Editorial Product Review: :CSNY provided much of the soundtrackfor the antiwar movement of theVietnam era, and four decades later,they re doing it again. (Variety)In 2006, Crosby, Stills, Nash &Young reunited for the Freedom OfSpeech Tour. In 2008, they premiereCSNY/Déjà Vu, a feature-length documentarybased on that controversialtour. But the only place to hear in theirentirety the impassioned performancesin the film is on CSNY/Déjà VuLive. A mix of CSNY classics and morerecent antiwar material from NeilYoung, CSNY/Déjà Vu Live marks thereturn to ...
Editorial Product Review: essential recording:Better known as the 'White Album,' this was meant to be the record that brought them back to earth after three years of studio experimentation. Instead, it took them all over the place, continuing to burst the envelope of pop music. Lennon and McCartney were still at the height of their powers, with Lennon in particular growing into one of rock's towering figures. But even McCartney could still rock, and the amazement on 'Helter Skelter' was ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:MGMT invites you to open your mind to the multi-dimensional vibrating Technicolor sounds of Oracular Spectacular. Amazon.co.uk:The term Oracular Spectacular might not mean much, if anything, at all--it's essentially nonsensical--but that doesn't stop it feeling exactlyright. Here is a band that treats dizzy cross-eyed awe and a vast bounding sense of sonic weightlessness as their yardstick, jostling to surpass themselves on a track-by-track basis and aiming for the musical equivalent of performing somersaults in tye-dye t-shirts off ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description: Nine Lives expands on all the many phases and turns of Steve Winwood's lustrous career, bristling with his pure joy of music-making. The new songs range from the inspiring 'Fly' to the burning 'Dirty City' (featuring a guest appearance by long-time friend Eric Clapton) to the simmering 'Hungry Man', joining a canon that spans more than forty years to include some of the most beloved songs of modern pop and rock.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Cash Money/Universal Motown Records multi-platinum artist Lil Wayne is once again taking control of the airwaves and breaking records in both with 'Lollipop,' the first single from his highly anticipated album Tha Carter III. This is the biggest add week that a hip-hop artist has received at Rhythm Crossover and the biggest any artist has received at Urban Radio including Beyonce and Mariah. 'Lollipop,' is being well received at key radio stations across the country including: New ...
Editorial Product Review: :This NY four-piece draw on their diverse backgrounds and interests, experimenting with African guitar music, the Western classical canon, hazy memories of Cape Cod summers, winters in upper Manhattan, and reggaeton. 'Equal parts shruggy New York indie strumming and groovy Afro-pop, Vampire Weekend's organ-and-drum runs highlight narratives about relationships, punctuation, and sometimes both' - Spin. Named 'Hot New Kids' in Rolling Stone's 'Hot' issue. Vinyl contains MP3 coupon. :It would take a lot for Vampire Weekend's debut ...
Editorial Product Review: :On April 1st, Lost Highway will proudly release Keep It Simple, the new album from Van Morrison. Keep It Simple is Morrison's first album of new material since 2005, and the first in several years in which he composed all 11 songs specifically for one album. In the interim the legendary artist had a year that may be unprecedented for any living artist, having released three separate collections of his hits, with the latest, Still On Top entering ...
Editorial Product Review: :'The future of music, today' - Rolling Stone 10 Artists To Watch. 'Singing in a haunting, sensual wail...she adds a layer of softness to an unusual mix of synthesizers, dance hall rhythms, and percolating new wave' - NY Times. 'Future-pop princess...next big thing' - Spin. 'Santi White is Santogold...the collaborators and players may change, the sounds may shift, but at the center is one woman's indelible vision' - The Fader. SXSW / Coachella shows, 2007 tours with ...
Editorial Product Review: :No stranger to the realm of children's records, They Might Be Giants have seen success with their CD No! and the book-and-CD combo Bed, Bed, Bed. Their latest CD, Here Come the ABCs, offers up 25 alphabetically themed songs. However, as is their charming way, the two Johns (Flansburgh and Linnell), use the letters as merely the connective tissue, allowing them to pursuit intriguing flights of fancy that consider everything from the relative power of letters and sounds ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Lay It Down with 11 tracks by Al Green. Friends laying it down with Al Green are Anthony Hamilton on the opening album title track and on 'You've Got the Love I Need'. Corinne Bailey Rae sings with Al on 'Take Your Time' and John Legend joins in on 'Stay With Me (By The Sea)'. Amazon.co.uk:Few performers have ever been so inimitable as the Reverend Al Green, so it's no surprise that the starry young collaborators who ...
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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