Feeder, Silent Cry
Feeder have definitely found and settled into their niche sound, though there are some fresh ideas on Silent Cry.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos Factory
Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival Review: Hailing from El Cerrito, California, Creedence Clearwater Revival should've logically been another hippie collective waving flowers in neighboring San Francisco. As these 40th-anniversary editions suggest, leader John Fogerty instead invented an alternate identity for his band based on its otherwise unremarkable 1968 debut album's rumbling reinvention of a rock oldie. His singing voice swollen with the exaggerated vowels and slurred consonants of shouting Southern bluesmen, Fogerty discovered... Rating: 4.5 Stars
BB King, Live At The BBC
Neither ropey nor exceptional, this collection inhabits the sturdy middle ground between these extremes.
Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
Artist: Motley Crue Review: All the filth and fury of their Eighties heyday, finally funneled into an album Mötley Cüe have created a cottage industry out of rehashing their excesses: Their tales of debauchery have already fueled dozens of books and a standard-bearing episode of Behind the Music. Now they've woven those stories into their first album in eight years. Inspired by their 2001 sleazeography, The Dirt, Saints of Los Angeles finds Vince Neil flashing back to the band's golden age: gigging on the... Rating: 3 Stars
Fischerspooner
Fischerspooner znaczy więcej niż zespół muzyczny. To wielka trupa artystyczna, w której występy każdorazowo zaangażowanych jest kilkanaście/kilkadziesiąt osób....
Fleet Foxes
Dziennikarze prześcigają się w pochwałach, twierdząc, że Fleet Foxes to zagubione ogniwo pomiędzy Beach Boys, Animal Collective i Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young....
Maleńczuk Maciej
Niepokończone szkoły, niepozaczynane zawody, pobyt w więzieniu, granie na ulicach, przygody z narkotykami i parę kultowych płyt w dorobku to tylko kilka z punktów rock?n?rollowego CV Macieja Maleńczuka....
Biffy Clyro, Singles 2001-5
Looking back with tracks like these is a hugely enjoyable process.
Various Artists - Nobody Knows Anything - DFA presents Supersoul Recordings
Artist: Various Artists Review: Having built the most reliable brand in freakably fusion-minded dance music with artists like LCD Soundsystem and the Rapture, DFA Records has decided to globalize. The debut release on its international Death From Abroad imprint collects tracks from Supersoul, a two-year-old Berlin label whose bastardized beats flaunt the same formal disregard that makes DFA so great. Because the material is from a German operation, there are minimalist 4/4 techno rhythms (Mogg and Naudascher's "Moon Unit Pt.... Rating: 3 Stars
The Verve - Forth
Artist: The Verve Review: Two of the best psychedelic rock shows I've ever seen were by this British band, in London and New York, in the summer of 1993, and most of the Verve's fourth record — their first after a decade apart — is a return to that whirlpool-guitar, shaman-song form. "Sit and Wonder" is what they meant by their 1993 album title A Storm in Heaven: the trancelike gallop of bassist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury; guitarist Nick McCabe's creamy distortion and ascending rings of tremolo... Rating: 4 Stars
James Taylor - Covors
Artist: James Taylor Review: On hits like "Handy Man," "Up on the Roof" and "How Sweet It Is (to be Loved by You)," James Taylor's way of interpreting other songwriters' hits has been to turn them into James Taylor songs. His honeyed drawl is supple enough to accommodate R&B and country standards, sweetening the savory tang of their rural sources. That approach guides Covers, where Taylor assays the likes of the Drifters' "On Broadway," Buddy Holly's "Not Fade Away" and Leonard Cohen's "Suzanne." He softens the arrangements... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Kylie Minogue - X
Artist: Kylie Minogue Review: Kylie Minogue has never commanded the zeitgeist like Madonna or stalked a stage with the queenly cool of Beyoncé or hurtled across octaves like Mariah. But in a two-decade career, the pint-size Aussie has ruled the British and European charts by supplying nonstop fizzy fun — she's pop divadom's party planner in chief. Minogue's tenth album arrives on the heels of her battle with breast cancer; thankfully, the experience hasn't made her music discernibly deeper. X compiles... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Colombian rocker Juanes helps land-mine victims (Reuters)
Reuters - When Colombian rocker Juanes wrote the
track "Fijate Bien" in 1999, he spoke about the dangers of land
mines as a metaphor for life.
Weezer, The Red Album
The Red Album is quintessentially theirs, but with a somewhat misguided twist
De La Soul
Niedawno świętowali dwudziestolecie działalności muzycznej. Mają na koncie siedem świetnych albumów studyjnych, ogromny komercyjny sukces oraz status żywej legendy....
Martina Topley-Bird
W połowie lat 90. jej hipnotyzujący, unikatowy głos za sprawą płyt Tricky'ego znali wszyscy fani trip-hopu. Dziś Martina Topley-Bird to w pełni samodzielna artystka, realizująca własną wizję muzyki. ...
Big Blue Ball (Peter Gabriel) - Big Blue Ball
Artist: Big Blue Ball (Peter Gabriel) Review: Gabriel fans hoping for a follow-up to 2002's Up will have to keep waiting. Big Blue Ball is neither new nor is it strictly Gabriel, although the pioneering art rocker's aesthetic stamp (and, on four songs, his voice) is all over this global-music mosaic. In the early Nineties, Gabriel staged a series of jam sessions at his Real World Studios in the English countryside, where musicians ranging from Sinéad O'Connor to Living Colour guitarist Vernon Reid to soukous legend Papa Wemba sang or played... Rating: 3 Stars
Kasprzycki Robert
W panteonie krakowskich poetów śpiewających tradycyjnie umiejscawiany jest gdzieś między Grzegorzem Turnauem a Maciejem Maleńczukiem....
Foals - Antidotes
Artist: Foals Review: For their adventurous debut, this Oxford quintet recorded with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek; the schizophrenic result is both twenty-first-century Brit pop (see Bloc Party) and nuevo New York art rock (see Battles). On "Electric Bloom," the combination is magic: Interlocking guitars and glints of electro-metallic percussion swarm around intimations of disaster, with maybe the most compelling enunciation of the word "hospital" since the first Modern Lovers LP. Later, a metronomic guitar... Rating: 3.5 Stars
The Sugars, The Curse Of The Sugars
The Leeds trio prove themselves well worthy of the buzz that's been surrounding them.
Living Colour
Czwórka czarnoskórych Amerykanów nigdy nie okupowała pierwszych miejsc list przebojów. Nie sprzedali porażającej liczby albumów. Mimo to są grupą kultową, mają sporą grupę oddanych fanów....