Rosey - Luckiest Girl Luckiest Girl mixes the best of the 20th century with the freshness of the 21st and proves that jazz is neither dead nor dusty. The songstress never goes out of style.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Tuesday, June 17, 2008
The Ghostwrite - Anxiety Forget about what you thought folk and nostalgia sounded like, this simple release is angry, frustrated, and whispers an angular promise of better things to come from The Ghostwrite.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, June 16, 2008
Elika - Trying Got Us Nowhere Kicking off with "The Whip" and its barbed chorus,
Elika's
Trying Got Us Nowhere is best described as shoe-tronica, blending programming with organic field recordings and reverb effects.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Panda Riot - She Dares All Things The liner notes to
Panda Riot's
She Dares All Things describes the nine-track LP as "a collection of singles", and that seems appropriate. The album is very synth-y, poppy, and therefore catchy.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, June 9, 2008
Blacklisted - Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God Philly's Blacklisted unleash the agony on
Heavier Than Heaven, Lonelier Than God.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, June 2, 2008
Century - Black Ocean The zeitgeist of metal is to look down the nose at metalcore, but such charlatans fall silent as the hammer falls on "Equus" and Carson Slovak's screams choke the windpipe of the self-proclaimed know-it-alls.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Thursday, May 29, 2008
The Boy Who Cried Freebird by Mitch Myers The Boy Who Cried Freebird takes a lot of chances as it mixes the chimerical with the precise and the verbose with the succinct, making its mistakes along the way.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, May 19, 2008
Hail of Bullets: ... Of Frost And War Former Pestilence vocalist Martin van Drunen joins with bass player Theo van Eekelen, Gorefest drummer Ed Warby and guitarists Paul Baayens and Stephan Gebédi.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Finally Some Evidence of Scarlett Johansson's Singing Career It's not bad, but it's not great. Frankly, it's somewhere in the middle, and if it wasn't Scarlett Johansson, no one would care.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Vincent Black Shadow: More Deeper; Free MP3 - "Wooden Kimono" This release from VBS is the undeniable evidence that will stand as proof of all the rumors and fables that surround Vincent Black Shadow.
...continue reading. By Barrett King Monday, April 14, 2008
