This week sees [tag]Morrissey[/tag] releasing his sixth greatest hits album, titled, well you’ve guest it “Greatest Hits”. One has to wonder if the Moz really has that many hits or this is another fan money exploitation, whichever it is doesn’t matter anymore, as I’m more then sure he’ll make up for it with his forthcoming brand new album this year. Laura Marling, a young promising folk singer/songwriter from Reading, is making her sought after debut…
What a fine week this is gonna be, with new records from the likes of acoustic master [tag]Jack Johnson[/tag], soul/funk multi-instrumentalist [tag]Lenny Kravitz[/tag], country sweetheart [tag]Sheryl Crow[/tag] or electropop brits [tag]Hot Chip[/tag]. Fine week indeed. Jack Johnson: Sleep Through the Static Lenny Kravitz: It is Time for a Love Revolution
This weeks seems to be the first “big one” of the year 2008, with a lot of excellent new releases from both experienced and new comer artists. The clear highlight is “The Bedlam in Goliath” by [tag]The Mars Volta[/tag], which is already shaping up as a contender for best album of the year. List nerds should bookmark this, so they don’t forget it at the end of the year. A pop icon of the ’80s…
This is definitely one of those indie dominating weeks, with new releases from the likes of [tag]Cat Power[/tag], [tag]Dengue Fever[/tag], [tag]The Whigs[/tag] or [tag]Get Set Go[/tag]. Some highlights include Charlyn Marshall’s (Cat Power) “Jukebox,” her second cover album, filled with great renditions of such classics as James Brows, Frank Sinatra, Bob Dylan or Lee Clayton, as well as Athens, Georgia garage rock trio [tag]The Whigs[/tag] and their sophomore release Mission Control. This latest album from…
Things are really shaping up this week, with some awesome new releases, especially from the rock and indie scene. The clear highlight of the week is [tag]Ringo Starr[/tag], one of the fab four, with his whooping 14th solo album, called “Liverpool 8”. We haven’t had the honor of sampling the record yet, but from what I’ve been reading and hearing, it should be a album that takes Ringo back to his roots, after all Liverpool…
This is the first Monday of 2008, and if you remember our year-end article about this year’s new records, then you’ll share our sentiments, that this will be the first of many excellent musical weeks. As expected though, the first week, as well as the song, are a bit scarece, after all this is the worst possible time to release a record, but after that we should expect only the best. This week [tag]Kate Nash[/tag],…
The string of inconsistent releases, leave their mark, this week as well, with the usual end of the year mediocre Hip-Hop releases and here and there compilations. Worth mentioning are [tag]Mary J. Blige[/tag], [tag]Lupe Fiasco[/tag] or [tag]Chingy[/tag], each with a new album out this week. A personal favorite of mine this week is from behalf of [tag]Weezer[/tag] frontman Rivers Cuomo and his first solo record “Alone–the Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo,” a collection of songs…
This is another poor week, in terms of new releases, with only, as usual for this time of year, rap or R&B albums that are worth mentioning. This includes new records from the likes of Bow Wow, The-Dream, Beanie Sigel and reporedly also Nelly, that pushed his latest album’s release date a while back to December 10, but now he’s changed it again to a yet to be announced date. Oh and don’t forget this…
Seems like the end of the year, apart from holiday and best of compilations, is a good time to release rap albums, at least that’s what the pour of constant hip-hop records, released in these past days and week, leads us to believe. Leading the pack is [tag]Wu Tang Clan[/tag] warlord [tag]Ghostface Killah[/tag], with his much awaited seventh solo release “The Big Dough Rehab”, after last year he delighted us with fish and later with…
The holidays are just weeks away and this also reflects into poor releases, being that special time of the year when new records are kept to minimum, but not necessary in quality. Shinning this week is indisputably the invigorated [tag]Kylie Minogue[/tag], with her latest 10th album, suggestively titled “X”. [tag]Genesis[/tag] and live got well together, so the band’s latest record “Live Over Europe” should please a lot of fans. Ireland’s most famous boy band [tag]Westlife[/tag]…
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