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CL Tampa Music Team's Best Albums of 2011

A breakdown of our favorite albums of the year, with lots of video & audio.

• by Leilani Polk, Julie Garisto, Nicole Kibert, Gabe Echazabal, Joel Weiss, Deborah Ramos, and Evan Tokarz
• Tags: Music, Music Review, metronomy, the english riviera, tuneyards, whokill, mutemath, odd soul, battles, gloss drop, cloud control, bliss release, tv on the radio, nine types of light, best albums of 2011, top albums of 2011, best albums of the year, extra classic, Your Light Like White Lightning Your Light Like A Laserbeam, Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi, Rome, morningbell, basso profundo, akron family, shinju tnt, White Denim, D, lemuria, pebbles, fake problems, Real Ghosts Caught on Tape, auto automatic, greenland is melting, where were we, how dare you, the king the clow and the colonel, have gun will travel, mergers & acquisitions, ninja gun, roman nose, sleepy vikings, they will find you here, The Smiths, The Smiths Complete, PJ Harvey, Let England Shake, Ghostpoet, Peanut Butter Blues and Melancholy Jam, Foster The People, Torches, m83, Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, Tom Waits, Bad as Me, Sigur Rós, Inni, Wilco, The Whole Love, Jónsi, We Bought a Zoo Soundtrack, Yelle, Safari Disco Club, Kate Bush, 50 Words For Snow, Gavin Friday, Catholic, Lenny Kravitz, Black and White America, Fountains of Wayne, Sky Full of Holes, Nick Lowe, The Old Magic, Urge Overkill, Rock & Roll Submarine, The Bangles, Sweetheart of the Sun, Wanda Jackson, The Party Ain’t Over, Duran Duran, All You Need Is Now, Poly Styrene, Generation Indigo, Foo Fighters, Wasting Light, Mastodon, The Hunter, Marksmen, Sister Of Mine, Theophilus London, Timez Are Weird These Days, Book Of Black Earth, The Cold Testament, Grouplove, Never Trust A Happy Song, The Joy Formidable, The Big Roar, The Black Keys, El Camino, The Decemberists, The King Is Dead, Toro y Moi, Underneath the Pine, Maritime, Human Hearts, Vetiver, The Errant Charm, Peter Bjorn & John, Gimme Some, Fleet Foxes, Helplessness Blues, The Roots, Undun, The Mattson Two, Feeling Hands, Beirut, The Rip Tide, Girls, Father Son Holy Ghost, Surfer Blood, Tarot Classics, Those Darlins, Screws Get Loose, Radical Face, The Family Tree

CL on the Road Concert Review: Orlando Calling, Day 1 at the Citrus Bowl, Orlando

Any number of great support acts like The Roots, Pixies, or The Raconteurs would've made stronger headliners than The Killers, but Orlando Calling did a lot of other things right.

• by Joel Weiss
• Tags: Music, Concerts, Music Review, orlando calling, concert, review, Citrus Bowl, The Killers, The Roots, Pixies, The Raconteurs, Vegas, Hipster, Jack White, Brendan Benson, Curtis Mayfield, Questlove, Doolittle, Florida, Kim Deal, Black Francis, Joey Santiago, Drive By Truckers, Bowie, Springsteen, Duran Duran, Civilian, Dollface, The American Secrets, freecreditscore.com, The Ettes, Chicago, Kids These Days, KTD, Parachute, Grey's Anatomy, Gogol Bordello, Lucero, Civil Twilight, Mr. Mensa, Macie Stewart, Rick Rubin, Hot Fuss, Sam's Town, Day & Age, Trans-Continental Hustle, Eugene Hutz, moshing, Less Than Jake, South Africa, U2, The Joshua Tree, Coldplay, Lucero, Ben Nichols, Kid Cudi, Iron & Wine, Sam Beam, Avett Brothers, Gavin DeGraw, food truck, Camelbak, WFTV

#MusicMonday, Vol. 51

What the CL Music Team is jamming, from Junius to Grouplove to Thom Yorke's BB6 6 mix (with audio).

• by Scott Harrell, Ray Roa, Leilani Polk, Joel Weiss, elawgrrl, Andrew Silverstein, Taylor Toothman, and Deborah Ramos
• Tags: Music, #MusicMonday, Junius, Reports from the Threshold of Death, Greenland Is Melting, Where Were We, Melt Banana, Charlie, Grouplove, Never Trust a Happy Song, Duran Duran, Notorious, Ryan Adams, Ashes & Fire, tv on the radio, desperate youth bloodthirsty babes, De La Soul, 3 Feet High and Rising, thom yorke

New music out this Tuesday, March 22: Panic! at the Disco, Agnostic Front, The Strokes, Yellowcard, If By Yes, Pharoahe Monch, and more (with audio & video)

• by Leilani Polk
• Tags: Music, New Music, jennifer hudson, Fame, chris brown, saliva, Green Day, Adam Lambert, Music, james blake, adventure, Richard Ashcroft, 101, duran duran, panic at the disco, Soundgarden, one, great divide, New Music, Tommy Shaw, all you need is now, Acid House Kings, Music Sounds Better with You, The Lesser Known On, Agnostic Front, My Life My Way, United Nations of Sound, Anthony David, Above So Below, Art of Dying, Vices and Virtues, The Big Eyes Family Players, Family Favourites, Edwyn Collins, Losing Sleep, CunninLynguists, Oneirology, Yellowcard, When You’re Through Thinking Say Yes, Live On I-5, Under Your Skin, TesseracT, Protest the Hero, Scurrilous, Pharoahe Monch, W.A.R., The Paperhead, Vices & Virtues, Glam Nation Live, Keren Ann, Awesome As Fuck, I Remember Me

#MusicMonday, Vol. 32: Lupe Fiasco, Oh Land, Duran Duran, Jason DeVore, and more (with video)

• by Leilani Polk
• Tags: Music, #MusicMonday, lasers, Music, duran duran, r.e.m., Tame Impala, InnerSpeaker, #MusicMonday, Lupe Fiasco, all you need is now, Collapse Into Now, oh land, expectation, Jason DeVore, Conviction 2: the Crooked Path, Silver Mt. Zion, 13 Blues For 13 Moons

New music releases out this Tuesday, December 21: David Banner & 9th Wonder, Jamie Foxx, Keri Hilson, and more (with videos)

• by Leilani Polk
• Tags: Music, New Music, Jamie Foxx, Music, keri hilson, duran duran, New Music, all you need is now, Best Night Of My Life, Keyshia Cole, Calling All Hearts, Ghostface Killah, The Apollo Kids, No Boys Allowed, Pretty Rock Girl, Fall for Your Type, Be With You

CD review: Duran Duran, All You Need Is Now

• by Gabe Echazabal
• Tags: Music, Music Review, disco, Music, Music Review, new wave, duran duran, rio, dance music, simon le bon, john taylor, nick rhodes, roger taylor, all you need is now

CD review: Julian Casablancas, Phrazes For The Young

• by Shawn Goldberg
The Strokes lead singer Julian Casablancas Phrazes for the Young cd review. He has replaced all your expectations with synths straight out of 1984. An album always changing and bouncing and moving quickly, slipping across pop and soul spectrums within a few seconds, overlapping and folding decades into 8 songs that run just under 40 minutes.
• Tags: Music, Music Review, madonna, Marlon Brando, apocalypse now, Music, Julian Casablancas, Music Review, Otis Redding, strokes, Duran, duran duran, rio, phrazes for the young, borderline, prince, let's go crazy, 11th dimension, solo album, last nite, solomon burke, ludlow street, martin sheen, chinatown, bowry, cbgb, Uncategorized

I hate Duran Duran, I love Duran Duran: The Remastered Rio

• by Gabe Echazabal
What a great way to memorialize the decade-defining album that changed the musical landscape for the remainder of the 1980's. Casual fans and die-hards alike would be wise to treat themselves to this tasteful nod to 1982's "Rio".
• Tags: Music, Music Review, Music, Music Review, remasters, duran duran, rio, Uncategorized