Sunday, April 6, 2014
JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #414 JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #414.15!
Valdy – Viva Valdy: Live At Last (Rack-On-Tour) :: The
troubadour you can trust who gave us the enduring “Rock ’n’ Roll Song” is back with a double album
that’s one side live, one side studio, and both sides wow.
Day Of Infamy – Red Autumn (DOI) :: The Everly Brothers meet Audioslave. Wake up, little
snoozie.
Kasabian –
Kasabian (RCA) :: Dylan joins the Strawberry Alarm Clock and records a trippy stoner album.
Skindred – Babylon (Lava) :: I’d
rather hear Jar Jar Binks babble on than listen to this snore-bore in a grotty dread.
UPO – The Heavy (DRT) :: If the Home Shopping Channel
ran a music network for zirconium metal bands, these guys would be No. 1 with a mullet.
Blue Öyster Cult – We’re Cooking For You
(MEnu262) :: The Cult contributes recipes to a fan cookbook. I remember when they used to cook in the studio instead.
Dennis DeYoung – The Music of Styx Live With
Symphony Orchestra (Grand Illusion) :: And with a donation to PBS of only $150, you’ll get a copy of the new double
CD plus the DVD!
Eddie From Ohio
– This Is Me (Virginia Soul) :: Literate lyrics, earnest songwriting, honey-flavored female vocals.
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: The Beatnuts – Milk
Me (Penalty Recordings) :: I was gonna end by warning ya about this sexist cover photo which shows a lissome Nubian goddess
reclining in a skimpy lime green bikini while thick creamy white liquid is poured all over her glistening ebony endowments
but, wouldn’t ya know it, I’m plumb out of room.
Be seeing you!
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Sunday, March 30, 2014
JEFFREY MORGAN’S MEDIA BLACKOUT #413 JEFFREY MORGAN’S
MEDIA BLACKOUT #413.14!
Diana Degarmo
– Blue Skies (RCA) :: And you thought Jewel was stacked.
Mix Master Mike – Bangzilla (Scratch) :: I knew Steinski. Steinski was a friend of
mine. Beastie Boy, you’re no Steinski.
Gym Class Heroes – The Papercut EP (Fueled By Ramen) :: I bet Dylan wishes he could
write a line like: “She’s the reason for the lesions.”
Matt Sharp – Matt Sharp (Boompa) :: Plaintive music so utterly anguished yet hauntingly
beautiful it’s almost too painful to listen to.
Strung Out – Exile In Oblivion (Fat Wreck Chords) :: Lame grunge band called Strung
Out begins its record by stealing 20 seconds of Billie Holiday, geddit? Well, don’t get it.
Jakalope – It Dreams (Orange) :: Proof
positive that anyone with a Mac can ape NIN and record Jamming With Reznor.
Simple Plan – Not Getting Any (Lava) :: Sure they’re
not. That’s why there’s a flier stuck inside that shills the songs on their new album as ring tones at $2.50 a
pop.
Jem – Finally
Woken (ATO) :: Narcotic and erotic music to read Edward Gorey by.
Lesbians On Ecstasy – Lesbians on Ecstasy (Alien8) :: Today on Maury: Women who love
women and the fishy records they make.
Westlife
– Allow Us to Be Frank (RCA) :: A pack of real rats could sing better than these four fops.
SIZZLING PLATTER OF THE WEEK: Vampire Beach Babes –
Beach Blanket Bedlam! (Divine Idustries Inc.) :: By combining the feisty fiesta vocals of the B-52s with the seamy
archirony of the Cramps, these fun-loving culture vultures are the kitschiest thing to hit the surf since Eric Von Zipper
hung 10.
Be seeing you!
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