Category: Music

A Cheap And Evil Girl, the galvanizing debut from 23-year-old, singer-songwriter BREE SHARP, is a smart, fearless mix of folk, rock and pop. The premiere single “David Duchovny” is an ode to the famed X-Files star, on whom BREE has long nourished a crush. The song (with its hook-filled and already infamous tag line, ‘David…

“Fresh is an overused (and usually exaggerated) description of a lot of new music, but sometimes, once in a while, it actually applies. Well, fresh is definitely one way to describe Remy Shand’s Motown debut album, The Way I Feel. Remy, 23, recalls the masters of soul with an uncanny authenticity that sometimes sounds as…

Tupac Shakur will go down in history as the rapper who always lived up to his wild reputation. He rapped of gunfights, rough sex, gang rivalries and “Thug Life,” and was arrested, jailed, shot and later killed over these very issues. Always known as a gifted rapper and a brilliant lyricist, Tupac was often touted…

In an age when everything from fashion to furniture reeks of prefabrication, it is rare to find a genuine realness even in soul music. As the one genre of music that should send shivers through ones body while still managing to touch your heart, much of today’s R&B feels as though more thought has gone…

It’s best to expect the unexpected from SHeDAISY. These three young women push musical boundaries as hard as they push themselves — and the result is The Whole Shebang, a debut CD as fresh as it is impressive. “Sometimes we sit down and say, ‘What’s the weirdest harmony we can sing here that will work?’”…

“IT’S a rock record,” says Duncan Sheik, excitement rushing through his typically calm South Carolina-raised voice, “in that it’s mostly guitars. And the music has more rock energy than my other albums. But it’s not really a throwback. It’s my own take on what a rock record should be.” The New York-based singer, songwriter, guitarist,…

Shaun Morgan – vocals, guitar, songs Dale Stewart – bass, vocals Nick Oshiro – drums “My words will be here when I’m gone…” – “Sympathetic” No one wishes to die without making a statement and having an impact – especially if they are an artist. For most, this desire is filled with pretense, but occasionally…

There is a signature richness and power to the music that Bob Seger has been making for four decades, and as succeeding generations have discovered those qualities, his reputation as an artist and songwriter has only grown. His work represents the honest best of what rock & roll can be. It’s passionate, unpretentious, uplifting and…

London is a long way from the hot Gulf winds that sweep across the Texas plains. Yet there’s plenty of prairie fire in every beat of Shea Seger’s luminous RCA premiere album The May Street Project. The Fort Worth native has been living in England for the last two years, and she readily admits that…

When Minneapolis trio Semisonic began to work on their new album, All About Chemistry, the band found themselves in an unfamiliar position: they were no longer upstarts, underdogs or indie rockers. Instead they had a hit song and sales of two million albums worldwide to follow up. At home, their second album, Feeling Strangely Fine,…