John Mayer "Born And Raised" Review
What sets Born and Raised apart from Mayer's other works is that he's finally humble to his talent. In this record, Mayer has receded to making music simply because it makes him happy.
What sets Born and Raised apart from Mayer's other works is that he's finally humble to his talent. In this record, Mayer has receded to making music simply because it makes him happy.
Lauren Hoffman | Posted 05.15.2012
When you spend your drive to school listening to the same album every day, you hope to one day see it performed live. Last week, I had the chance to finally see my favorite country trio, Lady Antebellum.
The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.28.2012
Sorry Jason Segel, but all of your charm -- and you do have a lot of it -- couldn't save you from the critics this week. Segel's latest rom-com "The F...
The Huffington Post | Crystal Bell | Posted 04.14.2012
The reviews for Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard's new horror flick "The Cabin in the Woods" have been mostly positive. However there was one critic who w...
The Huffington Post | Caitlin Brown | Posted 03.01.2012
With kickass live performances and albums that sound so perfectly raw, Dr. Dog is as though your local favorites all of a sudden got famous in the bes...
Kristi York Wooten | Posted 04.04.2012
In a world filled with auto-tune and sampled beats, beachy, breezy tunes such as "Run, Run, Run" and "It's You" ring almost revolutionary with their innocent, layered harmonies, organ, and guitar.
Shawn Amos | Posted 11.14.2011
Lady Antebellum, Primus, Nick Lowe, Blind Pilot, and Das Racist have all come forth to share some post-9/11 music. Some of it you'll want to forget.
Ruth Gerson | Posted 10.05.2011
Dennis Diken is the drummer and a founding member of New Jersey's rock 'n' roll band The Smithereens. He is a mensch, a fountain of knowledge, a supreme musician, and a great story teller.
Sam Lansky | Posted 09.19.2011
"Sweetest High" is a very canny new direction; the single is palatable to American listeners in a way that Girls Aloud, with its distinctly English everything-but-the-kitchen-sink madness, never was.
Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011
Daft Punk picks up where the '80s left off, Plain White T's treat us to some pop ear candy, T.I. delivers an f-bomb from jail, Charlie Wilson refuses to get naughty, while Duffy plays too nice. Bah, humbug.
Modiba | Posted 05.25.2011
Recorded with Berlin-based collective Afrobeat Academy, Love and Death is a conscious effort on the part of Taylor to advance the afrobeat movement.
James Kotecki | Posted 05.25.2011
Petey Pablo's "Raise Up," a 2001 song about his native North Carolina, is the worst state rap anthem ever produced. I know the song has been out for a...
Waymon Hudson | Posted 05.25.2011
I have a confession. I am now, and have always been, hopelessly obsessed with the quirky, queer band Scissor Sisters. But their latest album entitled Night Workis something entirely different.
Angora Holly Polo | Posted 05.25.2011
At the fest: rockstars are so cute sometimes in their pleas for anonymity!
Mike McCready | Posted 05.25.2011
The story behind this song is interesting. It was penned in a Toronto bar on New Years Eve 1989 by Bill Nygren and over time he's played it with a number of bands.
Brandon Perkins | Posted 05.25.2011
Relapse recaptures the angry verbal acrobatics from those first two records that sold a cajillion copies. Yet, despite re-bottling that immature angst, it is different and, in a way, it's mature.
Mike McCready | Posted 05.25.2011
The song I'm reviewing this week is called The Cheap Song. It resonates with the current economic crisis although it was written during the boom when stingy people stood out. Now being frugal is in vogue.
Mike McCready | Posted 05.25.2011
I liked this song immediately. Cool piano and a bit of acoustic guitar and you get the feeling the compelling melody will slowly build throughout the song.
Alex Remington | Posted 05.25.2011
One of the best metal albums of the decade quietly came out last November, Traced in Air by Cynic, their first album in a decade and a half.
David Wild | Posted 05.25.2011
Even now as what's left of our music industry evolves into whatever it may soon become, you still hear a rare album that reminds you why albums still exist.
Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 05.25.2011
This is harmonious, joyous music, totally accessible pop that just happens to be symphonic in its power. Its real genius is its accessibility.
Alex Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011
AIDS Wolf's second full length album, Cities of Glass, is well worth checking out. Each track is a brutal, highly effective assault, but they do not function as separate parts that form a whole.
Alex Mallory | Posted 05.25.2011
Money is, unequivocally, the most important release from the tail end of 2008. Skeletons uniquely stretch the theme of financial survival in America's most expensive city over ten knock out tracks.
Judah Joseph | Posted 05.22.2012