2008

Hors d’Oeuvres: Voodoo on iClips

Since the major festival season ended a few weeks ago, we haven’t heard much from the good folks at iClips…until now. Our favorite webcasters head to the Crescent City on

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Oasis: Dig Out Your Soul

Dig Out Your Soul offers some good songs like “Falling Down” and “The Turning” but those are just mediocre Oasis works.  It sounds like Oasis covering Oasis – merely going through the motions.  Maybe that’s a bit harsh, but while the songs sound like classic Oasis, they’re devoid of any real hooks or innovativeness that made them who they are today.  The only true great track comes, surprisingly, from Liam: “I’m Outta Time.”  It’s the first time Liam has managed to outshine Noel on an album.

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Volume 15: Neil Young

I first heard Neil Young’s music in high school, sitting on the passenger side of my friend’s beat up car. As we were pulling out of his driveway, he fumbled through a few cassette tapes, and, not knowing what he had chosen, threw one in. The album was Harvest Moon. The song happened to be “One of These Days.” My life has never been the same.

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TV On The Radio: Dear Science

Following their joyless dark masterpiece, 2006’s Return to Cookie Mountain, TV on the Radio was due for a prescription of musical prozac. Enter Dear Science, full of disco jams, new wave bouncers and patterns of soul, post-punk, and techno in favor of the art noise uncertainty of prior TV on the Radio.

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Ghostland Observatory Plans Fall Tour

Ghostland Observatory will be getting their spooky freak on this month, haunting clubs and theatres across North America, just in time for All Hallows Eve.  Fans can witness the electro-rock

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