22 June, 2010
A new band on the scene that just might live up to the hype of being named Best New Band of 2010 by Rolling Stone Magazine.
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8 June, 2010
Peter Gabriel's Scratch My Back is the perfect example of rule # 1, Make It Different.
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3 June, 2010
I hate cover bands but love cover songs. Here are three basic rules for pulling off a successful cover song.
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10 May, 2010
This week Brooklyn-based
The National releases their long awaited 5th studio album, '
High Violet.' After receiving a fair amount of attention from 2007's '
Boxer' The National are sad-bastard music at its best. Front man Matt Berninger's voice is a combination of irony, stone faced brutality and a knack at getting to you without you being aware, reminiscent of both The Magnetic Fields' Stephen Merritt and Velvet Underground-er John Cale. Ranging from unrefined crooning to energetic bursts of momentary mania, Berninger finds an earnest tone that keeps you from questioning it's veracity.
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27 January, 2010
I checked out the new Charlotte Gainsbourg album, IRM a few times last night and guess what? It’s still haunting me today.
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20 January, 2010
What do you get when you have Bonham, Bonamassa, Sherinian, and Hughes in the studio together? How about the first rock supergroup of 2010, Black Country.
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8 January, 2010
Readers of the Swedish tabloid Aftonbladet, the most read newspaper throughout Sweden and Scandinavia, voted the 2006 In Flames CD, Come Clarity, as the top Swedish album of the past decade.
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10 November, 2009
Fans of the comedy troupe ‘Whitest Kids You Know’ might not realize that the guys are to be praised for creating remarkable Christian music.
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