Since the release of their now classic 2000 release and major album debut L.D. 50, Mudvayne has long been one of the few bands willing to experiment even though they share stages and chart placements with mainstream acts. Whether it be the radical outfits/makeup/costumes the band adorns on stage or the chaotic and often fairly [...]
It’s never too late to get into Joni Mitchell, and if you’re a novice curious about the strengths of one of music’s most revered artists, “Hits” is the perfect place to start.This collection covers allof her incarnations and vocal tones: there’s the high-pitched chirp thataccompanied her folky social commentator days (“Big Yellow Taxi,””Woodstock”), the earnest [...]
Alice In Chains sophomore album “Dirt,” stands as the band’s most popular and most critically acclaimed album. “Dirt” stands alongside Nirvana’s “Nevermind”, Pearl Jam’s “Ten” and Soundgarden’s “Badmoterfinger” as an essential album of the grunge era. Much like “Ten” “Badmoterfinger” and “Nevermind,” “Dirt” was an album that many inferior bands, i.e., Godsmack, borrowed from. Although [...]
I keep waiting to hear a CD from Breaking Benjamin that I don’t completely enjoy but I’ve yet to be let down. Even now, with Dear Agony, I find myself liking them even more than before.
I’ll go ahead and get the one kind of neutral point of this CD out of the way–it’s more of [...]
I don’t think Freedy can make another CD that I love as much as Blue Days Black Nights, but this CD is pretty close. It’s very melodic, with great harmonies, and kind of a throwback to the 60s and 70s when there was more craftsmanship and musicianship in pop/folk music as a whole.
If you listen [...]
Since his return to Columbia Records in the 1980s, Tony Bennett has released albums of the best quality…this is one of the best from his already awe-inspiring catalog.To give equal credit, kd lang has one of the best voices in American music…the combination of their voices is magical.There is almost no hint of the vocal [...]