I got my hands on some serious iTunes voucherage last month and bought a mountain of albums, singles, and one-offs. Now I’m not working my way through them all and bringing a few here and there to your attention (if you didn’t already know about them, that is). The first up to bat is The [...]
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The other day I felt like listening to some poppy tunes so I turned on the radio. I had a blast at first, I sang along with Christina and Justin, but then Avril Lavine ruined it with the line ‘She’s like so whatever’. Seriously?!? Good god, she’s become the Cher Horowitz of Pop. That totally [...]
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I’m not making a political statement one or the other about the current Irag conflict or any conflict now or in the past. However, when it comes to protest songs very few equal, for me, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s 1969 “Fortunate Son” on Willy and the Poor Boys. A song driven by the draft, support for [...]
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A few years ago I first heard dios (malos)‘ “Starting Five” and I loved it. So when their eponymous, sophomore album came out in 2005 I picked it up along with a few other CDs. I listened to it twice and then sadly it got buried under a big, fat pile of new music. The [...]
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The last home-recorded and -produced releases we heard from Maps (aka James Chapman) were singles-only, “Start Something” and “To The Sky” (2005) and “Lost My Soul” and “Sparks In The Snow” (2006). Now, the Northamptonshire lad has released his debut full-length album, We Can Create, 11 tracks (including “To The Sky” and “Lost My Soul”) [...]
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