Album Reviews

The Music : Welcome To The North

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.

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Interpol: Antics

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.

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Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Funeral For A Friend

Like everything else in the Crescent City, death is a time for celebration and this album is meant to give listeners a glimpse into a traditional New Orleans jazz-funeral precession from church to cemetery with the DDBB offering up the soundtrack.

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Barbara Cue: Rhythm Oil

Rhythm Oil strengthens with each journey through. What was an infatuation with NRBQ, Barbara Cue created a cohesion that ultimately wanted to illustrate its love of music.

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IsWhat?!: You Figure It Out

Bridging the gap between avant-garde jazz of the sixties, politically charged poetry slams of the seventies, and the raw rap sound of the eighties, ISWHAT?!

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