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"A Grand Don

"A Grand Don

A Grand Don't Come For Free is yet another chapter from the book of life on The Streets a.k.a. British rapping genius Mike Skinner. Instead of trying to rap about street cred, or bitches and money, Skinner is an anomaly in the hip hop world in the sense that he raps about his boring everyday life. B... [More]

Written By: Kyle England
"The Printz" by Bumblebeez 81

"The Printz" by Bumblebeez 81

It's abundantly clear after one listen, that the new Australian art/punk duo Bumblebeez 81 (consisting of the brother sister team of Christopher and Vila Colonna) are heavily influenced by three other B's: Beck, Beastie Boys, and Bikini Kill. There are little splashes of Atari Teenage Riot, Sonic Y... [More]

Written By: Kyle England
"Twentysomething" by Jamie Cullum

"Twentysomething" by Jamie Cullum

Jamie Cullum is England's answer to Harry Connick Jr. I've always been a fan of the Louisiana Crooner, but as good as his last album Only You was, it's got nothing on Cullum's Twentysomething. Cullum has been around for a while (he has an earlier album called Pointless Nostalgic), and I've even... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
"Hopes and Fears" by Keane

"Hopes and Fears" by Keane

About a month back, I was working and got a promotional copy of a disc called Hopes and Fears by a band called Keane. From the moment I popped the disc in the player, two things became perfectly clear; These guys were British. And "damn," this CD has some really catchy songs. After listening to... [More]

Written By: Adam Mast
"Achilles' Heel" by Pedro the Lion

"Achilles' Heel" by Pedro the Lion

Pedro the Lion, David Bazan's project has gradually turned into a pride of like-minded cats. Over the course of several years and two albums, T.W. Walsh, James McAlister and Ester Drang have joined ranks with Bazan and turned into a pretty killer musical outfit. Their newest, Achilles' Heel is ironi... [More]

Written By: Kevin Jones
"Kill Bill Vol. 2 Soundtrack" by Kill Bill Vol. 2 Sound...

"Kill Bill Vol. 2 Soundtrack" by Kill Bill Vol. 2 Soundtrack

The second installment of Kill Bill music is a passionate journey of ass-kicking revenge and spaghetti western drama, courtesy of tunes by such country artists as Johnny Cash and Charlie Feathers, British Producer Malcom McLaren, Mexican artists Lole Y Manuel and Chingon and most of all, the spaghet... [More]

Written By: Tyler Sanders
"Lovers" by The Sleepy Jackson

"Lovers" by The Sleepy Jackson

Here we have a great 13 track debut by an Australian band fronted by a man named Luke Steele, who looks like a genetic mishmash of James Brown, Johnny Depp, Benicio Del Toro, and Prince. The music is beautifully atmospheric country-tinged rock with dashes of whisper vocals, honky-tonk piano, string... [More]

Written By: Tyler Sanders
"It's Not Funny" by David Cross

"It's Not Funny" by David Cross

Mr. Show alum David Cross is quickly becoming this generation's George Carlin in the sense that Cross is able to weave sufficiently funny juvenile humor with extremely insightful political banter. Just like when Carlin took it upon himself to bitchslap the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations at ever... [More]

Written By: Kyle England
"Split The Difference" by Gomez

"Split The Difference" by Gomez

This is a test of the emergency music critic system. Note to Gomez: Supergrass called, they want their cover art to Life on Other Planets back! We now return you to your regularly scheduled album review. Gomez are just one of those bands that, in my eyes, have an extremely diffic... [More]

Written By: Kyle England
"Stellastarr" by Stellastarr

"Stellastarr" by Stellastarr

It would be easy to pigeon-hole Stellastarr, as another New York hipster outfit hell-bent on exhuming any number of post-punk bands you might name, and It is fair to compare them to Interpol although this is supposed to make both bands boiling mad. But before passing judgment upon this band, it's on... [More]

Written By: Kevin Jones
"Volcano" by Edie Brickell

"Volcano" by Edie Brickell

Edie Brickell's musical career has been far more due to the fickle forces of serendipity than it has some sort of carefully laid play, where she gets a killer demo together shops it around until she can find an agent who is interested in more than "between the sheet" music and catching a break despi... [More]

Written By: Kevin Jones
"Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes" by TV on the Rad...

"Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes" by TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio's EP Young Liars - was a welcome surprise, announcing the arrival of one of the most unique acts to seemingly come out of nowhere during the 2000s. Its alchemy of strange sonic bedfellows like post-punk and doo wop, and powerful vocals and experimental leanings, into songs that were... [More]

Written By: Kevin Jones
"Harmony" by Gordon Lightfoot

"Harmony" by Gordon Lightfoot

Gordon Lightfoot has always been the kind of artist that you never really ever needed anything but a greatest hits for. He always has those one or two really good songs from every album, and his compilations Gord's Gold and Gord's Gold V.2 prove this. But his true albums themselves always seem like... [More]

Written By: Kyle England
"Heroes to Zeroes" by The Beta Band

"Heroes to Zeroes" by The Beta Band

"I will now sell five copies of The Beta Band's Three E.P's." That is a line that John Cusack speaks in the holy grail of music films High Fidelity, and it always rings in my ears whenever I think of this band. It's been three years since their last and greatest album Hot Shots II. And while Heroes... [More]

Written By: Kyle England
"Baptism" by Lenny Kravitz

"Baptism" by Lenny Kravitz

After the extremely below average Lenny album, I figured that there wasn't any possible way that Lenny Kravitz could sink any lower than that after a string of sub par releases. Congrats Lenny you've proved me wrong. Baptism is an all-time low in your totem pole of sucking. What the hell happened to... [More]

Written By: Kyle England