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
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War)
Badu is back and still balancing the retro/progressive contradiction better than anyone.
Last Shadow Puppets, The
The Last Shadow Puppets to wspólny projekt Alexa Turnera i Milesa Kane?a....
L.Stadt
Łódzki kwartet powstały w Strasburgu z połączenia pasji z solidnym wykształceniem muzycznym, kultywujący wymierającą tradycję wydawania EP-ek i posiadający w swoim składzie dwóch perkusistów. Nic dziwnego, że nazywany jest nadzieją polskiej muzyki. ...
A Fine Frenzy
Alison nie od razu obiera kurs na muzyczną karierę. Dopiero jako siedemnastolatka, zainspirowana twórczością zespołów takich jak Coldplay i Keane, rozpoczyna naukę gry na fortepianie. Pierwsze piosenki układa, grając wyłącznie dwoma palcami....
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift of Screws
Artist: Lindsey Buckingham Review: On this album's opener, "Great Day," there's an electric-guitar solo so blowtorch-hot, it seems specifically designed to bitch-slap anyone with the nerve to wonder if Lindsey Buckingham still rocks. Buckingham's 2006 comeback, Under the Skin, was largely a reflective, parlor-room affair, full of self-doubt and dazzling acoustic playing, and here, the mood is still darkly introspective: "Suicide days, suicide, suicide nights/In the wheelchair almost blind," he sings on "Wait for You." But the... Rating: 3.5 Stars
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
Mars Volta, The
Na początku był zespół At the Drive-In. Młodzi muzycy z El Paso w Teksasie, zafascynowani dokonaniami Pink Floyd, Fugazi i The Smiths, na początku lat dziewięćdziesiątych rozpoczęli poszukiwania swojej własnej drogi....
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tounge
Artist: Jenny Lewis Review: This Rilo Kiley frontwoman is everything a mother could want in a daughter: She's bright, talented — and ready to slice 'n' dice anyone who's done Mom wrong. "In your honor, I'm going to cut that man in half," she wails in "Jack Killed Mom," an enigmatic domestic fable that segues from chugging rock to a revival-tent rave-up. Lewis is indie rock's most sharp-elbowed songwriter, a crafter of taut meditations on love, sex and politics that are full of violent emotions and, occasionally, plai... Rating: 4 Stars
3 Doors Down
3 Doors Down to kawałek dobrego progresywnego rocka. Zarówno przed laty, jak i teraz krótko po wydaniu czwartej płyty grupy zatytułowanej po prostu "3 Doors Down"....
The Replacements - Tim
Artist: The Replacements Review: Released in 1985, Tim caught a great American garage band stretching out, working Big Star pop and Fifties-style rock into a mix of punky abandon and regular-dude romanticism. This version — reissued along with three other 'Mats albums, none of which is quite as tuneful as Tim — brightens the sound and adds six bonus cuts, including a bare-bones version of "Here Comes a Regular," Paul Westerberg's moving acoustic ballad about directionless barflies. Rarely did Westerberg write so... Rating: 4 Stars
The Black Keys, Attack & Release
Attack & Release is a remarkably easy album to like.
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.
The Isley Brothers, 3 + 3 / Go For Your Guns
This 2 on 1 set is genius writ large.
Three 6 Mafia - Last 2 Walk
Artist: Three 6 Mafia Review: It's getting easier out there for a pimp. On their first album since they added an Oscar statuette to the gold-plated goblets in their trophy case, these Memphis rappers are in a triumphant mood. "I showed 'em, I showed 'em," bellow DJ Paul and Juicy J in "I Told 'Em." On Last 2 Walk, every track is compelling, with synthesized strings and the usual depth-sounder bass lines inflated with reverb into miniature symphonies. Recently, MCs Crunchy Black and Lord Infamous quit Three 6, leaving the... Rating: 3.5 Stars
T.I. - Paper Trail
Artist: T.I. Review: "Facing all kinda time/But smile like I'm fine," T.I. crows on "No Matter What." The Atlanta rapper recorded his sixth album while under house arrest for weapons possessions charges, and he faces a year-long prison sentence beginning in 2009. But as the plodding "existential" concept album T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007) showed, he is a far better braggart than brooder — smiling like he's fine is good for business. On Paper Trail, T.I. mostly dispenses with the Tupac-wannabe gangsta-confessor... Rating: 3 Stars
Winehouse Amy
"Czy Amy Winehouse doczeka kolejnego weekendu?", "Dajcie wódkę, to zaśpiewam!", "Amy paliła marihuanę przez 36 godzin! Non stop!", "Woskowy trup!"....
Roy Orbison - The Soul of Rock and Roll
Artist: Roy Orbison Review: Roy Orbison was a superhero of song. Unassuming in appearance, he became someone extraordinary when his weeping tenor took flight, rising from deep, dark places on anguished ballads like "Only the Lonely" and "Crying." Orbison rebuilt the stark balladry of Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" as a jukebox opera house, expanded rock's arrangement limitations, and opened a door to Phil Spector and Freddie Mercury alike. This 107-track box captures Orbison's Fifties rockabilly beginnings on its first... Rating: 5 Stars
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Artist: Elton John Review: Elton John was a lot of things — sideman, session man and flop, with a long tail of failed solo releases, including the 1969 LP Empty Sky — before 1970's Elton John made him an overnight star. He wasn't afraid to admit it. John packed a bonus scrapbook in the original lavish packaging of 1975's Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy with bad-hair photos, comic music-press ads ("You've been warned! Elton John is 1968's great new talent") and other ample proof of his time, with... Rating: 4.5 Stars
FlyKKiller
Świerk. Instytut Problemów Jądrowych. To tutaj w 2006 roku powstaje kolejny instytut ? FlyKKiller Research....
Seal - Soul
Artist: Seal Review: Amy Winehouse, what hath thou wrought? In the wake of the Great Beehived One's world-beating success, it seems everyone is getting in touch with his or her retro-soul muse. The latest bandwagon-jumper is Seal — who, with megaproducer David Foster playing the part of Mark Ronson, has delivered a collection of classic-soul covers, dripping with melodrama and tricked out with swooping symphonic orchestration. Seal is a fine singer, whose flavorful tenor combines the smoothness of old-school... Rating: 2.5 Stars