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.
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
Maanam
Pierwsza polska hippiska, pierwsza polska punkówa, poetka patronująca szkole budowlanej, w końcu wybitna wokalistka od ponad 30 lat trwale zrośnięta z legendarną grupą Maanam, Kora do dziś pozostaje niekwestionowaną królową polskiego rocka....
Duffy
Czy kobiety zdolne do wielkiego śpiewania rodziły się w latach 80. tylko w Wielkiej Brytanii? Takie wrażenie można odnieść po karierach Amy Winehouse, Amy MacDonald czy wreszcie Duffy....
Fela Kuti - Logos Baby
Artist: Fela Kuti Review: This set shows Afrobeat's chieftain before he became the most musically and politically radical musician in African history. Disc One, recorded shortly after Fela's college years in London, collects jazzy, percolating dance tunes that split the difference between Nigerian high-life lilt and the hotter sound of London calypso. The brassy ballroom jam "Bonfu (Short Skirt)," featuring Fela's early band Koola Lobitos, shows he was a skirt-chaser long before he married 27 women simultaneously. "Amaec... Rating: 3.5 Stars
James Hunter, The Hard Way
More blues, maybe? More twanging rock'n'roll, perchance?
John Matthias, Stories From The Watercooler
What Matthias conveys in electronically-tinged folk-rock feels more sad and reflective than seething or abstract.
Alex O'Neal, Alex Loves
One to avoid like a cold sore on Valentine?s Day.
Boyz II Men, Motown: A Journey Through Hitsville USA
Comparisons to the originals will always be made and are often less than complimentary.
Feist scoops up 1,2,3,4,5 Canadian music awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Feist dominated Canada's music
awards on Sunday, scooping up five Junos for a year in which
the singer-songwriter shot to international stardom when Apple
Inc. used her single "1234" in iPod TV ads.
The Pigeon Detectives, Emergency
One hit wonders this band ain?t.
An On Bast
Na świecie elektroniczna scena coraz bardziej się feminizuje, choć wśród tych naprawdę wyrazistych i znaczących postaci kobiece nazwiska są wciąż w mniejszości....
Coldplay, Viva La Vida Or Death & All His Friends
Any way you look at it, this is a massive album.
Pavement - Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition
Artist: Pavement Review: In 1997, these slacker romantics slowed things down and serenaded their fans, delivering an album short on noise and long on artfully dissonant ballads. Stephen Malkmus worked softy sentimentality even into his funniest lines, rhyming "quasar in the mist" with "kaiser has a cyst" ("Stereo"). With a second disc of bonus material — including classic B sides like the insanely catchy "Harness Your Hopes" and welcome ditties like "Destroy Mater Dei" — this reissue bonanza shows the Nineti... Rating: 4.5 Stars
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....
Genesis - Genesis: 1970-1975
Artist: Genesis Review: At first, Genesis were five English ex-boarding-school mates playing complex songs about hogweed and Greek myth. They slimmed that audacity into platinum pop as members left: guitarist Anthony Phillips (1970), singer Peter Gabriel (1975) and guitarist Steve Hackett (1977). But bassist Mike Rutherford, keyboardist Tony Banks and drummer Phil Collins were never as compelling later as they were in the band that made the five LPs in this box. The country-cathedral air of 1970's Trespass and the... Rating: 4.5 Stars
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
Górniak Edyta
O Edycie mówi się dużo. O Edycie mówi się różnie. Jedno jest pewne: bez niej polska scena rozrywkowa byłaby o wiele uboższa....
Adele
Młoda, zdolna i atrakcyjna, nie tylko muzycznie. O kim mowa? Nie o Amy Winehouse ani o Amy MacDonald, ale o Adele....
Lee Ann Womack - Call Me Crazy
Artist: Lee Ann Womack Review: Lee Ann Womack does low-key better than most of her country contemporaries. The gentle mien of Call Me Crazy suits her nuanced singing — the subtle swoops and honeyed drawls that build momentum without bothering to rock out. Lyrically, Womack mostly shuffles between sadness and devotion, mourning a dead marriage on "Either Way" and admitting she's smitten on "I Found It in You." But producer Tony Brown adds some soul to the hard-drinking ballad "Solitary Thinkin' " and builds an ambient... Rating: 3 Stars
Belle and Sebastian - The BBC Sessions
Artist: Belle and Sebastian Review: Fans of Belle and Sebastian's witty bookworm pop are an obsessive lot, and no doubt they'll snap up this cherry-picked collection of BBC recordings from 1996 to 2001. The draw for devotees is four rare songs from a 2001 session, including a hilarious fan letter to kindred indie-pop intellectuals the Go-Betweens ("Shoot the Sexual Athlete") and a kind of hushed farewell sung by Isobel Campbell, who left the group soon after ("Nothing in the Silence"). Otherwise, aside from a breezy glockenspiel... Rating: 3.5 Stars