3/27/2006
I'll keep this short. The Wood Brothers (Oliver and Chris Wood), have been making music for years separately, but these brothers should have been working together sooner. Yet better late than never, Blue Note Records has just released Ways Not To Lose, an album as perfectly titled as it is a...
3/27/2006
Miami punk quartet Against All Authority's new album The Restoration Of Chaos And Order owes its title to a vocabulary gaffe committed by our president -or what I believe is our president- and though it's funny (and sad), it points to the bands ideal of the album; to shed light on institutions and...
3/25/2006
Having been a member of the Terror Squad since '98 when Big Pun discovered her, Remy Ma has long been waiting for her solo debut shot, and the first thing she does with There's Something About Remy is give Pun the opening spot ("Pun's Words"). I'm not certain if it's solely for homage, or selfishly...
3/22/2006
When a tree falls in the forest... you know the rest of the question... Similarly, Cincinnati, Ohio natives Oval Opus released their self titled fourth studio album this past January.
3/20/2006
I have a problem. When "hard rockers" start screaming to sound, well... "hard", I start to laugh. The cliche of unshaven, unkempt, armband wearing, head thrashing misunderstood rockers is so far gone that Kurt Cobain might have even been embarrassed if he around to see where alternative music has...
3/19/2006
Though "Sleeper Cell" failed to find the audience Showtime was hoping for, the accompanying soundtrack I hope has a better time of it.Executive produced by Nona Hendryx (who also contributes a few tracks alongside Paul Haslinger) who's been absent from the spotlight for some time, the Sleeper Cell...
3/17/2006
Paddy Moloney's group of tin whistling, fiddling Irishmen, in their fifth decade together, have released the 2-disc The Essential Chieftains, and it's a welcome cobweb clearer for my musical brain.
3/15/2006
I wonder if Jaco Pastorius had known his impact was going to reverberate these many years later, he would not have fallen so far until death was less of a shock than it was an expectation.Peter Graves (no, not THAT Peter Graves), originally hired Jaco in 1971 at the naive age of 20 to be a part of...
3/14/2006
Experimental even at 84 years old, Gershon Kingsley is one of the progenitors that understood the uses and potential of the Moog Synthesizer years before pop culture had any idea of who Bob Moog or what "Moog music" was. Since then, Kingsley's name has been synonymous with Moog music, and as one...
3/13/2006
There is a coterie of good, low-key, "personal", male singer/songwriters. This is nothing new. Ever since Elliot Smith made it to the mainstream due to recognition from Good Will Hunting, the genre has been made more accessible to the masses, and artists like James Blunt and Ben Lee get chances...
