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Bo Bice new album “3″ review Where do bluesy former American Idols go when the initial boost of popularity the show gave them wears off? Why, to Nashville, of course! Like Taylor Hicks with The Distance, Bo Bice takes a decidedly country turn on 3 while still retaining the Southern-friend funk-rock that made him a popular runner-up [...] Jack Johnson’s ‘To the Sea’ Review Hawaiian-born troubadour Jack Johnson has elevated beachcomber soft rock to its platonic ideal. There’s not a coconut hair out of place on his new album, “To the Sea,†which is pleasingly packaged in all recycled papers. The micro-genre chill-wave has been ascribed to such bands as Texas’ Neon Indian and Chazwick [...] Foals ‘Total Life Forever’ Review Second albums, as John Lennon once famously remarked, are what happen when you’re busy making other plans. Just ask Oxford five-piece Foals, whose career to date has been distinguished by colossal doses of hype and the sort of niggling pomposity which led frontman Yannis Philippakis to declare his ambition to write a [...] School Gyrls – News School Gyrls album review I just had a horrible thought, one that sent a chill through my every cell: there’s a generation growing up on music like School Gyrls, a whole generation that has never heard a normal human singing voice, kids so used to the liberal application of vocal-tuning software that they [...] Easton Corbin Debut Album Review Taking a page from the George Strait playbook, country music newcomer Easton Corbin displays excellent song sense while offering an easygoing vocal style on his finely crafted self-titled debut album. The track “I Can’t Love You Back” is a steel guitar-drenched ballad about the pain of lost love, while “Don’t Ask Me [...] Gabriella Cilmi ‘Ten’ Review Aged 18, Cilmi is proof that you’re never too young for reinvention: launched as a Winehouse-lite soulstress in 2008, here she transforms into a campy electro-pop diva with shades of Little Boots. A cynical bandwagon-jump? Probably, but one thankfully furnished with some alluring tunes, including the pulsing, Moroder-ish “Love Me Cos You Want To” [...] Album Review: Kate Nash – ‘My Best Friend Is You’ Nigh on three years have breezed by since a certain 19-year-old shot up the charts with a whip-smart song about a relationship crumbling like make-up at the end of a long night. But our Gaga-dominated times feel like a world away from ‘Foundations’ and the time Kate [...] Will Young – ‘The Hits’ There comes a time in every pop artist’s career when they must face the obligatory – nay contractual – greatest hits album. For some it is a shameless way of selling their back catalogue when they are but a fledgling artist. For others it is cathartic and allows them to take stock, [...] Melissa Etheridge ‘Fearless Love’ Review Twenty-plus years into a lauded career seems like a weird time to finally be taking stock of the contemporary rock scene for influence, but it’s hard not to hear echoes of the charging arena shimmer of hit-makers Kings of Leon (or Coldplay, for that matter) in the title track of “Fearless Love.’’ [...] Review: TobyMac ‘Tonight’ I’m very excited to be reviewing for you the new project from TobyMac called “Tonightâ€. I’ve been listening to it for the last week and you’re in for a musical treat. I’m pretty sure you’ll be picking up at least two copies of this project tomorrow one for you and one for a friend. It [...] |
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