“Paying Guest” lacks freshness, has boring lyrics (Music Review): BollySite

“Paying Guest” lacks freshness, has boring lyrics (Music Review): Film: “Paying Guest” Music Director: Sajid-Wajid Lyricist: Jalees Sherwani, Wajid Ali and A.K. Upadhyay Singers: Shaan, Earl D’Souza, Wajid Ali, Sonu Nigam, Amrita Kak and Sunidhi Chauhan Rating: ** Composer duo Sajid-Wajid’s music is usually fast-pa

Music Review: Mandy Moore more grown-up on ‘Amanda Leigh,’ but needs to grow more (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Sure, Mandy Moore has grown up. She’s 25, married to singer-songwriter Ryan Adams and pushing past the teen-pop territory of her younger days, as she did on 2007′s decidedly adult “Wild Hope.”

Music Review: Mandy Moore more grown-up on ‘Amanda Leigh,’ but needs to grow more (The Morning Call)
Mandy Moore, “Amanda Leigh” (Storefront)

Music Review: Still Flyin’ – Never Gonna Touch The Ground (Blogcritics.org)
Still Flyin’ isn’t your conventional band, and oddly enough reggae, ska, or indie seemingly doesn’t appear appropriate for them.

Solomon Burke – Nashville (CD)
I see a lot of parallels in Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash. I started thinking about the comparisons when I read that “Nashville” was Burke’s cover album, where ey takes on country classics by individuals as widespread as Tom T. Hall, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams. This is similar to the American series of CDs that were released by Johnny Cash. Looking at a history of Burke, the sheer amount of recordings that ey has done since coming onto the scene in 1962 (as a fresh-faced 22 year old) paralle

TMR Music Review: Chickenfoot
What the hell is Chickenfoot you may ask? This is Heavy Metal’s new super group with Sammy Hagar (Montrose, Van Halen) on vocals, Joe Satriani on guitar, Michael Anthony (Van Halen) on bass and Chad Smith (The Red Hot Chili Peppers) on drums. Sounds like really good Van Halen but with great drumming and a guitarist that didn’t stop innovating 20 years ago. Joe Satriani sounds so much better with a full band. I have only heard a sampling but this is the best stuff I have heard in a long time,

Music Review: Playing for Change: Songs Around the World
Hi all… To be moved by music is a wondrous feeling. Whether you are moved to feel, dance, sing, or play, there is something about music that reverberates through each of us. And even in a world feeling lost and afraid in the face of global changes, music is one thing that can bring us together. Add to that the need to keep music alive and you find a group of people doing some remarkable things around the world. Even in the midst of poverty, war, or famine, the Playing for Change Foundatio

A Night With Leonard Cohen
Image by Michael Foley Photography via Flickr Laura and I went to see Leonard Cohen last night at Radio City Music Hall. It was one of the best live performances I’ve ever seen. Impressively, at age 74, Cohen carried on for over three hours, both entertaining and humble, with several rounds of standing ovations. Don’t mean to get freaky, but his writing and music helped me through my teens and twenties. I’m glad I saw this performance — perhaps among his last, given his age. He’s on

Brookside – Tonight, Long Island (CD)
I still remember the first time I saw Brookside live. It was in a coffee shop in Greencastle, Indiana wwhen only about twenty individuals were in attendance. Despite the poor acoustics of the venue, the energy of Brookside was able to shine. This energy is the same on “Tonight, Long Island”. I know that both the Purevolume and Myspace pages of Brookside have tracks by the band, but having the better bitrate and the context of these songs placed alongside another makes this immediately one of the

Music Review: Lots of Bush-bashing from Shocked (AP via Yahoo! News)

`Michelle Shocked, “Soul Of My Soul” (Mighty Sound)

Music Review: Method Man & Redman’s CD is shaky (AP via Yahoo! News)
Method Man and Redman, “Blackout! 2″ (Def Jam)

Music Review: Mandy Moore more grown-up on ‘Amanda Leigh,’ but needs to grow more (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Sure, Mandy Moore has grown up. She’s 25, married to singer-songwriter Ryan Adams and pushing past the teen-pop territory of her younger days, as she did on 2007′s decidedly adult “Wild Hope.”

Music Review: Benny Goodman-The Essential Benny Goodman (Blogcritics.org)
May 30 marks “King of Swing” Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday. Celebrate his birthday with The Essential Benny Goodman collection.

Music Review: Using techno-pop, Bachelorette explores and criticizes our tech-dependent world (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Annabel Alpers has put New Zealand on the tech-pop map. Recording as Bachelorette, her first album for the Drag City label is a pop treatise on technology’s perpetual intrusion on society.

Music Review: Manson a bit brighter, but still low (AP via Yahoo! News)
Marilyn Manson, “The High End of Low” (Interscope)

iTunes: EU moves step closer to blanket terms for music sales – MacWorld UK

Selling music legally online in Europe got a whole lot easier Tuesday, when French royalties-collecting agency SACEM agreed in principle to relinquish its tight grip on the handling of royalties for artists based in France. Online music retailers

EU pushes music industry to open up online rights – Daily Local News
BRUSSELS (AP) — EU antitrust regulators told the music industry Tuesday to move quickly and change licenses that currently restrict online music stores such as iTunes from offering the same songs for sale across Europe. Internet music downloads in

All-state music camp slated for SDSU in early June – KTIV
SIOUX CITY, Iowa (KTIV) – The extension of Outer Drive, in Sioux City, was supposed to be completed by fall of 2007. But, the city says because of railroad negotiations, the project was delayed a full two years. RUNNING WATER, S.D. (KTIV

Music Review: Manson a bit brighter, but still low (AP via Yahoo! News)

Marilyn Manson, “The High End of Low” (Interscope)

Music Review: Benny Goodman-The Essential Benny Goodman (Blogcritics.org)
May 30 marks “King of Swing” Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday. Celebrate his birthday with The Essential Benny Goodman collection.

Music Review: El Duce – Slave To Thy Master (Blogcritics.org)
El Duce’s solo record is finally reissued, mutants of the world rejoice!

Music Review: Using techno-pop, Bachelorette explores and criticizes our tech-dependent world (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
Annabel Alpers has put New Zealand on the tech-pop map. Recording as Bachelorette, her first album for the Drag City label is a pop treatise on technology’s perpetual intrusion on society.

Music Review: Method Man & Redman’s CD is shaky (AP via Yahoo! News)
Method Man and Redman, “Blackout! 2″ (Def Jam)

New Music Review!

LeToya — She Ain’t Got (Final Version) My girl LeToya has a winner with this one! This is the finalized version of her second single “She Ain’t Got…” (previously “She Ain’t Got Sh*t On Me”). I’m totally in love with this new version. Those electric guitar riffs are giving me my life right now! The latest word on her project is that it’s been pushed back to August, but that’s okay. Hearing this song all summer will definitely boost her sales because this song is super duper hot! Link1 / L

Solomon Burke – Nashville (CD)
I see a lot of parallels in Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash. I started thinking about the comparisons when I read that “Nashville” was Burke’s cover album, where ey takes on country classics by individuals as widespread as Tom T. Hall, Dolly Parton, and Don Williams. This is similar to the American series of CDs that were released by Johnny Cash. Looking at a history of Burke, the sheer amount of recordings that ey has done since coming onto the scene in 1962 (as a fresh-faced 22 year old) paralle

Music Review: Manson a bit brighter, but still low (AP via Yahoo! News)
Marilyn Manson, “The High End of Low” (Interscope)

Brunt of It – Certain Uncertainty (CD)
Mix a little Misfits, Vandals, Rancid and more together and individuals will get an idea of what Brunt of It! sounds like; there’s a little ska influence thrown it at the margins, but by and large this is a hard-nosed punk band through and through. Where there is probably no better entrance into the CD than “Blinded”, ‘Daddy’s Little Boy” seems to be a little embarrassing for the band. Brunt of It! has more than enough talent, but this is restrained heavily by the desire to put a specific messag

The Bronx – Bats! (CD)
Pretty much the only straight-forward punk band that I’ve had a chance to review for ‘Sup, The Bronx play a form of punk that is heavily influenced by the late eighties California hardcore scene. Blasting through three songs in less than eight minutes, the picture EP begins with the utterly forgettable title track, Bats! Minor amounts of melody rear their tiny heads during their “You Want to See Us Burn”, which Matt screams out in a vocal mode not unlike that of Marco from Raised Fist. The third

Music Review: Benny Goodman-The Essential Benny Goodman (Blogcritics.org)
May 30 marks “King of Swing” Benny Goodman’s 100th birthday. Celebrate his birthday with The Essential Benny Goodman collection.

Memorial Music
Paul Hindemith: When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d: A Requiem for Those We Love Jan De Gaetani/William Stone/Atlanta Symphony Chorus & Orchestra/Robert Shaw (Telarc) Memorial Day started spontaneously and independently in several towns and cities in 1866 as a way of honoring soldiers who died in the Civil War by placing flowers on their graves — thus the holiday’s old name, Decoration Day. read more

MARY J. BLIGE LINKS UP WITH T.I. AND “DON’T FORGET” THAT!
TI and Mary J. Blige’s collaboration “Don’t Forget” — confirmed as the first single from Tip’s upcoming Paper Trail reissue — leaked this week, MTV reports.Check out T.I.’s new single “Don’t Forget” featuring the queen of r-n-b, Mary J. Blige…HOT OR NOT? Let us know what you think! Listen: Dont Forget (Feat. Mary J. Blige) – T.I. T.I ft Mary J Blige “Don’t Forget”

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