Posted Tue Oct 28, 2008 7:16am PDT
Hova drops flirty verses over a cooing, Motown-style ballad so smooth it would make Smokey Robinson proud.Raphael Saadiq feat. ... 
Posted Mon Oct 27, 2008 7:16am PDT
On 2006's Sam's Town, the Killers tried to rope arena-rock sincerity into their glitter-pop grotto, with spotty results. ... 
Posted Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:28am PDT
How do you mend a broken heart? With a crowbar! Over a girl-group groove, this Philly R&B rookie smashes her ex's ride after catching him with another lady. 
Posted Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:16am PDT
Leo revives some Thatcher-era, gob-in-your-eye rabble-rousing from Brit guttersnipes Cock Sparrer. ... 
Posted Wed Oct 22, 2008 7:16am PDT
A Dixieland-style showpiece with banjo, tuba and choir, it's an ornate love song for the outed (and kind of hot) former CIA operative, from the point of view of a dude who knew her when her "nom de guerre was code name Caroline. ... 
Posted Tue Oct 21, 2008 7:16am PDT
A Tijuana techno team transform a cowboy-hatted tuba polka from the Mexican border first into John Philip Sousa, then into a Dixieland brass band playing the funeral-wake parade; voices deep in the background hoot and holler throughout. ... 
Posted Mon Oct 20, 2008 7:16am PDT
Gloomy chords set up the obsessive sort of drone that the Velvet Underground or Yardbirds stole from medieval pagans. It builds to sundry atonal patterns of sustained notes; in his sweet Bavarian accent, Markus Archer somehow keeps his cool. ... 
Posted Fri Oct 17, 2008 7:16am PDT
Finally, an ‘00s teen-pop glam stomp worthy of Suzi Quatro: Out-socking even her Jonas Bro buddies, home-alone Camp Rocker Demi yelps out asides and smacks her lips and throws her hands in the air over a hard-swinging Led Zeppelin riff. ... 
Posted Thu Oct 16, 2008 7:16am PDT
Jazz elder Charlie, his tenacious son-in-law, and sprightly sidemen on string instruments stir some up timely old-timey Great Depression-style talking-blues hokum: Jack’s broke and homeless and gets shot in the arm, but lives to hoedown about it. . 
Posted Wed Oct 15, 2008 7:16am PDT
Swirling to courtly dance rhythms from the Victorian parlor, a teenage girl dreams of a handsome prince to save her from her lonely room. She conflates Shakespeare and Hawthorne; he asks her dad for her hand; she gets to wear white. ... | Select a Blog | Posts |
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