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How Girl Talk Helped Me Get Over the Classic Rock Bluesnew
Girl Talk is the great musical bridge-builder of our time, and a hell of a lot of fun.
Metro Times |
Michael Jackman |
02-23-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Girl Talk
'Acid Tongue' is Where Jenny Lewis Finally Exploits Her Famenew
Lewis continues to write great songs and shape shift their environments, making them sound so damn simple, she practically writes her own reviews.
Metro Times |
Dan Weiss |
10-28-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Jenny Lewis, Acid Tongue
Brian Wilson is Back With a Triumphnew
Although the word has been used frequently throughout his career, both justifiably and not so justifiably, Brian Wilson's That Lucky Old Sun is an artistic triumph.
Metro Times |
Bill Holdship |
09-09-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Brian Wilson, That Lucky Old Sun
'Modern Guilt' Solidifies Beck's Transition from Man-Child Genius to Inventive Middle-Agernew
Modern Guilt is the shortest album of Beck's almost-15-year career, and the betting is that while it's not distinctive enough to rank as many people's favorite, it'll hold up pretty nicely in the canon. That's provided, of course, that you like the direction he's taken recently.
Metro Times |
Tim Grierson |
07-22-2008 |
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Mick Harvey Plays Second Fiddle Wellnew
Harvey is God's gift to public radio (or what used to be public radio), turning his listeners on to the great obscure songbook the way Nina Simone or Johnny Cash did with their own covers albums.
Metro Times |
Hobey Echlin |
11-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Mick Harvey, Two of Diamonds
Hop on the Super Furry Animal Spacecraftnew
That Hey Venus! has out-of-this-world cover art, and an exclamation mark in the title should not be taken lightly.
Metro Times |
Brian Hoekstra |
11-20-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hey Venus!, Super Furry Animals
Federico Aubele Pleases with 'Panamerica'new
On his sophomore album, Argentine singer-songwriter Aubele revisits the dubby beats and tango rhythms, the melancholic bandoneon and folkloric guitar lines that made his debut popular with hipsters everywhere.
Metro Times |
Celeste Moure |
10-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Federico Aubele, Panamerica
Al Hates Georgenew
Al Jourgensen hates the Bush administration so much that he's devoted not one but three full-length Ministry albums to shredding Dubya and his minions. The Last Sucker is the final entry in this trilogy.
Metro Times |
Janiss Garza |
10-16-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: ministry, The Last Sucker
James Hyman's Quentin Tarantino Mashup Never Drops the Beatnew
Clocking in at an extensively exhaustive 78 minutes, this gargantuan 55 track epic not only features music and dialogue from QT's first four movies, it also includes vital spoken word passages from rarely heard promo-only albums like Truth and Fiction.
Metro Times |
Jeffrey Morgan |
10-16-2007 |
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Don Cherry Quintet Asserts Its Skills on Live Albumnew
Ornette Coleman may have started the free jazz thing, circa 1960, but trumpeter Don Cherry was the Johnny Appleseed of Ornetteology, sharing and extending his boss's ideas on both sides of the Atlantic.
Metro Times |
W. Kim Heron |
09-11-2007 |
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Nikki Sixx's Memoir has a Soundtracknew
The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack is a companion to Sixx's memoir, due out in September, but the music and the book each stands on its own.
Metro Times |
Janiss Garza |
09-11-2007 |
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TV on the Radio Deliver More Than the Post-Everything Noise-Popnew
Don’t judge TV on the Radio, another precious and overhyped band from Brooklyn’s precious and overhyped Williamsburg rock scene, too quickly.
Metro Times |
Walter Wasacz |
04-27-2004 |
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