Tag: review
Eddie Money: A performance that was so money [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Sep 23, 2009 at 02:00:16 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
What better way to kick off the Hudson River Quadricentennial Celebration and 3rd Annual ChowderFest than by spending an evening watching Eddie "The Money Man" Money?
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SGT.: A Band I Will Tell You About
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Posted to Music on Fri May 29, 2009 at 01:50:59 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Tonight my favorite Japanese band, SGT. [Myspace] will be playing at O-Nest in Shibuya, Tokyo. Sadly I can't make it there, but I thought I might take this chance to make a short tribute to them here in case there are any TNTers interested in Japanese post-rock/indie/emo/jazz (not my description, theirs).
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Ida Maria - Fortress 'Round My Heart [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon May 18, 2009 at 06:49:43 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The Norwegian singer's much buzzed about album finally gets a US release. Fans of exuberant Pop/Rock should get ready to sing along...
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The Hold Steady - A Positive Rage [Review]
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Posted to Music on Tue May 12, 2009 at 10:43:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The so-called "Best bar band in America" has just released a live album featuring a performance from The Metro in Chicago during their breakout year of 2007. A companion DVD documenting their rise from small, intimate clubs to ever larger venues accompanies the live disc. Also included are a link to five bonus tracks, including three originally contained on a limited edition version of last year's Stay Positive
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Just In Time for Star Trek: Romulan Ale
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Posted to Etcetera on Tue Apr 21, 2009 at 06:33:58 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
One has to wonder why no one thought of this before: brew and sell Romulan Ale. For the uninitiated, Romulan Ale is a beverage from the Star Trek canon. I quote the official Star Trek wiki, Memory Alpha:
Romulan ale is a highly intoxicating alcoholic beverage of Romulan origin with a characteristic blue color (this can range from a pale sky blue to a dark midnight blue, depending on the "vintage"). It takes a while to ferment and is also used for medicinal purposes.
Now, thanks to the brewmasters at Cerveceria La Constancia S.A. of El Salvador, you too can sample the beer that's banned across the Alpha Quadrant, a beer so strong that even Klingons fear it's mighty wrath, a beer that's...blue.
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The Steepwater Band - Grace And Melody [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Apr 13, 2009 at 09:42:22 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
The best blues-based, neo-classic-rock-band-you've-never-heard-of released a gem of an album last year. Grace And Melody sees The Steepwater Band paying homage to their influences and also staying true to their own sound, while totally destroying the notion that classic rock can't sound fresh in the '00s. These guys don't just rock, they, as the kids so often say, Rawk!
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Mastodon - Crack The Skye [Review]
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Posted to Music on Sat Mar 28, 2009 at 12:29:09 PM EST (promoted by DEMachina). RSS.
Wherein Mastodon gets their prog rock on with amazingly good results.
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Late to the Party: Katherine Whalen - Dirty Little Secret [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Mar 25, 2009 at 02:27:19 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Sometimes it takes a while to discover musical gems. Maybe they're side projects of artists you haven't gotten around to hearing, or they're just not the big attention-getters of the year from standard reviewers or the hipeoisie. Whatever the reason, you're left with this wonderful release which doesn't really qualify as "new" for the sake of the end-of-year's listmania, but you feel should get attention anyway. I'm going to call this a "Late to the Party" review.
With that in mind, let me present the inaugural LttP artist: Katherine Whalen, and her 2006 release Dirty Little Secret.
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Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Mar 11, 2009 at 10:26:16 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
It's one of the highest rated albums of the year and is getting massive love from all quarters, but does it live up to all the hype?
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U2 - No Line On The Horizon [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Mar 09, 2009 at 06:34:38 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Last Tuesday saw the release of U2's latest album; the reaction to No Line On The Horizon has been wildly divergent, to say the least.
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Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes [Review]
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Posted to Music on Mon Jan 26, 2009 at 09:35:54 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
One of 2008's most hyped and blogged about bands released an album that grabbed an 87% rating at metacritic, topped a lot of year-end lists, and helped garner a musical spot on SNL a week ago. Does it live up to all of the glowing attention?
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AC/DC - Black Ice [Review]
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Posted to Music on Wed Nov 05, 2008 at 08:43:39 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
They'rrrrrrrrrre back!
After an 8-year hiatus, the the venerable rockers from Down Under are back with a #1 album. How's it sound? Well, clench your fists and start pumpin' or grab your air guitar and start jumpin', 'cuz it's that kind of album.
Here's the video for Rock N Roll Train.
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