Category: Music
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Just Jack – The Outer Marker
Artist: Just Jack Title: The Outer Marker Label: TVT Rating: 6/10 Corporate Line: Jack’s debut album, ‘The Outer Marker’ reveals an artist with more than one tale to tell. ‘Paradise (Lost and Found) offers the perfect introduction to the world of Just Jack. A gorgeous slice of lazy summertime urban blues, it was written, like…
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Orgy – Punk Statik Paranoia
Artist: Orgy Title: Punk Statik Paranoia Label: D1 Music Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: A cursory listening of Punk Statik Paranoia should have music fans scurrying to lock up their daughters, sisters, and/or moms. It’s that good. The first single, “The Obvious,” pours layer after decadent layer of sweet distortion over subterranean fuzzbass and deep rhythmic…
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Tantric – After We Go
Artist: Tantric Title: After We Go Label: Maverick Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: How do you follow a platinum-selling album that featured a #1 hit, a top 10 and a top 20 single, and rocketed all the way to #4 on Billboard’s Heatseekers chart? If you’re Tantric, you hunker down in a Nashville studio with producer…
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Tony C. and the Truth – Demonophonic truth
Artist: Tony C. and the Truth Title: Demonophonic truth Label: Lava Rating: 7/10 Corporate Line: Maybe you’ve been to upstate New York. Probably took at least a dip through the deep South. That’s Tony’s path; his story. A whiff of the Mississippi Delta, cold-filtered by way of the sticks north of NYC. Tony’s been there,…
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Phantom Planet – Interview [2004]
Did you grow up buying those mags when you were growing up and wanted to learn how to play? Of course. Totally. Are you more of a player buy ear or do you read music? For me personally it’s more by ear. I think it’s like that for everyone in our band. Reading music for…
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J.C. Chasez – Schizophrenic
Artist: J.C. Chasez Title: Schizophrenic Label: Jive Rating: 6.5/10 Corporate Line: Introducing the aptly-titled Schizophrenic, an age-appropriate and surprisingly different sonic venture for the 27-year-old grown-up JC Chasez. Anyone who paid attention to Chasez’s recent collaboration with electronic wünderkinds Basement Jaxx (“Plug It In” from Jaxx’s latest, Kish Kash) or Chasez’s solo debut on the…
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Pitch Black – Pitch Black Law
Artist: Pitch Black Title: Pitch Black Law Label: Universal Rating: 2/10 Corporate Line: Pitch Black’s long awaited debut album Pitch Black Law is brimming with bangers and ready to go. The first single “It’s All Real” is produced by none other than DJ Premier who also appears in the video which is currently in rotation…
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The Coral – Magic & Medicine
Artist: The Coral Title: Magic & Medicine Label: Columbia Rating: 7.5/10 Corporate Line: In a nutshell, for once here’s a band who make use of their different interests in every possible way – endeavoring to capture an energy, rather than using it as a mere template. Which is so refreshingly unlike so many of their…
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Kanye West – The College Dropout
Artist: Kanye West Title: The College Dropout Label: Roc-A-Fella Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: With an invincible drive, ROC-A-FELLA’s finest new family member Kanye West reveals how his pathway to an accomplished life, love, and success are critical to the glory of his victory. Kanye West, a 26-year old Chicago native is on his way to…
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Kylie Minoque – Body Language
Artist: Kylie Minoque Title: Body Language Label: Capitol Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Kylie Minogue is a phenomenon of truly international proportions. To date she has released nine albums, six long-play videos, in addition to the Greatest Hits double album and video package, live album and video and 39 singles throughout the world, all of which…