Category: Music
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Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants
Artist: Blink-182 Title: Take Off Your Pants Label: MCA Rating: 7/10 Blink-182 are a few years older, but you sure wouldn’t know listening to their latest release Take Off Your Pants And Jacket. As asinine as their release is it’s certain to just be huge. Why? Because these guys have found a winning formula and…
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Brooke Allison – Brooke Allison
After a listen to Brooke Allison’s self-titled release, you can’t help but make some comparisons to the likes of Britney Spears. The shameless “The Kiss-off (Goodbye)” doesn’t do anything to enhance Allison’s charm. It’s pretty tasteless and was probably as cliché the day it was recorded as it is listening today.
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Brooke Allison
Much of the music industry is anticipating that 14 year old Brooke Allison’s forthcoming recording will be one of the hottest releases of 2001. Her debut, slated for release May of 2001, is garnering attention from music executives, as well as many of the country’s most prominent radio program directors for whom she has already…
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Placebo – Interview [2001]
Here it is February 2001 and Black Market Music has just fallen into my lap five months after its initial release in Europe. Who or what am I talking about? Placebo. Placebo is a band that is quite enigmatic. No one knows more than they are told about these three and to dive in like…
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The Incredible Moses Leroy – Interview
You have a great album, it must be exciting to know that its ready to be unleashed on the world. I’m excited. But sometimes its tough because people outside of the band don’t realize that it really is just one person and they keep piling these things on and it can wear a person down…
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The Cult – Beyond Good & Evil
Artist: The Cult Title: Beyond Good & Evil Label: Atlantic Rating: 6/10 Formed in England in 1983 by singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy, the band has had many highs and lows, but now they are back after a seven-year absence with Beyond Good And Evil. Astbury still sports his signature-gnarled voice and he…
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Rustic Overtones – Viva Nueva
Artist: Rustic Overtones Title: Viva Nueva Label: Tommy Boy Rating: 6.5/10 Rustic Overtones mix up pop, funk, jazz, rock, tin cans, and um, well anything that seems to make the music sound like music. “C’mon” has a reggae flavor while “Gas On Skin” mixes that formula with rock then they take that further to throw…
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Dave Navarro – Trust No One
Artist: Dave Navarro Title: Trust No One Label: Capitol Rating: 6.5/10 Jane’s Addiction broke up. Dave Navarro being the phenom that he was surely wasn’t going to be out of business long. The Red Hot Chili Peppers needed someone to bring the axe hard and be as odd as the rest of the group, Navarro…
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Gorillaz – Gorillaz
Artist: Gorillaz Title: Gorillaz Label: Virgin Rating: 6/10 Gorillaz is a farce, but it’s almost impossible to get down to the nuts about what’s actually the real deal. I do know it is the brainchild of Damon Albarn, frontman from Blur, and Jamie Hewlett. The brainchild is four cartoon characters that cross all cultures to…
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St. Lunatics – Free City
Artist: St. Lunatics Title: Free City Label: Universal Rating: 7.5/10 You know Nelly, but do you know the crew he’s been running with since before his pants sagged? Well, the St. Lunatics are back together and they are dropping their co-op release Free City hoping to pick up where Country Grammar left off. “S.T.L.” rolls…