Category: Music
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Alice in Chains
Layne Staley — vocals Jerry Cantrell — guitar Mike Inez — bass Sean Kinney — drums EARLY 1987 Alice in Chains forms in Seattle. APRIL 1989 After being pursued by several record companies, Alice signs with Columbia, after learning Mitch Miller was no longer head of A&R. JUNE 1990 Columbia releases the band’s first EP,…
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Tevin Campbell – The Best of Tevin Campbell
Artist: Tevin Campbell Title: The Best of Tevin Campbell Label: Qwest Rating: 4.5/10 Tevin Campbell was billed as the next Michael Jackson when he first emerged at thirteen almost ten years ago. He has never really lived up to those lofty expectations. Tevin can sing like nobody’s business, but there is only one Michael Jackson.…
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O-Town – O-Town
Artist: O-Town Title: O-Town Label: J Records Rating: 4/10 Most of us have seen the series where O-Town becomes a band. I laughed, I laughed, and, well, I laughed. Crying somehow didn’t seem as appropriate as the boys fell off the Lou Perlman shipwreck. I actually felt that those sent off were lucky because they…
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Vitamin C – More
Artist: Vitamin C Title: More Label: Elektra Rating: 7/10 Vitamin C made a huge impact with her two hit songs, “Graduation (Friends Forever)” and “Smile”. Now she is back with her multidimensional album, More. The album’s first single, “The Itch”, mixes dance floor grooves with a hopping pop melody. It’s a pain you won’t want…
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Plus One – Interview
How did the group come together? We came together through our manager and our record label. There was an audition in San Francisco and three of the guys knew about the audition and the others heard it through word of mouth. It came together and we, one way or another, came in contact with our…
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Bare Jr. – Interview
I caught Bobby Bare, Jr. in New York right before Christmas. He was preparing to fly down to Tampa to spend the holidays with his family in a house they rented for the occasion. Here is our conversation. What was up with the record? We’ve had it for over six months. It was supposed to…
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Fabolous – Interview [2001]
Fabolous is on top, find out why! How long did you work on the album? About a year or two, but I was really working on it before I got the deal and all. When you were working with Lil’ Mo, did you have your stuff done? We were still working on my stuff. When…
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Flying Blind – Push
Artist: Flying Blind Title: Push Label: Republic Rating: 4/10 Flying Blind roared through my headphones and through my car speakers. I listened to it, and again, and again, and it didn’t grow on me, not even an inch. “Pony” seemed to have some sense of melody and wasn’t so bad, but I still can’t listen…
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Erykah Badu – Interview
What’s the title, Mama’s Gun, mean? Most of the time, you don’t even know your mamma have a gun, you know? And when she pulls it out, and shows it to you, it’s something serious. And the way life is to me right now, we’re at a very detrimental time. Our sons and daughters are…
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Jennifer Lopez – J-Lo
Artist: Jennifer Lopez Title: J-Lo Label: Epic Rating: 7/10 Jennifer Lopez is sexy, she has a powerful music mogul boyfriend, and she has more producers than you can count on two hands. Her current boyfriend, Sean “Puffy” Combs, contributes a lot to J-Lo, both in writing and producing. Even more surprising is how involved in…