Rating: 3/5Released: September 13, 2005Reviewer: David Coats After three records, gospel/mainstream crossover rock band Switchfoot finally made a substantial impact with 2003’s The Beautiful Letdown, featuring the hit singles Dare You To Move and Meant To Live.
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Rating: 3/5Released: August 16, 2005Reviewer: Connor Turner Rodney Crowell is an impeccable lyrist and an excellent songwriter. The man has made believers out of Bruce Springsteen & Steve Earle. He has also penned numerous hits for the likes of Emmylou Harris, Keith Urban and the Grateful Dead. It is this history, which makes Outsider feel [...]
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Rating: 1.5/5Released: October 24, 2005Reviewer: Jason Zalmanowitz When Robbie Williams’ Intensive Care first started playing, I had planned to start this review with “Gone are the days of Queen… but luckily Robbie Williams is still here.†Unfortunately, as the rest of the disc played out, the list expanded from Queen to Ricky Martin, The Beatles, [...]
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: September 13, 2005Reviewer: David Coats The Dandy Warhols first emerged on the international scene with their record Thirteen Tales From Urban Bohemia, which featured their biggest hit, Bohemian Like You, the kind of song only done justice when performed with go-go-dancers. This was followed by the release of 2003’s Welcome to the Monkey [...]
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Rating: 3.5/5Released: October 4, 2005Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov Elliott Brood’s new LP, Ambassador, is a dark jaunt through an unspoken community of country music. Fuelled by lap steel and banjo, the album is all at once dark, mysterious, sincere, and oddly affecting.
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In 2003, Toronto’s Broken Social Scene, a collective of Canadian alternative musicians, released You Forgot It In People, considered one of the most groundbreaking Canadian records in years. |
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Rating: 2/5Released: October 18, 2005Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov The Road Hammers like to drive. They like cars, trucks, and painfully extensive metaphors about life on the road. Nary a song goes by on their new self-titled album where there aren’t countless driving references, and by the time the album finally throws it into park, it’s just [...]
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Okay – hands up if in 1994 you thought of all the marquee bands of the day that Green Day would be the most popular and successful of them all at the end of 2005. Me either. |
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