Clichés are basically the exact opposite of a box of chocolates: you always know what you’re gonna get next. The key to making clichés work in songwriting is to couch the clichés in a bunch of other interesting stuff so that they’re not all that important to the song, in the end. This is a [...]
Album name: The Great Disruptors EP
Artist name: Sweethead
Genre: Rock
Released: July 13 2009
Label: Strange Addiction
ZME Rating: 8/10
Website: sweethead.net
With PJ Harvey taking various detours away from her intelli-punk rock of old, Brody Dalle’s Spinerette sounding less like the Distillers than a slightly more modern No Doubt, and Courtney Love continuing to disappear into a putrid puddle of [...]
Album title: West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
Artist name: Kasabian
Genre: Rock/Psychedelia
Released: 5 June 2009
Label: Columbia
ZME Rating: 7/10
Website: kasabian.co.uk
When one of rock’s popular young pretenders attempt a concept album inspired by LSD-infused 60s psychedelia in 2009, it is difficult to know whether to commend British exports Kasabian or rip them apart.
Upon a first spin of West [...]
We’re three songs into Ham Sandwich’s set in Whelan’s, and the entire crowd is already covered in confetti and there are maybe ten beach ball-sized balloons being batted between audience and band. Everyone in the venue is either grinning madly or openly laughing. Ham Sandwich are clearly here to have some fun.
But wait: like a [...]
It was a sweet day when we decided to go in Barcelona to see the Australian living legends. So, along with game master Tibi Puiu, a few friends and a handful of whisky and tequila bottles we head out for Spain’s cultural capital. We tried to visit as much as possible there, so we missed [...]
Album name: Knives
Artist name: Aiden
Genre: Emo
Released: May 12 2009
Label: Victory
ZME Rating: 2/10
Website: aiden.org
Jesus Christ. Look, I’m not saying that Aiden are the worst band in the world. But you know that feeling you get when you see a 13 year old boy trying to be rebellious by wearing a lot of black and swearing in [...]
Album name: White Lies For Dark Times
Artist name: Ben Harper & Relentless7
Genre: Rock
Released: May 5th, 2009
Label: Virgin
ZME Rating: 8/10
Website: http://relentless7.benharper.com/
Band names, eh? There’s rarely an in-between with them: they either sound exactly right, or absolutely ridiculous. Try saying any death metal band name with a straight face in polite company, and you’ll have an idea [...]
Album name: Roadsinger
Artist name: Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam
Genre: Folk, Rock, Pop
Released: May 5, 2009
Label: Umvd Labels
ZME Rating: 10(!)/10
Website: Yusuf Islam
When Cat Stevens said he would never sing ever again in the late 70s, I was devastated and it seems it was just yesterday. Nah, I’m just messing with you, but still… Here was this absolutely brilliant [...]
Artist Name: Sun Domingo
Album Name: The World’s Alive
Genre: Rock/Pop
Release Date: 28 April 2009
ZME Rating: 7/10
Label: Racket Records (Europe)
Website: www.sundomingo.blogspot.com
At my former day job we had to hear the same five albums for weeks at a time. One morning, half awake, still in bed a melody swam around in my head. But it wasn’t [...]
The very well known French bossa nova band, who has made itself very famous through their already released albums with totally new and different covers of old punk/post punk songs are going to release their third album next month, between the 3rd and 10th of June. It's [...]
Sunday, June 21, 2009
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