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Kyle England Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:16:23 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/New-Moon-Soundtrack-by-New-Moon-Soundtrack-21887.html What was once highly suspected is now official: New Moon taking in over 140 MILLION dollars (!) at the box office in its first weekend makes the Twilight Saga the biggest worldwide phenomenon since Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter. Twilight director Catherine Hardwicke filled that film's soundtrac... Kyle England Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:44:42 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Kyle-Englands-by-Best-Albums-of-2009-21884.html It's not too often (or…ever) that the best album of a year is released in January, but 2009 graced us with the legendary masterpiece that was Animal Collective's Merriweather Post Pavilion just weeks in and nothing ever surpassed it. True, bands such as The Decemberists, Grizzly Bear and legendary m... Kyle England Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:43:39 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/The-Fountain-by-Echo-The-Bunnymen-21886.html Inspired to create a new album after the highly successful Ocean Rain 25th Anniversary tour, which saw them play their 1984 masterpiece from start to finish at every show with a symphony no less, Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant are back with The Fountain, their first album of new material in four ye... Kyle England Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:36:38 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Glitter-and-Doom-Live-by-Tom-Waits-21885.html Just like Bob Dylan, Tom Waits and in particular his voice, are both an acquired taste, ESPECIALLY in a live setting. To call Waits' voice gruff would be like calling vanilla plain and Waits' voice live is like sandpaper on the ears. Some people (my wife comes to mind) can't stand him, but I find Wa... Kyle England Mon, 18 Jan 2010 14:29:13 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Phrazes-for-the-Young-by-Julian-Casablancas-21880.html Since going on hiatus in late 2006, all the members of The Strokes save for guitarist Nick Valensi and lead singer Julian Casablancas have already released side projects or solo albums. That isn't to say that Casablancas has just been sitting around getting wasted for the last three years (well, he... Kyle England Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:17:09 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/The-Fall-by-Norah-Jones-21879.html Uber-popular female songstress Norah Jones has always been a misunderstood figure. The daughter of Ravi Shankar was unfairly pigeonholed to a life-sentence of Jazz piano crooning due to the mega success that was her 2002 debut Come Away With Me, even though that isn't who she is or even close to wha... Kyle England Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:08:59 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/One-Fast-Move-or-Im-Gone-by-Jay-Farrar-Benjamin-Gibbard-21878.html When you bring up the name Jack Kerouac, most minds go directly to the 1957 masterpiece On the Road that became the bible of the Beat Generation. Many forget however that Kerouac shunned his overnight superstar status famously stating "I'm not a beatnik, I'm a Catholic." By 1962, Kerouac was drinkin... Kyle England Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:28:00 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Blakroc-by-Blakroc-21877.html Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of the Indie-Blues Rock duo The Black Keys certainly had their hands full in 2009 even though they didn't have an official new album out. Auerbach and Carney each released solo side-projects earlier in the year and now comes Blakroc, a Rap-Rock super group that no one... Kyle England Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:16:46 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Never-Cry-Another-Tear-by-Bad-Lieutenant-21876.html With yet another tumultuous turn in the relationship between New Order's lead singer Bernard Sumner and their integral bass player Peter Hook, New Order are once again no more leaving Bernard Sumner in a place where he is actually familiar. In the early 90's when New Order were showing the signs of... Kyle England Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:10:07 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Tarot-Sport-by-Fuck-Buttons-21875.html Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power, who consist of the British Electronic/Ambient Noise duo F**k Buttons, do not make music for the masses. Their first LP, 2008's Street Horrrsing (produced with the help of Mogwai's John Cummings) was an abrasive debut that lent more towards noise acts such as Wolf... Kyle England Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:57:20 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Backspacer-by-Pearl-Jam-21830.html I've been fortunate enough to see Pearl Jam live three different times during this decade on three separate album tours and nothing has been more frustrating than to watch Eddie Vedder and company put on such absolutely stunning live shows, but, during it all, drop such terribly average albums onto... Kyle England Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:17:01 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Monsters-of-Folk-by-Monsters-of-Folk-21829.html Like The Highwaymen and The Traveling Willburys before them, Monsters of Folk is a supergroup of massive proportions. Unlike those groups which carried the torch for the worlds of Country and Classic Rock, Monsters of Folk are the torchbearers of the Indie-Rock scene. MOF is comprised of such lumina... Kyle England Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:12:53 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/-Man-on-the-Moon-The-End-of-Day-by-Kid-Cudi-21826.html Say what you will about Kanye West the person, but Kanye West the rapper and producer has changed the Hip-Hop game for the better. His unique flow and ear for diverse beats, samples and live instrumentation have influenced a new generation of up and coming wunderkinds and his protégée Kid Cudi is ne... Kyle England Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:53:23 +0700 http://www.zboneman.com/music/Where-the-Wild-Things-Are-Soundtrack-by-Karen-O-and-The-Kids-21825.html With all the trailers for the new movie Where the Wild Things Are (based on the enormously popular children's book by Maurice Sendak) featuring Arcade Fire's "Wake Up," you would have thought the group would have had something to do with the soundtrack, but that isn't the case. The soundtrack for th... Kyle England Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:46:10 +0700