Katy Perry: Witness
Katy Perry Witness Capitol Records She may have buried her feud with Taylor Swift (thank God, I was so worried about those two!) but Katy Perry is not making nice on her 5th studio album, Witness. There are big machine-generated beats, lots of effects on Perry’s possibly-good-but-who-would-ever-know-with-all-this-processing-on-her-vocals vocals, More...
Perfume Genius: No Shape
Perfume Genius No Shape (Matador Records) Perfume Genius, the alias of Mike Hadreas, has crossed coasts and musical genres since the early 00s. Combining breathy indie rock with stately, epic folk, and often influenced More...
Mary J. Blige: Strength of a Woman
Mary J. Blige Strength of a Woman (Capitol Records) There’s no other way to put it, Mary J. Blige is an R&B Icon. Her career started at Uptown Records as a backup singer in 1989 to the release of What’s the More...
Jomo: What I Want
Jomo What I Want (Lyles-Belton Entertainment) Atlantic City rapper Jomo’s new EP What I Want reveals a tough, and at at times, quite melodic rap attack with production that includes William “WhiteKeys” Harding More...
Phoebe Legere: Heart of Love
Phoebe Legere Heart of Love Heart of Love is Phoebe Legere’s 17th album, and the seminal American songwriter/multi-instrumentalist, has just broken into the Roots Music Report Chart’s top 20 with this collection. More...
Dan Auerbach: Waiting On A Song
Dan Auerbach Waiting On A Song (Easy Eye Sound) The Black Keys front man, Dan Auerbach is back with his second solo release in eight years, Waiting On A Song. It’s billed as his love letter to Nashville where More...
Incubus: 8
Incubus 8 (Island Records) Incubus has always been an anomaly in the music world. A pendulum swing away from superstardom, complete with heartthrob lead singer, Brandon Boyd. Along with that, the band has had More...
Passafire: Longshot
Passafire Longshot (Easy Star Records) At the risk of sounding like the biggest hipster to ever hipster about anything, I was thrilled to hear that Passafire had a new one, because (here we go) I went to SCAD with More...
Roger Waters: Is This the Life We Really Want?
Roger Waters Is This the Life We Really Want? (Columbia Records) It has taken nearly a quarter of a century for Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters to give us Is This the Life We Really Want? Was it worth the wait? “When More...
The Move: Magnetic Waves of Sound – The Best of the Move
The Move Magnetic Moves of Sound: The Best of The Move (Esoteric Recordings) Although they scored nine Top 20 UK singles in five years, The Move was one of those unique British bands that never really hit in More...
