Category: Reviews
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It seems like most rock fans gave up on Saliva when vocalist Josey Scott left the band. But I was actually kind of glad he left. While I’d loved the first couple of Saliva albums, nothing they’d done since had really grabbed me. Somehow a hair band element had crept into the band and replaced…
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The xx are known for some fairly dark music, but Jamie xx’s new solo tune, “Girl,” is a much brighter affair with its chugging bass and shiny synth. It begins very much in the electro-pop vein and quickly morphs into synth pop before it surrenders to a post house sound during what we assume is…
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UK producer Stumbleine — aka Peter Cooper — deservedly-earned a reputation as a skillful and even innovative electronic artist during the past few years with intoxicating releases such as his 2012 solo debut, Spiderwebbed, and 2013’s Things Don’t Sparkle Like They Used To. But there was one thing that prevented some listeners from becoming fully…
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Noblesse Oblige’s “Voices In My Head” is the final song on their stellar 2013 album Affair of the Heart and it’s an uber-moody, downtempo track that just might have you hearing voices in your own head. The Mylène Farmer meets Massive Attack tune has been one of our favorite Noblesse Oblige songs since we first…
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Rather than constantly expanding our April Rules playlist, we decided to simply start a volume 2, which is now long enough for posting. Once again, the tracks are simply listed in the order they currently appear in, but we may add a few more tracks here and there as the month goes on, and they…
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“Boom, clap, you make me feel good, come on to me, come on to me,” sings Charli Kiss Charlie Kiss during the magnificent chorus of her highly addictive new song “Boom Clap,” which just might be the best pop song we’ve heard so far this year. From the sonorous beats to the electro embellishments to…
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Little Racer is a band from Brooklyn, NY consisting of vocalist/guitarist Elliot Michaud, guitarist Wade Michael, bassist Ish Nazmi and drummer Dave Tedeschi. They formed and released their eponymous single, “Little Racer” in 2010 and somehow the single managed to cross the ocean to the BBC and London imprint Young and Lost Club, which wound…
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The first couple of times I listened to this new Foxy Shazam album, I thought it was terrible. No, I can be more accurate: I thought it was piss poor. My biggest complaint was that the vocals sounded as though they were recorded on a cheap, old blank cassette that sold for 99 cents back…
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Imagine if Kanye West’s “Street Lights” was covered by a woman. And she sang it, instead of rapping it. Like Foxes’ gorgeous cover of Drake’s “Hold On We’re Going Home.” Well, that’s precisely what we have for you today with Kairos’ beautifully sung version of the Kanye classic. And, no, she doesn’t use auto-tune, the…
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review by Michael McCarthy all photos by Joshua Bernard Nina Persson’s eagerly-awaited 4/14/14 stop in Boston was part of her campaign for her first ever solo album, Animal Heart, thus the tour being dubbed the #animalheart tour by Nina herself on Facebook and Twitter. The Boston date followed shows in Vienna, VA and Philadelphia, PA.…
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The UK’s Bat and Ball are an immensely-talented outfit with co-lead vocalists Abi and Chris Sinclair hailing from West Country. While the two began writing and performing with various bands in their early teens, they never actually played in a band together until they both moved to London to study at Goldsmiths College, at which…
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Today’s song of the day is a hot — and downright infectious– remix of Petite Meller’s charming song “Backpack” by the French DJ known as Marlin. Although this remix packs a hard beat like the original version of the song, said beat isn’t quite as boisterous. It’s actually a longer, jumbo beat but it’s just…
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Kenny Rogers was finally inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame last October. Maybe the 75 year old wasn’t eligible until then — I admittedly don’t know — but it seems odd that the guy who brought country to the mainstream with his hit-filled early albums, the first of which was released in 1976,…
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Super slick, K-Pop beats and lots of “sexy” lyrics — read the English translation if you don’t believe us — make for a super steamy, irresistible number with this new single from K-Pop superstar NS Yoon-G, who sings it in a sultry manner but never to a point that it sounds ridiculous. An uber-catchy tune…
