Posts by daedae
My (unscientific) top 10 of the 00s
They decided over at antiMusic to do a top 10 of the decade special...just like most other music news/reviews outlets, I guess. Anyway, mine went up on Monday to kick off the series. The full link is at the bottom, with a list of why I picked each title. In no particular order, they are:Dave Matthews Band - The Lillywhite Sessions (2001)doubleDrive - Blue In The Face (2003)Opeth - Ghost Reve...
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Reviews in the queue
Just a filler post... :pCDs in need of review:Chick Corea and John McLaughlin - Five Peace Band Live (working on this one)IQ - FrequencyDevin Townsend - KiAnd maybe if I'm lucky:Carbon Leaf - Nothing Rhymes With WomanOzric Tentacles - The Yum Yum TreeDave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey & The Groogrux King
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Chick Corea & Hiromi - Duet
Every once in a while, a CD comes across my desk that I dig, and I just can't put into words why. (I like to believe that it's more about some mystical quality of the music and less about vocabulary limitations.) Chick Corea and Hiromi's Duet is one such CD. Recorded by two masterful, rather flexible jazz pianists, it's somewhat of an old guard meets new guard. Chick Corea, of course, has been aro
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TurnItUpMedia
A few weeks ago I posted when Ruckus went under for good. I'd switched to using SpiralFrog, which was also free, ad-supported, DRM-ed, and had a much smaller catalog, but it got the job done for me in terms of giving me music to listen to at work. Of course, SpiralFrog went under too. On Twitter a few days ago, somebody told me about a new site, TurnItUpMedia, as a replacement for SpiralFrog.
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God Forbid - Earthsblood
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Unfortunately for God Forbid, it's cool to hate on anything related to metalcore, regardless of how tenuous the relationship is. As such, it seems like Earthsblood has generally been well-received by critics and less so by the fan ratings on sites.But hey, I'm reviewing this as a critic, so it's okay for me to like it!(continued....)
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Pearl Jam - Ten (Legacy Edition)
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Reissues are dicey business. On the one hand, you have a couple labels that like to reissue CDs only months after their original release with a few new tracks, serving largely to irritate the fans who bought the original release. (I've been burned by this on more than one occasion.) On the other hand, you have multiplatinum classics reissued years later, taking advantage ofmodern technology to ...
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Derek Sherinian - Molecular Heinosity
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For the uninitiated, Derek Sherinian is perhaps best known as a former keyboardist for Dream Theater, having played from 1995-1999 and on the studio albums A Change of Seasons and Falling Into Infinity. Prior to that, he'd played with Alice Cooper and KISS, and since then, in addition to solo releases and with Planet X, he's performed with far too many artists to enumerate. Molecular Heinosity is
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Locating MOG account...