Sun Kil Moon - April
Artist: Sun Kil Moon Review: Sun Kil Moon?s Mark Kozelek is not a man to be rushed. April, like many of his solo albums, is full of sad, quiet songs that move as slowly as molasses in outer space. The pace can be a problem, but the music is long on understated beauty: ?Harper Road? sets Kozelek?s stoned croon over mellow guitar-picking, evoking a hazier version of Neil Young?s After the Gold Rush. Still, with electric rave-downs such as ?The Light,? it?s clear the best moments come when this sensitive dude plugs in. Rating: 3 Stars
Weezer, The Red Album
The Red Album is quintessentially theirs, but with a somewhat misguided twist
The Courteeners, St Jude
A northern band with a lead singer who has an outspoken opinion?
Spiritualized, Songs In A & E
Now, more than ever, Spiritualized are less about the trip into the outer limits and more about the frailty of love and mystery of individual existence.
Fleet Foxes
Dziennikarze prześcigają się w pochwałach, twierdząc, że Fleet Foxes to zagubione ogniwo pomiędzy Beach Boys, Animal Collective i Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young....
T.I. - Paper Trail
Artist: T.I. Review: "Facing all kinda time/But smile like I'm fine," T.I. crows on "No Matter What." The Atlanta rapper recorded his sixth album while under house arrest for weapons possessions charges, and he faces a year-long prison sentence beginning in 2009. But as the plodding "existential" concept album T.I. vs. T.I.P. (2007) showed, he is a far better braggart than brooder — smiling like he's fine is good for business. On Paper Trail, T.I. mostly dispenses with the Tupac-wannabe gangsta-confessor... Rating: 3 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. ...
Linkin Park
Mimo że są szóstką zupełnie niczego sobie facetów, nie są żadnym boysbandem, a mają rzesze oddanych fanów....
Leslie Feist sweeps Canada music awards (Reuters)
Reuters - Canadian singer/songwriter Leslie Feist swept the Junos, Canada's music awards, walking away with five trophies during the weekend.
Loco Star
Efekt owocnego spotkania doświadczonych muzyków ? Marsiji i Tomasza Ziętka w avant-popowej przestrzeni....
Motley Crue - Saints Of Los Angeles
Artist: Motley Crue Review: All the filth and fury of their Eighties heyday, finally funneled into an album Mötley Cüe have created a cottage industry out of rehashing their excesses: Their tales of debauchery have already fueled dozens of books and a standard-bearing episode of Behind the Music. Now they've woven those stories into their first album in eight years. Inspired by their 2001 sleazeography, The Dirt, Saints of Los Angeles finds Vince Neil flashing back to the band's golden age: gigging on the... Rating: 3 Stars
Simone Nina
Historia Niny Simone to przede wszystkim historia Afroamerykanki, kobiety, artystki, pianistki i wokalistki, której publiczność nadała tytuł "dr". ...
Sigur Rós
O muzyce Sigur Rós mówi się, iż jak mało która na świecie elementami niezwykłości i cudowności przyciąga wielkie zastępy śmiertelników....
Courteeners, The
Na pierwszej próbie spotkali się w 2006 roku. Rok później do mediów trafił ich pierwszy singiel. Po półtorarocznej działalności mają na koncie debiutancki album "St. Jude"....
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
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
The Roots
Słyną z używania w swoich produkcjach żywych instrumentów, mieszania rapu z funkiem, soulem i rockiem oraz z niesamowitej energii koncertowej....
Cajun Dance Party, Colourful Life
Rather than being a masterpiece in itself, it's more a brief ? yet highly effective ? demonstration of genuine potential.
Raconteurs, The
Rok 2005. Środek upalnego lata. Spotkanie dwóch muzyków przy szklance schłodzonej lemoniady. Dalszy scenariusz jest prosty. Piszą piosenkę, świetnie się dogadują, powstaje zespół, nagrywają płytę, jadą w wielką trasę....
Brett Dennen - Hope For The Hopeless
Artist: Brett Dennen Review: Brett Dennen was a hippie camp counselor before he became a John Mayer-approved troubadour on 2006's So Much More. So brace yourself for "Closer to You," where he admits to "wearing nothing but my birthday suit." That unsettling mental image aside, Dennen's third disc suggests he may soon give Dave Matthews a run for his tour grosses. "Make You Crazy" is a jubilant rave-up with Femi Kuti on vocals, while the quiet ballad "So Far From Me" is perfect for a dorm-room make-out. Dennen can be heavy-h... Rating: 3 Stars
The Ting Tings, We Started Nothing
The pied pipers of hyper lead the conga into the middle of next zeitgeist.