Rating: 2 / 5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov As accidental rock stars go, The Flaming Lips are the gold standard. In a time when low record sales meant getting dropped by your label and scraping by on your own determination, The Lips were given chance after chance after chance – based only on the 1993 fluke [...]
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Rating: 2.5 / 5 Reviewer: Andrew Mitchell Like the endless array of trinkets that have hastily appeared since the King Of Pop’s demise, Michael Jackson: The Remix Suite bears the glean of a shoddy cash in. And that assumption is not completely unfounded.
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Rating: 5 / 5 Reviewer: David Coats Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene) had long been fascinated by the musical qualities of everyday conversation. He gathered some of his Toronto neighbours and asked them their thoughts on happiness.
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Rating: 4.5/5 Reviewer: Nathan Atnikov DeVotchKa simply has to be heard to be believed – and even then you might not believe that this foursome comes from Denver, Colorado.
Posted in Folk + Roots, Miscellany, Music Reviews, Rock + Pop, Top Rated
Rating: 3/5Released: March 6, 2007Reviewer: Trent Depue On Dream‘s opening track ‘Play This,’ Keller Williams playfully calls out the recording industry for its formulaic methods by trying to make his own song for radio, even going so far as to blank out his own swear words.
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Rating: 1/5Released: January 23, 2007Reviewer: Suzanne Goldman Prog-rock can be a beautiful thing. The concert experiences of groups like the Mars Volta are a testament to the possibility of how such frenetic cacophony can translate into a poetic and all-consuming sound that swallows you whole and leaves you dazed and grinning.
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Rating: 4/5Released: November 21, 2006Reviewer: Dave Coats Continuing to capitalize on the popularity of his seminal 2005 record Illinois, indie hero Sufjan Stevens now releases Songs For Christmas, a collection of five EPs recorded between 2001 and 2006.
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Rating: 4/5Released: November 21, 2006Reviewer: Delaney Seiferling Great Big Sea’s newest release, a CD/DVD package, marks another success in authentic Canadian music.
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