Before music there was silence
Oh, My Heart? Oh. My. God. Stipe sounds so old. This tune comes off the highly-anticipated release Collapse Into Now from the Athens legends. Due in April. Listening to Michael Stipe – as I have not for a long time – is like seeing your cousin who you used to play with everyday decades down [...]
We knew posthumous releases by Michael Jackson were coming. Tupac has had more music in the 14 years since his death than he did alive. People are still digging up new songs by Elvis and the Beatles. Go ahead, don’t feel bad. Sit back and enjoy the music. New is almost always better than nothing [...]
Sometimes a singer’s weak efforts make me wonder why they don’t try harder when they clearly have the ability. Fefe Dobson is a singer who’s largely existed under the radar, yet she has a hard edge to her voice and music that’s appealing. Sometimes. Though working under the unfortunate name, Fefe (which I of course [...]
Turns out it wasn’t the voices in my head I was hearing – it’s the new Disturbed CD.
I wanted this soundtrack for one reason only – to check out an acoustic version of The Airborne Toxic Event’s new song, “Half of Something Else.” Forget “check out,” TATE’s music at its best hovers over you, giving butterfly kisses to your ears and enveloping you in a warmth for which people spend their whole [...]
(SOUNDLUST REVIEW) — “Hello, girls and boys. Today we’re going to make music. Happy music and sad music. Funny music and serious music. Music that has many of the feelings we have. So get your instrument and come along with me. Let’s put some of our feelings into music.” — Wake Up Call. I want [...]
