CD reviews

Justin Timberlake’s The 20/20 Experience bloated and dull: Review

Suit and Tie singer’s new album really could have used the hindsight of an editor. Nick Krewen Special to the Star Published on Tue Mar 19 2013 Justin Timberlake The 20/20 Experience (RCA) 2 stars Second only in studio secrecy to the recent re-emergence of David Bowie, Justin Timberlake ends a six-year music hiatus with The 20/20 Experience, only his third solo album since he managed to buck the trend…


David Bowie lives up to the hype on The Next Day: album review

Entertainment / Music Bowie proves age is nothing but a number on first studio album in a decade. Published on Tue Mar 12 2013   Rock David Bowie The Next Day (ISO/Columbia/Sony) 3.5 stars       The secret’s out. After a major health scare and a decade of silence, many had assumed that influential and iconic rocker David Bowie had ridden off into the sunset. Instead, the man known…


What About Now one of Bon Jovi’s weakest releases: album review

Singer Jon Bon Jovi seems to be trying awfully hard to sustain interest       ROCK Bon Jovi What About Now (Island/Universal) 1.5 stars   Bon Jovi may have been responsible for some of the most bombastic hairspray rock of the past two decades, but at least those albums registered a pulse. On What About Now, the immeasurably popular New Jersey rockers’ first album since 2009’s The Circle and…