Editorial Product Review:Description:The platinum-selling Mint Condition continues to make an impact as one of the hottest bands In R&B music. Producing such hit singles as 'Breakin' My Heart' (Pretty Brown Eyes), 'U Send Me Swingin' ' and 'Someone to Love,' Mint Condition won fans with their special brew of funk, scorching soul ballads and R& B. Now the band brings their trademark sound – with something a little extra – to their exciting new album, E-Life: a rumination on life and love in the Information Age. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:A cappella powerhouse Take 6 marks a new jazz vocal milestone with The Standard. Winners of 10 GRAMMY Awards, 10 Dove Awards, one Soul Train Award and two NAACP Image Award nominations, the influential sextet - Mark Kibble, Claude V. McKnight III, Dr. Cedric Dent, David Thomas, Alvin Chea and Joey Kibble - raises the bar with a recording of mostly jazz (and some R&B) standards, including 'Straighten Up and Fly Right,' 'A-Tisket, A-Tasket,' 'Someone To Watch Over Me,' 'What's Going On' and ...
Editorial Product Review: :From American Idol season six finalist. Sligh's willingness to challenge convention and to take creative risks is evident throughout 'Running Back To You'. Produced by Brown Bannister (Amy Grant, Aaron Neville, MercyMe, Steven Curtis Chapman), with guest co-production from renowned musicians Will Owsley and Stephen Leiweke, the project will evoke other artists of passion and commitment, from Switchfoot to The Killers.
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:Includes four new tracks including the 'My Boo' duet with Alicia Keys! :A CD is always more compelling when you know it's lifted from the artist's autobiography, and that's certainly the case with Confession, Usher's first record since 2001's 8701. The Atlanta singer's string of hits over the past decade have been decidedly PG-13 rated, almost veering towards teen pop, but he's changed all that on this co-produced offering, which he claims is 'the real him.' It would be too simplistic to just ...
Editorial Product Review: : Amazon.com essential recording One of the must-own soul albums, Greatest Hits is fattened with extra tracks in this reissue for a total of 21 songs. Al Green brought the Memphis Sound into the '70s by slightly softening it, melding smooth funkiness with his miraculous voice and innate sensitivity: his love songs, while perfect for the bedroom, are as conversational as they are blatantly seductive. By adding the likes of 'Belle,' a 1977 single that's a near-goodbye to the pop life, to the original ...
Editorial Product Review: :Inspired by the lovable Saturday Night Live white-boy blues schtick of Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, director John Landis seemingly threw every harebrained stunt he could imagine--and millions of dollars in production costs and wrecked autos--onto the screen. The resulting film could have been mistaken for a bad case of Hunter S. Thompson's D.T.'s, but Landis never shortchanged the music: Cab Calloway, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, and Ray Charles all get their moment in the spotlight. Miraculously, the chic-shabby Blues Brothers, anchored by the ...
Editorial Product Review: :Hall and Oates often enlivened '70s and '80s radio with sharp pop concoctions that drew on a wellspring of R&B influences picked up in their hometown of Philadelphia. They scored frequently enough, in fact, that this 20-track collection--intended to supplement or replace the earlier Rock 'n Soul, Part 1 with post-'83 winners--doesn't capture all their finest moments. (Where, for instance, are 'She's Gone,' recorded for another label but licensed by RCA for Rock 'n' Soul, and the terrific new wave/funk fusion 'Your Imagination'?) Still, ...
Editorial Product Review: :An indispensable and definitive collection showcasing the passionate genius of the late rapper. The album's nonchronological sequence highlights the contradictory impulses that made Tupac's music so commanding; the 21 well-loved 'hits,' some slightly reedited for legal reasons, are accompanied by four previously unheard songs. Of the new material, the raw-sounding 'God Bless the Dead' has been the subject of the most speculation, owing to its subject matter: a eulogizing of the late Notorious B.I.G.--a mysterious feat, since Tupac was killed six months before Biggie. ...
Editorial Product Review:Album Description:The incomparable Ashanti is back with 'The Declaration'!!This multiple Grammy winner and R&B superstar has delivered some of her most powerful and passionate songs yet. 'The Declaration' features the smash hit 'The Way That I Love', which showcases the power of Ashanti's soulful voice as she tells the heart wrenching story of a scorned lover. This 13 song set is Ashanti's 4th studio album and first since 2004. Ashanti has been busy developing her acting career with John Tucker Must Die, Coach Carter, ...
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
Small and light enough for a shirt pocket, Samsung's Helix YX-M1 is a one-stop audio entertainment center with an XM radio, a digital music player, and room for 50 hours of tunes, but it comes up short on battery life.