Music review: CDs in one sentence (TVNZ)

tvnz.co.nz’s Joachim Hackshaw blitzes through the latest CDs to cross his desk. Black Joe Lewis and the Honeybears - Tell ‘Em What Your Name Is! Basically this sounds like someone resurrected James Brown, instructed him to find a band and teach them how to make good old fashioned rock and roll.

Music Review: Together Through Life (Entertainment Weekly)
Reviewed by Clark Collis | B-

Music Review: Kim Burrell releases ‘No Ways Tired’ (AP via Yahoo! News)

Kim Burrell, “No Ways Tired” (Shanachie)

My Daughter is a 4-year-old Groupie
Children’s music artist Red Grammer performed a concert on Saturday in our neck of the woods. [Read my music review .] We’ve attended his annual concerts the past two years and own all of his children’s music. My daughter had been looking forward to seeing Red for a month and in the week preceding announced that she would make a sign to hold up at the concert. First, yes, obviously she didn’t write the words on the sign in the photo above. The sign reads: “I love Hello World and Teaching

Music review - Bob Dylan: Together Through Life (The Advance-Titan)
Throughout his career, Bob Dylan has been known to vary his style, not allowing critics to pigeonhole him within a certain genre or musical style. What started with solo acoustic performances gave way to his legendary switch to electric accompaniment, which in turn developed into the gypsy carnival of the Rolling Thunder Revue era. “Together Through Life,” Dylan’s April 28 release, is another …

Botch – Unifying Themes Redux (CD)
“God Vs. Science” actually, however little it has obvious harmonies, works as a track. The title of the song is a perfect indicator for the style of music that will be issuing forth on your speakers. The back and forth screaming that is such a hallmark during “God Vs. Science” continues into “Third PPPlay In A Tragedy”, but Botch adds a few different things to this introductory track. This is not the noise music of acts like Men’s Recovery Project or Agoraphobic Nosebleed, but Botch actually tak

The Rakes: October Tour
Angular indie-pop types The Rakes are set to return for a UK tour this October . Having spent last year in Berlin working on their their third album ‘Klang’ (Clash Music review HERE ), the London four-piece returned recently for a series of UK dates, and are now set to play a handful of extra dates throughout October . Famed for their spiky, angular guitar assaults and tales of lost weekends in Wetherspoons pubs, The Rakes’ post-punk debut ‘Capture/Release’ saw them hook up with Pau

Music Review: Bob Dylan’s new one drags (Jefferson City News Tribune)
The curse of Bob Dylan’s bootleg series is that you might start thinking of his official releases as first drafts. Dylan has been on a roll this past decade, staring mortality in the face and wringing memorable music from it.

Prong - Power of the Damn MiXXXer
Nine out of ten times when someone tells me that there’s a remix album on its way I run the opposite direction as fast as humanly possible. You see, I generally associate the word remix with the music found in dance clubs or the stuff of a self absorbed DJ looking to imprint his own sound into an existing piece of art. Most of the time, the remixed musical release doesn’t really offer any new dimension to the original version, so really . . . why bother? But then comes along Field General Tommy

Rumors Heard in MySpace, Vol. II, Episode 4

Damn. Another overly hectic and superbly busy month has come and gone. In fact, it’s been so damn busy this month that I never found the time to surf in and out of the nooks and crannies of MySpace like I usually do. But don’t think for one minute that I’m gonna’ let you Waveriders down. Ho no. I was still able to spend some quality time looking under some of the cyber rocks and peer in those deep and cavernous virtual crevices. The flight plan this month is sketchy at best. I’m not gonna’ lie t

Prong - Power of the Damn MiXXXer

Nine out of ten times when someone tells me that there’s a remix album on its way I run the opposite direction as fast as humanly possible. You see, I generally associate the word remix with the music found in dance clubs or the stuff of a self absorbed DJ looking to imprint his own sound into an existing piece of art. Most of the time, the remixed musical release doesn’t really offer any new dimension to the original version, so really . . . why bother? But then comes along Field General Tommy

Music Review: Here and Now by Taxi Doll
Hey there… Every so often I find some new artist (or artist new to me) who happens to infect me with a guitar- synth-pop (though they call it “rocktronica”) groove. Taxi Doll not only did that but has embedded itself deep in my psyche with their album Here and Now . I just can’t get “Strange Rush” out of my mind… As someone who grew up in an age of Depeche Mode, Erasure, and Cause & Effect, I have a soft spot for synth-pop, whether it’s dark and moody like ‘Peche, cheerful and upbeat

Music Review: Sabbath at its best (again) with Dio (Jefferson City News Tribune)
This may be blasphemous, but Black Sabbath has always been a better band with Ronnie James Dio at the microphone instead of Ozzy Osbourne. And this being Black Sabbath, blasphemy has always been cool.

The Joint Raises the Flag with Matt McCoy
It’s going to be a music week folks! Sorry, I got behind with our trip to New Orleans so hold on tight, here we go: Matt McCoy - Raise the Flag Again find on iTunes or Amazon Joel Klampert - go to Klampert.com Synopsis: I first found out about Matt Mccoy when I would watch the live worship services from the Vineyard Cincinnati. He would cover for the BRILLIANT Robbie Reider when he needed a break. At the time I was really impressed with the guy and always wondered if he would

Music Review: Students sing Ben Folds a cappella (AP via Yahoo! News)
Ben Folds, “Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!” (Epic)

Music Review: Bob Dylan’s New One Drags
The curse of Bob Dylan’s bootleg series is that you might start thinking of his official releases as first drafts.Dylan has been on a roll this past decade, Read more!

The iTie has a pocket for your iPod - Crunchgear.com

If you have to wear a tie more than once a year, you might as well have a cool one. The iTie serves two functions: one, it has two little straps that attach to the buttons on your shirt so it doesn’t blow around, get dunked in your coffee, or, my

Jobs skips town council meeting on property demolition - Mac Central
Tuesday’s meeting with the Woodside Town Council, featuring Apple CEO Steve Jobs’s request to demolish the dilapidated house on one of his properties , went forward as planned, but according to Palo Alto Daily News , Jobs himself was not in

Walt Disney World Resort Notescast - Now on the iPhone & iPod touch - Intomobile.com
You might remember I have posted up about Notescasts before - well now guests of Walt Disney World Resort can access a powerful new vacation planning and in-park guide on their iPhone or iPod touch.  At over 200 pages, including over 150 photos

Crabble: the iPhone, iPod touch stand that fits in a wallet - Mac Central
Have you ever tried watching a video on your iPhone or iPod touch and thought to yourself: “Man, I sure wish I had a stand that could hold up my i-device for me”? Maybe you were at a coffee shop or on an airplane and needed two free hands, or maybe

Designer imagines portable, foldable solar-powered iPod speakers - San Francisco Examiner
From the Dept. of We Can Hope comes Finnish designer Pekka Salokannel’s for a set of portable speakers with built-in solar panels to rock your next beach outing. They’d fold up for easy transport, pump out decent sound thanks to the generous size

Download this story to your iPod - Corpus Christi Caller
Click the “Get the story in iPod format” button above. You’ll be prompted to save a file. Save it to your computer, and unzip it. It should create a folder called “Corpus Christi Caller Times Caller.com”. Connect your iPod to your computer and mount

Trend Smart Surfing for Mac, iPhone & iPod touch - PC Advisor
Trend Micro has launched products to help protect Mac , Apple iPhone and iPod touch users when they are surfing the web. According to the company, Trend Smart Surfing utilises Trend Micro’s existing anti-malware and web-threat protection technologies

An IPhone, IPod Touch Stand That Fits in a Wallet - PC World
Have you ever tried watching a video on your iPhone or iPod touch and thought to yourself: “Man, I sure wish I had a stand that could hold up my i-device for me”? Maybe you were at a coffee shop or on an airplane and needed two free hands, or maybe

Half of Car Buyers Want iPod Link - Twice
Southfield, Mich.a — Almost half of consumers preparing to buy a car want to connect an iPod to their vehicle, making it the third most desired feature behind radios and CD players, according to a new study by radio consultant Jacobs Media . Of

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