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Them Crooked Vultures, 'Them Crooked Vultures' ***1/2 (out of 4) Hot-shot resumes aside, the three heavy hitters in Them Crooked Vultures have a taste for the strange. Guitarist Josh Homme...

Norah Jones, 'The Fall' **1/2 (out of 4) Though Norah Jones sings that "My mind's racing," you wouldn't know that's a problem on her fourth studio album, "The Fall" (Blue...

Kid Sister, 'Ultraviolet' ***1/2 (out of 4) Melissa Young, a self-described "dork" from the south suburbs of Chicago, has arrived. For years she was working in department stores while her...

50 Cent, 'Before I Self Destruct' ** (out of 4) While amassing a $400 million fortune that encompasses everything from vitamin drinks to condoms, 50 Cent (born Curtis Jackson III)...

'Ong Bak 2: The Beginning' **1/2 Bruce Lee is dead, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are slowing down, but the world of martial arts never sleeps. Keeping everyone awake these...

'Pirate Radio' *** The new rock-saturated "Pirate Radio" proves life really is better when it's set to a '60s soundtrack. From the Kinks, the Rolling Stones, Hendrix, the Who, the...

'2012' *** If director Roland Emmerich had written "Aquarius," the lyrics would've gone something like this: "When the moon is in the Seventh House/And Jupiter aligns with Mars/Then you can...

'Skin' **1/2 There is a pivotal scene in "Skin," a truth-is-stranger-than-fiction story plucked out of South Africa's apartheid, when young Sandra Laing's father shouts the good news to the family...

'The House of the Devil' ***1/2 Those of us who spent many hours in the '70s and '80s watching satanic cultists at work and play in junk like "Race With...

Kicking off another typical seven-day workweek recently in the offices of his management company 19 Entertainment, Adam Lambert fixed his gaze on his own pretty face. Scattered across his publicist's...