Noise 101 : CD Reviews for Jan 14 Reflector
Choice Cut God bless the nerds who make beautiful music. From Buddy Holly to Brian Wilson to David Byrne, the musical world has always appreciated educated, uptight bookworms who are also able to lay...
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Noise 101 : Christmas CD Picks for Dec 3 Reflector
Choice Cut By Sean-Paul Boynton Depending on when you’re reading this over the course of the holiday season, you’re either about to be bombarded by familiar Christmas standards being blasted out of every retail...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 19 Reflector
Choice Cut Them Crooked Vultures by Sean-Paul Boynton The past few years has seen the gap shrink to the point that it’s practically non-existent. Besides younger audiophiles thumbing through their parents’ record collections and...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Nov 5 Reflector
Choice Cut Tegan and Sara Sainthood Sire It has been exactly one year and three months since Tegan and Sara released The Con, and in the time between then and the recent debut of...
Noise 101: CD Reviews for Oct 22 Reflector
Choice Cut: The Flaming Lips Embryonic Warner Bros. Back in the days of vinyl, when rock bands were becoming more and more ambitious, the idea of a double album was exciting and intriguing. With...
CD reviews: Bow down once more to Maiden
Iron Maiden Flight 666 EMI 4.5/5 Stars Metal-heads Unite!! If you lived through the ’80s and witnessed the genesis of the speed metal genre, then this collection is made for you. What better way...
Eminem’s Relapse feels redundant
Eminem Relapse Aftermath, Interscope, Shady, Web 2.5/5 stars Alright we get it, rehab is a joke. That’s the message pounded into your head over and over again during Relapse, the first album from controversial...
CD Reviews: British bombshells & a blast from the past
Lady Sovereign Jigsaw 3.5/5 stars While Lady Sovereign isn’t the only “midget” I know (there have been few tiny editors at The Reflector in the past), she is the “biggest” as she states on...
CD reviews: Ben Harper’s dark, relentless new sound is simply addicting
Ben Harper & Relentless7 White Lies for Dark Times Virgin Records 4/5 stars Music legend Ben Harper has put aside his work with Innocent Criminals and formed a new band known as the Relentless7....
CD reviews: Shout out Yeah Yeah Yeah!
Yeah Yeah Yeahs It’s Blitz! Interscope 4.5/5 stars If you were as seduced by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ newest single “Zero” as I was, you might be in for a shock when you pick...
