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It took a few tracks into Pink’s new album Funhouse before I was sucked in so completely. I’m a huge fan of Pink. Her musical style is so unique and I’m always blown away by her ability to go from bawdy to ballad and make it all so melodic. She says ‘fuck you’ better [...]

Chinese Democracy, the title track from the forthcoming Guns N’ Roses album, was released to radio stations this morning and is streaming on a number of station websites as well as making the rotation on the air.
The track, which has some of Axl Rose’s signature vocals, sounds at times more like James Hetfield than Rose [...]

Anthems may be their gift (or strategy) but AC/DC’s first studio album in 8 years leads off with the rather lackluster track Rock N’ Roll Train.  A sign of the times or just poor sequencing?
Turns out it doesn’t matter.  Black Ice is uninspired AC/DC rock.  From vocals to riffs, their signature sound permeates every song [...]

I thought my days of liking a Britney Spears song ended around Oops!…I Did it Again (the version I own is a remix that was given away with a value meal at Burger King) and Stronger. Beyond that, Britney seemed to wallow in (albeit) well-crafted pop crap, the worst kind of overproduced dance music and [...]

I love the Pretenders, but the new release Break Up the Concrete is just a surprisingly bad album. When Chrissie Hynde and company released Viva El Amor in 1999, it felt like a comeback album. It was fun, flirty and hard rockin’ made me want to dig into by back collection for Get Close [...]

Way to Normal, the new full-length release by college rock icon Ben Folds, exceeds expectations. What might one come to expect from an artist that recorded “fake” versions of songs and then leaked them to the internet to throw fans and foes alike of the scent of the new album? Good question.
The answer, [...]