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  1. Can Broadway handle Afrobeat? "Fela!" says yes. http://tinyurl.com/y95mmju
  2. Norah Jones breaks up, plugs in, approaches rocking out. The review: http://tinyurl.com/yjcx6pd And the podcast: http://tinyurl.com/yk3ncvz
  3. Flu. Probably H1N1. Better (always) with a backbeat. Little Willie John : http://www.youtube.com/watc...
  4. Soul men in suits--Syl Johnson quotes Wu-Tang!--and a fly girl at Numero's Eccentric Soul Revue. http://tinyurl.com/ygvbpea
  5. Bob Dylan's Christmas album is a headscratcher, and Barry Manilow gets nutty too. http://tinyurl.com/y8fvcmj
  6. Conor Oberst, Jim James, M. Ward--Monsters of Folk, philosophizing in a gilded room. http://tinyurl.com/ygyt2q9
  7. Calle 13 rules the Latin Grammys--and Juan Gabriel does what may be the world's longest awards-show performance. http://tinyurl.com/yg3rfmw
  8. Quiet--mostly--heartbreak from Noah and the Whale. http://tinyurl.com/yz7fdbj
  9. Rock Hall Day 2: U2, Metallica, Jeff Beck, Aretha...not to mention Jagger, Black Eyed Peas and Buddy Guy... http://tinyurl.com/yl2aorf
  10. Rock's a big, happy family at the Hall of Fame concerts. Day 1: Springsteen, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, CSN: http://tinyurl.com/yz8a2wt
  11. Florence and the Machine would've ruled CMJ--an English band with craft and passion. http://tinyurl.com/yg78ee8
  12. No unanimously overwhelming buzz band at CMJ Music Marathon 2009--but a bunch of good ones anyway. Notebook: http://tinyurl.com/ygvuxyl
  13. http://twitpic.com/muwde - Thus endeth CMJ 2009--except for the Critic's Notebook.
  14. Sharon Van Etten, honest & germane at CMJ: "This is a song about moving back into my parents' house in my 20s and trying to be OK with it."
  15. CMJ: Janka Nabay in a straw skirt, singing his bubu music from Sierra Leone: great skeletal beat and a voice with grain like Auto-Tune.
  16. My CMJ has lacked coordinated wardrobes. Little Girls, males from Toronto, get credit for all black shirts--and for jittery tremolo buzz.
  17. Alec Ounsworth of blog-loved Clap Your Hands Say Yeah playing solo at afternoon CMJ party. 3 notebooks out within arm's length of mine.
  18. Heard on Ludlow St. mid-CMJ:"The problem with artists is they act like artists." No--that's not the problem. That's the gig.
  19. Broadcast's set torpedoed pop, multiplied noise, blew minds. Is the rest of CMJ downhill from here? Full review when eyes stop strobing.
  20. Atlas Sound at CMJ: B. Cox from Deerhunter in plaid shirt w/ acoustic guitar & harmonica rack--a roots-rocker? Till psychedelia erupted.