It’s hard to complain when, this year, there were pretty good releases almost every month. And as the year came to a close, I was actually surprised to find that as I tried to cull a best-of list down to ten, I was left with about 20 fantastic albums from which to chose. I did [...]
Just in time for Christmas, here’s a list of recent releases for those of you who are literally waiting until the last minute to finish up your holiday shopping. We’ll cover a wide array of genres and artists, so soak it in, get off the damn computer, and finish up that shopping, procrastinator! …
Live at the Astoria plays out as a greatest-hits collection, with a solid sampling from the group’s back catalogue. The recording is fairly crisp, with hardly any crowd interference (which you’ll either like or dislike depending on what you’re looking for in a live album). …
Thirsty Fish - Testing the Waters
Bell Rang Records (2008)
Hip-hop / Rap
In May of last year, I was able to catch a Thirsty Fish live show at a small club in West Hollywood. Featuring the core as well as the group’s extended family, I wasn’t disappointed, and even if I had been disappointed, Mike Eagle [...]
Spirits in the Material World: A Reggae Tribute to The Police
Shanachie (2/19/08)
Reggae (Dub / Ska)
Tribute albums can go either way. On one end of the spectrum, you have releases like The Electro Industrial Tribute to Korn and the countless Cleopatra Records tribute albums, including ’80s Metal Tribute to Van Halen (a fustercluck featuring different [...]
RECORD OF THE YEAR
Beyoncé - “Irreplaceable”
Foo Fighters - “The Pretender”
Rihanna (f/Jay-Z) - “Umbrella”
Justin Timberlake - “What Goes Around… Comes Around”
Amy Winehouse - “Rehab”
Mathan Erhardt: Despite my digging Amy Winehouse, I never thought “Rehab” was all that great, and it’s even less so now that it’s ironic. Like the FCC, the Super Bowl Halftime incident [...]
And welcome back, folks, for the third part of our special (albeit a bit late) year-end feature, as this time we’ll be dealing with some of the most repugnant items from 2007.
Lindsay Lohan and Vanessa Minnillo: Fun With Knives
What happens when two friends get absolutely shitfaced and happen to have a digital camera [...]
And away we go with the second part of the three-part series, as this time we take a look at some of the worst things to happen within the music industry in the past year…
Hurricane Chris
Much like the purveyor of the Worst Album of 2007, who capitalized on a ridiculous dance, Hurricane Chris capitalized on [...]
Yes, as Mathan said in his year-end piece, we’re well into the new year, but like him, I’d be remiss to not share with you some of what I thought were the highlights of 2007 in the music world (big ups to Tom D’Errico for being the onl on e to get his in on [...]
As part of our week-long retrospective feature, MachineGunFunk.com and The Saturday Swindle Sheet would like to kick off the new year by declaring the worst album of the year that was. While we saw a whole lot of terrible music in 2007, no artist was able to achieve the level of suck as one [...]