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
Nizlopi, Make It Happen
Those who were turned off by the commercial success of The JCB Song may want to give Nizlopi another go.
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Willy and the Poor Boys
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 Stars
Razorlight
Pierwsza zasada PR mówi: nieważne, co mówią, ważne, by w ogóle mówili. Tej lekcji wokalista kwartetu Razorlight Johnny Borrell wysłuchał z aż nazbyt należytą uwagą. ...
Black Kids, Partie Traumatic
Great; but only if you're too young to have heard it all before.
A.C. Newman - Get Guilty
Artist: A.C. Newman Review: Between his solo output and his work with the New Pornographers, Carl Newman has turned out five records in six years — pretty prolific for a guy who seems to spend loads of time crafting his songs. Newman's second solo album shuffles between power pop and mild psychedelia while tossing in horns and coed harmonies. Get Guilty isn't quite as consistent as a typical Pornographers record, but the arrangements are lusher. And like all Newman records, it shows off his smarts and maintains a... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Paddy Casey - Addicted To Company (Part 1)
Artist: Paddy Casey Review: This Irishman first tapped a nerve overseas with raw folk songs fleshed out with electronics, yet it was his blue-eyed soul and acoustic pop that catapulted him to Irish royalty. Here, he continues to transform from New Dylan to New Elton, crafting folk pop with Seventies flourishes. But the syrupy strings and faux-soulful backup vocals can?t cover for overly serious folk-singer lines like ?I am part of a time that is no more/?Cept in my heart and in my dreams.? Rating: 2.5 Stars
Hercules And Love Affair
Kiedy Andy szukał nazwy dla własnego zespołu, w ręce wpadła mu mitologia grecka. Szczególnie spodobała mu się postać heroicznego Herkulesa. Odnalazł w niej analogię do ukochanej muzyki....
Anya Marina - Slow & Steady Seduction: Phase II
Artist: Anya Marina Review: Anya Marina's childlike voice doesn't jibe with her randy album title. But that doesn't stop the San Diego singer from growling come-ons on "Afterparty at Jimmy's" ("You got soul onstage, boy/How about soul in the sack?") or purring like Jessica Rabbit on the cabaret-style "All the Same to Me." She dials it back on "Vertigo," a sweet ode to a dizzying dude. With blippy drum loops, it sounds like a play date with a Casio — proof that Marina still has G-rated fun. Rating: 3 Stars
Herbaliser, The
Twórczość Herbalisera pokazuje, jak elastyczna może być hiphopowa formuła. Dokonania londyńskiego duetu niewiele mają wspólnego z kojarzonymi z tym gatunkiem stereotypami....
Roy Orbison - The Soul of Rock & 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
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
Płyny
Warszawski zespół Płyny został utworzony latem 2004 roku z inicjatywy Igora Spolskiego - tudzież Igora Spolski - (gitara, wokal) i Szymona Tarkowskiego (bas, wokal). Muzycy poznali się dużo wcześniej w teatrze Stara ProchOFFnia....
Various Artists, Every Mouth Must Be Fed
A rewarding collection of foundational roots, pitch-perfect in mood for its summer release.
Madonna
Przeciętna wokalistka, niezbyt utalentowana aktorka, niczym niezachwycająca tancerka. A mimo to na jej koncertach długo nie milkną owacje ryczącej z zachwytu publiki....
White Denim, Workout Holiday
On this evidence alone, all signs point to a bright future.
Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Artist: Van Morrison Review: By 1974, Van Morrison was probably exhausted. During the past ten years, the Irish troubadour had morphed from a garage rock king (as the leader of Them) to a pop hit machine to the craftsman of such landmark albums as Astral Weeks and Tupelo Honey. His eighth album, Veedon Fleece, hit stores in late 1974, shortly after the release of those instantly accessible masterpieces — and it was greeted by a collective shrug by the rock critical establishment. Time has proven them wrong. The album... Rating: 4 Stars
Jacaszek
Zajęcie się muzyką stanowiło w jego życiu nagły zwrot - od dzieciństwa kierował się w stronę plastycznych działań, czego zwieńczeniem było ukończenie studiów na Wydziale Konserwacji Zabytków Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu....
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
Artist: Gnarls Barkley Review: When Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo strike a pose together as Gnarls Barkley, they'll dress up as anything from Star Wars characters to the Dude and Walter from The Big Lebowski. But their greatest costume concept has to be Hunter S. Thompson and his attorney, because that captures the fear and loathing in their music. "Crazy" seemed jovial on the surface, which is why it became the world's favorite song in 2006. But the longer you listened, the creepier it felt — especially Cee-Lo's cackle... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Nickelback - Dark Horse
Artist: Nickelback Review: What's a poor rock band to do when your last album sold 8 million copies at a time when nobody buys CDs anymore? You can hire a guy who produced AC/DC, Def Leppard and Shania Twain albums that sold even more. On Dark Horse, "Mutt" Lange lightens Nickelback's dreary post-grunge plod, applying guitar shimmer to prom ballads and detonating big beats under frat-party shouts and raplike vocal parts. Lyrics revel in dorkitude, hair-metal style: "No class/No taste/No shirt/'N shitfaced." The two... Rating: 3.5 Stars