Editorial Product Review: :Rock Is Back. After 22 million records sold in the US and a three year hiatus, Kid Rock is back with the brand new album 'Rock N Roll Jesus'. Kid Rock hustled in the Detroit underground for over ten years before he burst into the mainstream in 1999 with the timeless rock anthem 'Bawitdaba.' Other hits like 'Cowboy' and 'American Bad A**' followed while ballads like his 'Picture' duet with Sheryl Crow and 'Only God Knows Why' helped to propel him forward as one of ...
Editorial Product Review: :It's fitting that the Kid Rock revival got started when the Beastie Boys featured him in their Grand Royal magazine--and not because the kid from Detroit shares their skin tone. Rock has often been compared with the early Beasties--the boys of 'Fight for Your Right to Party' and 'Brass Monkey,' the boys no one ever thought would grow up. With lines like 'I ain't straight outta Compton, I'm straight out the trailer' and 'I started an escort service--for all the right reasons,' it's obvious that ...
Editorial Product Review: :Kid Rock maintains a remarkable propensity for wearing his contradictions on his sleeve, and more than anything he's previously released, Rock n Roll Jesus finds fuel in unresolved opposites. Is he a hard-core chauvinist ('Half Your Age') or a would-be gentlemen ('When U Love Someone')? Is he a God-fearing everyman ('Blue Jeans and a Rosary') or a bohemian hero ('So Hott')? These questions are nothing new, even if the album at hand takes them to freshly delirious extremes. Ever since he first began shedding his ...
Editorial Product Review: :Is Kid Rock about to drop the first half of his stage moniker? Some alarmingly mature cuts on his sixth album, addressing the woes of single parenthood ('Single Dad') and painful separations ('Cold and Empty,' a cover of Bob Seger's 'Hard Night For Sarah'), might suggest so. But that's only part of the story. As Rock reiterates on 'Son of Detroit,' a butt-kicking revamp of David Allan Coe's 'Son of the South,' 'I like country, soul, rock and roll, and I love me some hip-hop.' ...
Editorial Product Review: :The History of Rock arrives as the sort of superstardom-celebrating release that can buy a hot-selling artist time. (Think, say, G N' R Lies.) After 8 million (and counting) sales of 1998's Devil Without a Cause, the trailer-rockin' rapper is out to remind the world that it hardly started there. Mostly drawn, and often retooled, from his out-of-print Polyfuze Method and Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp, these tracks display a 'funky country hick' already on point with his knowing, hardheaded combo of old-school beats and classic-rock ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:2008 single includes the album version of the title track along with two live tracks, 'Son of Detroit' and 'Bawitdaba'. Warner.
Editorial Product Review: :Essentially a live greatest-hits package, 'Live' Trucker, recorded before several different Detroit-area crowds, reminds us not only that Kid has long been an entertainer first and songwriter second but that he can surprise even the most jaded listener at the most unexpected moment. He works the urban hillbilly angle to the hilt, gives shouts out to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Cobo Hall and offers hope to disenfranchised kids in crummy apartment complexes and trailer parks from sea to shining sea via 'Rock 'n' Roll Pain Train' ...
Editorial Product Review:Description:Kid Rock - The Lowdown is a 2CD set featuring personal, one-on-one interviews with the Kid, during which he is candid and honest about his music, his latest record, his career, and, of course, his multiple marriages to a certain Miss Pamela Anderson. The
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:With echoing, nervy guitars, driving rhythms, and new-wave synths, the debut from Rock Kills Kid is contemporary post-punk at its most addictive, jagged and atmospheric. Produced by Mark Trobino, the emotional tension woven throughout Are You Nervous? recalls some of the darkest, most angst-filled recordings by The Cure, Joy Division and The Smiths-but with Bono-and Springsteen-inspired raucous rocker Jeff Tucker in the spotlight. For Rock Kills Kid, rock'n'roll is salvation. :On Are You Nervous?, Rock Kills Kid display a deep affinity for '80s acts ...
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