Category: Music
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Snow Patrol – Eyes Open
Artist: Snow Patrol Title: Eyes Open Label: Polydor Rating: 5/10 FILE UNDER: They aren’t Coldplay—even though they try. CORPORATE LINE: “There are swaggering bands, bands who are in your face. And then there are bands who get hold of you somewhere else. I think it’s a heart thing, an intimacy thing. Like you know them…
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Mat Kearney – Nothing Left To Lose
Artist: Mat Kearney Title: Nothing Left To Lose Label: Columbia Rating: 5/10 FILE UNDER: A concoction of Coldplay and Counting Crows with a little G. Love thrown in. CORPORATE LINE: In a music world longing for a new voice, Mat Kearney represents the singer-songwriter for the 21st century music lover. While keeping an acoustic base,…
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Yung Joc – Interview
The millennium hip-hop world is all about the pride, the culture, and the experience of the South. As the time ushered in a new age, so did it also ordain southern hip-hop, particularly that of Atlanta, as one of its most fertile breeding grounds for producing crops of prolific rappers. These artists flip a mellifluous…
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Gomez – How We Operate
Artist: Gomez Title: How We Operate Label: ATO Rating: 8/10 FILE UNDER: Gomez Version 2. CORPORATE LINE: For How We Operate, their fifth studio album, Gomez didn’t set out to reinvent the wheel. Oh no. The British quintet just wanted to change the blueprint for a different sort of rounded object: Their own records. “As…
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Godsmack – Interview [2006]
Godsmack IV is their first full studio release in more than three years, the highly anticipated disc is already garnering momentum propelled by the scalding first single, “Speak.” The song is firmly planted at #1, giving the Boston-based foursome their fourth #1 at Active Rock radio. Godsmack are the only rock band to have scored…
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Godsmack – IV
Artist: Godsmack Title: IV Label: Universal Rating: 5/10 FILE UNDER: Metallica II? CORPORATE LINE: Godsmack IV is their first full studio release in more than three years, the highly anticipated disc is already garnering momentum propelled by the scalding first single, “Speak.” The song is firmly planted at #1, giving the Boston-based foursome their fourth…
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Rihanna – A Girl Like Me
Artist: Rihanna Title: A Girl Like Me Label: Def Jam Rating: 6.5/10 FILE UNDER: R&B goes pop. CORPORATE LINE: With A Girl Like Me, the beautiful singer proves that her breakthrough was no fluke. After selling 1 million copies worldwide of her debut Music Of The Sun, once again, the summer may belong to Rihanna.…
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Bruce Springsteen – We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions
Artist: Bruce Springsteen Title: We Shall Overcome: Seeger Sessions Label: Columbia Rating: 8.5/10 FILE UNDER: Holy folk. CORPORATE LINE: ‘We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions’ features Bruce’s personal interpretations of thirteen traditional songs, all of them associated with the legendary guiding light of American folk music, Pete Seeger, for whom the album is named. Speaking…
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The Flaming Lips – At War With Mystics
Artist: The Flaming Lips Title: At War With Mystics Label: Warner Bros. Rating: 6.5/10 FILE UNDER: Alt rocks most anticipated release. CORPORATE LINE: Cosmic, consciousness-expanding and mind-shattering, At War With The Mystics, the highly anticipated follow-up to The Flaming Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots brings together the expressiveness of recent albums with the heaviness,…
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Jewel – Interview
Jewel is about to deliver her most personal and autobiographical record so far-Goodbye Alice in Wonderland. Not content to relegate herself to a traditional music arena, or to be typecast, Jewel has established herself as a culturally significant and relevant brand. Author, songwriter, actress, poet-there are no limits to how Jewel can and will deliver…