http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/?srvc=rss The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news en-us Copyright 2009, Herald Interactive, Inc. Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:45:21 -0500 systems@heraldinteractive.com 120 http://cache.heraldinteractive.com/images/siteImages/rss_logo.jpg http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/?srvc=rss 100 48 The Boston Herald online: The closest distance between you and the news http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/dpkjeIdmnq0/view.bg The greatest songwriter of his generation recasts a batch of the classic tunes he penned for the Kinks, using a choral group from his native Muswell Hill section of London... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:45:10 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210428&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210428&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/2VLA8dxBUcY/view.bg What goes around comes around on "The Circle." The Jersey boys' 11th record is a return to the bombastic, fist-pumping pop-metal that made them famous. First... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 10:44:25 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210427&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210427&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/qMtbawvFTNQ/view.bg http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/stp/9bb0f2afd2_ltpGraceKe110609.jpg As you listen to Wellesley-native Kelly's fifth album as a leader, it's hard to believe she's only 17. Youthful prodigies are a jazz cliche, but few avoid cliche... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:52:07 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210106&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210106&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/BKB4Lo5c-TM/view.bg Back in 1969, Memphis soul label Stax relaunched itself by releasing 27 new albums at the same time. "Boy Meets Girl" was a double LP featuring male-female duets... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:49:16 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210105&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210105&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/nb0ei85k9qk/view.bg Those accustomed to the pure combustion of West Africa's mbalax (think Youssou N'Dour) will be struck by the ease and grace of the lesser-known fula style championed... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:47:24 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210104&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210104&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/KzeqqDC00CE/view.bg Think of Latin music in New York City and you instantly think of salsa - unless you're singer Koutsovitis. Sounding something like a folkloric, chamber-jazz version of... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:46:05 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210103&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210103&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/mTyCMEoeqNM/view.bg Banhart's visual-artist pedigree is evident on "What Will We Be," an album that puts further distance between the California singer/songwriter and his lo-fi... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:44:16 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210102&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210102&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/VTeNmbqrxYU/view.bg Novelist Stephen King writes the admiring liner notes, and the great illustrator Dan Blakeslee creates an unforgettable cover. Yet Cleaves, while always plaintively elegant,... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:40:35 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210099&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210099&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/ieis9-fu4GM/view.bg Nine years ago Maine's Rustic Overtones saw their big major-label break turn to ash on the pyre of Clive Davis' career at Arista. Now they make their own big break,... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:38:31 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210098&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210098&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/-sHna9kRiWY/view.bg Possessed of a warm, husky alto and a passionate, lightly bluesy style, Canada's Milman thoroughly torches all the ice maiden divas that have turned the jazz singing... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:36:27 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210097&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210097&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/qPyc8wbjPbI/view.bg http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/stp/258b281e6e_ltpTraindisc110609.jpg Train has always been able to push the right pop-rock buttons - "Calling All Angels" and "Drops of Jupiter" are perfect radio singles. And at the start... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:35:12 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210096&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210096&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/6Ve4q1JZbxk/view.bg http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/stp/bf92611d0f_ltpAmerie110609.jpg In a genre in which the Rihannas and Beyonces of the world already reign supreme, Amerie seems caught in a sonic identity crisis; the first four songs of her fourth album... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:32:32 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210095&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210095&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/dVa_Jm2bt5g/view.bg Jones surrounds herself with an all-star cast, including Alison Krauss, Vic Chesnutt, Victoria Williams, Bill Frisell, Jon Brion and Ben Harper, who joins in on "Old... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:30:40 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210094&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210094&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/v4TrT1sIfj8/view.bg http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/stp/60dfae3e26_ltpCreed110609.jpg "Don't give up on us," Scott Stapp sings repeatedly on "Away in Silence," "I'm not the man I used to be." It's comeback time for... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:29:08 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210093&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210093&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/Ze9GBB3o8Vc/view.bg http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/stp/14a689c468_ltpUnderwood110609.jpg Underwood's third album runs the country gamut, from the telethon-ready "Change" to the sweet spite of "Songs Like This," which feels purposefully... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:26:37 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210091&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1210091&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/VzaZPAOi0MY/view.bg If you love Fox's hit "Glee," you already love the songs on this soundtrack (and you probably already downloaded the tunes individually). But if you haven't... Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:34:03 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208859&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208859&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/AjY_B6Z-cCk/view.bg Few bands in any genre carry such a notorious reputation for controversy - or such expectations - as Slayer. From the opening notes of the earth-scorching title track to the... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:16:42 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208858&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208858&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/RAMARjZoGOc/view.bg This is the Stones doing disco. Which is to say not bad (who doesn't love "Miss You?") for a formerly very hip artist chasing what's hip now. On his eight-cut... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:15:49 -0500 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208857&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208857&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/kyKSkatpHvU/view.bg Malawian singer Esau Mwamwaya and British DJ/production duo Radioclit launched this electro-Afro-pop outfit last year with a buzzed-about underground mixtape. Now comes the... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:42:40 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208286&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208286&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/YRDQH6FXYQ8/view.bg After fights with her record label and controversy over the cover art, the 22-year-old English soul singer's "Colour Me Free" has been set free. Well, sort... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:41:58 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208284&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208284&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/J8DumvYhKQI/view.bg This honky-tonkin', Texas swingin' soul man seemingly channels the spirits of Jimmie Rodgers, Lefty Frizzell, Hank Williams, Hank Snow and a whole lot of other departed... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:40:53 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208282&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208282&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/p6DPy3dbdP0/view.bg Stevens sports a healthy fetish for Americana's more unusual artifacts and anecdotes (he's penned songs about Midwestern UFO sightings and John Wayne Gacy Jr.).... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:39:02 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208280&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208280&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/ik08Bj_YbhQ/view.bg Jeff Tweedy brought Woody Guthrie's poems to a fresh audience on Wilco's (and Billy Bragg's) "Mermaid Avenue." Now Farrar, Tweedy's erstwhile... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:26:00 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208279&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208279&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/wps2v41hf-A/view.bg Simon's son Ben Taylor suggested Mom rework her best-known tunes. But why? The originals were perfect. Nevertheless, she revisits "Anticipation," "You... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:24:40 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208278&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208278&srvc=rss http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bostonherald/entertainment/music/reviews/~3/1RmhbZBVyIM/view.bg Max Bemis has a knack for writing cheeky, clever, self-lacerating songs chock-full of pop culture references. He grows up a bit on the California emo-punk band's latest... Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:23:58 -0400 http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208277&srvc=rss http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/reviews/view.bg?articleid=1208277&srvc=rss