Amy Winehouse
Back to Black
Label: Republic
Release Date: 03/13/07
I think almost every full blooded American male had a relationship with that one girl everyone said to stay away from. She was the textbook definition of dysfunctional. She had tremendous low self esteem. She abused some substance whether it was alcohol or drugs. She always got you in […]
Glenn Hughes
Music For the Devine
Label: Warcon
Release Date: 01/30/07
I opened up the booklet for this CD and there’s tons of photos within it. There is a picture of Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers looking at Glenn Hughes while both are playing violin. Chad has that “Are you sure?” look. The […]
Eleni Mandell
Miracle of Five
Label: Zedtone
Release Date: 02/06/07
I had trouble finding the right words to justify why I enjoyed Eleni Mandell’s Miracle of Five. My curiosity led me to it and I found myself listening to it almost every day since I got my hands on it. Some days, I’m the “angry man music” […]
Fjord
Lives Lives
Label: Eulogy
Release Date: 01/23/07
I might as well include a disclaimer and say that a lot of “metalcore” or metallic hardcore hasn’t been my bag lately. In fact, I tend to avoid the genre like a venereal disease. While there are some groups out there that have gotten it right(The Dream is Dead, […]
When we interviewed French Kiss Records’ The Big Sleep back in November, Sonia mentioned that she had really fallen in love with The Thermals (particularly “Pillar of Salt”). Thus, I was pretty excited for them when I read that they would be opening up for The Thermals on a big national tour, and I made […]
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Label: Epic
Release Date: 03/20/07
I’m rather convinced Modest Mouse can never succeed with the majority of their core fanbase ever again. To remake The Lonesome Crowded West or The Moon and Antarctica would be pointless; to diverge from them would be sacreligious. And maybe that’s why […]
Adult
Why Bother
Label: Thrill Jockey
Release Date: 03/20/07
What happens when its getting late in the night at your cities hipest
dance night? All the pretty skinny ladies dressed in their leggins are
hangin with “white girl”? You haved on too many Sparks and are feeling
restless. The PBR’s are almost sold out at the bar. I know what you […]
Lusine
Podgelism
Label: Ghostly International
Release Date:03/20/2007
“Podgelism” strikes at first as strange, but inviting. This is experimental electronic music. Is it ambience? Is it dance? Is that relevant? What is notable is that either blips and bloops have lost their curiosity, or the tracks on this album avoid the alienating effect of work laboring too hard to be […]
El-P
I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
Label: Definitive Jux
Release Date: 03/20/07
El-P’s first solo long player, “Fantastic Damage,” was a masterpiece of dystopian, sci-fi, modern hip-hop angst in which a hyperwired, junk cluttered future shock mixed imperceptively with a paranoid, enraged vision of the present as an assaulted landscape in which the individual is terrorized and bombarded without […]
LCD Soundsystem
Sound of Silver
Label: Capitol
Release Date:03/20/2007
It appears the jig is up, and the man who persuaded thick glasses to dance has gone and gotten mature. The thing is, he’s even better now. As half of the DFA, the production duo and label heads most responsable for forcing the beauty of electronic dance music […]
