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Heavy Weighs the King
Tue, 29 Apr 2008 14:47:14
I-Nine pave their own road, utilizing heartache and literary references as primary building blocks. On their debut Heavy Weighs the King (RCA), the South Carolina four piece crafts dream pop anthems that equally channel Avril Lavigne and Beach House. They essentially find the perfect middle ground ...more
Enigma
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 07:02:32
Ill Nino raise a pronounced middle finger to the haters on Enigma. Metal and the mainstream should both pay attention starting now, because Ill Nino has crafted their best record to date. A chaotic combination of gnashing thrash riffs, tribal groove percussion and experimental vocals, the album is ...more
On “Disconnected” the second and best track on In Flames' ninth album, A Sense Of Purpose, frontman Anders Friden snarls, "I feel like shit / But at least I feel something." It's a genuine sentiment that many a disaffected metal fan can easily relate to. The lyrical content isn't the only thing ...more
The Shepherd's Dog
Mon, 01 Oct 2007 13:45:23
After his first two full-lengths, 2002's The Creek Drank the Cradle and 2004's Our Endless Numbered Days, Iron & Wine's Sam Beam faced a choice between shaking up his formula or continuing to write more achingly intimate acoustic songs and securing a comfortable pigeonhole as one of indie music's ...more
Our Love to Admire
Tue, 10 Jul 2007 11:58:54
On their third full-length, Interpol eviscerate the backlash buzzards who predicted the band would be tainted by its new major label or finally exposed as a one-trick, post-punk pony. For starters, reinvention is overrated; Radiohead did it, but so did Liz Phair.
Interpol's progression has ...more
Reputation still often precedes The Icarus Line, whose press clippings paint them as debauched hellraisers playing appropriately assaultive rock 'n roll. And Black Lives at the Golden Coast does wage intermittent war on eardrums, fired by brash, brisk stompers like "Committed to Extinction" and the ...more
Make Another World
Mon, 02 Apr 2007 11:16:45
When Scottish band Idlewild released its first two records, Hope Is Important and 100 Broken Windows, it was clear the young band had enormous potential—a scrappy foursome with an irreverent punk spirit and an admirable gift for crafting memorable hooks. But the releases that followed, The ...more
Most musicians have to put their friends on the guest list for live performances, or otherwise those friends won't show. Emanuel Lundgren has gone one step further: he's put them all in his band. Swedish polyphonic free-for-all I'm From Barcelona boasts 29 members—and they're all relatively ...more
India.Arie has simple goals; as stated in the letter to her listeners that appears in the Testimony liner notes, she merely wants to make music that "will speak to you in exactly the way your soul is calling out for."
Wow. Well, maybe it doesn't seem so ludicrous when people have called you the ...more
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