Tapes 'n Tapes - Walk It Off
Artist: Tapes 'n Tapes Review: It may strut its funky virtuosity like Prince, threaten to collapse in a drunken heap like the Replacements or rage like Hüsker Dü, but Minneapolis rock is always tuneful — an important comfort to folks freezing their nuts off most of the year. On the follow-up to their 2006 debut, The Loon, Minnesota's Tapes 'n Tapes hew to tradition, conjuring the Hüskers on "Le Ruse," a tirade on betrayal, with guitars and cymbals swarming like late-summer mosquitoes. Flaming Lips producer... Rating: 3 Stars
Alabama 3, Hits And Exit Wounds
A deadpan and brilliantly realised summary of that rare thing: a unique band.
Domu Presents Pete Simpson, Look A Little Further
The ethic here is to retain a sense of realness, both vocally and instrumentally.
Johnny Cash - At Folsom Prison: Legacy Edition
Artist: Johnny Cash Review: After years of dwindling sales, Johnny Cash walked into California's Folsom Prison on January 13th, 1968, and reinvigorated his career: At Folsom Prison, the live album he cut that day, went platinum and shored up Cash's outlaw image with jailbird anthems that vividly evoked prison life with a country-folk sound that became roughly as enduring as the Bible. This two-CD, one-DVD reissue includes the set that followed the original recording, plus songs from openers Carl Perkins and the Statler... Rating: 4 Stars
Coma
Łódzka formacja rockowa, która przez pierwsze pięć lat istnienia, bez kontraktu z wytwórnią, gromadziła na koncertach 1,5 tysiąca fanów....
Otis Redding - Live in London & Paris
Artist: Otis Redding Review: Otis Redding didn't simply "play concerts." The soul giant was a human Mount Vesuvius: He erupted. Redding was at the height of his fame in March 1967, when he played these two brief shows in London and Paris. (He would die in a plane crash in December that year.) And the audience's reaction is ecstatic — it's a fair bet that few of these Europeans had ever witnessed a spectacle quite like Redding and the all-star Stax house band, Booker T. and the MG's and the Mar-Key horns, tearing into... Rating: 4 Stars
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection (Deluxe Edition)
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
Counting Crows, Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
One listen to this album shows you, once again, how damned efficient they are at summoning up the spirit of an age that cared more about music than image.
Sigur Rós
O muzyce Sigur Rós mówi się, iż jak mało która na świecie elementami niezwykłości i cudowności przyciąga wielkie zastępy śmiertelników....
Fall Out Boy - Folie a Deux
Artist: Fall Out Boy Review: Fall out Boy have become the kings of emo — without actually showing much emotion. Sure, they make all the signature emo moves: Singer Patrick Stump bellows cries of hurt, catalogs of grievances and confessions of inadequacy over guitars that hurtle toward big choruses. The group's fourth album, Folie à Deux, begins in high-angst mode, with him crooning "I'm coming apart at the seams" over a funereal organ. But behind the melodrama there is a smirk. In the galloping "Disloyal Order... Rating: 3.5 Stars
The Roots
Słyną z używania w swoich produkcjach żywych instrumentów, mieszania rapu z funkiem, soulem i rockiem oraz z niesamowitej energii koncertowej....
Cure, The
Trzydzieści lat minęło jak jeden dzień. Dawniej jedni z prekursorów zimnej fali, dziś żywa legenda stanowiąca inspirację dla niezliczonej ilości artystów....
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Friends, Solos Sessions & Encores
Solos Sessions and Encores gives us a perfect opportunity to reappraise the blistering talent of Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
Artist: Tokyo Police Club Review: Many songs on this spiky Canadian quartet?s full-length debut are best appreciated with a Webster?s Unabridged Dictionary close at hand — especially with lines like ?Dead lovers salivate/Broken hearts tessellate.? Tokyo Police Club?s 2006 EP, A Lesson in Crime, earned them copious blog love and frequent comparisons to the Strokes, but Elephant Shell makes clear that the band?s ambitions are as much literary as musical. Singer-bassist David Monks? words pour out in clotted couplets... Rating: 3 Stars
Bareilles Sara
Pisze piosenki, odkąd pamięta. Muzyka to dla niej świętość. Gra na wypożyczonym fortepianie. Podziwia Counting Crows i Radiohead. "Little Voice" to jej pierwsza płyta dla dużej wytwórni. Sara Bareilles ? specjalistka od love songs....
Wilson Cassandra
Cassandra Wilson to wyśmienita wokalistka, która nie rozmieniła swojego talentu na drobne, mimo że eklektyczne podejście do muzyki często wodzi artystów na ?komercyjne pokuszenie?....
The Long Blondes, Couples
The band's second album is not as brilliant as you might hope...
Snow Patrol
Mimo zmian obowiązujących trendów zespół konsekwentnie podąża obraną na początku kariery drogą, proponując niezobowiązujące, przebojowe kompozycje, którym zwykle bliżej jednak do popu niż rock'n'rolla....
Woods
Czy w 2005 r. jest jeszcze ktoś, kto wydaje album na kasecie?...
Grzegorz Ciechowski
Muzycznie debiutował w tczewskiej grupie Nocny Pociąg. Również jako flecista występował w 1976 r. w zespole Jazz Formation. Grał także w duecie Łapka Misia i Res Publika....
Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too
Artist: Martha Wainwright Review: Part of Martha Wainwright's charm lies in her Tourette's-like impulse to overshare: Check out her 2005 ode to her singer-songwriter dad, Loudon, lovingly titled "Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole." Her folky second album mostly spares family members, but old boyfriends aren't so lucky. On the dusty-road rocker "Comin' Tonight," she seeks revenge on a musician/ex-lover: "I could steal a melody. . . . 'Cause you would never sue me, baby/It wouldn't look good." Wainwright's relentless self-analysis and... Rating: 4 Stars