Category: Music
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Wheat – Per Second
Artist: Wheat Title: Per Second Label: Columbia Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: There’s a wise and sky-wide generous spirit to Wheat’s new album Per Second, Per Second, Per Second…Every Second you can hear it loud and clear in the soaring, impassioned vocals on “Life Still Applies,” the rollin’ and tumblin’ drums on “World United,” the…
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Fabolous – More Street Dreams
Artist: Fabolous Title: More Street Dreams Label: Elektra Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: Fabolous will be returning to his roots and rolling out his much-anticipated mixtape album; ‘More Street Dreams Pt. 2 The Mixtape’. The album offers 12 new songs, including the first singles ‘Make You Mine’, (featuring Mike Shorey) and ‘Think Y’all Know’. Other guests…
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R.E.M. – The Best of R.E.M.
Artist: R.E.M. Title: The Best of R.E.M. Label: Warner Bros. Rating: 7/10 The Good: “Man On The Moon” – As the linear notes state… it is the quintessential R.E.M. song. “What’s The Frequency Kenneth?” – Grand glittery R.E.M. “Losing My Religion” – In my opinion there is only one song better than this from the…
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Ja Rule – Blood in my Eye
Artist: Ja Rule Title: Blood in my Eye Label: Murda Rating: 6/10 The Good: “The Life” – Ja Rule springs back to life with this rugged dose of thug love. The Average: “Clap Back” – An anthem of average proportions. “Blood In My Eye” – Ja is still trying to prove he’s tops. “Things Goin’…
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Vertical Horizon – Interview
Some chit-chat with guitar and vocalist Keith Kane of Vertical Horizon! What brings you to Chicago? We did a little acoustic show at the House of Blues last night on their porch. Tonight we roll to Columbus. The whole band? Yep. The acoustic thing we did yesterday was for a radio show’s contest winners. We…
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Wilshire – Interview
Wilshire is the sort of group that you would love to hate. The only problem is you just can’t bring yourself to hate them. Not only are their songs too infectious the members are just the same. Love them or hate them you won’t be able to ignore them. Welcome to Micah and Lori Wilshire’s…
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Iggy Pop – Skull Ring
Artist: Iggy Pop Title: Skull Ring Label: Virgin Rating: 2/10 Corporate Line: But in true Iggy Pop fashion, SKULL RING also features fresh collaborations with mega-platinum hitmakers Green Day (“Private Hell,” “Supermarket”) and Canadian punk-pop hipsters Sum 41 (“Little Know It All,” the first single from the new album). Both bands are diehard Stooges fans,…
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Mandy Moore – Coverage
Artist: Mandy Moore Title: Coverage Label: Epic Rating: 4/10 Corporate Line: Mandy Moore’s Coverage includes twelve classic pop/rock anthems and ballads from the 1970s and 80s. Adding a soulfulness to Todd Rundgren’s “Can We Still Be Friends,” putting a Nashville twang to Carly Simon’s “Anticipation,” and rocking out on Joan Armatrading’s rollicking “Drop The Pilot,”…
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Overseer – Wreckage
Artist: Overseer Title: Wreckage Label: Columbia Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: What was it like creating Wreckage? Overseer, the post-modern musical mad scientist, calls it, rather disarmingly, “…weird experimental stuff. If anything, my ethos is to record whatever I want to do. I have quite varied taste.” And for a man of diminutive stature, his musical…
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Something Corporate – North
Artist: Something Corporate Title: North Label: Geffen Rating: 5/10 Corporate Line: On North, the band’s follow-up to their 2002 Drive-Thru/MCA Records debut, Leaving Through the Window – a 250,000 seller based largely on relentless touring and word of mouth – Something Corporate bucks that idea in favor of a more cerebral concept: Simply being away.…