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 [...]
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 [...]
Liechtenstein is a Swedish indie pop band from Göteborg. They are quite new on the indie music scene, as they will only release their very first album later this month, on the 26th. The band is a perfect [...]
Artist Name: Springhouse
Album Name: From Now To OK
Genre: Rock/Pop
Released: 18 November 2008
Label: Independent Project Records
ZME Rating: 8/10 (10/10 - if you’re a pop fan, that is)
Website: www.springhousemusic.net
Springhouse has a sound originally perfected decades ago by the likes of The Beach Boys, The Raspberries and Burt Bacharach. In the 80’s-early 90’s bands like Red Kross, XTC, [...]
The indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland are out on the music market with their very first album. It's called "You Can't Change That Boy" and it is out throughout Europe for more than a month now. They have however released two singles in 2008, both ...
Thursday, June 18, 2009
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