According to Naledge, Land of Make Believe has two sides to it. The first is an exploration of the illusions that come with the music industry; the second is celebration.
March 2
Groove Armada, Black Light
Jamie Foxx, Body
Little Boots, Hands
These New Puritans, Hidden
Rogue Wave, Permalight
March 9
Gorillaz, Plastic Beach
Monica, Still Standing
The Morning Benders, Big Echo
New Young Pony Club, The Optimist
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, The Brutalist Bricks
March 16
Ludacris, Battle of the Sexes
Nas and Damien Marley, Distant Relatives
The White Stripes, Under Great White Northern Lights
March 23
Justin Bieber, My World Part 2
Cam’ron presents The U.N., Gunz n Butta
Goldfrapp, Head First
Redman, Reggie
The Dillinger Escape Plan, Option Paralysis
March 30
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Part 2: Return of The Ankh
Drake, Thank Me Later
Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.
Broken Bells, the side project of The Shins’ team captain James Mercer and masterful producer Danger Mouse may have been doomed from the beginning: it seems impossible that the project would live up to the sheer awesomeness of its component parts.
Not to sound like your mom or anything, but summer is fast approaching. And, if you’re anything like us, you’ve decided to forgo the OCR path in hopes of something better.
When I was in ninth grade, one of my friends told me that she heard Billy Corgan was an asshole.
I responded angrily and cued up “Rocket” on my clunky iPod.
It’s about time we all started believing in ghosts. In the posthumous release of Valleys of Neptune, the phantom of Jimi Hendrix has entered the airwaves to show that forty years on, he still deserves one of the highest thrones in the pantheon of rock deities.
Last year, many film lovers were outraged that the Swedish vampire masterpiece Let the Right One In didn’t score an Academy Award nomination for “Best Foreign Language Film.” However, Oscar voters were not to blame.
It’s easy to forget that there is a whole musical world out there full of artists who are taking their own traditional styles and fashioning them into contemporary masterpieces that challenge our preconceptions of what music is, has been and will be.
It is all too easy to buy into the one-dimensional cult of genius that surrounds the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and is propagated by art historians, intellectuals and sometimes, the artist himself.