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Hideaway
Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:25:41
Two years after their first full-length album, Say I Am You, hit airwaves, folk-pop darlings The Weepies return with their sublime follow-up, Hideaway. Born of the exhaustion that follows a major promotional tour, Hideaway is 14 tracks of supposedly "darker" material. The now-married husband and ... more
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Alopecia
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:37:03
Bay Area's Why? is billed as an "indie-rock hip-hop" act, and as dumb as that sounds, that's actually a great way to describe them. Alopecia is their third proper release and drifts much more towards the indie rock (thankfully), than hip-hoppery. It's also much more accessible than 2005's Elephant ...more
Moment of Forever
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 07:30:14
On his previous release, Willie Nelson collaborated with alt-country crooner Ryan Adams, but he takes a decidedly more traditional country approach with his new Moment of Forever, enlisting the producing services of Kenny Chesney. As per usual, Nelson writes only a fraction of the songs that appear ...more
8 Diagrams
Tue, 18 Dec 2007 07:39:08
Drama hung heavily over the heads of Wu-Tang Clan as the iconic hip-hop collective prepared to end a six-year studio silence with 8 Diagrams—their first group outing since the death of charismatic oddball Ol' Dirty Bastard. Clan members took potshots at each other in the press (with ...more
It's been a decade and several albums since Wyclef's first solo effort, The Carnival, but these days, it's never too late for a sequel. As on the original, Wyclef's varied musical influences are readily apparent on Carnival Volume II: Memoirs of an Immigrant, but he manages to apply them wisely and ...more
Heavy Deavy Skull Lover
Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:17:02
There are certain genres that don't change. They're happy right where they
are. Pigeonholed is as pigeonholed does. Among these musical staples are the
rotating faces of bubblegum tween-pop, mariachi bands and psychedelic stoner
rock—and Los Angeles' The Warlocks are the latter genre's ...more
La Cucaracha
Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:23:53
Perhaps the eleventh full-length album from Gene and Dean Ween, their first in four years, is called La Cucaracha ("the cockroach," in Spanish) to reflect the band's surprising longevity. It's astonishing that any group can spend 23 years getting to do exactly what they want to, and while Ween's ...more
Songs About Girls
Fri, 12 Oct 2007 18:08:09
The brain behind the Black Eyed Peas, as well as Fergie's solo album, has finally gotten down to the business of releasing his own record—and he seems to have been watching Xanadu. It's not just that ELO's "It's Over" is heavily sampled on the opening track, "Over," which also credits Jeff ...more
Icky Thump
Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:03:53
They're now filling arenas and getting played on rock radio alongside Green Day and Linkin Park, but the White Stripes remain one of the most willfully eccentric and inscrutable acts in American rock music. On their sixth studio album, Icky Thump, Jack and Meg White continue to sound like happy ...more
Sky Blue Sky
Fri, 11 May 2007 12:44:47
After the success of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and A Ghost Is Born, Wilco found themselves oddly pegged as experimental rock trail blazers. On their sixth studio album, Jeff Tweedy and his ever-shuffling lineup embrace their traditionalist alt-country and heartland rock roots to an almost defiant ...more
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