Category: Music
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Before Dark – Daydreamin’
Artist: Before Dark Title: Daydreamin’ Label: RCA Rating: 6.5/10 Before Dark are billed as another TLC. I’m not sure it’s fair to put them into such a corner. There are a few similarities, but Before Dark has a spirit more in line with Brandy than with TLC. The group has fantastic harmonies and hooks galore…
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Beenie Man
Music surrounded the young Beenie Man. With his mother and many siblings, he lived in a government ‘tenement’ yard in the Waterhouse area of Jamaica, where regular rasta nyabinghi drum and chant sessions attracted the neighborhood’s many musicians, including Black Uhuru, and the Wailers’ Peter Tosh, Bunny Wailer and Bob Marley. Improvising at a local…
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Beenie Man – Art of Life
Artist: Beenie Man Title: Art of Life Label: Virgin Rating: 7/10 Beenie Man has a vocal style that would make Shabba Ranks jealous. His Jamaican Reggae styling and roots are well represented, as are hip-hop and Latin flavors. Beenie Man stretches his skills and arms to embrace the world as a whole. There are many…
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Bee Gees
How often do you hear a new record that makes you sit back and smile…how often do you hear a new record that takes you back to the greatest moments of your past and yet is firmly rooted in the present…how often do you listen to a record that makes you feel good today and…
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Jeff Beck
Jeff Beck is a name synonymous with the electric guitar. With YOU HAD IT COMING, Beck’s latest album during his three-and-a-half decades as an Epic recording artist, his name becomes tantamount to innovation, as the guitarist continues to experiment with modern, cutting-edge music. YOU HAD IT COMING finds the legendary British musician further enthralled by…
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Beck
With his portastudio, keyboard, drum machine, and guitar, singer/songwriter Beck (b. Beck Hansen) created music that celebrated the junk culture of the ’90s. Beck’s music drew from hip-hop, folk, experimental rock, psychedelia, pop, and rock & roll, recycling everything into a colorful, messy and willfully diverse brand of post-modern rock, filled with warped, satiric imagery…
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Beck – Midnite Vultures
Artist: Beck Title: Midnite Vultures Label: Geffen Rating: 7/10 Before a critic even hears a new Beck record, they seem to already be on their knees, bowing to their self-proclaimed savior. Beck has been made larger than life by the media, but doesn’t really have it as good with fans. He has certainly gone out…
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Beck – Mutations
Artist: Beck Title: Mutations Label: Geffen Rating: 8/10 The latest release from sample-happy Beck Hanson is a toned-down, experimental offering that displays his love for simple, serene folk music. Although the disc has its share of psychedelic moments, the entire work is not built around the spacey and funked out methodology that Mellowgold and Odelay…
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Beautiful Creatures
JOE LESTE: Vocals DJ ASHBA: Lead Guitars ANTHONY FOCX: Rhythm Guitars KENNY KWEENS: Bass GLEN SOBEL: Drums “I can’t rap to save my life, and I’d stand there and look like a fucking idiot if I tried,” laughs Beautiful Creatures’ frontman Joe LeSte, his voice crackling through the air like a sweet shot of whiskey,…
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Beastie Boys
Originally hardcore, the Beastie Boys found fame as the first crossover white rap act. Formed in New York City, members John Berry and Kate Shellenbach departed after the group’s first release, ‘Pollywog Stew,’ leaving Adam ‘MCA’ Yauch, Mike ‘D’ Diamond, and guitarist Adam ‘Ad Rock’ Horovitz. They all came from privileged middle class backgrounds, Horovitz…