| OneRepublic | | Metacritic - 10 Hours ago | | by 64 N/A User Score: Generally favorable reviews Based on Based on 0 votes Album Info Label: Interscope Release Date: 17 November 2009 Discs: 1 disc Genre(s): Rock Summary This is the second album for | | | | Add Comment |
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| The Decemberists | | Guardian.co.uk - 16 Hours ago | | Forum, London There is no doubting Colin Meloy's ambition for his music. The last time he brought the Decemberists to London from Oregon, the band opened their set with a 20-minute folk-prog-metal epic | | | | Add Comment |
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| Plastiscines | | Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009 | | Barfly, London It's amazing what a French accent can do to the word 'bitch'. Coming from the lips of Plastiscines singer and guitarist Katty Besnard, it's more caress than insult, even when squawked at | | | | Add Comment |
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| Rihanna: Rated R | | Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009 | | (Mercury) Difficult to look past the lyrics â?¦ Rihanna Even by the standards of the R&B video â?? never the most opaque or subtle of the visual arts â?? the promo for Rihanna's single Russian Roulette | | | | Add Comment |
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| Monsters of Folk | | Guardian.co.uk - 11/19/2009 | | Troxy, London It's their first London show, and Monsters of Folk have found their spiritual home at the Troxy. 'A temple of the roaring 20s painted in the colours of the roaring 80s,' says Jim James, | | | | Add Comment |
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| AC/DC: Backtracks | | Pop Matters - 24 Hours ago | | With gross earnings topping an astronomical $105 million, to say that its been a good year for AC/DC is a bit of an understatement. With a third generation discovering the bands music, theyre now more | | | | Add Comment |
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| Joan Baez: How Sweet the Sound | | Pop Matters - 24 Hours ago | | Given Joan Baezs centrality to American cultural and political life over the past five decades, the greatest surprise this documentary is that it wasnt made much sooner. While Bob Dylans career has been | | | | Add Comment |
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| Lowlights: Further/Free | | Pop Matters - 24 Hours ago | | , the title of the last Lowlights record, was a perfect name for the bands sound. Their lush country music has the deep feel of being isolated out in the vast, wide-open parts of America. And that stark, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Muse | | Guardian.co.uk - 11/15/2009 | | Muse manage to sound like the Zep by way of Europe â?? when they're not quoting Abba, that is. By Kitty Empire While Muse's Matt Bellamy prangs away portentously on the piano during 'United States of | | | | Add Comment |
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| Various - Rough Trade Shops - Indiepop '09 | | Drowned In Sound - 11/19/2009 | | As London's most influential record store for the past three decades, Rough Trade has been responsible for providing many a fledgling artist a stepping stone from the underground to a far wider audience. | | | | Add Comment |
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| Real Estate: Real Estate | | Pop Matters - 11/19/2009 | | In todays culture, the blogosphere moves with such spitting tenacity, and wields such a ruly force over independent music, that once-loved darlings of the self-appointed press become enemies of the state | | | | Add Comment |
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| Ola Podrida: Belly of the Lion | | Pop Matters - 11/19/2009 | | David Wingo, the man behind Ola Podrida, has clearly learned a thing or two from his past, back when he used to score films for his pal David Gordon Green. Slipping in the subtle evocative sound, establishing | | | | Add Comment |
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| Annie: Dont Stop | | Pop Matters - 11/18/2009 | | Originally scheduled for a 2007 release, Annies follow-up to 2004s Annimal finally hits shelves and desktops in late 2009. The period in between saw the nearly inevitable leak of an album that resembles, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Dunkelbunt: Raindrops and Elephants | | Pop Matters - 11/18/2009 | | There are few pop music embarrassments more humiliating than trying too hard to sound fresh and falling flat. Likewise, mashing sounds and styles together with little apparent focus may earn you elite | | | | Add Comment |
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| People Under the Stairs: Carried Away | | Pop Matters - 11/18/2009 | | Fun-loving hip-hop is rarely this good. Californias have this subgenre of hip-hop on lock. Sure, this duo makes the occasional serious cut and these guys, in the words of Rakim, aint no joke. There are, | | | | Add Comment |
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| Joakim: Milky Ways | | Pop Matters - 11/18/2009 | | House music has certainly come a long, long way since its origins in the legendary Chicago nightclub The Warehouse back in the late 70s/early 80s with DJ Frankie Knuckles speeding up disco 12-inches to | | | | Add Comment |
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| John Mayer | | Metacritic - 11/18/2009 | | Mayers expression never wavers, and in many ways thats the albums greatest victory. 70 Sputnikmusic Battle Studies, by comparison is relaxed and laid back, its feet in the air and stripped of extravagance | | | | Add Comment |
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