Category: Music
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David Bowie – Hours
Artist: David Bowie Title: Hours Label: Virgin Rating: 5/10 With the possible exception of Madonna, no one has gone through as many changes as David Bowie has. From The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust to Earthling, Bowie has set trends time and time again. In updating himself, he has almost always raised the bar…
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David Bowie – Hunky Dory
Artist: David Bowie Title: Hunky Dory Label: Virgin Rating: 8/10 While everyone was trying to act cool, David Bowie was setting the standard, and more. Hunky Dory was the hidden classic that many collections lacked. While everyone talks about Ziggy Stardust’s genius, it is Hunky Dory that is the perhaps the best of Bowie’s best.…
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David Bowie
“David Bowie, as a musician, performer, and songwriter, continually re-invents himself and his art.” The hallmark of rock and roll’s greats often lies in their ability to hone to perfection a strong and easily assimilated iconic, but singular image. It may evolve slowly and surely over the years but will always be presumed to be…
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Bowling For Soup
It’s the perfect title for the return of Texas’ reigning punk cowboys, Bowling For Soup. “Drunk Enough To Dance is like when you go to a wedding, and fifty percent of the people are so sloshed that they’re dancing, but those are the people who shouldn’t even be on the dance floor and usually aren’t,”…
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Boy George
It’s the mid 1980s. You are Boy George, singer with Culture Club and one of the most recognizable pop personalities on the planet. But your group breaks up at the height of its fame. Do you: A) Fall apart emotionally and develop a drug addiction so public that at one point the tabloid newspapers predict…
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Boy Sets Fire
Few modern hardcore bands have fused a deep-rooted political consciousness with a passion for their musical art like Boy Sets Fire. One would be hard pressed to name a more sincerely socially aware band that comes to mind more quickly than this Delaware outfit. Driven by the unrelenting burden of their unique sociopolitical perspective and…
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Bernard Butler
Bernard Butler is not the man to turn to if you want to be reassured that rock’n’roll excess is alive and well. He’s not a pop star to put his life on a pedestal and tell you about your life like it’s noticed in passing from a lofty perch. He could have done it of…
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The Butthole Surfers
Arguably the most infamously named band in the annals of popular music — for years, radio found their moniker unspeakable, and the press deemed it unprintable — the Butthole Surfers long reigned among the most twisted and depraved acts ever to bubble up from the American underground. Masters of calculated outrage, the group fused the…
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David Byrne
Best known for his groundbreaking tenure fronting the New Wave group Talking Heads, David Byrne’s solo work, while not as successful, was no less adventurous, encroaching upon such diverse media as world music, filmmaking and performance art. Born May 14, 1952 in Dumbarton, Scotland, Byrne was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. The son of an electronics…
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The Beatles
The Beatles were the most popular and influential rock act of all time, but their significance cannot solely be measured in sales records (as impressive as those are). They synthesized all that was good about early rock and roll, and changed it into something original and even more exciting. They established the prototype for the…