Posts Tagged ‘music review’
Music Review: Brandy’s New Album, Human
After a 4 year hiatus, Brandy is back with her 5th studio album, Human. It’s an extremely personal effort that sounds like entries ripped from the singer’s diary. Brandy fans will be happy to hear that her voice has matured and rides the beat effortlessly as she [Read More]
Music Review: The Weepies’ Hideaway
Hideaway is the follow-up to The Weepies' critically acclaimed 2006 album Say I Am You. You know it was critically acclaimed because you could barely throw a rock without hitting a TV showing a mainstream drama featuring a track from the album. But [Read More]
Music Review: Mountain Battles by The Breeders
I’ll be perfectly honest—I have a giant girl-crush on Kim Deal. It first started when I was in junior high and The Breeders’ smash hit “Cannonball” was all over the alternative airwaves. I was absolutely devastated when I was [Read More]
Music Review: Counting Crows’ Saturday Nights
Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings is the first new studio release from Counting Crows since 2002's Hard Candy. Unlike Hard Candy, which I didn't particularly care for, Saturday Nights and Sunday Mornings really takes me back to the earlier, less saccharine [Read More]
Music Review: Dropkick Murphys
March should a month to celebrate the Irish heritage – including its music. With a name as Irish as mine, it would be almost blasphemous for me not to celebrate my green blood. This usually involves green dyed hair, green and white beads, my “kiss [Read More]
Music Review: The Bird and the Bee
The Southern California duo of Inara George and Greg Kurstin, better known as the bird and the bee (humbly titled with no caps in the name) released their self-titled debut album in the US on January 23rd. This album blends a lot of interesting sounds. Think [Read More]
Music Review: The Velvet Underground
David Byrne (Talking Heads) said that rock and roll as he knows it is dead. It may be true that we no longer have the vastly influential music of the 60’s being created, but that music still influences modern rock. Rock seems to have forgotten its [Read More]
