The Dead Weather: Sea of Cowards
Posted in Alt Rock on Sep 7th, 2010
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“The Dead Weather has crafted the equivalent of a taut, expertly directed movie thriller.” –Los Angeles Times
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“Who would have guessed that Sting’s most exciting album in years would be a set of orchestral remakes? Symphonicities rocks hard from the outset.”–Rolling Stone
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“King and Taylor embrace their classics — it seems that there’s not a hit missed between the two of them — and there’s genuine warmth to the whole show that’s quite appealing.” –All Music Guide
Sheryl Crow: 100 Miles from Memphis
Posted in Rock/Pop on Sep 7th, 2010
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“There’s an ease to this record that’s not often heard on Sheryl Crow’s albums and its light touch is thoroughly appealing.” –All Music Guide
Stone Temple Pilots: Stone Temple Pilots
Posted in Alt Rock on Sep 7th, 2010
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“The 12 tracks blend essentially everything STP ever did well without sounding like a stitched-together version of past hits….sweet-and-sour guitar solos, glam-rock grooves, psychedelic swirls, and hummable melodies.” –The Boston Globe
Sia: We Are Born
Posted in Dance & DJ, Electronica on Sep 7th, 2010
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“…A sunshiny, highly caffeinated set of frothy dance tracks and feel-good lite-funk.” –All Music Guide
M.I.A.: MAYA
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica on Sep 7th, 2010
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“It’s pulverizing, it’s hip-swaying, it’s disorienting, and it’s atmospheric — in short, it’s primo culture jamming from a restless musical force of nature.” –The Phoenix
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“Miley Cyrus’ Time of Our Lives EP spawned the carefree mega-hit “Party in the U.S.A.,” but on her second album, she does just about everything she can to distance herself from that look and sound to announce that she has grown up.” –All Music Guide
The Living Sisters: Love to Live
Posted in Contemporary Folk, Folk, Indie, Vocal Pop on Aug 31st, 2010
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“Equal parts doo wop, vocal jazz, and Norman Rockwell-era Americana, Love to Live is a product of another time, an album that wouldn’t seem out of place on the phonograph of some postwar American living room.”–All Music Guide
Corinne Bailey Rae: The Sea
Posted in Alt Rock, Indie, Soul, Vocal Pop on Aug 31st, 2010
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“The Sea is a testament to Rae’s artistic growth as it provides comfort to those left on the wistful side of eternal love, and insight to those who are not.”–All Music Guide
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“Simmering more than it strikes, High Violet coaxes you into baroque indie darkness rather than shines bright pop lights. But the National inevitably make that bleakness sound incredibly seductive and impossibly cool. That’s the National’s insidious brilliance: No other band makes dark and stormy seem like ideal weather.”–Spin
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“Compass is actually the former Super_Collider frontman’s funkiest outing yet, with no shortage of booty-shaking bass, gritty drum grooves, or gnarly vintage-keyboard textures…The expansive supporting cast here includes Beck, Chilly Gonzales, and Nikka Costa.”–The Phoenix
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“The music…is the stuff of romcom soundtracks: acoustic in mood, gently pulsing, shot with silvery strings, occasionally stumbling into schmaltz. Sounds awful? Well, no, because Thorn’s voice, rich and smooth as the most expensive chocolate truffle, brings each story to genuine life and invests it with heart-snagging emotion.”–The Guardian
LCD Soundsystem: This Is Happening
Posted in Alt Rock, Dance & DJ, Electronica, Indie on Aug 31st, 2010
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“The long songs reveal Murphy’s bottom-line agenda: He’s still a dance guy at heart, and he knows it’s his job to ignite parties and clubs. But he approaches dance music more like a folkie singer-songwriter than a DJ, as a vehicle for storytelling and confession. So crank up the music, and move your [...]
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“Nobody’s Daughter recalls the highlights of the band’s critically acclaimed 1994 album, “Live Through This,” and shows that, as a band, Hole is not one bit damaged.”–Billboard.com
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“Alex Ebert and his band hark back to a carefree age of patchouli and bell-bottoms on their debut. This is intoxicating psych-indie for heady days in unbroken sunshine.” — The Observer
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“Woman + Country is somewhat of a grower — it’s so purposefully hazy it seems to pleasingly fade into the slipstream upon the first play, but those repeated spins reveal the deep craft at the heart of Woman + Country, deep craft from both the songwriter, his producer, and musicians.” –All Music Guide
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“On “Minor Love,’’ Green’s sixth solo record, he proves adept as ever traversing through the American popular songbook and filtering his findings through a hazy stoner’s smog of absurdity.” –Boston Globe
Shelby Lynne: Tears, Lies, and Alibis
Posted in Alt Rock, Alt-Country, Country on Jul 29th, 2010
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“Given the wonderfully mercurial, fiercely independent persona Shelby Lynne has displayed throughout her career (one that has inspired fans and infuriated record company executives) her first self-produced, self-released effort might have been fraught with egocentric excess. Many artists have fallen into that trap. But they don’t have her backbone and keen self-critical eyes [...]
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“Congratulations, MGMT’s time-warped sophomore release, is a strange beast, a candy-colored acid trip set to music, and easily the most hallucinatory rock record of the year so far.” — Boston Globe