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Review: Kings of Leon, “Only By the Night”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard — Record No. 4 finds Tennessee’s most famous rock’n’roll Pentecostals tamping down the hillbilly stomp in favor of more measured, midtempo numbers that simmer more than scorch. “Only by the Night” requires some patience; it sounds a little like one 43-minute medium-simmer track on first listen but begins to reveal its charms on subsequent [...]

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Michael Franti revels in his dub groove on “Rebel Rockers”

Posted in Billboard, Interviews, Music, mp3, tagged , , , , on August 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Billboard — In the past four years, Michael Franti traveled into the hearts of Baghdad, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to shoot his documentary “I Know I’m Not Alone” and its audio companion “Yell Fire!,” and he wrote a children’s book, “What I Be.”
So you can’t blame him for wanting to blow off [...]

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Review: Willie Nelson and Wynton Marsalis, “Two Men With The Blues”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , , on July 11, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard - At first blush, this odd-couple billing would seem like a bizarre musical gumbo indeed, until one remembers that Willie Nelson knocked out a full-on pot-themed reggae album a few years ago. As it is, “Two Men With the Blues” is the recorded evidence of a two-night Jazz at Lincoln Center summit in January [...]

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Mike Doughty’s “Golden” rules

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , on February 27, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard - It may be his poppiest and slickest work to date, but “Golden Delicious” is more proof that Mike Doughty still knows where to make the melodies twist and turn to find the sweet spot among the ridiculous, the sublime and the sad. Opener “Fort Hood” is a deceptively boppy-sounding look at a [...]

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Review: Drive-By Truckers: "Brighter Than Creation’s Dark"

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , , on January 18, 2008 | No Comments »

Billboard - The Drive-By Truckers’ seventh album is a sprawling scorcher, and while these guys certainly aren’t strangers to long records, “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark” is one of the meanest, leanest 19-track albums you’ll ever spin. Yet where DBT usually hits the ground running, “Dark” is deliberately slower to burn, full of beautifully considered stories [...]

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Billy Joel hosts "Christmas in Fallujah"

Posted in Billboard, Interviews, Music, tagged , , , on December 4, 2007 | No Comments »

NEW YORK (Billboard) - Billy Joel has broken his self-imposed retirement from pop for the second time in a year, but he’d almost rather you didn’t know that.
The second new Joel-penned single since his last pop album, 1993’s “River of Dreams,” is called “Christmas in Fallujah” and hits iTunes December 4.
There [...]

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Review: Bruce Springsteen, “Magic”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , on September 28, 2007 | No Comments »

Billboard - Somewhere between “The River” and “The Rising” falls “Magic,” Bruce Springsteen’s first rock record since 2002 and a sleek machine that’s practically pleading to be taken out on the highway. Fully resettled on E Street after two solo projects, Springsteen has injected the taut “Magic” with a fierce purpose you can almost taste. [...]

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Mark Ronson makes ‘Version’ history

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, tagged , , , , , , , , on July 9, 2007 | No Comments »

Billboard - British indie rock has been called a lot of things, but “nutty fun” isn’t frequently one of them, which is what makes “Version” such an exhilarating summertime throwdown. Best-known around these parts for producing Lily Allen and Amy Winehouse, Ronson takes the occasion to decorate songs by Coldplay (”God Put a Smile Upon [...]

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Grandmaster Flash, Mele Mel send Rock Hall a message

Posted in Billboard, Interviews, Music, tagged , , , , , on March 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Billboard - You could spend the better part of a day listing the things Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five did first: In the embryonic days of the New York rap scene, they were among its first superstars, they helped pioneer the freestyle battle and Grandmaster Flash was instrumental in inventing the art of break-beat [...]

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Review: Norah Jones, “Not Too Late”

Posted in Billboard, Music, Reviews, mp3, tagged , , , , , , on February 7, 2007 | No Comments »

Billboard - Norah Jones has less need to go changing her game than just about any other musician working today, and why not - if you’re the Yankees, it’s not like you need to clean out your farm system very often. Still, though it sustains the poised, unhurried soulfulness of its predecessors, “Not Too Late” [...]

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