Artist name: Katie Melua Album name: Pictures Label: Dramatico Gender: Acoustic/Jazz/Blues Release date: 1 Oct 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.katiemelua.com/ There are those who admire and find great rewards in listening to Katie Melua and there are others who find that her music is just for your grandmother. But most listeners are just not understanding her. Her songs are not just sung, but emoted. They bind naivety, innocence, loss or hope and many other feelings…
Artist name: Nightwish Album name: Dark Passion Play Label: Nuclear Blast/Roadrunner Records Gender: Symphonic Metal Release date: September 26, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.nightwish.com/ Three years have passed since the previous release of the band. In 2004 the finnish quartet gave Tarja Turunen over 60 minutes material which is more than hard to play; it was so hard it could break the neck of almost any mezzo-soprano in the studio and she sang it in…
Artist name: Jose Gonzalez Album name: In Our Nature Label: Mute Records Gender: Folk/Indie Release date: September 25, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.jose-gonzalez.com/ Two years ago, the back then unknown swede goldenboy [tag]Jose Gonzalez[/tag] amazed the entire world with his fabulous acoustic playing and Nick Drake like voice,releasing what was to be one of the finest album of 2005 in the form of Veneer. A Sony Bravia ad, featuring his extraordinary cover of The Knife’s…
Artist name: Ringo Starr Album name: Photograph: The Very Best of RS Label: EMI/Capitol Gender: Rock/Pop Release date: August 28, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.ringostarr.com/ The Fab Four had such a huge impact in music that it is hard to believe that there has not been a proper Ringo Starr hits collection since the first, 1975’s Blast from Your Past. That was released just five years after his debut, Sentimental Journey, but it ignored that…
Artist name: Mark Knopfler Album name: Kill To Get Crimson Gender: Folk Label: Warner Bros. Records Release date: September 18, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.markknopfler.com/ For what concerns music history it’s just hard to talk about [tag]Mark Knopfler[/tag]. But when you think about it is harder not to talk about him. The man is a living legend and probably even more important is that his spirit is so young. He is a distinguished member in…
Artist name: Iced Earth Album name: Framing Armageddon: Sometheing Wicked I Gender: Power Meta Label: SPV Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.icedearth.com/ There are some metal bands which like to wallow in their misery, some which like to party hard, and some which refuse categoricaly to indulge in any of the aforementioned well-traveled roads. Iced Earth is that kind of band.They specialize in triumphant sounding metal and show the masterful guitar work…
Artist name: 5o Cent Album name: Curtis Label: Aftermath Records/Interscope Gender: Hip-Hop Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 5/10 Website: http://www.50cent.com/ [tag]50 Cent[/tag] has had an incredible rap career. With two out of two albums with his name on them going 10 or more times platinum, and pretty much anything dealing with him being blessed with success (aside from any recent G-unit artist’s album), its no wonder the record selling giant comes into the game…
Artist name: Kanye West Album name: Graduation Label: GOOD Music/Island Def Jam Gender: Hip-Hop Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 9/10 Website: http://www.kanyewest.com/ [tag]Kanye West[/tag] has been through an amazing journey through his career. Debuting on a classic album (The Blueprint), putting on an amazing show with The College Dropout, and not falling for that sophomore slump that so many succumb to with Late Registration, Kanye has constantly stayed on top when put on center…
Artist name: Gloria Estefan Album name: 90 Millas Label: Burgundy Records/SonyBMG Gender: Latino/Pop Release date: September 17, 2007 ZMErating: 8/10 Website: http://www.gloriaestefan.com/ The artist which split from Miami Sound Machine in 1989 has some memorable hits but her most noticeable efforts are her Spanish-language ones. The fact that that language is not understood by everybody may haunt her but it may also bring more fans. It is a two way knife.
Artist name: Animal Collective Album name: Strawberry Jam Label: Domino Records Gender: Experimental/Indie Rock Release date: September 11, 2007 ZMErating: 10/10 Website: http://www.paw-tracks.com/ Anyone who at least gave a spin to a [tag]Animal Collective[/tag] album should know that their sound is far from commercial, extremely selective and most of the time plain old inaccessible. They’ve been regarded by most music savvy men as a bastion of quality indie music, alongside such acts as [tag]Arcade Fire[/tag],…
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