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Review of Dear Agony [ENHANCED]

March 19th, 2010 No comments
Dear Agony

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 [...]

Review of Mescalito

March 18th, 2010 No comments
Mescalito

I don’t agree with the 1st review at all. To start with, Mescalito is Ryan’s first official album. The two previous albums in question were probably created by Ryan in a basement in Texas and only sold at his shows by his girlfriend…
Ryan Bingham’s lyrics stem from his hard lived life in west Texas. Sung [...]

Review of Breakout [ENHANCED]

March 18th, 2010 No comments
Breakout

Ok, so I’m 32 and have NO KIDS, yet I bought this album, much to the surprise of my husband.I admit I’ve watched my fair share of Hannah Montana episodes and I even have a Hannah Montana ringtone.Do I get flack about this from my oh-so-grown-up friends?You bet.Do I care?Not really.The truth is Miley Cyrus, [...]

Review of Night Castle (2 CD)

March 15th, 2010 No comments
Night Castle (2 CD)

I have been a fan of TSO for about 10 years now. I have gone to 3 concerts plus one this coming year. I remember waiting for the Beethoven CD and it did not disappoint. Then I waited after many delays for A Lost Christmas Eve and it came did not disappoint. It has been [...]

Review of Vampire Weekend [Audio CD, Explicit Lyrics]

March 14th, 2010 No comments
Vampire Weekend

A daunting task reviewing a disc that has already been hailed by many as the first important disc of 2008. Such is the case of the debut from Vampire Weekend, 4 Columbia students gone preppy-indie to catch the eyes and ears of David Byrne, Lou Reed and aging hipsters alike.
It was a few months ago [...]

Review of Bare Bones

March 14th, 2010 No comments
Bare Bones

Madeleine’smusical training came on the streets of Paris, where she started as a busker, then after a street-corner audition she got a gig singing with the Lost Wandering Blues and Jazz band, performing songs by artists such as Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday and Fats Waller.Her previous albums Careless Love and Half the Perfect World sold [...]