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Bruce Springsteen channels the 99 percent on ‘Wrecking Ball’
More than simply exploring emotions or the gentle confines of the rock and roll medium, Bruce Springsteen is typically at his best when he feels some sort of purpose with his music. In his early days, that sense was overflowing; exploring the broken dreams of his hometown, the pitfals of relationships and, later, fame, or the plight of the working American were all documented so expertly that a template of sorts was set on Springsteen. …
Noel Gallagher flies high on his own
Without his brother and bandmates, Noel has full control of an album again, and he makes the most of it with High Flying Birds.
The opening “Brandenburg Gate” starts out interestingly enough, with Reed reciting “I would cut my legs and tits off/When I think of Boris Karloff/In the dark of the moon,” but it’s not long before the weirdness kicks in, Metallica’s full-scale riffing and James Hetfield’s repeated “Small town girl!” punctuating the rest of Reed’s pseudo-ranting.
And it just goes on like this…
Tom Waits is at his morbid, bizarre best on ‘Bad as Me’
Tom Waits is as brilliantly unpredicatble as ever on Bad as Me, a new LP that contains as twisted, funny and blaring a take on losing everything in war as you’ll ever hear.
Not satisfied with just writing solid songs, Wilco branches back out into the world of experimentation with The Whole Love.
One week later, and we like Pearl Jam again. The soundtrack to Cameron Crowe’s film, Pearl Jam Twenty, plays like the ultimate fan mix tape. And that’s a great thing.
Radiohead holds another challenging masterpiece in ‘The King of Limbs’
For a band able to transport its listeners to faraway spaces so easily, the first real, true feeling created by The King of Limbs is a hypnotic one. Whether electronic or treated acoustics, the music on Radiohead’s eighth proper long player immediately sucks in its faithful subjects. …
North Mississippi Allstars send off their father in style
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The songs on Keys to the Kingdom have that born-in-the-dirt country feel, back porch playing channelled through three tremendously talented musicians. Luther’s guitar work is as solid as ever throughout, and he’s enough of a pro to know when to turn it on and when to let it ride.
Robert Plant hosts a Boston hootenanny
It certainly felt like a hootenanny. Kicking off with a bluesy “Nobody’s Fault But Mine,” Plant was smiling and loose, subtly strutting onstage most of the night. It might sound strange to say that a 62-year-old man with crazy locks of curly blonde hair has aged gracefully, but he has.
