29 Apr 2003

Peace Gets Its Chance on New Set

By John James
• While America's war with Iraq is wrapping up quickly, Mordam Records has gathered together a peace-movement fundraiser of anti-war rumblings from today's most politically charged alternative artists. Due in mid-May, the two-CD set is simply entitled Peace Not War and features current singles and selected tracks from muckrakers such as Public Enemy, Ani DiFranco, Midnight Oil, Saul Williams, and Chumbawamba.
22 Apr 2003

The Clinton Administration Back in Office

By John James
• This Tuesday brings a new collaboration of jazz and funk masters, all bowing down to the P-Funk manifesto as The Clinton Administration. The new CD, One Nation Under a Re-Groove, also launches Magnatude Records, a new groove, funk, and jam boutique label through Magna Carta.
15 Apr 2003

Blue Man Group Brings Out 2003's First Must-Hear

By Administrator
The first must-hear record of the year comes from the Blue Man Group, a trio of nameless, faceless cobalt-silver surfers of the double helix as both pop-culture artists and electronic-music stream-clashers. With the group's new album, The Complex, this mute alien threesome goes beyond the grid and becomes the grid themselves, collaborating with guest vocalists and lyrics for the first time.
08 Apr 2003

Great Soundtrack Lineup Plugs Holes

By John James
• This Tuesday brings the soundtrack from Holes, one of the season's most anticipated films, with new music from The Eels and a disco-ball salute to Gloria Gaynor's "I Will Survive" by Stephanie Bentley. While aimed at the teen market, the 1999 Newbery Award-winning novel by Louis Sachar might be one of the freshest plots to knock on Hollywood's door in ages.
01 Apr 2003

Spinal Tap Members Unplug for New Movie

By John James
• Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer - the trio that conceived and delivered the hysterically funny Spinal Tap experience - have done it again, this time spoofing the 1960s folk scene as "The Folksmen, reunited for the memorial concert of a recently deceased artist manager.
25 Mar 2003

Depeche Mode Spins Out Solo Records

By John James
• Two of the founding members of Depeche Mode are soon to release new solo albums. Songwriter Martin L. Gore returns to the covers concept he debuted in his 1989 Counterfeit collection, with Counterfeit2 due at the end of April on Mute Records.
18 Mar 2003

Smoking Popes Offer Fans a Double Dip

By John James
• Fans of the defunct Smoking Popes are treated to a double scoop of power-pop memories this Tuesday when Double Zero Records, owned by founding drummer Mike Felumlee, releases two separate CDs saluting the band's Windy City reign.
09 Mar 2003

Zombie Builds His Own "Brick House"

By Administrator
• One of the strangest pairings in music comes this Tuesday when Geffen Records releases the soundtrack to House of 1,000 Corpses, the new Rob Zombie-directed horror film. Among odd tracks from the Ramones, Buck Owens, and Slim Whitman are six new sick tracks by Zombie, one of which is his "Brick House 2003," a twisted re-make featuring original Commodore Lionel Richie.
04 Mar 2003

Hail the Mullet with New CD

By John James
• Dude! This Tuesday brings an excellent twin-cam sonic salute to the musical culture of the proud but coiffure-challenged bearers of the shameless American mullet. Or as the Epic Legacy Records label has succinctly put it: Mullets Rock! Almost an anthropological study, this 35-track, two-CD set is a killer collection of hard-rockin' classics guaranteed a righteous "thumbs up" from any soul brushing his Michigan mudflap - all business up-front, and all party in the back.
18 Feb 2003

Storyteller Creates a Wonderlure

By John James
• Fans of National Public Radio's All Things Considered should seek out Wonderlure, the new spoken-word CD from Kevin Kling. The Minneapolis storyteller, playwright, and actor is a frequent contributor to the program, with eight of these recent radio pieces collected on one budget-priced CD.

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