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Music Review: The Fool by esOterica

The Fool was released on April 08, 2008 on the Bieler Bros. label, and clocks in at 56 minutes, 39 seconds.

Music Review -- Building An Empire by Demians

Building An Empire was released on May 20, 2008 on the InsideOut label, and clocks in at 65 minutes, 31 seconds (including the bonus track).

Music Review -- Sleeping In Traffic, Part Two by Beardfish

Sleeping in Traffic, Part 2 was released in May of 2008, on the InsideOut label, and clocks in at 74 minutes and 24 seconds.

Music Review-- The Fading Ghosts of Twilight by Agents of Mercy

The Fading Ghosts of Twilight was released on the Foxtrot Music label in March of 2009. The album was released as a digipack featuring 77 minutes of music, and the first 100 CDs sold were signed by Roine Stolt (sadly, I missed out on one of those).

Music Review-- Nostalgia by Satellite

See my review of Satellite's earlier release, Into the Night. Nostalgia was released by Metal Mind Productions on 23rd February 2009 in Europe / 10th March 2009 in USA. The album is available in two formats: a standard CD and a digipak CD with two bonus tracks.

ASCAP Awards | IZES Records
Source: Jamrock Magazine Europe

Billboard-topping Jamaican producer Rohan 'Snow Cone' Fuller and fellow producer Izes collected the 24th annual American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) Pop Music award in Hollywood, California last Thursday at the Kodak Centre on Sunset Boulevard.

Music Review -- A Place in the Queue by The Tangent

The Tangent is a band that I listened to on some throwaway advice given by someone who knew I liked prog-rock. "Oh, you like That sort of stuff? You ought to give a listen to The Tangent." That was it, no more, no less.

Music Review -- Happiness Is the Road by Marillion

Marillion are a British rock group formed in 1979, with 15 studio albums to their credit.

Music Review -- Into the Night by Satellite

Satellite is a band out of Warszawa, Poland, consisting of Robert Amirian (vocals), Sarhan Kubeisi (guitars), Krzysiek Palczewski (keyboards), Wojtek Szadkowski (drums), and Jarek Michalski (bass).

Music Review -- Dark Matter by IQ

IQ is a British band that formed in the early 80s, along with bands such as Marillion and Pallas. From 1982 to 1984, the line-up consisted of Peter Nicholls (vocals), Mike Holmes (guitar), Martin Orford (keyboards), Paul Cook (drums), and Tim Esau (bass).

Faderhead's new album grows over time

Faderhead has released a third album, unsurprisingly named FH3 (after FH1 and FH2). If you're into aggrotech you may well enjoy Faderhead, but be warned - it is hard and heavy electronica, and the lyrics are not for the faint of heart.

Music Review: P!nk

Below is a review I did for my college newspaper. It is not one of my more well-written reviews, but I really enjoyed the CD, so I wanted to post it.

Music Review: Black Ice by AC/DC

If you were alive and listening to rock and roll in 1980, there was simply no way you could avoid hearing AC/DC.

Music Review: Viva La Vida by Coldplay

I'll admit, right up front, that I don't have a lot invested in this band.

Ego-Fueled Hip-Hop Sci-Fi Space Odyssey
Source: The New York Times

"Hip-hop runs on self-glorification, the transformation of underdogs into self-invented legends . . . Mr. West's set was the most daring arena spectacle hip-hop has yet produced, and in some ways the best, even as it jettisoned standard hip-hop expectations.

Listening In Live to Via Audio and The Secret Life of Sofia: 4/21/08

With 2001's Is This It, The Strokes ushered in a mainstream music fad of stripped down, lo-fi production and straightforward presentation that spread to seemingly countless bands in the ensuing months.

Press Play: A Review of The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely

Here's one we didn't see coming - The Raconteurs went into the studio early this month, took like a week to record a new album, rushed it to press and quietly announced it a week before its release.

Music Review: The Weepies-- Happiness

Deb Talan and Steve Tannen comprise the duo known as The Weepies. Their music has been heard on television in shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Scrubs, as well as movies and major TV ad campaigns.

Jeff Tweedy at The Vic, Chicago, January 26, 2008

I love seeing shows at The Vic. It's a small venue, and when you've got one man standing on stage in front of several guitars, behind a microphone, it becomes as intimate as a living room.

New Album Review: Lupe Fiasco - The Cool

In 2006 Wasalu Muhammad Jaco, recording under the name Lupe Fiasco, released one of the year's freshest and most promising hip-hop records, Food and Liquor.

Year in Review: Five albums that should have rocked but flopped instead

2007 saw the return of some tried and true musical veterans as well as the sophomore shots from overblogged emergent acts whose 2K5 footprints were bound to lead somewhere great.

One month, 15 days, 23 hours and 42 minutes with Radiohead's 'In Rainbows'

It's been exactly that amount of time since they released their latest LP, and I can say with confidence that In Rainbows is Radiohead's masterpiece, surpassing both the post-modern swagger of 1997's OK Computer and the post-apocalyptic dystopia of 2000's Kid A.

Bon Iver Album Means Good Winter for Music Fans

Justin Vernon went into the woods because he wanted to live deliberately. He walked away from civilization and took up residence in a cabin in the woods of Northwestern Wisconsin.

Quick Review: Alicia Keys' "As I Am"

This is one of those albums that only get better with every listen. My favorite song from the first listen-through was "Tell You Something (Nana's Reprise)," one of the few songs not about love.

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