Category: Music
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Richard Lugo – Interview
In Myrtle Beach with Richard Lugo! I know you just started touring with O-Town. How many shows have you done with them? About four shows. Have you been doing shows before that? Before that I was on tour with BBMAK. I didn’t know that. How was that? It was a lot of fun. Those guys…
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Placebo – Black Market Music
Artist: Placebo Title: Black Market Music Label: Virgin Rating: 8.5/10 Placebo have truly outdone themselves. I’ll never look at them the same again. They’ve gone from a novelty act to one of the most precise groups in music today. After the gender bender Brian Molko busted out with a goatee, you had a feeling this…
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Blues Traveler – Bridge
Artist: Blues Traveler Title: Bridge Label: Interscope Rating: 7/10 Blues Traveler have sadly lost one member, founding member and bassist Bobby Sheehan, and half of another as frontman John Popper, who underwent surgery and is a sliver of his former self, but whose voice is as dynamic as ever. Popper gets off some squeaky-clean harmonica…
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Crossbreed – Synthetic Division
Artist: Crossbreed Title: Synthetic Division Label: Artemis Rating: 4/10 Crossbreed would love to make you think they are bringing something unique with a large mix of techno, metal, and funky hooks. Are they posers or the real deal? “Severed” and “Lost Soul” – poser – Extremely Limp Bizkit influenced. “Seasons” – poser – Korn tastes…
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Our Lady Peace – Interview[2001]
Our Lady Peace: Operation Raine! Spiritual Machines may explore human spirituality and tinker with the ideologies of man against machine from Ray Kurzweil’s book The Age of Spiritual Machines – When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, but after talking to lead singer Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, I discovered something deeper about the new record.…
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Ani DiFranco – Revelling/Reckoning
Artist: Ani DiFranco Title: Revelling/Reckoning Label: Righteous Babe Rating: 7/10 For a girl who has done just about everything she can musically, I give credit to Ani for experimenting and taking her sound to another dimension on Revelling/Reckoning. The packaging, clever and creative, contains some of the most beautiful pictures. However, I found that this…
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Stevie Nicks – Trouble In Shangri-La
Artist: Stevie Nicks Title: Trouble In Shangri-La Label: Reprise Rating: 9/10 Stevie Nicks isn’t back from the dead. Well, perhaps she is, as I’m sure many have forgotten her since the last round of Fleetwood Mac’s comeback died out of the world’s eye and ear. The iconic Stevie Nicks is back, and boy, is she…
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Eden’s Crush – Popstars
Artist: Eden’s Crush Title: Popstars Label: Sire Rating: 6.5/10 By now you’ve certainly heard of Eden’s Crush, otherwise known as Popstars. The album has a host of well-known producers brought together to make sure this million-dollar investment was more than just the Monkees. One thing the Monkees had, that Eden’s Crush seemingly lack, were huge…
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112 – Interview
At the time I got to speak with the amazing R&B group 112, their album debuted at the number two spot on Billboard. Pretty amazing for a group that started out just around the time when they were as concerned about the eye chart for their drivers license test as they were about the chart…
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Destiny’s Child – Survivor
Artist: Destiny’s Child Title: Survivor Label: Columbia Rating: 7.5/10 Survivor isn’t the title I’d expect since Destiny’s Child are already on top of the world and it looks like they are there to stay with their latest release. Survivor opens with two huge tracks that I’m sure everyone has already heard: “Independent Women” (Charlie’s Angels…