Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue When you’re as big as Tom Petty is, you can pretty much do whatever you want. And with as well regarded a career as he has had, he has every right to have that mindset.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue An interesting ring of top-tier musicians has made a Top Five Records of May 2010 list alone is a matter worthy of attention and debate. The Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are among this group
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Rating: 5 / 5 Reviewer: Garth Paulson If there’s any fairness in the world, Janelle Monáe’s debut full-length The Archandroid will rocket up the charts and stay there for months, giving hope to doom-obsessed record label executives as it becomes the type of ubiquitous summer smash that doesn’t happen anymore.
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Rating: 3.5 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue Well, the man knows his way around a guitar. There’s no denying it, nor is there any denying that for Jeff Beck’s first album in seven years, highlighting those skills was first and foremost on his mind as, with the exception of a handful of tracks featuring guest [...]
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell Jamie Cullum’s greatest attribute lays in deconstructing everything from classic standards to the latest dance floor hit and adapting it to his own jazz influenced form of commercial pop. Musical genres may be mute to him but a timeless melody is not.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Celeste Seiferling It is impossible to listen to Sings for Lovers without wanting to fall in love. Ray Charles takes cheesy lyrics like “you make me happy when skies are gray” and makes them not only believable, but genuine.
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Rating: 4 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue Coming a little over a year after his passing, Songs from the Road is the second posthumous release from Jeff Healey, following 2008’s Mess of Blues.
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Rating: 3 / 5 Reviewer: Trent Depue The first two tracks of Dan Auerbach’s solo debut Keep it Hid send two distinctly different messages. Track 1: Hello, I’m Dan Auerbach and I feel the need to branch out creatively from my work with The Black Keys. Track 2: Just kidding.
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