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Archive for the ‘Album Review’ Category
“Misery” is Anything But
July 29th, 2010 Posted by Jason Lightner
Having found out a short while ago that Maroon 5 released a single from their upcoming album Hands All Over (due for release on September 21), I've been wanting to hear it. I was never a huge fan of Maroon 5 until I was forced to listen to them over and over again a few years ago. They were always too pop for me; I prefer my rock hard, with a splash of metal. But like things tend to do, Maroon 5 grew on me and I became a fan.
Herbie Hancock, The Imagine Project, 6/22/10
July 27th, 2010 Posted by J Frazzetta
When I first heard about this album and idea, recreating Beatles tracks with a crazy line up, I was excited. However, I was saddened to find that there is only one Beatles track and the other is a John Lennon song. There is also a Bob Dylan cover, but I was thinking that this album would be a lot different than it turned out to be.
You have to hand it to Herbie Hancock, he got a lot of talented people to contribute to this album and he flew all over the world to record with them as well. For...
Infinite: The Road to Recovery
July 15th, 2010 Posted by Jason Lightner
One of the most iconic artists in hip-hop, Eminem has received eleven Grammy awards and in 2008 was voted "The Best Rapper Alive" by readers of Vibe Magazine. Though Eminem has seen great success with nearly all of his albums, it is important to understand what makes him such a great lyricist. Enter Infinite.
Stylistically unlike all of his subsequent albums, Infinite's mellow instrumentals blend with less aggressive lyrics to produce an album that's very laid-back. The reason for this, Eminem has claimed, is that he wanted to create "radio-friendly" songs in the hopes of getting airplay. When compared to The...
Talk Show, S/T, 1997
July 13th, 2010 Posted by J Frazzetta
There are some albums I listen to all year round, and there are some that only sound great in the summer months. This is one of the latter. After wrapping up Tiny Music, Stone Temple Pilots went on a hiatus where Scott Weiland released his first solo album 12 Bar Blues, a strange album. The rest of the band had been jamming with singer Dave Coutts since 1995 and decided to release their debut album Talk Show. I came across it at a record store in Keene some years ago and snatched it from a friend who claimed to...
Eminem’s “Recovery”
July 1st, 2010 Posted by Bea
Well, Eminem has come out with yet another album. I believe that this is his seventh studio album and it is another success! I actually had no clue that he has come out with so many albums until recently, but it does make sense. He has been a stable artist and has continued (minus a 3-year hiatus between 2006-2009) to have a presence in the music world ever since I started listening to music; this is something I will commend him for because he is not someone who went big and then went home.
Recovery, which followed Relapse and was...
