Singer/songwriter Damien Rice is on the comeback trail after an eight-year layoff. Check out his haunting new single & video, “I Don’t Want To Change You.”
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Guided By Voices, English Little League: Album Review
If the year 2012 conditioned music fans to anything — other than the fact that “Call Me Maybe” is inescapable, and the only way to mount a true offense is to just give into its charms already — it’s the cultural inevitability that is the re-formed mid-’90s lineup of Guided By Voices, and the Pavlovian sense that, every four to six months, GBV will be releasing another record, so pull on your Bee Thousand t-shirt and prepare your mind for […]
Spin Cycle: Guided By Voices, Class Clown Spots a UFO
The newly-reformed Guided By Voices are back with their second post-comeback album this year. Check out our review of “Class Clown Spots a UFO.”
Spin Cycle: Joe Walsh, Analog Man
Twenty Years. That’s how long it’s been since the last time Joe Walsh offered up a collection of original tunes for his fans. Two decades since his last set of tunes set itself as a backdrop to the first go-round of the Iraq disarmament crisis, George H. W. Bush vomiting in public, and John Gotti receiving his racketeering life sentence…and competing with the likes of Pearl Jam and Soundgarden for chart position (and not faring so well in that fight). […]
Spin Cycle: Sinch’s “Hive Mind”
After taking a long break, Philadelphia’s Sinch is back with a new album. Check out our review!
The Singles Bar: Garbage Draw “Blood” on First Single in Five Years
When isn’t the right time to get nostalgic for favorite bands? I’m not just talking your classic acts, your Bruces, Madonnas and Van Halens; there’s been a pretty excellent ’90s alt-pop/rock revival in the past few years (which, for me, reached its zenith with Blink-182’s decent Neighborhoods last year). One of the most welcome revived bands of late is Garbage. Surely you recall their smart hooks and appealingly noisy production in the late ’90s and early ’00s (thanks in no small part to having super-producer/drummer Butch Vig, who […]
Spin Cycle: The Original 7ven’s “Condensate”
“I never had as much fun as I had with the original seven… and it ain’t over yet,” Morris Day says wistfully on the spoken intro to his old band’s comeback record, Condensate. Morris Day and The Time – here renamed The Original 7ven because, well, mentor Prince’s copyright-related peccadilloes have gotten the better of him in recent years – may not have released an album together in 21 years, but you wouldn’t know that from listening to Condensate. Not only […]
Guess What, Whitney? Them Aussies Don't Play
Apparently, Australian concertgoers are a little spicier than most. A couple months ago, they went off on Britney Spears after what they considered a subpar performance by her, saying that they weren’t expecting so much lip-synching (have they been living under a ROCK for the past ten years?). Now they’ve turned their attention to Whitney Houston, who brought her “Nothing But Love” tour to the land down under. As I’m sure you know, Whitney’s been through a lot of stuff […]