CD Reviews
“The Red Album”
Weezer
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“The Greatest Man That Ever Lived”
— Reviewed by Ben Moffat
I remember Weezer. I remember it was a mystery. They were in Japan, Rivers was at Harvard finishing his degree, no one really could say for sure what was going on. Regardless it was like waiting for Jesus to return, and then Jesus — I mean Weezer returned in 2001 and you learned there wasn’t anything worth waiting for.
Somewhere along the line Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) became aware he could make money without having to make an album on par with “Pinkerton” in terms of emotional depth. And like someone with a deep seeded emotional problem he decided to make a joke out of everything.
A friend asked me, “What do you expect them to do? Write “My Name
CD Revieww: Flo Bots
Flobots
“Fight With Tools”
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Hip-Hop, Politics, and The Cliche Juggernaut of 2008
In “Rules for Radicals,” Saul Alinsky writes about “the difference betw
CD Reviews: Todd Burge, Sun Kil Moon, The Mother Truckers, The Roots, Frightened Rabbit
“My Lost and Found”
Todd Burge
****
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“Buffalo Skinned by the Kings Men”
— Reviewed by Justin McIntosh
W.Va. native Todd Burge’s often been called the Mountain Stat
CD Reviews: Black Keys, Thrice, Tokyo Police Club, Cloud Cult, Counting Crows, Flight of the Conchords
“Attack and Release”
The Black Keys
****
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“Same Old Thing”
— Reviewed by Ben Moffat
The Black Keys’ records are made the way records should be. They are quite poss
Fleet Foxes Draw Comparisons to My Morning Jacket
Many critics have pegged Fleet Foxes as being a more modest, folk-sounding My Morning Jacket. There’s merit in that comparison. This is due not only to FF’s insistence on reverb-laden instrumentation, but also frontman Robin Pecknold’s uncanny resemb
» Full StoryCD Review: Snoop Dogg, She & Him, Gnarls Barkley, Novaflow, One Hundred Hurricanes
Snoop Dogg
“Sexual Eruption,” the new single off Snoop’s new album, is perhaps the greatest video ever and if we could post it into these pages, every one would be embedded with said clips. The expansion of Snoop’s musical palette doesn’t
His & Hers ? 5.21.08
What's On Your Pod, June 16
Yama's
New River Bridge
Tattoos of the Week
His & Hers ? 5.21.08
The Siege a Fort Randolph
WWE Smackdown