITunes LP

iTunes LP (referred to in pre-launch press by the code name Cocktail) is a format for interactive album artwork introduced by Apple Inc. on September 9, 2009.

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ITunes Store

The iTunes Store is a software-based online digital media store operated by Apple Inc. It opened on April 28, 2003, and has been the largest music vendor in the United States since April 2008, and the largest music vendor in the world since February 2010.

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Jamie Hewlett

Jamie Christopher Hewlett (born 3 April 1968) is an English comic book artist and designer.

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Jew's harp

The Jew's harp, also known as the jaw harp, mouth harp, Ozark harp or juice harp, is a lamellophone instrument, consisting of a flexible metal or bamboo tongue or reed attached to a frame.

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John Lydon

John Joseph Lydon (born 31 January 1956), also known by his stage name Johnny Rotten, is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Kano (rapper)

Kane Robinson (born 21 May 1985), better known as Kano, is an English rapper and actor from East Ham, London.

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Kelvin Mercer

Kelvin Mercer (born August 17, 1969) is a rapper, producer, and one-third of the hip hop trio De La Soul.

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Kitty Empire

Kitty Empire is the pen name of a British writer and music critic, currently writing for The Observer.

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Krautrock

Krautrock (also called " ", cosmic music") is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s.

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Lagos

Lagos is a city in the Nigerian state of Lagos.

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Lenta.ru

Lenta.ru (Лента.Ру; stylised as LƐNTA·RU) is a Moscow-based online newspaper in Russian language, owned by Rambler Media Group which belongs to Prof-Media.

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Little Dragon

Little Dragon are a Swedish electronic music band from Gothenburg, formed in 1996.

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Lo-fi music

Lo-fi (originally spelled low-fi and alternately called DIY) is an aesthetic of recorded music in which the sound quality is lower than the usual contemporary standards (the opposite of high fidelity) and imperfections of the recording and production are audible.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.

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Lou Reed

Lewis Allan Reed (March 2, 1942 – October 27, 2013) was an American musician, singer, and songwriter.

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Mark E. Smith

Mark Edward Smith (5 March 1957 – 24 January 2018) was an English singer and songwriter.

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Metacritic

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: music albums, video games, films, TV shows, and formerly, books.

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Mick Jones (The Clash guitarist)

Michael Geoffrey "Mick" Jones (born 26 June 1955) is a British musician, singer and songwriter best known as the lead guitarist, co-lead vocalist, cofounder and songwriter for The Clash until his dismissal in 1983.

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Miles Marshall Lewis

Miles Marshall Lewis (born December 18, 1970) is an American pop culture critic, essayist, literary editor, fiction writer, and music journalist.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Monkey: Journey to the West

Monkey: Journey to the West is a stage adaptation of the novel Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en.

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Mos Def

Yasiin Bey (born Dante Terrell Smith; December 11, 1973), best known by his stage name Mos Def, is an American hip hop recording artist, actor, and activist.

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MSN Music

MSN Music is a part of MSN's web services.

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Murdoc Niccals

Murdoc Faust Niccals (born Murdoc Alphonce Niccals) is the fictional bassist for the virtual band Gorillaz.

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Music Week

Music Week is a trade paper for the UK record industry.

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National Post

The National Post is a conservative Canadian English-language newspaper.

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Newsbeat

Newsbeat is the flagship news programme on BBC Radio 1 and BBC Radio 1Xtra.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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NME Radio

NME Radio was a radio station operated under NME magazine branding, that broadcast a commercially oriented alternative music format.

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NPR

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization based in Washington, D.C. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.

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On Melancholy Hill

"On Melancholy Hill" is the third single from British virtual band Gorillaz's third studio album, Plastic Beach.

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Orchestration

Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra.

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Oricon

, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan.

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Oricon Albums Chart

The Oricon Albums Chart is the Japanese music industry standard albums popularity chart issued daily, weekly, monthly and yearly by Oricon.

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Parlophone

Parlophone Records Limited (also known as Parlophone Records and Parlophone) is a German-British major record label founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon.

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Paul Simonon

Paul Gustave Simonon (born 15 December 1955) is an English musician and artist best known as the bassist for the punk rock band The Clash.

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Pazz & Jop

Pazz & Jop is an annual poll of musical releases compiled by American newspaper The Village Voice since 1971.

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Peter Paphides

Peter Paphides (born 1969 as Panayiotis Paphides) is a British journalist and broadcaster.

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Pitchfork (website)

Pitchfork is an American online magazine launched in 1995 by Ryan Schreiber, based in Chicago, Illinois and owned by Condé Nast.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pop-rap

Pop-rap or hip-pop is a genre of music fusing the rhythm-based lyricism of hip hop music with pop music's preference for melodious vocals and catchy tunes, which gained mainstream popularity during the 1990s.

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PopMatters

PopMatters is an international online magazine of cultural criticism that covers many aspects of popular culture.

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Primary Colours (album)

Primary Colours is the second studio album by English rock band the Horrors.

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Prometheus Global Media

Prometheus Global Media was a New York City-based B2B media company.

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PureMédias

PureMédias, formerly named imedias.biz until April 2008, and Ozap from April 2008 to January 2011, is a French website devoted to news and entertainment media.

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Q (magazine)

Q is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Quadrophenia (film)

Quadrophenia is a 1979 British drama film, loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name.

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Rhinestone Eyes

"Rhinestone Eyes" was intended to be the fourth and final single from virtual band Gorillaz's third studio album, Plastic Beach.

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Rob Sheffield

Rob Sheffield (born February 2, 1966) is an American music journalist and author.

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Robert Christgau

Robert Thomas Christgau (born April 18, 1942) is an American essayist and music journalist.

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Rockdelux

Rockdelux is a popular music magazine published monthly in Spain.

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Roger Daltrey

Roger Harry Daltrey (born 1 March 1944) is an English singer, musician, and actor.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero engine manufacturing business established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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Sex Pistols

The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975.

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Simon Tong

Simon Tong (born 9 July 1972) is an English guitarist and keyboardist who was a member of The Verve between 1996 and 1999 and is currently a member of Erland and the Carnival and Transmission.

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Sinfonia Viva

Sinfonia Viva is a British orchestra based in Derby, United Kingdom.

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Slant Magazine

Slant Magazine is an American online publication that features reviews of movies, music, TV, DVDs, theater, and video games, as well as interviews with actors, directors, and musicians.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Soft rock

Soft rock (or lite rock) is a subgenre of pop rock that largely features acoustic guitars and slow-to-mid tempos.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Space age pop

Space age pop is a music genre associated with Mexican and American composers and songwriters in the space age of the 1950s and 1960s.

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Spin (magazine)

Spin is an American music magazine founded in 1985 by publisher Bob Guccione, Jr. The magazine stopped running in print in 2012 and currently runs as a webzine.

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State (magazine)

State.ie (formerly State Magazine) is an Irish website and formerly a monthly music magazine, which launched in April 2008 and ceased to print in January 2009 having published a total of ten issues.

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Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Stephen Thomas Erlewine (born June 18, 1973) is an American music critic and senior editor for AllMusic.

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Stylo (song)

"Stylo" is the first single from British virtual band Gorillaz's third studio album Plastic Beach.

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Superfast Jellyfish

"Superfast Jellyfish" is the second single released from British alternative band Gorillaz' third studio album, Plastic Beach.

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Surf music

Surf music is a subgenre of rock music associated with surf culture, particularly as found in Southern California.

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Swanson

Swanson is a brand of TV dinners, broths, and canned poultry made for the North American market.

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Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique

The National Syndicate of Phonographic Publishing (Syndicat national de l'édition phonographique; SNEP) is the inter-professional organization which protects the interests of the French record industry.

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T-shirt

A T-shirt (or t shirt, or tee) is a style of unisex fabric shirt named after the T shape of its body and sleeves.

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The A.V. Club

The A.V. Club is an entertainment website featuring reviews, interviews, and other articles that examine films, music, television, books, games, and other elements of pop culture media.

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The Age

The Age is a daily newspaper that has been published in Melbourne, Australia, since 1854.

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The Fall (Gorillaz album)

The Fall is the fourth studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Horrors

The Horrors are an English rock band formed in Southend-on-Sea in 2005, consisting of lead vocalist Faris Badwan, guitarist Joshua Hayward, keyboardist and synthesiser player Tom Cowan (also known as Tom Furse), bassist Rhys Webb, and drummer and percussionist Joe Spurgeon.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society is the sixth studio album by the English rock group the Kinks, released in November 1968.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Observer

The Observer is a British newspaper published on Sundays.

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The Times

The Times is a British daily (Monday to Saturday) national newspaper based in London, England.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The X Factor (UK TV series)

The X Factor is a British reality television music competition to find new singing talent.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Tom Waits

Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor.

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Tommy (1975 film)

Tommy is a 1975 British independent rock musical fantasy drama film based upon The Who's 1969 rock opera album Tommy about a seemingly disabled boy who becomes a religious pinball champion.

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Top 100 Mexico

Top 100 México is a record chart which accounts for sixty percent of the albums sold in Mexico.

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Tophit

Tophit is a Russian music project that deals with online distribution of new songs and music videos to radios and TV-channels respectively as well as publication of music charts, based on the quantity of radio air spins.

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Trip hop

Trip hop (sometimes used synonymously with "downtempo") is a musical genre that originated in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom, especially Bristol.

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Triple J

Triple J (often triple j) is a government-funded, national Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 34 which began broadcasting in January 1975.

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UK Albums Chart

The Official Albums Chart is a list of albums ranked by physical and digital sales and (from March 2015) audio streaming in the United Kingdom.

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UK Dance Singles and Albums Charts

The UK Dance Singles Chart and the UK Dance Albums Chart are music charts compiled in the United Kingdom by the Official Charts Company from sales of songs in the dance music genre (e.g. house, trance, drum and bass, synthpop) in record stores and digital downloads.

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UK Singles Chart

The UK Singles Chart (currently entitled Official Singles Chart) is compiled by the Official Charts Company (OCC), on behalf of the British record industry, listing the top-selling singles in the United Kingdom, based upon physical sales, paid-for downloads and streaming.

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Uncut (magazine)

Uncut magazine, trademarked as UNCUT, is a monthly publication based in London.

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Village Voice Media

Village Voice Media or VVM began in 1970 as a weekly alternative newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona.

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Virgin Records

Virgin Records Ltd. was a British record label founded by entrepreneurs Richard Branson, Simon Draper, Nik Powell, and musician Tom Newman in 1972.

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Virtual band

In music, a virtual band (also called a virtual group, cartoon group, or cartoon band) is any group whose members are not corporeal musicians, but animated characters.

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Voyeurism

Voyeurism is the sexual interest in or practice of spying on people engaged in intimate behaviors, such as undressing, sexual activity, or other actions usually considered to be of a private nature.

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Wired (magazine)

Wired is a monthly American magazine, published in print and online editions, that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics.

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World music

World music (also called global music or international music) is a musical category encompassing many different styles of music from around the globe, which includes many genres including some forms of Western music represented by folk music, as well as selected forms of ethnic music, indigenous music, neotraditional music, and music where more than one cultural tradition, such as ethnic music and Western popular music, intermingle.

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Yahoo!

Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc..

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Yahoo! Music

Yahoo! Music, owned by Yahoo!, is the provider of a variety of music services, including Internet radio, music videos, news, artist information, and original programming.

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Yukimi Nagano

Yukimi Eleanora Nagano (born 31 January 1982) is a Swedish singer and songwriter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic_Beach

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