It has been over a year since I first watched the 2007 G3 tour on DVD. But even today, when I played it again, for the five hundredth time, I still enjoyed all those melodious tunes as if I were listening to them for the very first time. Such is the feeling of inner refreshment that only a G3 concert can provide, where three true guitar maestros come together on stage to create music that nourishes the listener’s mind, heart and soul.
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One of most anticipated albums of the year, 808s and Heartbreak is the third album from the Chicago-native producer and rapper who decided to use Auto-Tune and put together an entire album where he's basically "singing" as opposed to just rhyming on tracks.
The result? Creatively, it's amazing. The guy -- like him or not -- is at the top of his game. Despite the bombast in his act, Kanye West has...
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I feel like sometimes bands who live and die by the southern rock or ::gasp:: country moniker are unfairly thrown into a similar, uncouth category that many associated with unsavory music that wouldn't or shouldn't appeal to people who live in cities.
But hello folks, they have cities in the South too. And folks out West like country just as much as the next person, as do people in cities in the northeast and pretty much everywhere else. It's got a following or else,...
But hello folks, they have cities in the South too. And folks out West like country just as much as the next person, as do people in cities in the northeast and pretty much everywhere else. It's got a following or else,...
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In today’s ever-changing world, consumers of most commodities keep asking for a newer feel to the product they are buying. Yet, in the case of popular music, it seems that Marginal Utility works backwards. This fact is particularly relevant to Rock music, whose present-day fans are in a continuous state of nostalgia and one often comes across phrases like “Rock is dead” and “If rock existed”. Whenever a rock band has tried to change its style in accordance with...
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For a grand total of seventeen years, Canadian singer-slash-songwriter Alanis Morissette has graced many an ear with her up-beat pop tunes, the most infamous of which being her 1996 US top 10 and UK top 20 hit, 'Ironic'. Lest we not forget either Alanis' whopping seven Grammy awards, which I'm sure fit quite nicely in her platinum-lined awards cabinet, including one in 1996 for Best Album of the Year with 'Jagged Little Pill,' and Best Rock Song in 1999 for...
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Klum’s debut album “Victory all my life” sees the LA five piece take a variety of musical styles and re-invent them as their own. At times they could be compared to Radiohead, at others they’re as melodic as Sigur Ros and others as chaotically organised as Arcade Fire and Guillemots, whilst never treading on the toes of the aforementioned artists. However there is one thing we will all agree on: you’ll either love or despise their debut.
Album opener, “Focus”, seems to...
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After the huge success of the more than popular Ghosts I-IV, Nine Inch Nails comes back with another album that is full of adrenaline pumping beats and riffs, called The Slip. And to top that, this one is available for free to download, with the disks still under production. The apparent reason for the release of The Slip online may be that NIN is about to have a tour at the end of this year, and this album will serve to build some hype for it.
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Have you ever wondered if there was more to Kentucky than Fried Chicken? If you have, you would have probably discovered that there is also a lake, a zoo and a Science Centre. Well, now I bring you its best export. And no it doesn’t involve mutated meat covered in breadcrumbs. It instead appears in the form of five young men, dipped in nothing but rock and roll sauciness (see what I did there). They consist of Jim James on vocals and guitar, ‘Two Tone’ Tommy on bass, Carl...
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This is one of those albums that from the start, it'd be really hard to like it. First, Nas wanted to name it after a slur. After causing a stir and using that whole thing as a media tool, he decided to simply call the album Nas, figuring the imagery of the album cover would do the trick. (The reality is, the label wanted to avoid the fights that would've broken out at music stores when the 5 kids who still buy CDs went...
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The thing about N.E.R.D. is that it's really the one act where you see Pharrell the most comfortable. It's spaztastic, genre-busting music that's not intended to fit anywhere. Unlike past releases by N.E.R.D., this album isn't intended to 1) sell beats or 2) transcendent hits by a concept band.
Seeing Sounds is basically a concept album, but it's...
Seeing Sounds is basically a concept album, but it's...
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Weezy F Baby serenades with an album of epic clumsyness in Tha Carter III. I have to say that Lil' Wayne has had the most remarkable career trajectory in rap history. He went from afterthought to hip-hop maven in a relatively short period of time. He's a witty kid, who clearly seems to have learned from spending time around the brainiest in the game and has taken notes and crafted a style of his own.
It's clear that he's trying to use this album to burnish his...
It's clear that he's trying to use this album to burnish his...
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Austin, Texas superstars Spoon recently emerged from their studio with a new high in their already brilliant career. Their sixth album, “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga” managed to be everything people weren’t expecting: it wasn’t a bunch of radio-friendly singles, and it wasn’t a return to the stripped-down rock of their breakthrough, “Kill the Moonlight”.
Opening with the swaggering piano rock of “Don’t make me a target”, we get an immediate feel that things are a bit rougher...