by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Nov 16, 2009 | Music Reviews, New Releases, Other News
In my childhood in the 1960s, I bought almost all of the vinyl albums by the Beatles and a smattering of single “45s”. In the 1970s and early 1980s, I bought selected releases by the group on cassette for my Sony Walkman. Then, later in the 1980s, I purchased all the...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Nov 13, 2009 | Music Reviews, New Releases
My Morning Jacket-Evil Urges – These Kentucky rockers may be the best unknown band in rock music today. Their fifth album, Evil Urges, steers away from their earlier classic southern rock and into a new realm of modern music. Debuting in the Top 10 on the...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Nov 13, 2009 | Music Reviews, New Releases, Promotions
After 14 years since the release of their last album and the tragic death of lead singer Layne Staley, Alice in Chains is back with their most powerful and impressive release since 1992’s influential Dirt. Black Gives Way to Blue is Alice in Chains’ way of welcoming...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Nov 13, 2009 | Music Reviews, New Releases, Promotions
Wolfmother’s 2006 debut release, Wolfmother, rocked the music world and showed that there is more to the Australian music scene than just AC/DC and Silverchair. However, their newest album, Cosmic Egg, is sure to secure Wolfmother as a powerful, worldwide musical...
by morristown@scotticd.com | Nov 13, 2009 | Music Reviews, New Releases
The New Mastersounds, from Leeds, England, began a US tour on Wednesday, November 4th in Charlottesville, VA in support of their freshly released album, Ten Years On, released on One Note Records. The venue, called Rapture, was tiny and packed. The band was in top...
by Jeff from Scottidesign.com | Nov 13, 2009 | Music Reviews, New Releases
*** stars Yo La Tengo was already a well-established indie band by the time they entered my consciousness with Painful, in 1993. They had already morphed from a band with a Lou Reed/Velvet Underground fixation into one with an expansive, experimental sound that could...
