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Sweet Matty TreatsJack White has a lot to live up to on his first solo album. Granted, this isn’t an album that is going to please all the fans. If you’re looking for a series of White Stripes’ like tunes, or Raconteurs material, than you might as well walk away or change your expectations. If you were [...]
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Record Review: ‘Blunderbuss’ by Jack White
Posted: April 23, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: 'Blunderbuss', Dead Weather, Jack & White, music, Music Reviews, Raconteurs, RZA, Third Man Records, White Stripes
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Record Review: ‘BBNG002′ by BADBADNOTGOOD
Posted: April 20, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Alexander Sowinski, BADBADNOTGOOD, BBNG2, Chester Hansen, Hip-Hop, Jazz, Jazz Hip/Hop fusion, Leland Whitty, Luan Phung, Matthew A. Tavares, music, Music Reviews
In terms of D.I.Y. musicians and bands, BADBADNOTGOOD may be the most unique. With an offering of jazzercised hip-hop beats, and now with a lot more originals, BBNG move forward to present an aural image of where this band is going. From the bands first LP, BBNG001, they put forth the unique concept that they continue [...]
Record Review: ‘Old Time Primitives’ by Big Blood
Posted: April 20, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Anthony Fantano, Asian Mae, Big Blood, Caleb Mulkerin, Colleen Kinsella, Freak Folk, Fuzz Folk, indie folk, music, Music Reviews, Old Time Primitives, Rose Philistine
On a recommendation from Anthony Fantano – who if you have not checked out his intelligent, compelling music reviews, you’re fracking crazy or dead, I’ll go with dead – I downloaded a release from a band called Big Blood. Having never heard them, who wouldn’t be interested to expand their musical canon. After the first listen, I [...]
Record Review: ‘De Vermis Mysteriis’ by High on Fire
Posted: April 20, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Converge, Cthulhu, De Vermis Mysteriis, Death Is This Communion, Des Kensel, H.P. Lovecraft, High on Fire, Jeff Matz, Kurt Ballou, Matt Pike, music, Music Reviews, Mysteries of the Worm, Sleep, Snakes for the Divine
When you’re album takes it’s name from a Cthulhu tome called The Mysteries of the Worm, your ears perk up. When the band interprets it as a time traveling journey of a brother of Jesus, you’re scratching you’re head, but you’re still in it. When it’s High on Fire doing it, you’re fracking sold! On this [...]
Record Review: ‘Prisoner’ by The Jezabels
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: 'Til Tuesday, 80's music, 80's sounding, Hayley Mary, Heather Shannon, indie pop, Indie Rock, Martha Davis, music, Music Reviews, Nik Kaloper, Prisoner, Samuel Lockwood, The Jezabels, The Motels, The Pretenders
To describe The Jezabels as indie rock is a bit of a stretch. If Prisoner was to triumph, it would be to expand the boundaries of the indie genre. In a strange comparison, The Jezabels feel almost like they came out of the 80′s, and we all know how I feel about the 80′s. That’s not exactly a bad [...]
Record Review: ‘Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now’ by Justin Townes Earle
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Harlem River Blues, Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies, music, Music Reviews, Nothing's Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, The Good Life
Justin Townes Earle’s music has always sounded like someone who’s a restless sleeper from album to album. It’s constantly changing styles – The Good Life focused on traditional country, Midnight at the Movies was the folk album, Harlem River Blues, the rockabilly album, and now with Nothing’s Going to Change the Way You Feel About Me Now, JTE delves into [...]
Record Review: ‘Locked Down’ by Dr. John
Posted: April 19, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Dan Auerbach, Dr. John, Locked Down, music, Music Reviews, New Orleans Voodoo
Up until the release of Dr. John’s latest LP, Locked Down, his influence was waning, per his last few albums. Records like Sippiana Hurricane and Creole Moon failed to make an impact, and Dr. John fell by the way side a bit. Step in Dan Auerbach. You know him as the guitarist of the Black Keys, and armed with a new found interest [...]
Record Review: ‘My Head Is an Animal’ by Of Monsters and Men
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: "Into the Woods", music, Music Reviews, My Head Is an Animal, Nana Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir, Of Monsters and Men, Ragnar "Raggi" Pórhallson
At the first aural experience of Of Monsters and Men, particularly their EP, “Into the Woods,” the band delivered an Icelandic indie folk sound that had a lot of potential. The band displayed a lot of organic and earthy tones and featured a pair of dueling vocalists; Nana Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir and Ragnar “Raggi” Pórhallson add [...]
If Holograms Ruled the World
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: Coachella, Coachella Music Festival, Hip-Hop, Michael Jackson, music, music opinions, Rap, Tupac, Tupac Shakur, Tupak Shakur Hologram
When I came home from work Monday afternoon Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube were alight with news of some hologram of Tupac playing at the Coachella music festival. With social media buzzing, let’s paint the scene for you: you took a second to watch it; you pressed play on the Facebook post you just happened to [...]
Record Review: ‘Zammuto’ by Zammuto
Posted: April 18, 2012 by kristoffrable in Music Reviews and OpinionsTags: music, Music Reviews, Nick Zammuto, Paul de Jong, The Books, Zammuto
Nick Zammuto’s famous first project with Paul de Jong, The Books, garnered a lot of attention, particularly with their last album The Way Out. The split that occurred last year left fans with a lot of questions about solo projects and next steps. The first project to emerge, Zammuto’s self titled album, isn’t technically his first as [...]
