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This week's seminars
Tuesday November 10 at 15.00, Joachim Voth, Pompeu Fabra, will present "How the West ’Invented’ Fertility Restriction" and on Thursday November 12 at 15.00, Olle Folke, IIES will present "Shades of Brown and Green: Party Effects in Proportional Election Systems" Seminar Schedule
We Are Separated
He Is the Only Way to God
Have you ever wanted to learn about classical music without first having to absorb all the theory or wade through lots of tedious music? Well, your most effective introduction to classical music may be the intensely passionate and highly tuneful music of Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky. AMG's Blair Sanderson explains why this great Russian composer might be your ideal guide. 
Finding out that the release of the Brunettes new album Paper Dolls is somewhat imminent was enough to cheer us up on a cloudy, slightly manic Tuesday. Looks like it comes out in February of next year, which will be here before you know it once we get the holidays out of the way. Even better is the news that the first song from the album has seen the light of day and it's a stunner. Built on funky dance floor beats, glitter-dusted keyboards and slaphappy bass, "Red Rollerskates" is reliably witty, cute and fun. It's also surprisingly disco-fied, especially Heather's shimmery vocals. If this is what the rest of the album sounds like, I'm stoked! The video is charmingly homemade and fun too. Just like their videos always are.... 
A reader asked in the comments section of AllMusic Loves 2004, our previous feature listing our editors' favorite releases from a given year, "What next? AllMusic Loves 2005!?!?" Yes, exactly. As we said when we looked back at 2000, we are covering each year of the decade until we reach the end. Having passed the midpoint, we grapple with a year highlighted album-wise by the apex of record-collector rock (LCD Soundsystem's LCD Soundsystem), thrilling tongue-in-cheek meta-punk (Art Brut's Bang Bang Rock & Roll), and politicized electro-rooted trunk rattlers (M.I.A.'s Arular). Just as significantly, 2005 featured one of the decade's oddest smashes in Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl" and, in Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone," a good old-fashioned anthem. In the case of the latter, guilt lies only in the souls of those who think of it as a mere guilty pleasure. 
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