The biggest fault with The Lady Killer is its viral sensation, the track “Fuck You.” It is an effervescent, light-spirited Motown-styled pop song that needs to have it’s mouth washed…
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Dw. Dunphy
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There has been a wave crashing over the entertainment industry, not just music but movies, television, books, just about any sector that has enjoyed a sense of history. This wave…
Dw. Dunphy
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The movie Tron: Legacy arrives at a point of very good fortune, and it is the most unlikely of comebacks. First off, it’s a sequel that never should have happened….
Ken Shane
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You’ve heard about her on our Twitter stream. You’ve wondered what all the fuss was about. Amy Petty’s new album has been released, and it’s time to find out.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reviews the new albums from Atheist, Nails, Drudkh and Yngwie!
Dave Steed
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Resident Buckethead expert Dave Steed, takes a look at the four most recent releases from Buckethead – Best Regards, Captain EO’s Voyage, Spinal Clock and Brain as Hamenoodle.
Ken Shane
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Daniel Lanois is well known as a brilliant producer. His band Black Dub has released their debut album and Ken Shane thinks it’s one of the highlights of 2010.
Dw. Dunphy
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The most frustrating aspect of reviewing music is the point where you appreciate something but aren’t entirely enthused about it. You’ve heard something enjoyable, but once it is over, you…
Dw. Dunphy
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It would be wildly inaccurate to say Keith Richards’ solo work (and that with backing band, the X-Pensive Winos) was light years ahead of the Rolling Stones stuff from roughly…
Pete Chianca
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”You can’t hold me, baby, with anything but contempt,” Elvis Costello sings amid dueling guitars on the explosive title track that opens his latest album, ”National Ransom” (Hear Music). It’s…
Will Harris
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Will Harris praises Rhino Handmade’s reissue of the Head soundtrack and the Monkees songs contained therein, but the album as a whole…? Not so much.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reviews the new albums from Helloween, Gwar, former Manowar guitarist Ross the Boss, AxCx and more!
Dw. Dunphy
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It bothers me that Bryan Ferry’s new album Olympia slips into the “what might have been” category so easily. For what it is, being a release primarily comprised of Ferry’s…
Ken Shane
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In 1982 Richard and Linda Thompson released what some saw as a devastating breakup album. The truth is complicated. A brilliant reissue gets to the heart of it.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed checks out seven new metal releases so you know what to headbang to.
Ken Shane
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Philadelphia’s War On Drugs follows up their 2008 album “Wagonwheel Blues” with an EP that defies that conventions of that format.
Jeff Giles
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I never thought I’d be interested in listening to an Aaron Neville record. Yes, of course he’s done some stellar work with the Neville Brothers, but fellow children of the…
Ken Shane
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Occasionally there is an event in the music world that transcends the mundane. The release of Bob Dylan’s publishing demos from the early ’60s is such an event.
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed headbangs along with new releases from Woe, October Falls, Firewind and more.
Ken Shane
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Angie Mattson impressed Ken Shane when she opened for Justin Currie on his first solo US tour. Does her new album deliver on the promise of that performance?
Dw. Dunphy
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Although I considered Carptree’s previous album Insekt (2008) to be one of that year’s best, even I had to admit it was a pretty dark series of songs. The combination…
Dw. Dunphy
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Maturity tends to be the dirtiest word in pop music. Fans of good pop seldom equate it with being “redolent with the heady fragrances of adulthood,” but more likely, “old…
Dw. Dunphy
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Things have been problematic for the post-Neal Morse era of Spock’s Beard. They’ve produced some good songs during this time, but never a full album that gelled completely. The closest…
Dave Steed
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Dave Steed reviews new albums from Killing Joke, Monster Magnet, Earth, Grave Digger and more.
Dw. Dunphy
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There was an exciting, albeit brief, period in the early 1990s where bands of limited resources but unlimited ambition managed to not only get their records out to the public,…
Dw. Dunphy
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There is very little difference between breakup bravado and a midlife crisis. Both make people do drastic things, buy pink Corvettes, show off in front of potential suitors and, sometimes,…
Dw. Dunphy
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In celebration of what would have been John Lennon’s 70th birthday, Capitol Records has released a remastered set of his solo work, arriving in digi-envelopes to mirror last year’s Beatles…
Dw. Dunphy
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This review is late. Eight years late, to be exact but I do have an excuse. The only way I could have gotten it in on time would be to…
Dw. Dunphy
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Several critics were head-over-heels for Christ O, the 2006 release from German prog-metallers Vanden Plas, but it left little to no impression on me. Scratch that: it did leave me…
Pete Chianca
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The Boston Phoenix described indie-folk act Leland Sundries as ”The Band meets Lou Reed,” and as intriguing a prospect as that is (I have to suppress an image of Reed…