Once again, we’ve reached the midway point to another year, and the staff’s going through what’s simply “Ah-maze-balled” us to date. Obviously, I’ve written reviews on the types of albums that have intrigued me, but if you need a ranked order – I’d probably put the albums listed below in my current Top Five. There’s been a mix of introspective chamber pop, an experimental album from the desert’s greatest band, a fine return by synth-rock legends, and some indie pop […]
Popblerd’s New Release Report 6/4/2013
Queens of the Stone Age head up a rocking new release schedule this week!
Blerd Briefs: TLC, Dave Grohl, and Jermaine Jacks…uh, Jacksun???
A new TLC album, Dave Grohl returns to QOTSA, and Jermaine changes his name. More crazy news…
bLISTerd: The Top Ten Albums Of The ’00s
We’ve finally hit the jackpot. The 10 best albums of the ’00s, as voted by the Popblerd staff. Amy Winehouse made the list, who else is here?
Spin Cycle: Mark Lanegan Band’s “Blues Funeral”
We here at Popblerd get so excited about certain albums that we can’t contain our excitement in just one review (have you seen the Van Halen thing that we posted?). Mark Lanegan is such an artist that evokes such a response in some of our writers that one opinion is not enough when it comes to his latest record, Blues Funeral. So here you go with Lanegan Shenanigans (AKA: A few different ways of saying Blues Funeral is the bomb) […]
The year was 1998…(QOTSA reissue)
There’s some saying out there that men like the first album, women like the first album they heard. (Maybe that’s not a real saying, but a friend told me and I believe him) In my household, that definitely seems to be the case as there is often discussion as to the merits of Queens of the Stone Age versus Rated R. I definitely fall into the former category in most cases and especially this one. Queens of the Stone Age […]