Category: Reviews
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The Grateful Dead – Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978 – review
The album marks the 30th anniversary of The Dead’s historic concerts at Giza-More than 3 hours of rare and previously unreleased music remastered in HDCD plus over 100 minutes of extremely rare, previously unseen concert and behind the scenes footage.
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Travis – Ode to J. Smith – review
“Ode To J. Smith” by Travis is 11 tracks of their loudest, edgiest and most arresting record yet.
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Q-Tip – The Renaissance – review
Modern hip-hop and R&B music can both arguably be divided into pre- and post-A Tribe Called Quest for the artist known as Q-Tip.
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Shiny Toy Guns – Season of Poison – review
“Season of Poison” is the highly anticipated sophomore album from Shiny Toy Guns. The album is the follow up to their critically acclaimed Grammy nominated debut record “We Are Pilots” which was released in 2006.
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Pink – Funhouse – review
Pink comes right on time in 2008 with her highly anticipated and provocatively personal “Funhouse” album, addressing both her public and private persona, as only Pink can. Teaming once again with hit-makers Max Martin, Billy Mann, and others, Pink is poised to leave another memorable mark worldwide!
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Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads – review
Off With Their Heads could/should be described as being the first ‘proper’ Kaiser Chiefs’ album with a solid base on which is constructed a series of tracks which come together as an altogether less frenetic and more cohesive piece of work than previous outings and is almost certainly the better for it.
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Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns – review
Gary Lightbody (vocals/guitars) says, “”I’m so proud of this record. Everybody played out of their skin. Garret (Jacknife Lee) continued his progression from maverick genius to one of the best producers in the world. Musically, lyrically and sonically the best record we’ve made”
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Keane – Perfect Symmetry – review
A review of Keane’s “Perfect Symmetry”
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Watch the Rise Against video for Making Christmas from the Nightmare Revisited album
Rise Against, who recently released Appeal To Reason, has also lent their unique punk rock sound to the Nightmare Revisited soundtrack. The Chicago bred quartet has put a nightmarish twist on Danny Elfman’s original “Making Christmas” and the video to go along side the track can be seen here. The Nightmare Revisited soundtrack also featuring…
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Nikka Costa – A Peeble to a Pearl – review
The latest radiant gem by the gifted singer-songwriter and performer Nikka Costa — is far and away her most direct and convincing musical statement yet. If this is Costa’s most pleasing album to date — and it clearly is — then it’s exactly because the woman singing to us so powerfully has finally found the…