Death Cab For Cutie thrives in major leagues (Reuters)
Reuters - Death Cab for Cutie does not make overwhelming records.
The Futureheads, This Is Not The World
This Is Not the World will no doubt satisfy notoriously hardline Futureheads fans, but may struggle to recruit more.
Lou Reed - Berlin: Live at St. Ann's Warehouse
Artist: Lou Reed Review: Upon the 1973 release of Berlin, a Rolling Stone critic deemed the record "patently offensive." Thirty years later, Lou Reed's concept album about speed freaks on a downward spiral of infidelity, spousal abuse, parental neglect and death ranked 344 on this magazine's 500 all-time-greatest-albums list. Reed has always fed upon this kind of irony, and in 2006 he staged a concert adaptation of his rock musical in Brooklyn. (Painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel shot the performances.) Where Reed once... Rating: 4 Stars
Kayah
Zanim wydała debiutancką płytę, musiała przejść długą drogę artysty drugoplanowego. Dziś zajmuje niekwestionowane, czołowe miejsce gwiazdy pop na polskiej estradzie muzycznej....
Mattafix, Rhythm & Hymns
This has its share of pop hooks, but attempts to square this with Mattafix's world music sympathies don?t always come off.
Marika
Choć ukazująca się właśnie płyta "Plenty" jest fonograficznym debiutem Mariki jako solistki, wokalistka aktywnie działa na polskim rynku już od kilku lat. ...
Sigur Rós
O muzyce Sigur Rós mówi się, iż jak mało która na świecie elementami niezwykłości i cudowności przyciąga wielkie zastępy śmiertelników....
Weezer, The Red Album
The Red Album is quintessentially theirs, but with a somewhat misguided twist
Nelly - Brass Knuckles
Artist: Nelly Review: Combining Will Smith's friendliness with St. Louis slang and a down-home drawl, Nelly has mastered his own brand of crossover appeal. On his fifth album, he mostly sticks to that pop-rap formula, cranking his distinctly melodic flow to hyper-speeds and playing the good-natured hedonist on cuts like "Party People." But when he tries to come off hard on a handful of Dirty South brawlers, he ends up sounding generic: "U Ain't Him" finds him rhyming about gunplay and warning no one in particular abo... Rating: 3 Stars
Black Kids, Partie Traumatic
Great; but only if you're too young to have heard it all before.
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - CSNY/Deja Vu Live
Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young Review: The highlight of this soundtrack to CSNY: Déjà Vu, Neil Young's film about the group's 2006 Freedom of Speech Tour, comes after Young sings "Let's Impeach the President" to an Atlanta audience that suddenly divides like Congress, equally booing and cheering. The performance proves that material from Young's Living With War, an indictment of the Bush regime, wasn't just aimed at the converted. Young's songs are the true rocket-launchers on Déjà Vu Live. His squiggly guitar blasts also act as the... Rating: 3 Stars
Kowalska Kasia
Wielokrotnie nagradzana wokalistka i autorka tekstów - kobieca twarz polskiego, melodyjnego rocka lat 90....
Tom Baxter, Skybound
You could do far, far worse than this generally lovely album.
Czesław Śpiewa
Pierwszy singiel i od razu pierwsze miejsce Listy Przebojów Programu Trzeciego. Z takim "Debiutem" można tylko prosić o więcej. ...
U2 - War
Artist: U2 Review: From the beginning, U2 aspired to profound ecstasy. But it took Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. a while to get there. Two of U2's first three albums are undeniable classics: 1980's precociously magnificent Boy for its proudly spiritual optimism in the thick of post-punk nihilism and for the Edge's reveille-treble guitar; 1983's War for its arena-rock muscle tone (honed over three years of touring) and the matured blend of soldier's ardor and pop wile in the singles "Sunday... Rating: 4.5 Stars
Spiritualized, Songs In A & E
Now, more than ever, Spiritualized are less about the trip into the outer limits and more about the frailty of love and mystery of individual existence.
Last Shadow Puppets, Age Of The Understatement
Turner and Kane shake off all those blatant copyists and stay at least three steps ahead of any competition. Wonderful?
Marc Broussard - Keep Coming Back
Artist: Marc Broussard Review: Marc Broussard's early albums established him as the heir to Texas white-soul icon Delbert McClinton. But Keep Coming Back shows the 26-year-old Louisiana singer coming into his own. His coarse baritone fires up the Seventies-style funk of "Power's in the People," the disco-fied anthem "Man for Life" and the warm, strings-drenched piano ballad "Evil Things." He lapses into pedestrian pop-soul-disco on the ponderous "Another Night Alone," but he makes up for it on "When It's Good," a brawny... Rating: 3 Stars
Leslie Feist sweeps Canada music awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist swept the Junos, Canada's music awards, walking away with five trophies during the weekend.
Bushman, Get It In Your Mind
Get It In Your Mind is Bushman's strongest album for a while.
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
Artist: Black Kids Review: It's true: Black Kids know how to get down. The interracial crew's "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How to Dance With You" was last year's hottest indie-rock tail-wagger — a campy mix of pillow-fight synth-pop and B-52s giddiness. Rerecorded versions of "Boyfriend" and other songs from the band's 2007 EP, Wizard of Ahhhs, make up the best moments of their sugary debut LP — which is a tad worrying. But with Brit-pop vet Bernard Butler behind the decks, these Floridians still toss... Rating: 3.5 Stars