To know Coldplay is love them, and to hate them, and to love them and to - once again - hate them. Only, that is, to turn right back around and love them one last time before you invert your decision for what is positively not the last time. And if there is one band […]
Entries Tagged as 'Press Play'
Press Play: A Review of Coldplay’s Viva la Vida
June 25th, 2008 by Brandon Kiser · No Comments
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Press Play: A Review of Tilly and the Wall’s O
June 16th, 2008 by Eric Atienza · No Comments
Throughout its existence, Omaha five-piece Tilly and the Wall has been a band that has shown an uncanny ability to harness a pure, almost manic energy, infuse it with heartfelt exuberance, and transmit a final product as infectious and unadulterated as anything ever set to stereo. It’s also been a band that has continually grown […]
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Press Play: A Review of Mark Pickerel And His Praying Hands’ Cody’s Dream
May 26th, 2008 by Steve Mock · No Comments
Mark Pickerel makes a good record. Cody’s Dream is a rollicking trip of deft lyricism, journeyman musicianship and outright charm. The former Screaming Tress drummer and elsewise able sideman has here assembled 13 tracks both cinematic and intimate in their evocation of a trippy American panoramic.
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Press Play: Flobots’ Fight With Tools
May 26th, 2008 by Colin Wonnacott · No Comments
Hot on the heels of receiving major radio airplay of their hit “Handlebars,” Denver-based hip-hop/rock band Flobots are quickly becoming a popular crossover sensation with their second album Fight With Tools.
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Press Play: A Review of Portishead’s Third
April 29th, 2008 by Evan Mix · No Comments
I have a nasty habit of getting into good bands after they break up. Sonic Youth, Smashing Pumpkins… the list goes on. I first heard Portishead’s Dummy in the late ’90s, several years after its release, at the dawn of a decade of radio silence from these Balboan trip-hoppers. But the wait is over: Third, […]
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Press Play: A Review Of The Raconteurs‘ Consolers of the Lonely
March 25th, 2008 by Mykola Bilokonsky · 2 Comments
Here’s one we didn’t see coming: The Raconteurs went into the studio early this month, took a week to record a new album, rushed it to press and quietly announced it a week before its release. It came out today, available everywhere - but due to the secrecy and speed of its release you […]
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Press Play: A Review Of AmpLive’s Radiohead Mashup “Rainydayz”
March 17th, 2008 by Evan Mix · No Comments
We at Listen In just don’t seem to be able to get away from In Rainbows, do we? Radiohead’s headline-grabbing 2007 release has been reviewed, awarded, and generally discussed a number of times in the scant few months we’ve been doing this. Indeed, the Listen In archives reveal no less than seven articles touching on […]
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Erykah Badu: New AmErykah Album Review
March 3rd, 2008 by Kimberlee Morrison · No Comments
Much of Erykah Badu’s career has been marked by Afrocetrism, higher consciousness and introspection. Her first album was perhaps the most spiritual but her music has always had a conceptual nature, layered with meaning deeper than what appears on the surface to be abstract ramblings. While Erykah has always had some level of social consciousness […]
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Press Play: A Review Of Talib Kweli And Madlib’s Liberation
February 6th, 2008 by Evan Mix · No Comments
Liberation, the brainchild of rapper Talib Kweli and producer Madlib, was available as a free download from Rappcats.com and the artists’ MySpace pages for about a week starting December 31, 2006. When two such distinguished and critically acclaimed artists release a free album, it’s tough to be critical of it. It’s especially tough when the […]
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New Album Review: Atmosphere’s Strictly Leakage
January 21st, 2008 by Evan Mix · No Comments
Over the holidays, Atmosphere released a quasi-LP called Strictly Leakage on their website, for free. No, not Radiohead pay-what-you-want free - just free. Here: see for yourself.
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