Posts by Shane Handler

The Music clearly nails their series of riffs and grooves in Welcome To The North, as progressive flash with glory days of metal flashback come together, without all the Aqua Net.

Taking a more melodic and refined approach from their grimey 2002 debut Turn On The Bright Lights, Interpol leader Paul Banks strived to make a stellar follow up, while pushing the band in a step me up direction. As a result, Interpol is turning the corner in a shinier pop direction, surfacing them apart from their continual Joy Division comparisons.

With Widespread Panic on hiatus,

Mixing intelligence with off-the-cuff rock and roll sophistication has always been one of Costello

After playing at the Eclipse numerous times in the venue

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The vocals are light an airy, bouncing over a sultry dance line in a heavy Steely Dan scenario, but the it lacks the rich soil necessary to hold the balance and ends up as easy listening.

Of all the grand performances at Woodstock, the obscure, ad-lib festival opener set by Richie Havens has become one of the most poignant. Grace Of The Sun, his latest release, looks to bring his name back to the forefront, or at least into present times.

Formed in 2001, The Flesh blends synthesizer rhapsody with 80

Aside from being “rattled” with a stir of audience riff raff on the second to last track, Noel Akchote

With a decade behind them and a focus on the path ahead, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey makes a clear statement with the appropriately titled, Walking With Giants. And they are indeed, as the jazz community can no longer deny that the three young men from Tulsa are bound to become respected jazzmen.

With his third EP Super D, in his recent trilogy following Speed Graphic and Sunny 16, the piano man braves a new gameface with this latest 5 song effort. Where the prior two five songers covered been there done that ground, Super D finds Folds reinventing his piano pop rock in the forms of punk anguish, disarming melodies and orchestrated rock.

Rumor has it Wilco will be returning to the studio shortly, to capture the live energy from this six-man rotation on record. If the record is as festive as their Burlington performance, than Wilco is truly just a getting started, rather than just a ghost being born.

As one of the world’s most recognized poets, Saul Williams has proven himself deft in the spoken word. With his self titled second album, Williams explores a new sound, one he’s proud to tag as “industrial punk hop.”

On his second album, The Clarence Greenwood Recordings, Cope takes a bite from Eminems’s alter ego playbook, mixing fact and fiction. But rather than a straight hip-hop record, Cope fuses rock, dub, reggae, and blues into an eclectic effort that, although sleepy and moody, proves patient and drawing.

You probably haven

Why even bother critiquing anything from the fingertips and voice of Ray Charles? Why find fault with a legend who, in the words of Johnny Mathis is

Alive In The Spirit World, the band

Obviously poetry comes naturally to Saul Williams, but on his second full length album, the self-titled Saul Williams, the poet turned songwriter attempts to bridge another gap – music and words.

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