Category: Music
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Ruben Studdard – The Return
Artist: Ruben Studdard Title: The Return Label: J Records Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Ruben Studdard would be the first to agree that the past three years have been amazing, rewarding and challenging. Think about it: Until the Spring of 2003, Studdard had been expressing his lifelong love for music by singing with local gospel groups…
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Jojo – The High Road
Artist: Jojo Title: The High Road Label: Universal Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Da Family/Blackground Records teen phenomenon JoJo hit un-chartered territory this week, making music history with her new song “Too Little Too Late,” the debut single from her sophomore album The High Road, which hits stores on October 17th. The sizzling song soared from…
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Papa Roach – The Paramour Sessions
Artist: Papa Roach Title: The Paramour Sessions Label: Geffen Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: The Paramour mansion has no shortage of history. In 1933, oil heiress Daisy Canfield was on her way home from a party when her car veered off a Mulholland Drive cliff, plummeting 300 feet and instantly killing the wife of silent movie…
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Black Eyed Peas – Interview
Black Eyed Peas are keeping it real, real. Real how they see it. With hip hop music influenced by soul, jazz and Latin rhythms. With a live band. With pumpin’ live shows that inspire Black Eyed Peas to bust into acrobatic movements and that drive audiences to a frenzy. “Just cuz we dress the way…
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Platinum Weird – Interview
Platinum Weird is a musical collaboration formed in 2004 between Dave Stewart and Kara DioGuardi. It is also the subject of an elaborate hoax placing the band in 1974, including a half hour mockumentary produced for television network VH1 and a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites and related false documents for the…
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Platinum Weird – Make Believe
Artist: Platinum Weird Title: Make Believe Label: Interscope Rating: 4/10 CORPORATE LINE: Platinum Weird is the name of Dave Stewart’s new rock band. This is no ordinary band, but what it does have is an extraordinary past. Stewart (best known for being half of the Eurythmics) has returned to Platinum Weird 32 years after the…
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Robert Randolph – Colorblind
Artist: Robert Randolph Title: Colorblind Label: Warner Bros. Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: With Colorblind, Robert Randolph and the Family Band have taken the difficult leap from being great performing artists to being great recording artists. Since emerging from a House of God church in Orange, New Jersey steeped in the “sacred steel” tradition, Randolph’s astonishing…
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Shareefa – Interview
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…
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Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra – Ray Sings, Basie Swings
Artist: Ray Charles and the Count Basie Orchestra Title: Ray Sings, Basie Swings Label: Concord Rating: 8/10 CORPORATE LINE: “Ray Charles and Count Basie were two of the most charismatic personalities I’ve ever known. I loved them both. So to hear this amazing collaboration of their musical geniuses is a treat of the highest order.…
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Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire
Artist: Sean Lennon Title: Friendly Fire Label: Capitol Rating: 7/10 CORPORATE LINE: Friendly Fire, the acclaimed sophomore solo album and film from Sean Lennon, has been released together by Capitol Records. A North American tour will kick off in mid-November, dates to be announced soon. Following Into the Sun, Lennon’s 1998 solo debut, Friendly Fire…