Birdy : Supernatural Paraphernalia

Here is a debut CD consisting of a perfect 35 minutes of pure pop bliss. You have EVERYTHING here you could want in a pop record: alluring, magnetic vocals & harmonies; smart, yet memorable lyrics, great & fancy playing, never flashy; hooky tunes that utilize an underappreciated quality in the best pop albums, economy. Read the rest of this entry »

Biohazard : New World Disorder

As the elders in the metal/rap genre, it may finally be Biohazards turn to reap the rewards of the path they’ve laid for so many other bands i.e. Deftones, Korn, and Limp Bizkit. While I think Deftones and to a smaller degree Korn have done their best to broaden the scope in the field theirs something to be said for a band like Biohazard who is content to stay the coarse. Read the rest of this entry »

Big Meteor: Wild River

Straight out of Ottawa, Canada, Big Meteor is a duo of singer/songwriters David Wimble and Larry Wayne Church. Their folk/country style falls somewhere between Steve Earle, John Denver, Dan Fogelberg, and Gordon Lightfoot. BUT, they don’t sound ANYTHING like the above artists, but a bland mishmash of them.
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Bickley: Kiss The Bunny

Bickley, huh? – B. I. C. K. L. E. Y. from Houston, Texas. Here we have a bluddy great cache of songs (23+ of ‘em in fact!) all short n sweet and irrevocably coming under the genre of irreverent PUNK. Punk where the P & N get replaced with an F & a C (work it out, it’s not hard) and unfortunately you could add a suffix of –ED for a lot’ve of this material and you’d be closer to the mark, but anyway… Read the rest of this entry »