Category: Music

“I couldn’t avoid them,” says Rosanne Cash about the twelve songs that constitute Black Cadillac, a breakthrough album that raises both the stakes and the standards for one of this country’s finest singer-songwriters. “I couldn’t let any of them simply return to the ether. Some of them literally wouldn’t let me sleep.” For more than…

Tedium is overcome/From obscurity, through melody” “Karaoke Queen” Atlantic Records now properly introduces Catatonia to America with the long-awaited U.S. release of the Welsh pop quintet’s highly-praised third album, “EQUALLY CURSED AND BLESSED.” Hailed by Melody Maker as “one of 1999’s most accomplished albums, the sound of a big-boned band unbuckling the belt of its…

“Believe it or not, it’s actually harder to write shorter and more concise songs than it is to slop together a nine-minute-long space-rock opera. Look at The Beatles’ Rubber Soul: almost every song is under three minutes long and the listening experience is completely satisfying.” – Cave In guitarist/vocalist Stephen Brodsky … Which is not…

After goth pioneers the Birthday Party called it quits in 1983, singer/songwriter Nick Cave assembled the Bad Seeds, a post-punk supergroup featuring former Birthday Party guitarist Mick Harvey on drums, ex-Magazine bassist Barry Adamson, and Einsturzende Neubauten guitarist Blixa Bargeld. With the Bad Seeds, Cave continued to explore his obsessions with religion, death, love, America,…

C-BO’s sixth and latest release, …Til’ My Casket Drops, is by far the most prolific album from the legendary Sacramento gangsta rapper yet. In addition to his multi-platinum cameo performances on Tupac Shakur’s All Eyez On Me, C-BO’s spine-tingling, realistic, hardcore, gore-filled ghetto tales that are found on his own albums have won him a…

For most true ghetto-raised and respected emcees that have sipped from the cup of international success, the hip-hop journey is often one of urban enlightenment and universal illumination. Multiply both by mad skilled microphone combat on the front lines of Wu-Tang Clan’s infamous Killer Bees army, along with the 1998 success of the groundbreaking Gold-selling…

With her unique talent and signature vocal abilities, Mariah Carey commanded the world’s attention when she made her musical debut in the early nineties. In less than a decade, Mariah Carey emerged as one of the most popular and widely acclaimed talents in music. As a singer and songwriter, Carey has been recognized with the…

Authentic. That’s the first word that springs to mind when you encounter Brandi Carlile. From her rootsy bell-clear voice to the palpable emotion that seeps through every song on her stunning debut album, everything about this 23-year-old from rural Washington state is the real deal. Deeply driven to be an artist, Carlile’s life-long love affair…

George Carlin is not amused. The Eardrum/Atlantic companion album to the double Grammy Award-winning comic’s eleventh HBO comedy concert, “YOU ARE ALL DISEASED” is a self-proclaimed “series of things that are pissing me off.” Recorded live last February at New York City’s Beacon Theater, the album finds Carlin at his hilarious, unrelenting best, spewing righteous…

“Harmonium” is Vanessa Carlton’s follow up to her multi-platinum debut Be Not Nobody, which had the number one single “A Thousand Miles” and top ten single “Ordinary Day”. She wrote it while on tour and on sojourn in San Francisco. Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind produced Harmonium and it was recorded in San Francisco…