Naysayers listen up: Muse refuses to be the "next" Radiohead. Since forming in 1997, the alternative rock trio has continuously battled comparisons to the famed Oxford group while ambitiously creating a sound of its own, mixing elements of glam, pop, and symphonic music into a rock hybrid. British fans have praised the group for years, despite ...
The musical touchstone for the British trio Muse is obviously Radiohead and that fact is crystal clear from the smoldering opening cut, "Sunburn." Their John Leckie-produced debut, Showbiz, is strong on angst-filled vocals, esoteric lyrics, and dramatic shifts in sonic dynamics. Hailing from rural England, singer/guitarist Matthew Bellamy, bassist ...
There's little question that Shout! Factory's double-disc compilation The Marshall Tucker Band Anthology: The First 30 Years is exhuastive. It spans 32 songs, sampling from 20 albums, running more or less in chronological order, and giving a good idea of the group's narrative. While that's a lot of ground, some charting singles are still missing - ...
Sharing a light, lush airiness with bands like Poco, America, and Air Supply, Firefall sang fluffy love songs that were weak in lyrical nutrients but abundant with softened chords and harmonies. When radio was saturated with light rock in the mid- to late-'70s, they were right in the heart of it, reaching number nine on Billboard's Top 40 with the ...
After introducing their mild, country-rock charm with 1976's Firefall, Rick Roberts and the band were right back at it a year later with Luna Sea. Following in the footsteps of their debut release, Luna Sea attached the same type of silky harmonies to light, breezy acoustics which confirmed the band's comfortable residence in their genre. Although ...
Firefall crested with its third album, Elan, which was prefaced by "Strange Way," an unusually vituperative leadoff single from the group who had broken through with songs of romantic devotion like "You Are the Woman" and "Just Remember I Love You." This time, lead singer and songwriter Rick Roberts was unmoved by a weepy lover, calling her ...
Appropriately enough for a movie about Satan's misfit son, the original soundtrack to the Adam Sandler vehicle Little Nicky features churning alt-metal and rap from the likes of Linkin Park, Disturbed, and Cypress Hill. P.O.D.'s "School of Hard Knocks," Powerman 5000's "When Worlds Collide," Incubus's "Pardon Me," and Filter's "Take My Picture" ...
Faith and the Muse stick with old-world traditional music for an enigmatic second album, Annwyn, Beneath the Waves. Playing with elements of neo-classical, experimental folk, and goth rock, Annwyn is vibrant with literary works spanning several centuries. Monica Richards' vocalic beauty is unreserved yet sometimes polite, but not unassuming when ...
As this collection attests, Firefall was a group in which the whole was less than the sum of its parts. In this case, the parts happen to be former members of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Byrds, and Spirit. Nevertheless, Firefall embarked on a mellow country-rock/pop path that would spur critical grimaces but commercial fortune during a short ...
Reissue label supreme Wounded Bird continued its mission to reissue the most eccentric and obscure releases by combining Firefall's last two records, 1982's Break of Dawn and 1983's Mirror of the World, on one budget-line disc. While the group had a few notable chart-topping hits during its tenure, the overly glossed production sensibilities, drum ...
This unique collection of ethereal, gothic, and industrial artists has a bittersweet raison d'etre: After losing his cat to feline leukemia, Projekt label founder Sam Rosenthal wanted to raise money for the Tree House, a "no-kill" cat shelter based in Chicago. The artists featured on A Cat Shaped Hole in My Heart wrote songs about their own cats ...
The fourth album from this country-rock semi-supergroup, Undertow failed to yield any major hit songs like the band's first three releases, yet is, in some ways, Firefall's most interesting and consistently pleasing effort. Released a year and a half after Elan, the group's first platinum album, Undertow was recorded at a time when the members of ...
So it's come to this: a Marshall Tucker Christmas album. The first urge is to dismiss this as another attempt to cash in on the holiday record market, but right from the onset of the opener, "White Christmas," it becomes evident that this is an album a long time in the making, reassembling bandmembers from incarnations spanning over three decades. ...
The core of the Marshall Tucker Band's sound had historically been Toy Caldwell's guitar and Doug Gray's voice. The band has been through many permutations and Caldwell has since passed on, but Gray and a core of members, including horn boss David Muse (formerly of Firefall) and guitarist Stuart Swanlund, have been carrying the torch for a while ...
Keeping the Love Alive includes Marshall Tucker classics like "Can't You See," "Heard It in a Love Song," "Hangin' Out in Smokey Places" and "Dancin' Shoes." ~ Keith Farley, All Music Guide
What is The Next Adventure? Not to put too fine a point on it, but for the Marshall Tucker Band, it's simply surviving, finding their way as veteran rockers -- the kind who don't get respect from critics, or even the world at large, but they still have plenty of fans who will buy compilations, concert tickets, and new albums, like 2004's Beyond ...
Monica Richards and William Faith spool their archangel glory and Celtic auras to spawn a dramatic third album, Evidence of Heaven, the first for the duo's Mercyground label. A heavy storybook of dark romanticism, archaic in nature, mold the illustrious theatrics found on Evidence of Heaven. Faith's guitar work is scalding, fiercely driven over ...
Led by singer Dick Muse, the original Laurels formed in the mid-'50s, and although they never managed any big hits, the group has re-formed several times and continues to be a concert attraction even into the 21st century. This Collectables set is a truncated version of the group's Keeping the Tradition CD, and features well-executed a cappella ...
Monica Richards and William Faith took their time when it came to following up 1999's Evidence of Heaven. They spent four years sifting through their wild imaginations and wide sonic palettes for a reason; they wanted to be ready to take on the shift in music and be powerful enough to stand alone. Faith & the Muse have never been ones to follow ...
One of goth rock's most enchanting, Faith and the Muse explore old English mysticism, specifically Celtic musicianship and lyrical stories for a stunning debut, Elyria. Monica Richards' tempting vocals are airy and unreserved, and William Faith's intricate guitar work remains in her shadow, however that's the beauty of Elyria. Richards' voice is ...
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