Stone Temple Pilots |
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Stone Temple Pilots - Album Review
The album opens with the pounding first single “Between the Lines.” The DeLeo brothers’ throbbing riffs announce the triumphant return of STP. It’s a great little love song, albeit twisted, and perfect for summer. Read More ...
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Up From Below |
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Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up From Below - Album Review
Former Ima Robot front man Alex Ebert entered a twelve step program for his drug and alcohol addiction. While there he started a novel about a messiah-like character Edward Sharpe. He never finished the program or the novel, but the band Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was born from the ideas formed during this period. Somewhere along the way he met singer Jade Castrinos and a rotating cast of ten or twelve other musicians and began touring the country in a repurposed Greyhound bus. Up From Below is the first full length album from the band, released in 2009; it is peace, love and theater. Read More ...
T.P. Magee |
Champ |
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Tokyo Police Club – Champ – Album Review
The new LP has several gems. Personally I like "End of a Spark" which has this great Beatles type riff. They don't rip anyone off though. The lyrics and song format are all their own. If you use a hollow body and a reverb amp ……you will always get a big big sound. It is more than that with TPC; they really know how to make sound. Their introspective and descriptive songs make you think due to the lyrics.... and then the awesome guitars make you forget like in "hands reversed". A nice melodic track that makes you slow down. Read More ...
Lo Fi |
Something For Everybody |
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Devo – Something For Everybody – Album Review
The album features many of the elements that you would expect from a Devo album: comedy, originality, and many out of nowhere, science fiction Electronica touches to their songs. A couple songs have intros that sound like they're straight out of a Donkey Kong Nintendo game. Basically, if you like the song, "Whip It," you'll like this album; The songs don't stray too far from it. Stand outs include, "Mind Games," "Dont Shoot, [I'm a Man]," and "Please, Baby, Please." The latter has the feel of an old Motown doo-wop song at certain parts, while others have an old school punk feel such as their last track, "Human Rocket." Read More ...
Sean Manos |
Brothers |
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The Black Keys - Brothers - Album Review
From Auerbach’s first falsetto strains on “Everlasting Light” you get the impression that the time apart may have rejuvenated the bands creative spirit. Straying from his characteristic blues howl the falsetto imbues a Motown/funk vibe that is found throughout the record. R&B singer Nicole Wray provides backing vocals with a honey dipped doowop “shoop shoop shoowah” hook and reappears on three other tracks. The Motown sound finds its culmination in the well done Jerry Butler cover “Never Gonna Give You Up”. Read More ...
T.P. Magee |
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