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I got through 16 minutes of Bloc Party’s album Intimacy before I had to stop. Artfully described as “art rock” there are pop elements sprinkled throughout the album (the part I heard, admittedly) but not enough consistently to be engaging. The sound of the opening track Ares was so grating, I was already worried. [...]

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 [...]

Taken from the 3rd row during Madonna’s Sticky and Sweet tour. The huge video screens showed a video montage during the opener than split apart for Madonna and crew to perform Candy Shop. The jump rope dance sequence during Into the Groove is much cooler than it sounds. Madonna broke the concert into four segments, one artfully referred to as “Pimp.”

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 [...]