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Spin Cycle: Wale’s “Ambition”
DC rapper Wale joins Rick Ross’s Maybach Music team for his second album “Ambition”. How does he fare? Read our review.
Spin Cycle: Florence + the Machine’s “Ceremonials”
British act Florence + The Machine follow up their well-received debut “Lungs” with a new album called “Ceremonials”. Can Ms. Welch and company successfully avoid the sophomore slump?
Spin Cycle: “Where It All Begins” by Lalah Hathaway
Lalah Hathaway is an artist that has built a lengthy career with a dedicated base of fans despite never breaking through to the pop market, which is cool. If you take a look at the artists that might be considered contemporaries-her buddy Rahsaan Patterson, Van Hunt, Meshell Ndegeocello, she’s in some pretty damn good company. Blessed with a rich, buttery vocal tone just a ½ step removed from that of her father, the incomparable Donny Hathaway, she’s one of those […]
Spin Cycle: U2’s “Achtung Baby (Super Deluxe Edition)”
U2’s “Achtung Baby” is celebrating it’s 20th anniversary with a super-deluxe fan package in which you get a lock of Bono’s hair. Kidding. But we do have a review of the actual deluxe package. Seriously.
Spin Cycle: Justin Bieber’s “Under the Mistletoe”
Ho Ho Ho! It’s Justin Bieber!! And we’ve got a review of his new holiday album.
Spin Cycle: U2 Tribute “ACH-toong BAY-bi Covered”
U2’s “Achtung Baby” turns 20, and some legendary artists have paid tribute to the band and their songs on a new album.
Spin Cycle: Boyz II Men’s “Twenty”
With “Twenty”, Boyz II Men prove that they are FAR from the end of their road. Check out our review.
Spin Cycle: M83’s “Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming”
I first encountered M83 via their previous effort, 2009’s Saturdays=Youth. That album’s lush, dreamy soundscapes drenched in echoes of the 1980s was a sublime masterpiece, and one of my top picks for 2009. I was thus understandably excited when the band announced the follow up, Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming. However, I admit that when the band announced that it would be a double album, I grew skeptical. It’s not that double albums are inherently bad, but they are inherently ambitious. […]
Spin Cycle: Tom Waits’ “Bad As Me”
Back in 2006, Tom Waits released a sprawling odds-and-sods collection called Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers, and Bastards. At a massive three discs, and packaged like a dusty hardbound American tome large enough to bludgeon with, Waits decided to cut directly to the chase: each disc was named after the type of songs contained therein, according to which of the three titular descriptors it matched. That mentality isn’t unique to that set, though; in Tom Waits’ universe, in fact, brawlers, bawlers, and […]
Spin Cycle: Puscifer’s “Conditions of My Parole”
While some may not always enjoy Maynard James Keenan’s out and out weirdness, you do have to appreciate what he brings to the music scene. He’s a larger than life yet still intensely private figure, a passionate winemaker, and the core of two different but wildly successful projects: prog-rock gods Tool and alt-rock side project A Perfect Circle. But occasionally the man just needs to indulge his weirdness in a way that neither Tool nor APC will allow. For those […]
Spin Cycle: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s “Tape Club”
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin are easy to like, but they’re unlikely to be anyone’s favorite band. They’re a little too unassuming for that: Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin write simple, unadorned pop songs. Classifying them as indie is difficult since, beyond their unwieldy band name and reasonably lo-fi take on things, their songs are generally catchy and devoid of pretense; lumping them in with groups that tread the indie/pop dividing line like Death Cab For Cutie or […]