Beck, Odelay - Deluxe Edition
If you think you knew him before, just wait 'til you meet him all over again...
Elbow, Seldom Seen Kid
For the most part it's brilliant business as usual.
Jesse Malin, On Your Sleeve
While On Your Sleeve is obviously a labour of love, on the whole it's simply just laboured.
FlyKKiller
Świerk. Instytut Problemów Jądrowych. To tutaj w 2006 roku powstaje kolejny instytut ? FlyKKiller Research....
Jonas Brothers - A Little Bit Longer
Artist: Jonas Brothers Review: History teaches us not to dismiss kiddie pop. Stevie Wonder was once Little Stevie Wonder, just as Lil Wayne was once little Lil Wayne, child gangsta rapper. And let's not forget ex-Mouseketeers Britney and Justin. Purists disdain teenybopper music as cynical pap, foisted on the young by Svengalis who lurk in the shadows, counting money. But bubblegum can be a great farm system, honing skills that pay dividends in later life. Lately, Disney's kiddie pop has been plenty profitable, with High... Rating: 4 Stars
White Denim, Workout Holiday
On this evidence alone, all signs point to a bright future.
Shwayze - Shwayze
Artist: Shwayze Review: Cisco Adler, leader of Los Angeles sleaze rockers Whitestarr, is famous for his well-connected dad (producer Lou Adler), ex-girlfriends (like Mischa Barton) and his ballsy nude photo, which leaked online last year. His newest hobby is producing tracks (and an MTV reality show) for 22-year-old Malibu chill-hop rapper Shwayze, whose breezy flow is a hybrid of Young MC and Digable Planets' Butterfly. Adler's no beat master, and the tracks on Shwayze all sound like variations on thumb-strummed Jack... Rating: 2.5 Stars
Anti-Flag - The Bright Lights Of America
Artist: Anti-Flag Review: Pittsburgh punks Anti-Flag have long proclaimed their leftist outrage on their albums, and they act on their convictions too: The band's press bio lists ten different organizations its members have worked with, from Amnesty International to PETA. Unfortunately, The Bright Lights of America, Anti-Flag's second major-label album and eighth overall, proves for the billionth time that good intentions don't always make good music. With producer Tony Visconti (David Bowie) giving the songs cla... Rating: 2.5 Stars
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
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
Metallica - Death Magnetic
Artist: Metallica Review: In the eighties, thrash metal wasn't a scene, it was an arms race: riffs kept speeding up, drum kits got bigger. But with 1991's Black Album, Metallica opted for unilateral disarmament, slowing their tempos, shortening their songs and smelting their chugging guitars and piston-powered drums into armor-plated pop hooks. After that, the band rushed from one reinvention to another, starting with the Southern-rock infusion of 1996's Load and culminating in the muddled, bizarrely produced group-ther... Rating: 4 Stars
Lady Pank
Debiutancka płyta "Lady Pank", wydana w 1983 przez Tonpress, zrobiła w kraju furorę. Zespół dał w tym roku 360 koncertów, nieraz występując dwa, a nawet trzy razy dziennie....
Powderfinger - Dream Days At The Hotel Existence
Artist: Powderfinger Review: "I was bored listening to the same chords," Powderfinger's Bernard Fanning sings in "Lost and Running." He doesn't mean it. The Australian band, together since the mid-Nineties, spiritually hails from an older intersection: mid-Eighties U2 and (no shock, given Powderfinger's name) the fuzz-toned Seventies of Neil Young's Crazy Horse. The best songs here do not stray far. Dirty-guitar shriek and burnt jangle fortify Fanning's earnest romanticism in "Head Up in the Clouds" and "Long Way to Go."... Rating: 3 Stars
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....
AC/DC
Ci pionierzy hard rocka, grając od ponad 30 lat oparte na bliźniaczo podobnych do siebie riffach piosenki o seksie i potędze rock?n?rolla, ciągle pozostają jednym z najlepiej sprzedających się gitarowych zespołów świata....
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....
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.
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
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
Linkin Park snags Cornell, Bravery for tour (Reuters)
Reuters - Linkin Park, Chris Cornell and
the Bravery will perform on the main stage of the fifth annual
Projekt Revolution tour, set to begin July 16 at the Tweeter
Center outside Boston.
Beck
Krytycy długo uważali, że Beck jest tylko człowiekiem jednego przeboju i zniknie ze sceny tak szybko, jak się na niej pojawił....