Jack White's anticipated new album, Blunderbuss was released April 24. Check out the reviews below!
"The fascination with White has endured partly thanks to his mastery of traditional rock'n'roll skills: power, volume, dexterity, charisma. But his talent for untangling and confusing those same tried-and-true ideas is just as vital. He's playing a frightfully sincere take on the blues wearing frightfully silly outfits. He's singing truth and authenticity while fibbing about his back-story...Blunderbuss hangs in a kind of limbo-- it's closer to earth than his fantastic White Stripes yet further away than the sometimes-pedestrian Raconteurs or Dead Weather. It's got some of his best pure songwriting yet, but no earth-cracking riffs. Still, as a treatise on loss and its schizophrenic aftermath, Blunderbuss is a purposeful success. 7.8/10" -Pitchfork
“Blunderbuss is, quite simply, a marvelous rock album — one that, along with the Black Keys’ El Camino and Gary Clark Jr.’s self-titled teaser EP in advance of his Warner Bros. debut this fall, is injecting energy into an ancient art form." - Pop & Hiss / LA Times
Check out a teaser for Patrick Watson's new album, Adventures In Your Own Backyard
Dry the River - No Rest from their album, Shallow Bed
Here's a teaser for Maps & Atlases new album, Beware and Be Grateful
Lastly, in hip hop Lushlife's Plateau Vision has gained a 6.9/10 in a recent review from Pitchfork. "There's a lot of heart to this record, not least in Plateau Vision's dewy-eyed beats: from the gorgeous guitars of 'Big Sur' to the drumless, music box glow of 'Gymnopedie 1.2'."
Check out the album in it's entirety here.
Kanye West has finally released a single on his record label (GOOD Music: Kanye, Pusha-T, Tyga, etc.) entitled "Theraflu" which features DJ Khaled. Many people are taking away from the song that Kanye is in love with Kim Kardashian ("And I'll admit, I fell in love with Kim/ 'Round the same time she fell in love with him.") but what I am taking from it is disappointment that Mr. West didn't use a song in which he himself produced the beat as the first single. Also, I do not care about Kim Kardashian.
