On an album full of moments when hope turns haunting, the ghosts hang heaviest on the spellbinding "Suburban War," which comes roughly halfway through Arcade Fire's blazingly intense third album. Against solemn ringing guitar, Win Butler sings about a man remembering an old friend. Once, the two grew their hair long and vowed to escape, past t […]
The most combustive song on M.I.A.'s third album isn't loud or chaotic. Built on a mildly ominous, off-kilter beat -- plus an incessant shoosh like a bag of coins being shaken -- it bloops along with the grace of a janky PopCap game. But the sneakily titled "Lovealot" is perhaps the riskiest gambit yet from the 32-year-old artist born May […]
Rick Ross has been generous with descriptions of material rewards ("Hustlin'"), but stingy with personal details (his past as a corrections officer). If the Miami rapper has been a shell, though, he's become Fabergé on Teflon Don, his fourth and best album. The songs here are baroquely structured, richly musical creations with humor and e […]
Restraint was never Buckcherry’s strongest virtue—their most memorable lines remain “I love the cocaine” and “You’re a crazy bitch but you fuck so good.” The band’s fifth album throws caution to the wind along with whatever self-consciousness was left lurking under frontman Josh Todd’s chaos tattoo. From its sunrise-as-rebellion title down to its bombastic, […]
The third album (and first for a major) from this Boston-born, Mississippi- and Chicago-bred singer-guitarist is bound to inspire Sam Cooke comparisons, but Get It just as frequently stirs up Jackson 5 dance fever (“Come and Get It”) and cribs CCR grit (“Tell Me What I Want to Hear”). Reed’s blue-eyed soul ballads can lack passion, and the album’s subject ma […]
Bizarr, welchen Trend die Modewelt der USA gerade hervorbringt: Füße werden durch Zehenverkleinerung, Fettinjektionen und Botox so geformt, dass selbst der dickste Plattfuß in Designer-High-Heels passt! […]
On the season finale of 30 Rock, Jack Donaghy says that his girlfriend Avery Jessup always wears high heels because according to her, flats are for quitters. […]
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