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Album Review: Kate Pierson - Guitars and Microphones (Score: 7/10)
Known for her soaring, powerfully fun vocals with the B-52s, Pierson has finally crafted a solo release featuring her familiar, shiny happiness. Although Strokes guitarist ... -
Title Trackers to Release Parodies of Stones, Cash, Petty
When three veterans of Los Angeles' music scene got together in 2010 to invent and record a "lost title track" for the Rolling Stone's Exile on ... -
Album Review: Imagine Dragons - Smoke + Mirrors (Score: 7/10)
Smoke + Mirrors, the second studio release for alternative rock band Imagine Dragons, is a solid venture into a fusion of several rock subgenres. Spanning ... -
Christmas in January
The four-time Grammy-winning, 20-times nominated Gordon Goodwin’s Big Phat Band--which recently won a Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album for Life in the Bubble--gathered at Capitol ... -
First African Dancehall Artist to Team with Reggae Powerhouse
Nigerian dancehall star Patoranking has signed a deal with VP Records' distribution arm VPAL Music to release his debut album. He is the first African ... -
Album Review: Jorma Kaukonen - Ain’t In No Hurry (Score: 9/10)
Jorma delivers a relaxed, self-assured and entertaining sampler of the Americana roots that have nourished his musical odyssey over the past 50 (!) years. Prior ... -
Album Review: Papa Roach - "F.E.A.R." (5/10)
Papa Roach have been through some difficult times and would like us to know about them. For their eighth studio album, the multi-platinum nu-metal/rap rockers ... -
Album Review: Mary J. Blige -- "The London Sessions" (8/10)
The longtime queen of hip-hop soul hops across the pond for a sensationally diverse, eminently grooving romp with the U.K.’s hippest artists and songwriters. Exec ... -
Album Review: Lost Coyote's "Get Your Phil" - (8/10)
This is a fine collection of songs and one of the last collaborations with the late Phil Everly. Lost Coyote lead vocalist and guitarist Brian Stewart wrote ... -
Album Review: Ann Hampton Callaway - From Sassy To Divine
Despite decades of acclaim singing jazz, legendary songstress Sarah Vaughan (aka “Sassy”) has said she was not specifically that —which makes her the perfect icon for a similarly diverse ...
