Category: Reviews
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Voila, another Monday, another new song and video from the luscious Janine and the Mixtape… Call her the new Jessie Ware because her blend of pop and R&B is the smoothest, most electrifying genre-bender anyone’s heard since Ware’s last album. Sweet, musical bliss!
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Wow, talk about a fun song! MIKA’s “Talk About You” is an instant shot of euphoria straight to your heart, lighting up your brain with bursts of brilliant colors. You won’t hear a more upbeat or uplifting song this week. “You’re the only one I wanna talk about / All I do is wanna talk…
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A few months ago I caught Scott Weiland and his band, The Wildabouts, when they performed in the Wolf Den at Mohegan Sun Casino. And he was at the top of his game. He sounded fantastic, seemed to be enjoying himself and was full of energy. All of these things are also true about his…
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Another thick slice of pop perfection via Brandon Flowers. With a cherry on top.
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“I’m not your springtime fantasy,” goes “Return,” a gem of a new song from Strange Names, a band consisting of recent New York transplants Fletcher Aleckson, Francis Ximenez and Liam Benzvi. The irony here is that “Return” actually feels like a red hot spring fling, coming at you from out of nowhere, laying it on…
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Everybody loves a cheesy bubblegum pop ballad once in a while, right? Well, if so, then you’ll be tickled pink by Jessie J’s joyous song “Flash Light,” which is from the Pitch Perfect 2 soundtrack. Although you might find it a little too similar to Beyonce’s “Halo” and Kelly Clarkson’s “Already Gone.”
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Oh, this is a good one… As he always does, Monsieur Adi has created a remix that feels so natural you’d swear it was the original album version of the song and those tend to be my favorite remixes. I also appreciate the fact that it’s not so much a dance remix as just a…
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“I let them dress me up in other people’s clothes / But you still don’t wanna know,” sings Juliana Hatfield during “Invisible,” the melodious opening track to The Juliana Hatfield Three’s sophomore release Whatever, My Love. The other two of the three are drummer Todd Philips, and bassist Dean Fisher. And if this album hasn’t…
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Janine and The Mixtape, otherwise known as Janine Foster, has been releasing a track per week for nearly two months now, “Lose My Mind” being this week’s fine edition, which comes not merely as a Soundcloud file but as a video as well.
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Another year, another fantastic Record Store Day release by Garbage. This time around it’s “The Chemicals,” which features Brian Aubert of Silversun Pickups. But don’t expect it to sound like Silversun Pickups because it really doesn’t. At all.