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CD Reviews from
Rolling Stone
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12/31/1969 06:59 PM
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The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement
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Artist:
The Last Shadow Puppets
Review:
As the leader of Britain's Arctic Monkeys, Alex Turner creates
spiky neo-post-punk that avoids any revivalist fuddy-duddyism. But
Turner's new side project, a collaboration with Miles Kane of
Merseyside indie-poppers the Rascals, is a shameless nostalgia trip
— and it's still compelling. Their debut pays homage to the
moody symphonic sound of early David Bowie, Lee Hazlewood and other
stars of the late Sixties and early Seventies. While reverb-swathed
acoustic guitars churn in minor...
Rating:
3 Stars
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12/31/1969 06:59 PM
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Phantom Planet - Raise The Dead
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Artist:
Phantom Planet
Review:
Phantom Planet claim their fourth full-length was inspired by the
music of Charles Manson and David Koresh — not quite the
album you'd expect from the California boys who sang The
O.C.'s theme song. Still, like those cult leaders, Raise
the Dead gives its macabre subjects (and its lighter ones) an
oddly upbeat spin. Jumping from Bowie glam to disco punk, the band
tosses in synths, arch backing coos and riffing saxes for songs
that are both expansive and strange. "Leader," which is...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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12/31/1969 06:59 PM
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Tokio Hotel - Scream
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Artist:
Tokio Hotel
Review:
It's official: these guys are the greatest German
bubblegum-neo-glam-goth-emo boy band. Ever. On their
English-language debut (they're already huge in Deutschland), the
four fresh-faced lads from Magdeburg unveil a genre-and
gender-bending act that justifies superlatives. Much of the credit
goes to lead singer Bill Kaulitz, an 18-year-old androgyne whose
stupendous electroshock hairdo stands a good six inches taller than
Tina Turner's Eighties coif. Kaulitz is a technically limited
vocal...
Rating:
3.5 Stars
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12/31/1969 06:59 PM
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T Bone Burnett - Tooth Of Crime
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Artist:
T Bone Burnett
Review:
The best song on T Bone's relentlessly noir new album is "Kill
Zone," a lyrical, Roy Orbison-style ballad — which Orbison
himself co-wrote right before his death in 1988. That fact only
hints at the oddity of this collection: Burnett, best known as
producer to the stars (Robert Plant/Alison Krauss, John Mellencamp)
and curator of soundtracks (The Big Lebowski, O
Brother, Where Art Thou?), started writing these songs years
ago for a revamped production of Sam Shepard's 1972 play...
Rating:
3 Stars
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12/31/1969 06:59 PM
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Gavin DeGraw - Gavin DeGraw
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Artist:
Gavin DeGraw
Review:
Gavin DeGraw first hit it big with 2003's "I Don't Want to Be," an
anti-fronting anthem with the long-winded chorus "I don't want to
be anything other than what I've been tryin' to be lately." Five
years later, dude's still verbose. He packs bizarre metaphors into
the faux-jazzy "Cop Stop": "I won't tell you lies/Or treat you like
a rental car like other guys." (Thankfully, there's no mention of
handling his stick shift.) And on "Medicate the Kids" — a
power-chord-filled rant agains...
Rating:
2.5 Stars
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12/31/1969 06:59 PM
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Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction
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Artist:
Joe Higgs
Review:
Jamaican singer—songwriter Joe Higgs mentored the giants of
reggae music. He taught harmony singing to Bob Marley and Peter
Tosh in the yard of his Trenchtown home, toured America with Marley
and Jimmy Cliff, and wrote "Stepping Razor," which became Tosh's
signature song. More important, Higgs was one of the first Jamaican
singers to bring the ghetto experience to the forefront of reggae.
Yet Higgs never gained much of an international following before
his death in 1999. That's a shame, be...
Rating:
4 Stars
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News from
Musicnotes.com
"Hey There Delilah" Songwriter and Publishers Receive 2007 Musicnotes Song of the Year Award
Madison, WI – May 1, 2008 – Musicnotes, Inc., the market leader in downloadable sheet music, announced today Plain White T's lead singer and songwriter, Tom Higgenson, WB Music Corp. and Alfred Publishing are the recipients of the sixth annual...
Ferras: "Hollywood's Not America" Sheet Music (Musicnotes Premiere)
We've gotten a lot of requests for sheet music to be added for the new Ferras song, "Hollywood's Not America." So, we did what we do best, and went ahead and arranged the song (through our licensing agreement with Universal...
Sara Bareilles: "Bottle It Up" Sheet Music (Musicnotes Premiere)
Based on the response we received from our Premiere of the sheet music for "Gravity" by Sara Bareilles, this week we've added sheet music for her latest single, "Bottle It Up." You can download the sheet music here. If you...
Sara Bareilles: "Gravity" Sheet Music (Musicnotes Premiere)
While Sara Bareilles' debut single, "Love Song" continues to be our #1 sheet music download, we've also received requests to offer sheet music for more of her music. The most-requested of these is her song "Gravity" - which we are...
April Free Sheet Music, Tab and Guru Downloads
It's April 1st, which means a new month, which means new free downloads. This month we've selected a "Spring-y" song with "Daisy Bell (A Bicycle Built for Two)." You can download the free sheet music, tab and Guitar Guru Sessions...
New Mac Viewer Available Now
Over the past few weeks we've been testing our latest version of the Musicnotes Viewer for Macintosh. Now that we are done with testing, the latest version (version 1.16.11) is now available for download. There is quite a bit new...
MXTabs.net Open at www.mxtabs.net
Last March Musicnotes announced that it would be re-launching the popular guitar, bass and drum tab website, MXTabs.net as the first free and legal guitar tab community. Since then we've been hard at work securing licensing and building out a...
More Death Cab for Cutie Premieres
Last week we added a Musicnotes Premiere of digital sheet music for Death Cab for Cutie's song "I Will Follow You Into the Dark." This week we've added two more songs from the band, one from their latest album, 'Plans'...
Musicnotes Premieres: Something Corporate, Death Cab for Cutie, Counting Crows
We've added quite a few Musicnotes Premieres this week - including several songs that we've received quite a bit of requests for over the years. These songs are currently available exclusively at Musicnotes.com - and you can get to them...
Yael Naim: "New Soul" Sheet Music
All you fans of the song in the MacBook Air commercial can now rejoice - digital sheet music for the song featured in the commercial is now available for download! Download "New Soul" by Yael Naim And if you haven't...
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