Editorial Product Review: :Recognizing that the holiday season really begins at Halloween (and, in some quarters, doesn't end until the Super Bowl), Vince Guaraldi and his record company have wisely assembled the hummable themes from various Charlie Brown TV specials. What we have here is the album's ability to communicate the playful irony and loopy, lovable characters that people Charles Schultz's 'Peanuts' comic strip every week. Though only one actual Christmas tune is included--'Christmas Time Is Here,' in both the vocal and instrumental versions--kids from ages 1 to ...
Editorial Product Review: :Pushing the musical envelope with each successive album, the young Alejandro Fernandez went for broke on this fusion of pop balladry and trad rancheras. In a smart move, he picked veteran studio wiz Emilio Estefan Jr. to come up with a winning recipe--great material and excellent musicianship to back up a topflight singer. Gloria Estefan teams up with Fernandez in the duet 'En el Jardin,' a touching tune about finding true love. But it's on the inspirational song 'Yo Naci para Amarte' that Fernandez's velvety ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Croatian salsa, Cuban ska, and Oregonian mambo!?!? These are three of the unlikely gems listeners will find on Afro-Latin Party. What started out as an effort to provide the perfect soundtrack to a Latin dance party became a tribute to the global appreciation and realization of the musical ricochet between Cuba and Africa. Central to the Afro-Latin phenomenon is Africando, who provide three songs on Afro-Latin Party, each with a different African lead singer. In the 1960s and 1970s, the biggest names in African ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Chingon is muscular rock and roll with a shot of top shelf tequila and the expansion of Robert Rodriguez's creative empire. This album embodies the same intensity as Rodriguez's films and features special guests such as punk rock cult icon Tito Larriva, Lone Star state chanteuse Patricia Vonne, and the sultry actress Selma Hayek. 'Mexican Spaghetti Western' fuses exciting Mexican iconic imagery with the explosive touch of rock and roll done electric Mariachi style. For the first time, songs from Rodriguez's soundtracks are paired ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Chingon is muscular rock and roll with a shot of top shelf tequila and the expansion of Robert Rodriguez's creative empire. This album embodies the same intensity as Rodriguez's films and features special guests such as punk rock cult icon Tito Larriva, Lone Star state chanteuse Patricia Vonne, and the sultry actress Selma Hayek. 'Mexican Spaghetti Western' fuses exciting Mexican iconic imagery with the explosive touch of rock and roll done electric Mariachi style. For the first time, songs from Rodriguez's soundtracks are paired ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Chingon is muscular rock and roll with a shot of top shelf tequila and the expansion of Robert Rodriguez's creative empire. This album embodies the same intensity as Rodriguez's films and features special guests such as punk rock cult icon Tito Larriva, Lone Star state chanteuse Patricia Vonne, and the sultry actress Selma Hayek. 'Mexican Spaghetti Western' fuses exciting Mexican iconic imagery with the explosive touch of rock and roll done electric Mariachi style. For the first time, songs from Rodriguez's soundtracks are paired ...
Editorial Product Review: : Pafuera Telaranas, the debut disc from Spanish singer Bebe, spins a hypnotic web of alternately moody and joyous pop treats. The album doesn't immediately catch fire after initial listens, but Bebe's playful delivery and thoughtful lyrics ultimaltey shine through. They make Pafuera Telaranas an enjoyable alternative to so many of Latin pop's kewpie-doll cuties. The album flirts with ska rhythms ('Ska de la Tierra'), hushed balladry (the mournful 'Cuidandote') and experimental a capella interludes ('Razones'). Bebe's chirpy vocals anchor each song, a mix of ...
Editorial Product Review: :El Guincho is Pablo Diaz-Reixa, born in Spain. This release is a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicalia, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums, and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats, and exotica production.
Editorial Product Review: :El Guincho is Pablo Diaz-Reixa, born in Spain. This release is a mix of afro-beat percussion, calypso harmonies, psych tropicalia, world music samplers, doo wop, trance repetition, underwater pop, steel drums, and island feeling plus club oriented song structures, uptempo beats, and exotica production.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
Editor Annalee Newitz reveals the inspiration for the futurism-focused site's name, shares her obsession with the scientifically taboo and tells why sci-fi is going mainstream.
It's June 29th and Apple is finally ready to let the public play with the iPhone. The past six months have shaped up to be the highest profile mobile phone launch ever, Apple has conjured up an...
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