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 HITS, with multiple songs crossing over into the pop spectrum; see “Drive”, “Love Hurts,” and “Stellar” for example. The band has 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...
Alphaville: Strange Attractor
Alphaville Strange Attractor (Universal Music LLC) The last time we heard from 80’s synth pop icons Alphaville, it was 2010 and they had just released Catching Rays On Giant, which capitalized heavily on the More...
Willie Nelson: God’s Problem Child
Willie Nelson God’s Problem Child (Legacy Recordings) Willie Nelson’s 61st studio album God’s Problem Child, (yes, you read that right, 61st) features 13 songs, 6 of them written by Nelson and his producer, More...
Mac DeMarco: This Old Dog
Mac DeMarco This Old Dog (Captured Tracks) Mac DeMarco’s This Old Dog is off to a chill start. The introductory track, “My Old Man” is a gentle ditty about romance and getting older. The chorus goes, “uh More...
Gorillaz: Humanz
Gorillaz Humanz (Parlophone Records Limited) Gorillaz albums are like seasons of Louie: they’re completely unique but always high quality, you never know what’s going to happen or who’s going to pop up, More...
Richie Kotzen: Salting Earth
Richie Kotzen Salting Earth (Headroom Inc) A stumbling drum beat and picked flang-y echoed guitar with Richie Kotzen’s wailing vocal, rolls into the plodding “End of Earth” opener of Kotzen’s latest, More...
Shahed Mohseni Zonoozi: The Journey
Shahed Mohseni Zonoozi The Journey (Inter-Continental) Opening with Salar Hamzei’s high-spirited guitar noodling and percussion, with trilling female vocals and Şefkat Sağlamer’s accordion on top, “The More...
