Author: raegun
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Weezer – The Red Album – music review
For the third time in its six-album history, Weezer will release a self-titled album through DGC/Interscope Records. To distinguish it from the other eponymous albums, it’s being referred by people as “The Red Album.”
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Ashanti – The Declaration – music review
The incomparable Ashanti is back with “The Declaration”!!This multiple Grammy winner and R&B superstar has delivered some of her most powerful and passionate songs yet.
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Usher – Here I Stand – music review
“Here I Stand” is Usher’s follow-up to his history-making, nine-times platinum-selling Confessions. The album tells the story of growth: triumphant, reflective, somewhat defiant and it marks a new period in Usher’s life and creative expression.
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The Foxboro Hot Tubs – Stop Drop and Roll – music review
Imagine a big-time punk-pop trio from the Oakland area deciding, for fun, to record a cool song that reminded them of ’60s garage rock—adventurous, reckless, and edgy but with a “doo-doo-doo” party sound.
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3 Doors Down – 3 Doors Down – music review
3 Doors Down are putting up massive radio numbers with their first single, “Its Not My Time,” from their soon-to-be released self-titled album.
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Flobots – Fight With Tools – music review
Formed as a cohesive alternative organism in 2005, the FLOBOTS `good-fight’ mythology can be traced via Denver’s underground vines and creative community of the late `90s when various members enlivened each others’ gigs and creative events, setting the charge that would eventually power up the band’s contagious and rollicking rock/rap pedigree.
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Duffy – Rockferry – music review
Duffy is an unknown quantity at this point, having performed but a small number of gigs, mostly in support of The Magic Numbers, and having only just begun to be seen on TV, most notably with recent appearances on Jools Holland’s Later and New Year Hootenanny.
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Filter – Anthems For The Damned – music review
The mastermind behind Filter’s fourth album, “Anthems for the Damned,” its first in five years since The Amalgamut, is what Patrick calls his “howl in the night,” a harsh indictment of civilization that doesn’t exclude himself from its vision of a world falling apart.
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Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs – music review
Death Cab for Cutie has unveiled initial details of their new album. Produced by the band’s own Chris Walla, “Narrow Stairs” will be preceded by the single, “I Will Possess Your Heart.”
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Clay Aiken – On My Way Here – music review
Since shooting to stardom on the second season of American Idol, Clay Aiken, the Raleigh, NC, native with the powerhouse voice has become a international pop phenomenon who has sold six million albums.