Category: Music
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Placebo – Meds
Artist: Placebo Title: Meds Label: Astralwerks Rating: 6.5/10 FILE UNDER: Placebo—again. CORPORATE LINE: Preceded by the Single ‘because I Want You’, the Album Marks the Return of a Very Confident Band who after 10 Years Together Keep Growing in Stature. They Are One of the UK’S Most Successful Bands of the Last Ten Years, Having…
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Mellowdrone – Box
Artist: Mellowdrone Title: Box Label: Columbia Rating: 6/10 FILE UNDER: Radiohead they are not. CORPORATE LINE: Mellowdrone’s singer, guitarist and chief songwriter, Jonathan Bates admits that he has a compulsive streak when it comes to making music. “I don’t like playing a song the same way twice, which will either win people over or do…
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Rob Zombie – Educated Horses
Artist: Rob Zombie Title: Educated Horses Label: Geffen Rating: 6/10 FILE UNDER: A softer side of Rob Zombie? CORPORATE LINE: An auteur filmmaker and music artist with shrewd insight and creative vision, Rob Zombie challenges audiences as he stretches the boundaries of film, music and publishing. After assaulting audiences worldwide with the violent high-octane road…
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Yeah Yeah Yeah – Show Your Bone
Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeah Title: Show Your Bone Label: Interscope Rating: 6.5/10 FILE UNDER: Belly II. CORPORATE LINE: Show Your Bones is what happens when you put your finger in a light socket,” says singer Karen O. “Maybe there is some of that electric current flowing through the tracks of our album illuminating us from…
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Ashley Parker Angel – Interview
Who can forget the Pop music scene at the turn of the 21st century? Artists such as *NSync, The BackStreet Boys and Britney Spears dominated MTV, and there was a slue of boy bands popping up at every turn. If you paid attention to pop music at that time, or you were a 16 year…
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P.O.D. – Interview [2006]
tes-ti-fy : To express or declare a strong belief, especially to make a declaration of faith. With their fourth Atlantic Records release, San Diego multi-platinum hard rockers P.O.D. are ready to Testify. Testify to the power of rock; to the sway of perseverance and sweat; to the valor of hard work; to the might of…
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Teddy Geiger – Underage Thinking
Artist: Teddy Geiger Title: Underage Thinking Label: Columbia Rating: 6/10 FILE UNDER: Imagine John Mayer at seventeen. CORPORATE LINE: Underage Thinking, the debut album from music prodigy/singer/songwriter Teddy Geiger features 12 honest arresting songs that showcases this artist’s amazing talent. In what will be one of the year’s standout albums from one of music’s rising…
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Mates of State – Bring It Back
Artist: Mates of State Title: Bring It Back Label: Barsuk Rating: 3/10 FILE UNDER: Crummy ‘80s retro. CORPORATE LINE: Mates of State is the organ and drums, vocal-laden duo of Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel. The band essentially began in 1997. After a few months in the midwest, they high-tailed it out to a new…
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Yummy Bingham – Interview
Straight from Forty Projects on the Southside of Jamaica, Queens, a young lady with more experience in the music industry than people twice her age is poised to take the field running. 19-year old Yummy is music royalty. The godchild of both R&B legend Chaka Khan and “New Jack Swing King” Aaron Hall, Yummy has…
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Juvenile – Reality Check
Artist: Juvenile Title: Reality Check Label: Atlantic Rating: 6.5/10 CORPORATE LINE: Now, with years of experience under his belt, Juvenile returns with Reality Check, his seventh solo album and Atlantic debut. “This is my best album,” says Juvenile. “I’m doing things I never would have done before. I’m making beats, engineering, storytelling. I’m not just…