tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-386226902012-02-16T04:14:58.943-05:00For the first time anywhere in the universe, written comments on recently released audio recordings.Gorillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06447415881560941852noreply@blogger.comBlogger1411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38622690.post-20262535880575618292008-02-29T09:29:00.002-05:002008-02-29T09:32:58.147-05:00

We come to bury recordreviews.org, not to praise it.So, recordreviews.org is dead, it "accidentally" got shot in a mixup between Godaddy and myself.I received an automatic renewal notice from them last month and assumed everything was kosher -- unfortunately, they were only renewing my "business registration" not my domain registration -- I don't even really understand what a business

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Greatest Contest of All TimeBy simply surrendering your identity to ACDC.com you can have a chance to win a bass signed by Cliff Williams!!!!Who's Cliff Williams you ask? And then I hit you in the mouth with a fist full of rock for your blasphemy.

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The Power of Positive ThinkingSo, ah, Wendy Case likes the Silent Years quite a bit by the looks of it.Which is fine -- she's entitled to her opinion and all that -- I liked their last album quite a lot too. As I've said before, I used to find them kind of preening and pretentious (I probably saw them four or five times during that 3-year period where nobody in Detroit came to see them and

Gorillahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06447415881560941852noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38622690.post-479592137416461292008-02-26T09:06:00.005-05:002008-02-26T09:46:22.861-05:00

I'm Devin Scillian?: A Blowout Pre-previewWhat are the chances that local news anchor Devin Scillian actually goes through with his set of responsible country crooning when he pulls up to the glorious hot mess that is P.L.A.V. post 10 in his BMW SUV ASAP?I honestly don't think that's the best venue for the Detroitcountrymusic.com Showcase as it has way more appeal for irony infused suburban

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So Crockett was the Muffin Man?22 years ago this month, the late-great Frank Zappa played a "weasel dust" dealing drug kingpin who is kidnapped AND forced to walk the plank by Miami's finest undercover cops.Too bad he didn't talk C&T out of those atrocious attempts at singing careers.Enjoy

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Skimming's the new ReadingLoftus has an interesting little bit over on Detour about Vampire Salami Sandwiches or something... I don't really know, I gave up reading for Lent. I can't even look at a Bible, lest I anger the lord.

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Da' GrammysThe Police reunited at the 2007 Grammys... that is the most current piece of knowledge I have about the Grammys. I didn't watch them and I could care less about the awards.First off, it's not like they were ever good. Look over the last 50 years and try to find all the Grammys won by major artists and you'll find things like Elvis's sole win for a gospel album and a laundry list of

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Topical TopilsteinThe cool kids at Rolling Stone are reporting that radiohead have abandon their record label and will release their album digitally last year.The article's got a little more to say than that, but not a lot that wasn't in every other Radiohead piece you've read over the past 6 months.Of course you do get this gem from J. Greenwood."...hi-fi is just about middle-aged men trying to

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Five-Three-Best Fans the FlamesBlowout 2008 is to Detroit Music Blogs as Kwame's Texts are to the Freep.No doubt about it, the only time I got more hits than Detour v. Blowout was when I posted this picture with Damore's Mandy Moore review.

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RRRRRREEEEMMMMMIIIIXXXXXvia Sir-Griz-a-Lot

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Inevitable Reallyvia JP McKrengels

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Return of Yacht RockOh yes, the Yacht Rock is BACK!Maybe because their TV show got canceled the best of the best is back on Channel101.com

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Investigative Fiddler Is This It from Goldenfiddle on Vimeo.

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Dude in Paybacks Shirt Writes Book, Film at 11If we read books, we'd probably check this one out.via the New York Times (That's the paper of record y'all.)

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Big Matt Photographed in the WildDetour interviews Big Matt and Sult from MCR for their Meet and Greet Feature... which taught me that I look a lot like the Sultan right now... might need to loose my Red Beards of Spain... no offense... ellipsis.

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Magilla is Dead, Long Live GorillaThe big C took another member of the G-Unit. Mourn ya' till I join ya.

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Because it's FridayAnd because one of the all-time great blogs, Goldenfiddle linked to this pic of George Washington's teeth (sears, I think those came out of the Cloverfield Monster)... I give you for the 80 millionth time....Washington.After you watch that go to youtube and look up Wizard People... then plan on taking the rest of the day off. You deserve it anyway.

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Read this!Great little feature on Quack! Media by Chris Handyside, complete with interviews, commas -- you know all that other real journalist kinda stuff. Good read

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Caught by the Fuzza review by Dmitri jr.The Magnetic Fields -- DistortionThe problem with some Stephin Merritt songs is they have to live next to the other Stephin Merritt songs. The great ones. The devastating ones.You can make it straight through all three volumes of 69 Love Songs in longish afternoon, though doesn’t everybody eventually skip through “The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be” to “

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You Know All This But...4/5 Detroit bloggers say go to this showBig Matt would recommend it too but he's like the 5th Dentist who won't recommend Trident NOT because he doesn't like it, but because of a childhood injury involving spearmint.I'm going to be out of town, hopefully a blogger will go and blog the results.... blog style.

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South to Rise Again For FourthSouth is near the top of recordreivews favorite new-millennial brit-poppers that should be bigger than Coldplay but sadly are not.The trio has announced that their fourth album You are Here will be released April 15. They'll also be playing SXSW in March and following that with an American tour in April. And in the broken record of Detroit bloggers, here's to hoping

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Maybe We Shouldn't Have Laughed When The Crack Dealer Shot Mama Yorke on Woodward and The Mayor Not Only Let Him Get Away With It, But Gave Him Beautification Award for His Crack House ShrubberyRadiohead confirms they ain't ever comin' back to Detroit.FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASERADIOHEAD CONFIRMS NORTH AMERICAN TOUR MARKETSWith In Rainbows having debuted today at #1 on the U.S. charts, RADIOHEAD has

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I need Two of These.

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Mick Bassett and the Marthas -- Here's the Whirlwind EPThere's a lot to consider when you get a tune from Mick Bassett -- well, at least for me there's a lot I have a hard time ignoring before I get to said song.First, he was a member of the very promising and very young Dollfaces a few years back, but then you knew that and probably have a unreleased, but distressed Dollfaces t-shirt stashed

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Quack SprawlThe tree town based and Detroit loved Suburban Sprawl records have finalized their long talked about deal with the Detroit loved and tree town based Quack Media!This brings Javelins and Child Bite in closer relation with Great Lakes Myths and the Hard Lessons and puts them all in league with the Quackies that Tally Hall picked when they turned Madonna down Badly Driz Stiz (well

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Trent, Dude, TrentWired publishes an un cut interview with Reznor that was part of a piece earlier this year. Along with the Byrne piece earlier this week they seem to be working their cred as the leading authority on creative copyright issues in the digital era (a decade late, but the thought is nice). As long as I don't have to read the Long Tail, I can get on board with it.Here's a little clip

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Once In a While People Who Know What They are Talking About Have Something To Say, Might As Well ListenCycling Enthusiast and world music fan David Byrne tell's the world how to make money at music in the new century.via dmitri jr.

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Amir Shows Us What He Learned in the D-LeagueIn the fine tradition of Shaq-Fu and Chris Webber's "Gangsta Gangsta (How You Do it)" I give you a Piston's Christmas Carol via the well coifed crew at Barber College. Yes it is painful, but wait for the remix -- it's worth it.

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Weak SauceFor several years, I reviewed the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame inductees over at whatevs.org. There I outlined the classic beef -- the rock hall is more of pop hall, but pop, country, hip hop, blues, dance and jazz artists are not really judged for their success or influence in the rock era, only their "hipness." I also forewarned the obvious problem the hall is running into now -- what

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Breaking News!!!!!.38 Special to reunite in Danny Chauncy's basement for a one time only show! Van Zant's rejoice!Just kidding, they never broke up.Road trip to Tacoma to catch Treinta Ocho at the Emerald Queen Casino on New Years Eve?NOW THAT WOULD BE SPECIAL!!!!!

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Bass FaceYeah, that's pretty best.

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Like Atari Man, Played OUTSo there's this.I have never attacked Mr. Holdship, I don't know him apart from his work and I have not used this blog to bash him. I may have referred to him on a backblog, but I really can't recall and if so, I may have been my usual callous disrespectful self.But this is a pitiful bit of marketing and a sad attempt to get bloggers from the Blackwell end of the

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TIGER STYLE!!!!More brilliant Wu Tang Clan coverage from Kotori.Be sure to click through for the video, which features more of the RZA interviews I posted a few weeks ago as well as other Wu members.U-god goes for the ODB memorial crazy award in this one as well... in between a monologue on responsibility and rolling blunts.Best.

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The Hard Lessons -- B & G Sides Vol. 1Back in the halcyon winter of 2004, before whatevs.org was overrun by Russian hackers, I wrote a glowing little review of a band that opened for Back in Spades and the Nice Device. Back in Spades didn't last long and last I heard Jackson Smith was touring with mom Patti. I think the Nice Device still exist, but I expect they'll be on hiatus as front woman

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November 20 Notable Releases -- FOR THE CHILDREN!!!Various Artists -- The Brit Box: U.K. Indie, Shoegaze, and Brit-Pop Gems of the Last Millennium. As you've no doubt notice, I'm not in mourning for the Compact Disc nor the record industry. However, I've been a little dismayed by the lack of interesting releases this fall. While there have been plenty of good albums released all year long,

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Experiment on Your Friends (or Simple Psychology Experiments that Destroy People's Whole World View)Here's a little experiment you can try on your friends.Take a true lossless file and use iTunes or whatever you like to create an inferior version (160kps or whatever you like). If you are unsure of the source of your file, take a CD and rip a 320kps and a 160kps version.This next part is critical

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I don't believe you, and you're going to be madThe format wars rage endlessly on but now it's less about mp3 versus flac or even the classic analog versus digital than it is about spitting out numbers and complaining about quality.Sorry, but I'm calling bull shit on the indie audiophiles.I challenge anyone to tell the difference between a a 320, 160 and 128 file played over a regular pair of

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I Came Up with All the Good Ideas in Star WarsCheck out this fantastic interview with RZA from Wu Tang I found on the website for British Mag Future Music about how he invented technology used now used by products like Final Scratch and others common to hip hop production.You don't need to understand anything about technology, music production or Wu to appreciate this...Just listen for stuff like

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What Can We Get Unnecessarily Upset About Now?Apparently, the backblogs and angry emails have been read. The following is a statement Jasper, MCR and myself received from Anthony Morrow, Publisher of Detour last night.After witnessing undue pressure put on bands, venues, sponsors, andthe fans, Detour has decided to postpone Rock City until summer 2008.The festival will still feature the best in

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November 6 Notable ReleasesJay Z -- American Gangster [EXPLICIT]. Taking a page out of the "I'll smack you in the mouth I'm Neil Diamond" playbook, the retired hip hop mogul gives us an album of jams inspired by the new Denzel Washington pic. TURN ON YOUR HEART LIGHT!!!!Sigur Rós -- Hvarf/Heim. The most popular item on Icelandic Coney Island menus, the Hvarf (a sheep's bladder stuffed with

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All the Kids At School Are Talking About It!!!This has the distinct flavor of a lame episode of Happy Days. Imagine the split screen with Richie on the phone with Webvomit and Ralph on the phone MotorCityRocks... the phone calls then balloon across the screen all Bye Bye Birdie stizz.The main difference is instead of phones, it's blogs and no one actually speaks with each other.Of course I'm

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Name Your Price AgainThe thoroughly average Paste Magazine is offering a year's subscription at... you guessed it any price you want to pay... as long as its more than a $1. You'd be hard pressed to find an industry that's worse off than the music biz... and then you remember the print pubs that cover the music biz.Hey, who buys ads in a music magazine targeted to 18-34 year-olds who stopped

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Robert Plant and Alison Krauss -- Raising SandOne is among the most recognizable front men of all time -- a true rock star and the voice of one the biggest bands of all time. His solo career, while successful has never been overly compelling.The other is the first lady of contemporary bluegrass, which in case you didn't realize, is basically the same as classic bluegrass. She is a very capable

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Halloween in the DICP and a Pitbull show Grizz the proper way to spray Faygo... makes those diet coke mentos guys look kind of lame.

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Haiku ReviewVan HalenKy-Mani MarleyPalaceAuburn Hills, MIOctober 22, 2007Cancer survivorRecovering alcoholicReplaced hip, still shredsDiamond David LeeSynthetic rock n' roll starSurprisingly worksBig secret revealedThe back up vocal sound ofVan Halen is Ed

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Haiku Review Wilco Andrew BirdFox Theater Detroit, MIOctober 17, 2007Crazy VictrolaSpeaker spin for doplar soundIn Bird's crazy songsFat Elvis, Fat JeffBoth know how to rock a jointStock in sequence jumpsDefined, pristine soundAudiophile clarityMade the whole damn show

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At Least SOMEONE, Wants Baseball to Be InterestingThe two most magical words in the English language, free tacos.

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Mugs Win! Mugs Win! Well... they got to the next round anyway.

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Wag Your Finger at the ScalawagMaybe you've heard, the music industry isn't doing well.Sales are down, the majors are eating it and more rounds of layoffs and jettisoning of artists are bound to happen. Radiohead is leading the way for any artist that can live comfortably off touring, the rapidly declining back catalog sales and has a reasonably digitally savvy fan base (unless someone figures

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You Should Read Thisrecordreviews.org contributor Dmitri jr. has a very compelling rant about a recentSasha Frere-Jones piece in the New Yorker up at his other home, barber-college.org.Frere-Jones says indie rock is racist, Dmitri jr. says bite me.Good stuff. Please to enjoy.

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Haiku Review SpoonThe PonysMajestic Theater Detroit, MIOctober 13, 2007Spoon has a fourth guyPlays guitar, keys, other stuffAdds performance depthFourth great Spoon albumRewarded with sold out showGood guys win sometimesCould have cut a fourthFrom the nearly two hour setNo "Small Stakes" was heard

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October 16 Notable ReleasesJimmy Eat World -- Chase This Light. I've seen some promos for this album calling Jimmy Eat World a lasting icon of rock. WHA? At most I'd give them credit for popularizing the term EMO, otherwise we'd still be calling them whiny-version-of-Weezer-Rock. Side note, did anyone notice that Amazon sells digital downloads for $0.10 less than iTunes? That's only $0.89

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Radiohead -- In Rainbows.There's this apocryphal story in the history of rock that involves Dylan and Lennon. The crux is that Dylan says that popular music is all about the words, the poetry. Lennon says no way man it's all about the sounds, that's where the emotional content is -- the sounds are the source of the spiritual resonance that makes people respond or at least react. True or not

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October 9 Notable ReleasesBand of Horses -- Cease to Begin. Apparently the Band of Horses dude gets pissed at audiences that ask to hear "Funeral"... DUDE... last year, no one wanted to hear any of your songs and two, if you want people to ask for another song, write another song worth asking for.Kid Rock -- Rock and Roll Jesus. The Detroit Kid hits back with another original album of songs

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Quick HitsThe Grizz versus the LipsRadiohead innovates... somewhat less surprising than that Steely Dan sample in on Kayne's new jaun.Stones song.Check.Kinks song.Check.Kumar, Mr. Littlejeans and Pagoda would no doubt approve.The Winnona's CD release party Friday with the Prime Ministers at Smalls

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Detour Launch Party: Night 1 ThoughtsIf you haven't clicked through to Detour link on the right yet, you totally should because they fill this interesting void intranets between the often mind numbing ADD optimism of Stereogum and the often mind numbing aspergers (pronounced assburgers) pessimism of Pitchfork.Anyway, they're having a 3-day party to celebrate their emergence from journalistic

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This is the part right before the part with Fonzie on water skisPlay that Toto Fattie, play it goooood!

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September 18 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,598 new and re-released records coming out this week.Eddie Vedder -- Music for the Motion Picture Into the Wild. The Pearl Jam-mer's soundtrack featuring a cover of Canadian rocker's Indio's "Hard Sun".Ben Lee -- Ripe. For me this Aussie singer-songwriter has always worked better as a collaborator, sideman and boyfriend to chicks far more famous. How

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Summer's Almost Over...Wonder why I haven't been posting much?Now that we're in the release season, we'll try to do better.

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September 11 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,958 new and re-released records coming out this week.50 Cent -- Curtis. Curtis, tell 50 he has no original ideas and the flow of marbles in molasses.Kanye West -- Graduation. Is this your Puffy album where you just rap over lazily sampled hits ("Stronger") or your Justin Timberlake album where you're still under the impression that Coldplay is cool (

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September 4 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,458 new and re-released records coming out this week.Patti Scialfa -- Play It as It Lays. Mrs. Ba-RUCE once again proves she can do more than sing harmony and age better than Clarence and Little Stevie.Manu Chao -- La Radiolina. Cosmopolitan party music from the festival junkie/global citizen.Ted Nugent -- Love Grenade. Another exercise in subtlety

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August 28 Notable ReleasesA few of the 2,565 new and re-released coming out this week.Ben Harper -- Lifeline. Friend to surfers, Obama and Lynchian muses -- Big Ben gives you another batch of rootsy rock via his crazy fretless guitar.The Scorpions -- Humanity Hour 1. A new album from the German rockists who are entering their 35th year of rocking you like a hurricane. This one features Billy

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Do you think "Who's Johnny?" Was Written On This? I'm considering purchasing it and donating it as the first piece in the new recordreviews.org wing of the Smithsonian.We have to protect our heritage people... WE HAVE TOO!!!!

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August 21 Notable ReleasesRilo Keily -- Under the Blacklight. Jenny Lewis puts away the twins and the rabbit fur coat and gets back to her responsible rocking roots.The New Pornographers -- Challengers. New album of pop powered by the Canadian collective. MIA -- Kala. MIA's first album put Ceylonese hip hop on every hipsters lips. Of course Ceylon's been Sri Lanka since '72 -- but be gentle

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August 14 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,410 new and re-released albums coming out this week.The Cast of High School the Musical 2 -- High School Musical 2. The inevitable follow up to the best selling album of 2006. That right music business your key target is now people too young to figure out how to steal music but old enough to get their parents to buy them a CD. Additionally the parents

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A Preview of Our Up Coming Sort of Late Lolla CoverageGrambo already posted this, but I have no problem saying that my main man Dirty has made the greatest film in the history of cinema. Look for him on Inside the Actor's Studio next week discussing Grizz's primary motivations in the BLAAAHHH scene.True/false, Dirty's movie will be bigger than Chocolate Rain?Obvs, TRUE

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August 7 Notable ReleasesFlight of the Conchords -- The Distant Future. EP preview of the October album from the band/HBO show of the same name. Ten years after Tenacious D had their show on HBO, how can two Kiwi's recycle the exact same premises (both have a single obsessed fan, one member is constantly quiting and rejoining the band, big egos/tiny apartment, no real gigs, etc.) and somehow

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July 31 Notable ReleasesA few of the new and re-released albums coming out this week.Common -- Finding Forever. Listen.... Common, may I call you Common? Nobody likes Superfly more than me because no one not even Shaft, gives it to the man quite like my man Priest. But while you think you may look super fly, you kind of look more like the bass player from Earth, Wind and Fire -- who's

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The Simpsons – The Simpsons Sing The BluesReleased: December, 1990Geffen Recordseditors note: Sorry we've been absent this week... but I think this makes up for it, a classic album review from the one and only Nummer. BUZZZ!As we prepare to join The Simpsons on their first big screen adventure today (gotta love that Spider-Pig), now’s a great time to look back at another Simpsons monument –

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Haiku ReviewTravisClutch CargoJuly 18, 2007Want a real review?Information LeafblowerLeaf on the moneyTravis entered from backShaking hands on way to stageThis would kill Thom YorkeFran was having funHonest enthusiasmYou get what you giveBack in fucking BlackA great way to end the showAngus would be proud

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Haiku ReviewThe PoliceFictionplaneThe Palace, Alburn Hills, MIJuly 17, 2007True/false: Fictionplane?False, but Sting's kid sings like dad.Would skip the reggae MuseDon't fuck with Yoga-manDrop a note, he'll melt yer faceSerious frontmanValhalla's hi-hatArsenal of percussive joyNeil Peart can lick itMuch less rock band thanA competitive structurePush the pop limits

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July 17 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,803 new and re-released albums coming out this week.Editors -- An End Has a Start. New one from the dour purveyors of post-punk. Check out Damore's recent review.Various Artisits -- Now, Vol. 25. Be sure to pick this up if you don't have an FM radio or need help figuring out some of the stuff MTV would be showing if they still played music. Also,

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Pitchfork FestivalChicago July 13, July 15 editor's note: Thanks to Dmitri jr. for making the long trek from his day job with "the company" "regulatin' imports" across the Laotian/Burmese border to journey to Windy City and brave the public transit, hipsters and heat to cover the Pitchfork Festivities.I wasn’t roaming Union Park all weekend scoping every band and scribbling down setlists. I’m not

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Spoon -- Ga Ga Ga GaIt's tempting at times to think of Spoon as almost minimalist. The course of their concise discography isn't overflowing, it's a neatly packed collection of trim pop songs borne from a DIY ethos that they've probably graduated past, but clearly never ventured too far from.Compared to a contemporary like say Ryan Adams, Britt Daniel could appear downright stingy.6 albums in

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July 10 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,794 new and re-released recordings coming out this week.Interpol -- Our Love to Admire. I'm going out on a limb and predicting that this album sounds like Interpol which is cool, if you're into that kind of thing or are anti-serotonin.Smashing Pumpkins -- Zeitgeist. If rumor, Billy and allmusic.com are to be believed, D'Arcy and Iha never played that much

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July 3 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,176 new and re-released records coming out this week.Various Artists -- Transformers: The Movie. Michael Bay has terrible taste in music... this should not surprise you if you are familiar with his taste in cinema or have sight and/or hearing.Velvet Revolver -- Libertad. Guns N' Weiland cover ELO. Your move Axl. May we suggest re-hiring and then firing

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Editors -- An End Has a StartFor many, UK's Editors debut The Back Room was viewed as quite possibly the best indie rock album the past 4 years had seen. Less than 2 years later they deliver their follow-up with similar results, via a mixture of equally dark and moody songs. Editors have been compared nauseatingly to a plethora of 70's/80's post-punk bands (Joy Division/Echo & The Bunnymen/

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June 26 Notable ReleasesA few of the 2,657 new and re-released albums coming out this week.The Trio of Doom -- The Trio of Doom. In 1979, Tony Williams, John McLaughlin, and Jaco Pastorius -- all masters of the jazz-fusion idiom on their respective instruments appeared together at the Havana Jazz Festival. The first 5 tracks of this album are that performance (warning, it's described as "

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Dan Deacon -- Spiderman of the RingsUsually, here on recordreviews.org, we try to review albums in the week they come out. That rule is in place, because popular music is inherently disposable -- what's the point of writing a review of a month old album just to tell people it's awesome or it sucks. By that time, most people have already made their own call.I've made an exception here for Dan

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What happens when you've made all the reasonable cut back and you can't raise taxes on anything most people will notice, because it'll never make it past your retarded legislature?You get proposed taxes on ticket sellers.I'd go into to it more, but Jasper and Whalebomb have done an admirable job over at webvomit. Their well informed opinions are based by solid logic, which can basically be

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Mandy Moore -- Wild Hope.Pure Chewing Satisfaction?In a world of narcissistic celebrities where the career lines between pop star and actor are blurry at best, Mandy Moore is a breath of fresh air playing the other side. She has a self-deprecating dark sense of humor that endears her even more to the 16-35 crowd, as she releases more albums, stars in more films, and gets more ink in the tabloids.

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Roderic Goes Down, Holy Effing Crap Roderic Goes Down!!!!Roderic Collin's 9 year reign as Blimpy Burger eating champion has ended, not with a bang, but likely the complete destruction of the new champ, James Rocker's colon.He ate 40 patties (that's 4 pounds of meat folks) divided into four 10 patty burgers in under 3 hours. Only the first one had cheese, the rest had only ketchup meat and bread.

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June 19 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,680 new and re-released albums coming out this week.The White Stripes -- Icky Thump. Jack White is opinionated, infuriating, mercurial, a damn clever song writer, a damn savvy marketer and if his own words and actions are to be believed (we can never be sure) damn ignorant about the future of the business of recording music. In other words, he remains

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Question Number 1, Will They Still Serve Beer?That was the first imaginary question I asked the imaginary manager of the new Fillmore Theater here in Detroit... in my imagination!I imagine the answer is yes, so basically I'm really not concerned that the State Theater is being renamed as part of a Clear Channel/Live Nation plan to build a national concert venue brand on the equity of the classic

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June 12 Notable ReleasesA few of the 2,035 new and re-released albums coming out this week.Queens of the Stone Age -- Era Vulgaris. While it remains tempting to look at everything QotSA does through the, "what if Oliveri was still around" lens, it's a fact that few bands have cultivated such a unique and consistent voice in the rock vein in the 2000's.Various Artists -- Instant Karma: The

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Battles -- MirroredDo you know that James L. Brooks line? The one about "the Simpsons theme"?No? OK, well some us couldn’t get a date in High School. Lay off.Story goes that executives from FOX are standing around listening to music for the first episode of the Simpsons and no one likes Dan Elfman’s theme: no warm, memorable easy-to-sing-along-too words ala Cheers, a weird tempo that’s jaunty and

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Great Lakes Myth Society -- Compass Rose BouquetCheck my flo.While we lack the empirical evidence improved measurements of background microwave radiation and dark matter may one day provide to prove or disprove their actual existence -- there are interpretations of quantum physics that allow for alternate universes to exist in parallel to our own.Under the rather conservative, if not

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DETOUR Magazine LaunchesYou could call one J.T. Loftus many things.Critic.High Life enthusiast.raconteur (with the small "r," NATCH).A scholar of rock...And now it seems we should add to the list amateur entomologist and skate culture historian.Busy dude.Be sure to check out the rest of the newly launched DETOUR Magazine, streaming live to world from the seedy bowels of Royal Oak, MI.

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June 5 Notable ReleasesA few of the 2,268 new and re-released albums coming out this week.Paul McCartney -- Memory Almost Full. First Sir Paul album in his almost 45 year career not released by Capitol (or EMI across the pond)... sure the major labels are doing great... I mean, what could the most successful songwriter of the twentieth century know about the music business?Marilyn Manson -- Eat

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SHOOOSH, This is The Greatest Song Ever WrittenSorry for the infrequent posts, we'll be back a little stronger next week.Until then, wait for the Blimpy Burger reset... WAIT FOR IT!Cheeseburgers rule, please put your all time favorites in the back blog... IN THE BACK BLOG!!!--via the greatest blog ever written, A Hamburger Today.

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May 29 Notable ReleasesA few of the 2,239 new and re-released albums coming out this week.R Kelly -- Double Up. When he's not gettin' freaky wit da under-aged crowd, the clearly insane Kelly packs in more cameos than a sweeps edition of Different Strokes (Nancy Reagan AND Mr. T?!?) After, Snoop, Kid Rock, Ludacris (now your speakin' my language Luda), Usher, Chamillionaire, Nelly, T.I. and many

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May 22 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,995 new and re-released albums coming out this week.The National -- Boxer. Quirky lyrics delivered in a tasteful baritone -- obtuse songs, that seem to actually say something about something else. Could be the album that blows them up to be as big as Springsteen thinks they are.Jeff Buckley -- So Real: Songs from Jeff Buckley. Some people's leftovers (or "

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Wilco -- Sky Blue Sky.Riding north along Lakeshore Dr. on the 146 express bus, wearing a fake cowboy shirt and listening to Sky Blue Sky, it’s easy to think of Jeff Tweedy’s legacy here in Chicago.Over the course six albums, nine for you sticklers, Wilco has served as an unofficial urban cultural education program for the suburban kids that crowd into the city in regular batches. What’s

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Haiku ReviewMastodonAgainst MeCursiveState Theater, Detroit, MichiganMay 13, 2007Intensity bloomsMastodon shreds your mind grapesKings of metal ageAgainst Me rocks solidBut young fans skip the metalMind grapes still intactWhite vinyl recordLimited edition giftBest mother's day ever.

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May 15 Notable ReleasesA few of the 1,425 new and re-released albums coming out this week.Rufus Wainwright -- Release the Stars. His last album, Want Two was, how do we say this, a tad gay even for Rufus (or even Gay Tad) and it challenged the substantial straight audience he's built up over his career to deal with the most flaming parts of his persona. Back after a couple year break from

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Haiku ReviewArctic Monkeys and Be Your Own Pet Clutch Cargo, Pontiac, MIMay 9, 2007Arctic Monkeys RockSuburbans love the limeysLads of potentialBe Your Own Pet suckHotness does not mean talentNow, please end career Acoustics nightmareHouse of god, my big black assClutch Cargo is durst

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May 8 Notable ReleasesA few of the 2,077 new and re-released albums coming out this week.Björk -- Volta. Icelandic sprite settles down with Mutt Lange for a set of bubbly-supermarket pop... AS IF!!! "Earth Intruders" is bjeyönd, bjest.Elliot Smith -- New Moon. Presumably the bottom of the unreleased barrel for Smith completists, this 2 CD set mainly contains outtakes and alternate takes from the

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The Veils Reviewed on DeadflowersQuick link to a review of The Veils' Nux Vomica by the always anglophallic Keggies."Thoughts on the Veils' Nux Vomica."If you take into account the exchange rate, he gave the album a 4/5 rating.

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Coachella 2007 Recapby Peabs and Damore editor's note: Thanks to a generous grant from the Dr. William H. Cosby Foundation for the Advancement of Flazzum, recordreviews.org was able to send two of our favorite contributors, who coincidentally get along famously and musically but often disagree critically to the Coachella Festival in California last week... this is their report. Hopefully, if some

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Dinosaur Jr. -- BeyondWhy were Jeff Lebowski and Walter Sobchak friends?Walter remarking he “once dabbled in pacifism,” presumably before he knew the Dude, leads me to believe they’re not childhood pals … but whatevs.You could spend all day equating The Big Lebowski to the Our Band Could Be Your Life mythology of Dinosaur Jr. Mascis = the inexplicable slacker/hippie leader of the group. Barlow =

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