Did you like Lady Gaga’s new video for “Judas?”

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If you haven’t seen it, it’s here. We personally think that Lady Gaga pushes too many elements into a couple of minutes. it’s too congested with images and doesn’t really serve the purpose. That last dress felt like it was a futuristic kimono, no relations. And the black Jesus personified is yet another book taken from the Madonna book. She isn’t even pushing the envelope in this one, she could have done so much more. At any rate, we it is not her worst, but it’s just too much of something.

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Exclusive: Nerina Pallot performs acoustic version of “If I Lost You Now”

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As a part of the promotional campaign to launch Nerina Pallot’s forth album Year Of The Wolf, Loft965.com has been sent an exclusive performance of her new song “If I Lost You Now.” We definitely like what we hear and can’t wait for the album to drop on June 13th, 2011!

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Introducing… Abigail Washburn

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If American old-time music is about taking earlier, simpler ways of life and music-making as one’s model, Abigail Washburn has proven herself to be a bracing revelation to that tradition. She—a singing, songwriting, Illinois-born, Nashville-based clawhammer banjo player—is every bit as interested in the present and the future as she is in the past, and every bit as attuned to the global as she is to the local. She pairs venerable folk elements with far-flung sounds, and the results feel both strangely familiar and unlike anything anybody’s ever heard before. To put it another way, she changes what seems possible.

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