| Live music review: James Taylor Quartet, Ronnie Scott's, London The Independent For a figure that has railed against the pleasantries of polite jazz, James Taylor looks suspiciously comfy in this all-seated venue where punters are still polishing ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Music Reviews: ASG, Dio, Dust, and Saxon Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) There have been quite a few releases coming into my inbox, my mailbox and hard drive these last four or so months. Some are new and great studio releases by ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album review: Rizzle Kicks, Roaring 20s (Island) The Independent The opening query on Rizzle Kicks' follow-up to Stereo Typical –"What you got a naggy face for?" – is an apt gambit, both for its delicious use of evocative slang ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Live review: Plan B, O2 Shepherd's Bush Academy, London The Independent Following an unhappy set warming up for Eminem's headline slot at Slane Castle, Plan B returns to London in a promotional show to mark the arrival of 4G on ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Album review: Goodie Mob, Age Against The Machine (Warner ... The Independent In the 14 years since World Party, CeeLo Green has entirely overshadowed his former Goodie Mob friends, and that dynamic dominates this comeback reunion ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| BWW Reviews: BIG SEAN's Sophomore Album, 'Hall of Fame' Broadway World 'Hall of Fame', which dropped on Tuesday, August 27th, is the second studio album from hip hop recording artist Big Sean. Back in October, Big Sean released ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album review: Neko Case, The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight ... The Independent Emerging from a three-year bout of bereavement-induced grief and depression, Neko Case here offers a song-cycle that takes her from the looming portents of ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album review: The 1975, The 1975 (Polydor) The Independent The 1975 have made much of their eclecticism, the way that YouTube has effectively telescoped all of pop history into one big stylistic marketplace. Which raises ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Youssou N'Dour: Voice of Africa, BBC Four The Arts Desk For large numbers of Western fellow-travellers he's the sexiest, most charismastic figure to emerge from the whole world music phenomenon. For everyone else ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album review: Nine Inch Nails, Hesitation Marks (Polydor) The Independent The album title apparently refers to the tentative blade-testing marks made by potential suicides and self-harmers, and the music remains a suitably scarified ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
Friday, August 30, 2013
James Taylor Quartet, Goodie Mob, Music reviews
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Indie music scene
| Indie musicians cry foul over foreign worker fees CBC.ca (blog) Canada's indie music scene may just have suffered a huge blow in the form of a federally mandated fee that will exponentially increase the costs for live music ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Musician and Producer Mike San Launches New Website DigitalJournal.com Mike is not only a new artist on the indie music scene, but he also offers several services, which help to define his current professional life. Included in his ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Rock City finds out Bombay Royale like a shroom with a view, AIR ... Courier Mail All the latest in Australia's indie music scene with a Melbourne focus. EVERYONE who goes to Glastonbury comes back altered. Melbourne's 11-piece ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Music Review: I Hate Music Duke Chronicle ... Merge has become integral to the cultural history of the Triangle music scene. ... the most well-known and critically acclaimed acts in indie rock, including The ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Town bar also known as a hip music venue Banbury Guardian When music promoter Sam Jackson bumped into AKA owner Marc Sylvester one night ... in town and has put Banbury on the UK independent music scene map. See all stories on this topic » |
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Outroads, Brain Defect, Music Reviews
| lbum review: 'Paradise Valley' The University of Hawaii Kaleo Despite gaining favorable reviews from music critics, it still took some time to fully appreciate this brand new sound coming from the renowned blues-rock ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Kitten Forever - Pressure - Album Review FemaleFirst.co.uk Kitten Forever kicks off their album Pressure with a 43 second track that mostly consists of words including 'Do you wanna get loud? Yeah, you know you wanna' ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Outroads - I Am Happy - Album Review FemaleFirst.co.uk Sheffield band Outroads are dazzling us with their latest album I Am Happy, ... Hailing from Sheffield, Outroads is a talented group of nine musicians that have ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Music review: Jason Isbell, St Pancras Old Church, London The Independent In country music, if daddy ain't a no-good son of a gun, then he invariably often acts as a font of wisdom, a tradition carried on enthusiastically by this Muscle ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| BWW CD Reviews: FANCY NANCY THE MUSICAL (Off-Broadway ... Broadway World FANCY NANCY THE MUSICAL, produced by The Vital Theatre Company, opened Off-Broadway at the McGinn/Cazale Theatre in New York City on September ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album review: Mandolin Orange, This Side of Jordan New Zealand Herald Their music has rightly drawn praise from the likes of Rosanne Cash ("elegance and intricacy") but this third album isn't so grounded in some distant rural past ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album review: Primordium - Swamp Thing Stuff.co.nz Kiwi blues fans should take note. Swamp Thing - Grant Haua and former The John Butler Trio drummer Michael Barker - are the most exciting thing to happen to ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Album review: Brain Defect - Shitripper Stuff.co.nz Honest-to-bollocks hardcore occupies small spaces but howls big messages. Auckland six-piece Shitripper hurtle through 13 bursts of anger and dissent in their ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Album review: Pearlers - Let's Planet Stuff.co.nz Let's Planet are, along with The Bats and The Mockers, one of the best indie pop bands Wellington has seen. Twenty five years after Alan Galloway coerced ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| BWW Reviews: SHREK Should Please at Mercury Summer Stock Broadway World SHREK has music by Jeanine Tesori and book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire. It is based on ... These differences affect how reviews of a show are written. See all stories on this topic » | |||
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
News: Indie music scene
| Local music venue builds relationships with notable indie acts Daily Herald Buy it on iTunes- http://smarturl.it/mattponditunes"True love can be both transcendent and torturous. Open, exposed, interrogated and consumed, "Love to Get ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Schedule Set for Laneway Festival in Rochester Hills Patch.com The daylong North American debut of the boutique indie music festival, ... artists from across the indie music scene, including The National and Sigur Ros. See all stories on this topic » | ||
Civil Wars, Botstein, Music Reviews
| Music Review - Civil Wars noho arts district When listening to this band, it isn't long before you realise they are more than just two people who get together to write music. The way their dynamics work is ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Music review: Botstein has last laugh with LA Phil at the Bowl Los Angeles Times They laughed when Leon Botstein became president of Bard College in 1975, at the very idea that a 28-year-old could enliven a venerable New York liberal arts ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Music Reviews: Arc Angel, Fergie Frederiksen, Find Me, and Houston Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) This album sees Jeff Cannata, the band mainman and constant, combine both eras into an interesting amalgam. There are touches of Marillion on songs like ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| MUSIC REVIEW: 'Besharam' Business of Cinema Loud passes as mohalla music. Love Ki Ghanti is so Kishore Kumar, why didn't they take Sudesh Bhonsle or Amit Kumar to sing it? Sujeet Shetty cannot pull it ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| CD: múm – Smilewound The Arts Desk The last album released by Iceland's múm was 2012's Early Birds, an archive trawl which unearthed previously unheard material recorded between 1998 and ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Guitar icon bowing out at Bingley Music Live Selby Times After a series of post-retirement performances the music icon will perform at ... The rock'n'roll hero, a national music treasure, explains the continuing thrill of ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Music review: David Byrne & St. Vincent, Roundhouse, London The Independent St. Vincent - Annie Clark, a young American singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitar player - introduces the Love This Giant band, who stamped a clear sound on ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| BWW Reviews: Vortex Rep's Original Musical SING MUSE is an ... Broadway World There are so many words and phrases in this world that shouldn't go together, such as a cappella and musical, modern theater and ancient Greek mythology, ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Outroads - I Am Happy - Album Review FemaleFirst.co.uk Sheffield band Outroads are dazzling us with their latest album I Am Happy, a concoction of Blues, Folk, Pop and a Soft Rock. Outroads – I Am Happy – Album ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Liz Hanley - The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia - Album Review FemaleFirst.co.uk Elizabeth Mary Hanley grew up in Boston MA but she never forgot about her Irish roots. Her debut album The Ecstasy of St. Cecilia explores the soul of Irish ... See all stories on this topic » |
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Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Music Reviews and News
| Music reviews: Chick Corea and the Vigil, 'Mortal Instruments ... NorthJersey.com Chick Corea knows how to pick his chums. The '70s found the innovative keyboardist gathering free-jazz giants Anthony Braxton and Dave Holland for Circle, ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Jayvee Music Reviews with Jeff Vallet TecheToday.com Jake Shimabukuro has made the ukulele cool. Oh, it has always been cool, but Jake has brought it to the forefront and made us all sit up and take notice. He has ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| New music reviews: Franz Ferdinand, Belle and Sebastian, Chloe ... Glasgow Evening Times Whether through headphones on the train or in the car with the windows down, Franz Ferdinand's fourth album would have made the perfect partner through ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Review: Watain 'The Wild Hunt' Crave Online Half the reactions to their new album The Wild Hunt, praise the album for being the next evolutionary step in their sound. The other half condemn the album for ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Album reviews: Jimmy Buffett, Franz Ferdinand, Glen Campbell Chicago Sun-Times Jimmy Buffett's "Songs from St. Somewhere" (Mailboat Records) contains a boatful of tunes about escapism, which is what Jimmy Buffett does the best. See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Album Reviews — Ailing Glen Campbell strips greatest hits bare Chicago Sun-Times The ailing singer's pitch-perfect vocals were recorded during his last (and final) studio session; musical arrangements were added later. Campbell's hits are ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| BWW Reviews: Don't Miss LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL at ... Broadway World There's no mincing words here. If you've never seen LEGALLY BLONDE THE MUSICAL, you owe it to yourself to get to Midvale Main Street Theatre this week ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| BWW Reviews: A Trial from the Beginning LIZZIE BORDEN A NEW ... Broadway World Set to a pretty score with music composed by Rich Charron, book and lyrics by Michael Wanzie, and new arrangements by John B. deHaas, all Orlando ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Shuddh Desi Romance Music Review koimoi Sachin-Jigar were just another music director duo but with Shuddh Desi Romance the team has ranked themselves higher than the general likes by working with ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Hall of Fame RollingStone.com Big Sean's second LP might've already been overshadowed by a Big Sean song that isn't on it – "Control," where guest Kendrick Lamar carpet-bomb-dissed a ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
MiXE1- Indie music review
| Music Review: MiXE1 - 'Lights Out' EP Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) MiXE1 is an electronic rock powerhouse who has recently rocked the indie music scene with his EP, Lights Out. The Hertfordshire, United Kingdom-based ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
Monday, August 26, 2013
Avenged Sevenfold, Video Reviews
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Keane, Dent May, Reviews
| Live music review: Keane, Kenwood House, London The Independent Wholesome, as a posh piano-based indie-rock band, is the cross that Keane have to bear; Noel Gallagher once famously dismissed them with the words, "Even ... See all stories on this topic » |
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| Review: Matt & Kim impress with energetic set at Summerfest music ... OSU - The Lantern Review: Matt & Kim impress with energetic set at Summerfest music festival ... Area hipsters converged for Summerfest, an indie music festival showcasing more ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
| Music Review: Dent May's 'Warm Blanket' -- 3 stars amNY Music Review: Dent May's 'Warm Blanket' -- 3 stars ... and sweet ukulele skills, Mississippi-based indie-pop artist Dent May pivots to the decade of macramé and ... See all stories on this topic » | |||
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