All Music Guide - David Jeffries Content baller albums don't come around often, because as The Fundamentals displays, they aren't easy to pull off. Still, with enough hooks to fill a bait shop, Juvenile's 11th studio effort does cross the finish line with the required amount of highlights to recommend to fans, including the "belly's full" anthem "Cradle 2 da Grave," which spits "We ain't got a worry in our head/Whatever beef we had already dead" over its old-school, Southern party rap beat. Elsewhere, "Let Em Know" gives the ladies a moneyed, pre-club pep talk with weave reinforcement included ("Girl, that's your hair, you bought it/So go ahead and flaunt it"), while "Tales from the Hood" isn't brutal, ...
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Rap-a-Lot
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34744234568
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Audio CD
Lazaretto
By White, Jack
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine Like "blunderbuss," a "lazaretto" is an ancient reference that means little in the modern world, a fact that does not escape Jack White, a musician who specializes in blurring lines between past and present. Contrary to his carefully cultivated persona as a raider of lost Americana, White never, ever was a purist: he thrived upon seizing the precise moment when accepted definitions lose all meanings and turn into something new. This tension surfaces on Lazaretto, his second solo album, a record that lives upon the edges of his interests. There is a fair share of blues bluster -- via Zeppelin riffs and huffed references to digital cameras, the opener "Three ...
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Columbia
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888430639829
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Audio CD
Behind the Light
By Phillips, Phillip
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine Phillip Phillips belongs to the second tier of American Idol success stories: not as a superstar, not like Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson, but as somebody who found a solid little niche. Phillips' sound is adult alternative by way of the Dave Matthews Band, an influence evident on both the show and his 2012 debut, The World from the Side of the Moon, and still prominent on his 2014 sophomore set, Behind the Light. Like his debut, Behind the Light is co-produced by Gregg Wattenberg -- he can claim credits on Five for Fighting, David Cook, Backstreet Boys, and Ed Kowalczyk -- but there's a difference here, namely how all involved decide to incorporate a heavy ...
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Interscope Records
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9786315461644
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Audio CD
The Silver Gymnasium
By River, Okkervil
All Music Guide - James Christopher Monger Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff has never shied away from dipping his pen into the seemingly bottomless inkwell of nostalgia that seems to permeate much of 21st century indie pop and rock, but on The Silver Gymnasium, the Lone Star State band's seventh long-player, Sheff goes all in with a celebration/exorcism of his hometown of Meridian, New Hampshire, crafting an 11- track, exhaustively detailed audio-biography that comes off like a more idiosyncratic, less overbearing version of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. Sheff, born in 1976, imbues much of the record with a patina of tasteful '80s AOR excess listeners have the option to go online and explore the town ...
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ATO Records
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880882188122
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Audio CD
Sisyphus
By Sisyphus,
Sisyphus is the new name for the collaboration between Serengeti, Son Lux, and Sufjan Stevens (formally s/s/s) , whose new project under this moniker is a self-titled album partly inspired by the art of Jim Hodges, and commissioned by the Walker Art Center and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music series in Minneapolis/Saint Paul.
Secretly Canadian
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656605483627
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Audio CD
Julie's Greenroom
By Artists, Various
Produced by the Jim Henson Company, this new Netflix series stars Julie Andrews as the headmaster of a performing arts school. The students are a cast of original puppets known as The Greenies! Like Sesame Street and The Muppets (other Henson creations) , guest stars such as Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Ellie Kemper and David Hyde Pierce perform original songs and engage with the puppets in a specific area of performing arts. Co-stars Guilian Yao Gioiello. The score is composed by Ryan Shore.
2013 release from the Grammy winning Jazz saxophonist. Pushing The World Away captures Garrett at the peak of his creative abilities, both as a saxophonist and as a composer. Garrett pays tribute to a number of his influences/friends and heroes that include Chick Corea, Chucho Vald‚s, Sonny Rollins and Garrett's musical confidant and album co-producer, Donald Brown (Brother Brown). In all, Pushing The World Away features 12 tunes, all of which were composed by Garrett except for one cover, a superb, lyrical, odd-metered take on the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "I Say a Little Prayer".
Mack Avenue
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673203107823
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Audio CD
Disgraceland
By Orwells, ~
All Music Guide - Gregory Heaney Listening to Disgraceland, the second album from Illinois-based garage rock revivalists the Orwells, the band's languid sound and jaded cool make it easy to almost forget that just a year ago its members were graduating from high school. And rather than be a hindrance to the band, their age is actually a boon. Having come of age when the garage revival was coming to a boil, it's clear that the Orwells learned a lot from bands like the Strokes and Black Lips, embracing not only the sound, but the "like it or don't, whatever" attitude that those bands exude. And because the band is focused on doing their own thing and not trying to make the listener suspend their ...
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Fundamentals
By Ross, Rick
All Music Guide - David Jeffries Content baller albums don't come around often, because as The Fundamentals displays, they aren't easy to pull off. Still, with enough hooks to fill a bait shop, Juvenile's 11th studio effort does cross the finish line with the required amount of highlights to recommend to fans, including the "belly's full" anthem "Cradle 2 da Grave," which spits "We ain't got a worry in our head/Whatever beef we had already dead" over its old-school, Southern party rap beat. Elsewhere, "Let Em Know" gives the ladies a moneyed, pre-club pep talk with weave reinforcement included ("Girl, that's your hair, you bought it/So go ahead and flaunt it"), while "Tales from the Hood" isn't brutal, ... See more details below Eligible for .
Lazaretto
By White, Jack
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine Like "blunderbuss," a "lazaretto" is an ancient reference that means little in the modern world, a fact that does not escape Jack White, a musician who specializes in blurring lines between past and present. Contrary to his carefully cultivated persona as a raider of lost Americana, White never, ever was a purist: he thrived upon seizing the precise moment when accepted definitions lose all meanings and turn into something new. This tension surfaces on Lazaretto, his second solo album, a record that lives upon the edges of his interests. There is a fair share of blues bluster -- via Zeppelin riffs and huffed references to digital cameras, the opener "Three ... See more details below Eligible for .
Behind the Light
By Phillips, Phillip
All Music Guide - Stephen Thomas Erlewine Phillip Phillips belongs to the second tier of American Idol success stories: not as a superstar, not like Carrie Underwood or Kelly Clarkson, but as somebody who found a solid little niche. Phillips' sound is adult alternative by way of the Dave Matthews Band, an influence evident on both the show and his 2012 debut, The World from the Side of the Moon, and still prominent on his 2014 sophomore set, Behind the Light. Like his debut, Behind the Light is co-produced by Gregg Wattenberg -- he can claim credits on Five for Fighting, David Cook, Backstreet Boys, and Ed Kowalczyk -- but there's a difference here, namely how all involved decide to incorporate a heavy ... See more details below Eligible for .
The Silver Gymnasium
By River, Okkervil
All Music Guide - James Christopher Monger Okkervil River frontman Will Sheff has never shied away from dipping his pen into the seemingly bottomless inkwell of nostalgia that seems to permeate much of 21st century indie pop and rock, but on The Silver Gymnasium, the Lone Star State band's seventh long-player, Sheff goes all in with a celebration/exorcism of his hometown of Meridian, New Hampshire, crafting an 11- track, exhaustively detailed audio-biography that comes off like a more idiosyncratic, less overbearing version of Arcade Fire's The Suburbs. Sheff, born in 1976, imbues much of the record with a patina of tasteful '80s AOR excess listeners have the option to go online and explore the town ... See more details below Eligible for .
Sisyphus
By Sisyphus,
Sisyphus is the new name for the collaboration between Serengeti, Son Lux, and Sufjan Stevens (formally s/s/s) , whose new project under this moniker is a self-titled album partly inspired by the art of Jim Hodges, and commissioned by the Walker Art Center and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music series in Minneapolis/Saint Paul.
Julie's Greenroom
By Artists, Various
Produced by the Jim Henson Company, this new Netflix series stars Julie Andrews as the headmaster of a performing arts school. The students are a cast of original puppets known as The Greenies! Like Sesame Street and The Muppets (other Henson creations) , guest stars such as Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Ellie Kemper and David Hyde Pierce perform original songs and engage with the puppets in a specific area of performing arts. Co-stars Guilian Yao Gioiello. The score is composed by Ryan Shore.
1969 Siempre En Vivo Desde Monterrey Parte 2
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Bellini
By Bartoli, Cecilia
All Music Guide - Blair Sanderson Performed on early 19th century instruments and presented with brisk tempos, bright tone colors, and a lean ensemble sound, this 2013 Decca recording of Vincenzo Bellini's tragic opera "Norma" strives to re-create the authentic vocal style and instrumental sonorities that would have been heard at its premiere. This reading is based on a critical study of the manuscript and other sources by Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi. To the extent that Cecilia Bartoli is able to re-create the historical role of Norma and remove the modern associations that came with time especially from the 20th century performances by Maria Callas, Joan Sutherland, and Montserrat Caballé, she ... See more details below Eligible for .
Pushing the World Away
By Garrett, Kenny
2013 release from the Grammy winning Jazz saxophonist. Pushing The World Away captures Garrett at the peak of his creative abilities, both as a saxophonist and as a composer. Garrett pays tribute to a number of his influences/friends and heroes that include Chick Corea, Chucho Vald‚s, Sonny Rollins and Garrett's musical confidant and album co-producer, Donald Brown (Brother Brown). In all, Pushing The World Away features 12 tunes, all of which were composed by Garrett except for one cover, a superb, lyrical, odd-metered take on the Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "I Say a Little Prayer".
Disgraceland
By Orwells, ~
All Music Guide - Gregory Heaney Listening to Disgraceland, the second album from Illinois-based garage rock revivalists the Orwells, the band's languid sound and jaded cool make it easy to almost forget that just a year ago its members were graduating from high school. And rather than be a hindrance to the band, their age is actually a boon. Having come of age when the garage revival was coming to a boil, it's clear that the Orwells learned a lot from bands like the Strokes and Black Lips, embracing not only the sound, but the "like it or don't, whatever" attitude that those bands exude. And because the band is focused on doing their own thing and not trying to make the listener suspend their ... See more details below Eligible for .