by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 19, 2010 | Music Reviews, Other News
Darius Rucker wrote 77 songs for his new album. That’s not a misprint. Most of them ended up not making the cut for “Charleston, SC 1966,” Darius Rucker’s follow up to his country breakthrough, “Learn to Live.” The new album will be...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 12, 2010 | Five Star Rating, Music Reviews
Only Laurie Anderson, the violin-playing poet laureate of American estrangement, could make an industrial-tinged club banger that dives into the following topics with clear-eyed passion, anguish and humor: America’s blind trust in authority; the media’s...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 7, 2010 | Music Reviews, New Releases
By time of Kylie Minogue’s eleventh album, 2010’s Aphrodite, she had been releasing records for over 20 years. Most artists who’ve stuck around for that long end up rehashing their past catalogs and/or growing stale, but Kylie manages to avoid these fates by...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 6, 2010 | Music Reviews, New Releases, Other News
Karen Elson’s Music Rock star/supermodel couplings are a showbiz cliché–Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall, Billy Joel and Christie Brinkley, Seal and Heidi Klum, David Bowie and Iman, Pete Doherty and Kate Moss, Rod Stewart and any number of interchangeable...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Jul 5, 2010 | Music Reviews, New Releases
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO “Street Songs of Love” lives up to the direct monosyllables of its title, then transcends them. It’s a set of 12 midtempo, clear-cut, guitar-driven songs and a closing instrumental, usually with just three or four chords, in the style that was once...
by morristown@scotticd.com | Jul 5, 2010 | *** Three Stars, Music Reviews
In my course of searching for that ever-elusive new music, sometimes you come across something unique, different, and if you’re lucky, sometimes you come across something with a gimmick to latch onto. Never mind two! Tygers Gimmick #1: Revisionism. You see, the...
