Will 2014 be the year of the soul comeback? With the resurfacing of Remy Shand, the answer to that question may be “yes.”
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The Singles Bar: Tears for Fears, “Ready to Start”
New Wave legends Tears for Fears surprised fans with their first new recording in nine years: a cover of Arcade Fire’s “Ready to Start.” It might be crazy to call a band with 16 U.K. Top 40 hits “underrated,” but Tears for Fears – to this writer – have only seemed to earn the respect they truly deserve in recent times. In the last decade, Gary Jules and Michael Andrews had a U.K. chart-topper with a mournful cover of the band’s “ Mad World ,” […]
Os Mutantes, Fool Metal Jack: Album Review
Consistency is an appealing trait in an album. Versatility is, of course, encouraged, but the best records have a common unifying thread linking one song to the next. Nudge too far in one direction, and your record is disjointed, schizophrenic; too far in the other and it’s staid and unexciting, and some jack-off music critic is tut-tutting your artistic vision. Reformed Brazilian psych-rock band Os Mutantes’s new record, Fool Metal Jack, threatens to careen off the rails several times. Perhaps […]
Popblerd New Release Report 9/18/12: Holy Shit!
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There’s no maybe about the fact that this release date is packed to the goods with music. Everyone from Band of Horses to Michael Jackson (twice!) Check out the highlights and stream some of the albums in this week’s new, improved New Release Report!
New Release Report 6/5/12: The Week Of The Comeback
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The boys of summer are back…The Beach Boys, that is. Find out who else has albums coming out this first week of June.
The Blerdist: May ’12, Episode II: “Star Wars Level Shit”
What does this compilation have to do with our latest podcast? Listen (and read) to find out! Heyyyy Macarena!
The Viewfinder: Karyn White’s “Sista Sista”
She’s back! Karyn White has a video out for her new single, “Sista Sista.”
The Singles Bar: Bobby Womack’s “Please Forgive My Heart”
Bruce Springsteen sings “we take care of our own,” but it’s obvious that when he does so, he’s not talking about young soul musicians in reference to older soul musicians. It’s not often that you hear today’s soul and hip-hop musicians (with the exception of someone like Questlove) lending a hand to the older generation to bring the music that inspired them to perform to a younger generation. It’s often left to rock musicians to bring artists like Solomon Burke […]
Spin Cycle: The Cranberries’ “Roses”
Chugging bass notes and rhythmically-scrubbed acoustic guitars scamper across a vaguely martial 4/4 drumbeat; Dolores O’Riordan’s distinctive Irish lilt, alternately forceful and airy, flits over the whole enterprise, dreamy harmonies and counter-melodies rising from the ether to join O’Riordan in a chanting, cyclical chorale of Dolores O’Riordans, all cooing in one accord the wistful dissolution of a relationship that simply wasn’t meant to be. Worried that you accidentally gunned the Delorean up to 88mph last night and have found yourself […]
The Singles Bar: D’Angelo’s “Black Hole Sun”
Here’s how much we’re fiending for new music from D’Angelo. We are posting a poorly-recorded remake that’s two years old. Seriously. Anyway, as rumors of a new album from D continue to float around, his version of Soundgarden’s classic “Black Hole Sun” just surfaced on the interwebs. It doesn’t hold a candle to the original, of course, but Mr. Archer does a pretty good job of making the song almost completely unrecognizable. It’s definitely got a strong stench of purple […]