Róisín Murphy
Kobieta o niebanalnej urodzie i niepokornej duszy artystki, pochodząca z małego miasteczka Arklow na wschodnim wybrzeżu Irlandii, w 1994 r. spotyka na imprezie o 13 lat starszego producenta i muzyka Marka Brydona, którego uwagę przyciąga, pytając:...
The Clash - Live at Shea Stadium
Artist: The Clash Review: In late 1982, the greatest punk band of all time was in the midst of a swift, sad decline: Though the Clash had just released their most commercially successful album, Combat Rock, they had also just booted longtime drummer and then-smack addict Topper Headon — a move that, according to late, great frontman Joe Strummer, sent the band "limping to its death." The f0llowing year would see the departure of singer-guitarist Mick Jones, and the classic Clash lineup would never cut another... Rating: 4 Stars
Parts and Labor - Receivers
Artist: Parts and Labor Review: The Facebook generation just got its own spectacularly overblown epic in the tradition of Pink Floyd's The Wall. Channeling the motorized grooves of Can and the industrial experiments of Throbbing Gristle, these Brooklynites deliver a chilling, post-apocalyptic concept album about failing to keep up with capitalism and technology. On the synth rocker "Nowheres Nigh," singer Dan Friel shouts, "Consumption is our plight/These wasteful Westerns of our time." And "Satellites" is a rush of electro... Rating: 3.5 Stars
Deadbeat
Scott Monteith aka Deadbeat do tej pory przekładał na swój muzyczny język wiele gatunków od techno przez idm, minimal po - mistrzowski w jego wykonaniu - dub....
Vandermark Ken
Ken Vandermark to absolutna ikona awangardy jazzu dnia dzisiejszego. Muzyk szalenie wielowymiarowy, a zarazem ze wszech miar oryginalny. Co nie mniej ważne - artysta aktywnie kreujący współczesną scenę. ...
Anthony Hamilton - The Point Of It All
Artist: Anthony Hamilton Review: Most of today's gold-plated R&B stars are ideally suited to economic boom times. Anthony Hamilton is a down-home sort: a man to help you muddle through a recession. "We don't have to worry 'bout no groceries/We can fill up on love alone," he sings on "Cool," from his sixth album. The least flashy of the neosoul singers that emerged in the Nineties, Hamilton still has a Seventies jones (check out the Curtis Mayfield impersonation in "The News"). But his real calling card is solace, emotional and... Rating: 3 Stars
Juana Molina - Un Dia
Artist: Juana Molina Review: Imagine if Tina Fey quit comedy and sang electronics-based folk songs. That's the path Juana Molina took more than 10 years ago in her native Argentina, leaving her job as a TV comedian to pursue experimental folk. Her fifth disc is her most adventurous, combining avant-garde vocals with the atmospherics of Portishead and My Bloody Valentine. With looped guitar, hypnotic percussion and a bit of feedback, the title track sounds like two songs playing at once. The centerpiece is a trio that includ... Rating: 4 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
Hot Club De Paris, Live At Deadlake
Liverpool trio Hot Club de Paris' second album trails adolescent awkwardness.
Various Artists - Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia
Artist: Various Artists Review: Founded in 1971 by local R & B writer-producers Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff, Philadelphia International Records was designed to be a hit factory — a Motown with East Coast swagger, a Stax with silken swing — and this four-CD history tells the tale as they intended. Opening with a smash — the Soul Survivors' "Expressway (To Your Heart)," a 1967 blast of psychedelic funk from Gamble and Huff's freelance years — Love Train keeps on giving with dozens of top R&B and pop... Rating: 4.5 Stars
Tapes 'n Tapes, Walk It Off
Walk It Off? More like sleep it off...
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
Travis
Kto wcześniej nie słyszał o tym zespole, powinien szybko nadrobić zaległości....
Beck
Krytycy długo uważali, że Beck jest tylko człowiekiem jednego przeboju i zniknie ze sceny tak szybko, jak się na niej pojawił....
Alabama 3, Hits And Exit Wounds
A deadpan and brilliantly realised summary of that rare thing: a unique band.
The Notwist, Devil, You & Me
A masterpiece of electronic songcraft.
Duffy, Rockferry
After three years of musical growth, Duffy has found her voice - now it?s time to enrich it by living.
Dąbrowska Ania
Wierna w muzyce latom 60. i 70., choć nadal dążąca do artystycznego rozwoju i uciekająca przed jednoznaczną etykietką. Każda z trzech jej płyt pokazała Anię jako wrażliwą i bystrą obserwatorkę ludzkich zachowań....
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....
Katy Perry - One Of The Boys
Artist: Katy Perry Review: "I hope you hang yourself with your H&M scarf/While jacking off listening to Mozart," Katy Perry tells her metrosexual ex on "Ur So Gay." Risqué words, coming from the daughter of two Christian pastors who only let her listen to gospel tunes as a kid. Now 23, the L.A. singer bucks the WWJD'ers with a debut full of mall-punky, grrrl-power tunes produced by Glen Ballard (Alanis Morissette) and Dr. Luke (Avril Lavigne). But her attention-grabbing doesn't feel very rebellious: On the New Wave-y club... Rating: 2 Stars
Rodney Crowell - Sex & Gasoline
Artist: Rodney Crowell Review: Ever since 2001's The Houston Kid, country singer Rodney Crowell has been coming to terms with his private life in his music. The largely acoustic Sex & Gasoline is his meditation on femininity — not just a celebration of women, but a real attempt at empathy. In the midtempo shuffle "The Rise and Fall of Intelligent Design," he imagines what it feels like to be female. Over the fingerpicked folk of "Moving Work of Art," he reveals his own tendency to objectify women. And in "I've Done... Rating: 3.5 Stars