Tag: reviews
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One-time Hotel Café waitress Meiko has come a long way since self-releasing her debut album in 2007 (and re-releasing it via MySpace the following year). A singer/songwriter who routinely tells stories with her songs, her material tends to be very upbeat or entirely sad. Her new album, her third, is of the down-trodden variety. There…
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29. PLASTISCINES: BACK TO THE START Now a trio, the French group Plastiscines released one of the year’s finest pop rock albums from any country. And you shouldn’t let the French thing keep you away because most of these songs are in English. Plus, these are some of the most well-produced, energetic tunes this year.…
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Super synthy, semi dark, sugary sweet… One of iamamiwhoami’s finest songs now has a video. And it’s positively creepy. For those of you who aren’t digging the Christmas music.
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If you like light-hearted country tunes with lots of banjo, you’re in for a real treat here. As always, The Band Perry deliver top notch country music about, what else, love; sure to lift the spirits of anyone who listens. Unless, of course, you happen to hate banjo. But we’re down with the banjo, which…
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“The Dollyrots are a punk rock band but their CDs are very pop.” – from their bio on their Facebook info. And after listening to their new Christmas EP, I’m inclined to agree. The Los Angeles duo’s energy and tempos are very punk rock, but the hooks are so contagious that you could also consider…
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This one has a really uplifting chorus, but the verses are a trainwreck. She sings a few lyrics then she starts going “blah, blah” and making some incomprehensible gibberish. If it wasn’t for that hideous bridge we might actually like this song, but… Any song that has to resort to “blah, blah,” etc, just strikes…
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And now for something completely different… A slamming, electro-pop gem from The Ready Set. No, we didn’t exactly see it coming either. “Fangz,” as it’s called, is a better EDM track than anything on David Guetta’s latest album. OK, so it’s not quite EDM, but parts of it pack the sort of propulsive beats and…
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Just over a week ago, Robbie Williams announced that he’d be releasing an album of rare and previously unreleased tracks called Under The Radar Volume 1. This immediately excited me because I’ve always loved and collected Robbie’s B-sides and have often felt that many of them were stronger than some of the material on his…
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Wow… this one is beautiful beyond words. But we’ll say a few anyway. Marie Digby’s acoustic rendition of her new song “Kings & Queens” is spellbinding and very emotive, her sounding vulnerable and romantic all at once. If this one doesn’t touch you’re heart then you’re probably frozen and should check to make sure you…
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Ysa Ferrer is an artist who half of our readers have likely never heard of while the other half are undoubtedly quite familiar with her. If you live in the States — where we’re based — then you’re probably not familiar with her. But if you live in Europe, she’s practically a household name at…
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review and all photographs by Joshua Bernard The last time Death from Above 1979 played Boston, it was 2005 and they opened for Nine Inch Nails at the Fleet Center (Formerly the Boston Garden). There’s a big difference between the 17k seat Boston Garden vs the 2500 seat House of Blues, but that didn’t seem…
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Alicia Keys is one of the greatest songwriters of our time. I don’t think there are many people who’d disagree with that. And if you do disagree, chances are you’ll change your opinion after watching this emotive video and listening to her inspirational lyrics. You could consider it a church song and preachy at that,…
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