Album Reviews

Formed in 2001, The Flesh blends synthesizer rhapsody with 80

Taking a page right out of the Keller Williams playbook is singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael John Mollo

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

Tribute albums are often tricky. Should a band stay faithful to the original version or try to bring a new interpretation of the song to the table? There are solid arguments for both sides of the coin. Luckily for us, the fine folks at Sanctuary Records have provided us with a tribute album that serves to both.

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.

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Deja Voodoo is a 64 box of crayons filled with only shades of blue, and Warren Haynes delivers them in a fashion no one on the scene matches. You can never go wrong with the blues.

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.

In his newest venture, Les Claypool teams up with long time drummer Brain, legendary keyboardist Bernie Worrell, and the enigmatic guitarist Buckethead as Colonel Claypool

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Have Mercy! This album from beat guru extraordinaire Shawn Lee is the shiznit. It

DJ Harry is an artist apart from the ranks of more mortal DJs, and some of the usual rules don

Emotionally and politically charged, Revolution feels like the freshest batch of songs that have come out of Steve Earle and his band, the Dukes, in quite a while. Speaking in more direct terms than he has ever before, right away we get the feel of a record that is so raw and inexorable that Earle could have sworn that the songs were recorded within 24 minutes, not hours, of their birth.

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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

If you are one of the lucky few to be in possession of Greyboy

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.

With their latest release, and without the help of the most famous brother, Peter, the Rowan Brothers, Chris and Lorin, have put together an acoustic double disc featuring one full of new material and a second of previously recorded songs from the 70