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Daft Punk – Discovery
Artist: Daft Punk Title: Discovery Label: Virgin Rating: 8/10 After literally going into hiding for two years, Daft Punk emerges from their secret lab ready to conquer the world once again with a new breed of funky and innovated electronic beats appropriately entitled Discovery. Radiohead may have released one of the best rock/art records of…
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John Hammond – Wicked Grin
Artist: John Hammond Title: Wicked Grin Label: Virgin Rating: 8.5/10 It was 1974 when blues master John Hammond met Tom Waits. They had a mutual admiration then, which makes this collaboration twenty-five years later so right. Tom Waits finds himself for the first time producing another artist, and even more bizarre is the fact that…
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Bob Schneider – Lonelyland
Artist: Bob Schneider Title: Lonelyland Label: Universal Rating: 7/10 In his hometown of Austin, Texas, Bob Schneider has won all sorts of accolades. Schneider mixes country licks with a rock mentality. It’s no a new formula. If anything it’s a very stable and well-established mix that has proven many artists for quite some time. “Big…
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Drums and Tuba – Interview
How has touring life been for you guys? Long. We play a couple of tours a year. It’s easier now that we all live in the same city (New York) and not all over. Generally we go a month in, then a month out of playing. It takes us a long time to do the…
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Orgy – Interview [2001]
How’s it going? Pretty good. Just getting ready to go out on the road for hopefully the rest of the year. I was just on pollstar and it looks like you’re doing a tour with Papa Roach. Yeah, we’ve had that lined up for a little while. They’re with the same management, so it’s been…
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Idlewild – 100 Broken Windows
Artist: Idlewild Title: 100 Broken Windows Label: Capitol Rating: 7.5/10 Out of the land of plaid comes the next big rock quartet, Idlewild. Idlewild brings REM together with Nirvana as witty lyrics wrap around glorious hooks that sway but never fall down. The opener, “Little Discourage”, is mostly early REM when they were still a…
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Eve – Scorpion
Artist: Eve Title: Scorpion Label: Interscope Rating: 7/10 Eve is the femme fatale of the Ruff Ryders’ crew. On her sophomore release, she employed the hard hitting beats of all sorts, like Swizz Beats on “Cowboy” and “Got What You Need.” Swizz has some seriously hardcore signature beats. Dr. Dre also gets in on the…
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Vast – Music For People
Artist: Vast Title: Music For People Label: Elektra Rating: 9/10 With bands like Creed selling millions of records, I wonder why a band with the talents like Vast is not dominating North America. In ’98, Vast’s freshman debut, Visual Audio Sensory Theater, showed a lot of potential, enough so that this band should be making…
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Dinosaur
Cast: Animation Studio: Disney Rating: 5/10 Every time Walt Disney puts out an animated feature, it’s hard not to get excited. The previews for Dinosaur looked amazing. The first few minutes of the film were fast and lived up to the hype, but the rest of the film seemed to fall a bit flat. The…
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Dragonfly
Cast: Kevin Costner Studio: Universal Rating: 4/10 Dragonfly is a supernatural thriller about a man (Kevin Costner) who believes that his deceased wife (Susanna Thompson) is trying to communicate with him through the near-death experiences of her child patients. Costner has had his choice of bad films, but Dragonfly seems to top them all. The…
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