Blunderbuss is Here

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

"4/5" -The Guardian

New music to play and request this week

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.

-Brittany

Kanye West Releases Single

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.



Thoughts?

-Aaron