Check Our Catalog “For an album with crowded electro-pop instrumentation, the music isn’t overbearing, and Little Boots’ cheeky lyrics never lose any of their dry attitude.”–Billboard.com
Monthly Archive for April, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Like the previous album, Volume 2 would suffer under the weight of its own pastiche if it weren’t so darn endearing, filled as it is with call-and-response vocals, studio reverb, sweeping orchestrations, and other bygone tricks of the trade.”–All Music Guide
7 Worlds Collide: The Sun Came Out
Posted in Rock/Pop on Apr 8th, 2010
Check Our Catalog Neil Finn gathers members of Radiohead, The Smiths, and Wilco amongst many others for a two-disc album to benefit Oxfam. “Charitable largesse aside, it’s a must-have for fans of anyone involved.”–Mojo
Lisa Yves & Friends in Concert at the Crane Library (DVD)
Posted in Jazz, Performed at the Crane, Vocal Pop on Apr 8th, 2010
Check Our Catalog Join vocalist Lisa Yves with pianist Richard Rancatore and friends for a live concert of jazz standards from the 1930s. Songs include “On the Sunny Side of the Street”, “Anything Goes”, “A Fine Romance/Nice Work If You Can Get It”, “It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing)”, and [...]
Boston Road in Concert at the Crane Library (DVD)
Posted in Bluegrass, Country, Performed at the Crane on Apr 8th, 2010
Check Our Catalog Boogie with Boston Road, a bluegrass band that plays a lively mix of rhythm & groove music from traditional to new-timey bluegrass, at a live performance recorded at the Thomas Crane Public Library on July 13, 2008 by Quincy Access Television.
The White Stripes: Under Great White Northern Lights
Posted in Alt Rock, Blues Rock, Indie, Rock/Pop on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “This concert CD/DVD does a great job of highlighting both sides of The White Stripes’ carefully controlled public persona…If Under the Great White Northern Lights is their last hurrah, it’s one hell of a goodbye.”–Entertainment Weekly
Check Our Catalog “Revealed through interviews in 2005, Sasha was said to be Beyoncé’s “stage persona,” an embodiment of the outgoing, aggressive, on-stage Beyoncé that doesn’t necessarily represent the real Beyoncé…and is granted half an album to express herself.”–All Music Guide
Raheem DeVaughn: The Love & War Masterpeace
Posted in R&B on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “DeVaughn did not mess around when it came to recording a set befitting a title as grand as The Love & War MasterPeace…one of the most grippingly conscious major-label R&B albums of the last 30 years.”–All Music Guide
Gretchen Parlato: In a Dream
Posted in Jazz on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Gretchen Parlato is a rising star in vocal jazz circles…Her singing is pure sterling silver, accented with just a hint of ethnic shadings and a big helping of modern style.”–All Music Guide
Switchfoot: Hello Hurricane
Posted in Alt Rock, Christian & Gospel, Indie, Rock/Pop on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Hello Hurricane is almost devoid of surprises and offers exactly what the people want: an assemblage of straight-ahead rock anthems. Switchfoot appears to have found its footing — Hello Hurricane is by far the San Diego rockers’ most natural, effortless outing to date.” –All Music Guide
Vijay Iyer Trio: Historicity
Posted in Jazz on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Vijay Iyer has mad skills…There’s no other single player who sounds even remotely like him, few who can match his inventive and whimsical sense of play or seriousness, and absolutely nobody who presents the stunning, highly intelligent music he dishes out. He’s also maturing at a rapid rate, while at the height [...]
Check Our Catalog “Crows opts for a mostly stripped-down acoustic sound that provides the perfect setting for Moorer’s marvelous, R&B-inflected voice. With the compositions…alternating in tone between hopeful and foreboding, Moorer explores themes of regret, loss and new beginnings with a deft hand and some of the best singing of her career.”–Billboard
Kris Allen: Kris Allen
Posted in Rock/Pop on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “A polite mix of soft rock with hints of boundary jumping…sweetly executed and produced.”–Boston Globe
Stile Antico: Song of Songs
Posted in Choral on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “The members of the British vocal ensemble Stile Antico…have an exceptionally pure and youthful sound. The group works without a conductor, and the sensitivity and attention that that demands of each member pays off beautifully in these performances, where they seem to operate as a single organic entity.”–
Check Our Catalog “And from a cocoon of hazy psych-folk comes…a masterful mash-up of ’80s synth pop and tribal-beat tickles? Brooklyn’s Yeasayer are going to need more hyphens. So, two exciting questions: Where did this come from, and what’s coming next?”–Spin
Hot Chip:One Life Stand
Posted in Dance Pop, Electronica, Indie, Rock/Pop on Apr 7th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Hot Chip look more likely than any of their peers to ascend one day to the intellectual electro-pop heights of Pet Shop Boys or Scritti Politti. Fuller than usual of slow songs and piano ballads, One Life Stand is their mellowest, most thoughtful effort so far — which means it carries the [...]
Elvis Presley: ELVIS 75
Posted in Early Rock, Rock/Pop, Rockabilly on Apr 6th, 2010
Check Our Catalog To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the birth of Elvis Aaron Presley, ELVIS 75 collects 25 unforgettable songs spanning the breadth of his monumental, rags-to-riches career.
Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
Posted in Rap/Hip Hop on Apr 6th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “This sequel may have little to do with the original, but if the title helps to point out this is the Shaolin poet’s best work since 1995′s Pt. 1, then so be it.”–All Music Guide
Slaughterhouse: Slaughterhouse
Posted in Rap/Hip Hop on Apr 6th, 2010
Check Our Catalog “Slaughterhouse’s new album is relentlessly lyrical, which is the point. Equally talented and underrated, Royce, Joell Ortiz, Crooked I, and Joe Budden came together and instantly created a situation where the sum was greater than the individual parts.”–Boston Globe
Check Our Catalog “Bird and his 10 collaborators use sound the way the impressionists daubed paint, layering elegiac violin melodies with pattering plucked notes, fuzzy or jangly guitar, clip-clop percussion, clicks and drones to create music that might be straightforwardly folky, brightly poppy or more experimental, but is always vivid and engaging.”–The Guardian