RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE) On the Philadelphia group's eighth album, G. Love and his associates cook up their trademark rock-rap-funk combination with a handful of frisky, potent songs from the band's second outing with fan Jack Johnson's Brushfire label. "
It will be easier for most to talk about what Walter Becker's second solo album (his first in 14 years) is not - an effort that sounds like another outing from pop's best-known and -loved sophisticates, Steely Dan - than what it actually is.
LOS LONELY BOYS 'Forgiven' (Wingdings 171) (Epic Records) The Texas trio Los Lonely Boys is captured in unadorned form on the group's third studio album, but too many derivative and underwritten songs turn this promising outing into an uninspired one. Henry Garza's guitar playing remains the star of Los Lonely Boys, and even if his Stevie Ray Vaughan-meets-Jimi Hendrix style is
John Mayer Where the Light Is **** Try as he might, Mayer just can’t catch a break. The release of Continuum , a disc that smartly fused his mushy pop sensibilities with his sharp blues skills, was a career high, but taking up with Jennifer Aniston dragged the focus from his ever-evolving sound onto his personal life. This two-disc set, the second official live release in Mayer’s
Willow Island is turning out to be the place for a lot more than brats, beer and hot rod shows. Since opening in 2003, the Alliant Energy Center's 79-acre outdoor venue is attracting more and more big concerts. Coming up in the next few months: Umphrey's McGee and Sound Tribe Sector 9, Poison, WJJO Band Camp (with Hurt, Shinedown and others) and the Madison Roots Festival (with headliners G.
Pop: THE WAR ON DRUGS "Wagonwheel Blues" (Secretly Canadian, 3 { stars) It's a tricky thing, making music that bears the influence of Bob Dylan as much as "Wagonwheel Blues" does, while still sounding utterly fresh. The War on Drugs, the Philadelphia band led by singer Adam Granduciel and guitarist Kurt Vile, succeeds so well because it marries mid-'60s Dylan folk-rock wordiness with the
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