CD reviews

Canada, CD reviews, Hip-Hop, JUNO, Producer, Songwriter, Toronto June 25, 2013

Maestro Fresh Wes at top of game on Orchestrated Noise: album review

Classified, Rich Kidd, Measha Brueggergosman, Lights guest on Toronto rapper’s first album in 13 years , Published on Tue Jun 25 2013 Rap Maestro Fresh Wes Orchestrated Noise (Fontana North/MapleMusic/Universal) “Before Drake was on the tour bus/Rhymin’ with Wayne/I was in the basement/Vibin’ the Cane/ I’d be your Rap Prime Minister …” As he recites those words on “Black Trudeau,” one of the killer joints on Orchestrated Noise, his first…

CD reviews, Producer, Songwriter, United States June 4, 2013

Queens of the Stone Age jettison old sound…Like Clockwork

Queens Of The Stone Age torch old sound …Like Clockwork Admirers used to Queens Of The Stone Age’s usual driving heavy metal crunch will be in for a shock Published on Tue Jun 04 2013   Rock Queens Of The Stone Age …Like Clockwork (Matador/Beggar’s Banquet) 3 stars The winds of change are blowing all over …Like Clockwork, the seventh Queens of the Stone Age album, and first in six…

Canada, CD reviews, Guitar, JUNO, Rock, Songwriter, Toronto, Voice June 4, 2013

City And Colour’s The Hurry And The Harm offers right marriage of simplicity and sophistication: album review

Dallas Green continues evolution as a songwriter and artist on new album Published on Tue Jun 04 2013 Rock City And Colour The Hurry And The Harm (Dine Alone/Universal) With his disarmingly gentle and splendidly dulcet voice, City And Colour — or Dallas Green, unornamented — has little problem sonically lulling his listener into a sense of serenity. The sheer beauty of his graceful melodies suggest that life is plush…

CD reviews, Guitar, Producer, Rock, Songwriter, United States, Voice May 28, 2013

John Fogerty gets some help on Wrote A Song For Everyone: album review

Guest list for Wrote A Song For Everyone includes Foo Fighters, My Morning Jacket, Kid Rock and Tom Morello By: Nick Krewen Music, Published on Tue May 28 2013 Rock John Fogerty Wrote A Song For Everyone (Vanguard/Universal) 3 stars One of the most prolific — and important — rock ‘n’ roll writers of the 1960s, John Fogerty spat out hits like nails for the five years he fronted California…

Alt. Rock, CD reviews, Grunge, Rock, Songwriter, United States May 28, 2013

Alice In Chains’ The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here won’t disappoint fans: album review

The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here is only the fifth full-length album from Alice In Chains since 1990’s debut, Facelift By: Nick Krewen Music, Published on Tue May 28 2013 Rock Alice In Chains The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here (Capitol/Universal) 3 stars   After 2009’s Black Gives Way To Blue confidently placed Seattle’s Alice In Chains in that rarefied company of bands surviving — and flourishing — following the death of…