Editorial Product Review: :'You sound like you're having a good old time,' a purist Dylan fan is spotted telling the artist in the documentary Don't Look Back just after the release of this, his first (half-)electric album. He certainly does. Updating Chicago blues forms with hilarious, tough lyrics--in fact, all but stealing the meter of Chuck Berry's 'Too Much Monkey Business' for 'Subterranean Homesick Blues'--on one side, dropping some of his most devastating solo acoustic science ('It's All Over Now, ...
Editorial Product Review: :This is one of those albums where you'll want to cherry-pick favorites. Recorded live when the supergroup was at its commercial zenith, it's sloppy in spots where precision is called for. And the hyperbolic counterculture rants sound a bit silly these days (Bellows Stills: 'Jesus Christ was the first nonviolent revolutionary! Ah, dig it, dig it!'). On the other hand, the electric jams are enlivened by some charged guitar skirmishes between Stills and Young. Those who owned ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:FILMS ABOUT GHOSTS, a greatest hits package featuring songs from every phase of the band's ten-year recording career. Also includes the hit single from SHREK 2, 'Accidentally In Love.'
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Sierra Hull is a rare talent: an artist who combines youthful intensity and energy with a sense of grace and maturity well beyond her years. Secrets, her national debut, features her fluidly, inventive mandolin playing and tender, wistful singing supported by a luminous cast of bluegrass masters. From full-on newgrass instrumentals to eloquent, heart-stopping ballads to playful modern bluegrass, Secrets heralds the arrival of a fresh, important new voice onto today's bluegrass scene. Co-produced by Sierra ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Beautiful World is Eliza Gilksyon's first new studio release since her award-winning Paradise Hotel of 2005. An evocative blend of the upbeat and topical, the new album celebrates the beauty that shines amidst the dark days of war and corruption, and builds on the Grammy-nominated songwriter's rising importance as one of America's greatest roots artists. Songs about the exuberant nature of love and life artfully combine with meditative tunes about the world's rich mysteries to create ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Hymns of the 49th Parallel fulfills k.d. lang’s longstanding desire to create a Canadian songbook. On the album, her first for Nonesuch Records, she pays homage to fellow Canadian artists including Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Neil Young, Jane Siberry, Ron Sexsmith, and Bruce Cockburn. :Was it homesickness that compelled longtime Los Angeles resident k.d. lang to fashion her one-woman campaign for north-of-the-border nationalism, or just plain good sense? All Canadian content has long been a mainstay ...
Editorial Product Review: :From the White Album to the end, the last days of the Beatles weren't smooth, which made the fact that they still produced some astonishing music all the more remarkable. In abbreviated form, 'What's the New Mary Jane' is finally issued here, and proves underwhelming. For the rest of the set, it's largely down to outtakes and demos, but this time there isn't the same insight of the previous two volumes. Anthology 3 comes dangerously close to ...
Editorial Product Review:Description: 1. Elvis Arrives And Greets Fans 2. Also Sprach Zarathustra 3. See See Rider; Vamp\ See See Rider 4. Burning Love 5. Something 6. You Gave Me A Mountain 7. Steamroller Blues 8. My Way 9. Love Me 10. It's Over 11. Blue Suede Shoes 12. I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry 13. Hound Dog 14. What Now My Love 15. Fever 16. Welcome To My World 17. Suspicious Minds 18. Introductions By Elvis 19. I'll ...
Editorial Product Review: :Serious artists don't usually get discovered via TV talent shows, but this 21-year-old former Nashville Star finalist has become an important songwriter and vocalist with her debut album, Kerosene, which immediately sprang to the top of the country charts. Overall, it's a set of amiable country pop, but the title track and 'What About Georgia?,' which open the disc, are rock songs at heart--driven by a hard-smacked snare drum and layers of guitar. But what's really at ...
Editorial Product Review: :Lost Highway debut album from British singer songwriter, Johnny Flynn. Flynn's music is brimming over with heart, soul and intelligence. Drawing on diverse influences - The Pixies, Vaughn Williams and anti-folk pioneer Dianne Cluck are all name checked on his Myspace page - Johnny draws on a century's worth of Folk, Blues and Country to create a sound that dwells profoundly in the now. Acknowledging his debt to these musical traditions but never being overwhelmed by them, ...
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.
This raw work-flow application isn't the Holy Grail many hoped it would be, but Apple Aperture 1.5 could make life easier for photographers who need to cull, retouch, and output large numbers of photographs quickly and efficiently.