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By Evan Weisberg
“Rap Music” is the newest underground hip hop album created by a group from California that goes by the name of Brother Reade. DJ Bobby Evans and MC Jimmy Jamz make up the group, who are just like classic duos such as Eric B and Rakim, Big Daddy Kane and Mister Cee, and Kool G Rap and DJ Polo.
Brother Reade’s MC Jimmy Jamz provides an explosive flow and amazing lyrics, which compliment his very smooth tone. Throughout each song, MC Jimmy Jamz tries to present and generate a positive message that comes with each different style of rapping.
DJ Bobby Evans’s raw production helps guide MC Jimmy Jamz’s incredible delivery through each track. When you play the next track, you will be very surprised how unique each beat is. DJ Bobby Evans’ beats have an old-school type of feel, mixed with that new-school bang. You can bump your head or just sit back, close your eyes and listen to what MC Jimmy Jamz wants to tell you.
The track titled “Life Aint Easy for Yall” is the song that stands out the most, as well as “Let’s Go”, and “Gimme the Cash”. On the whole, the album is exceptional.
Smashing Pumpkins – “Zeitgeist” (Reprise)
By Anthony A. Choman
“Tarantula” Music Video
It has been seven years since last we heard from these alternative-rock gourds, but the Smashing Pumpkins are “back,” despite their not going anywhere.
The Smashing Pumpkins have returned to their chords of yester yore on their latest album, Zeitgeist. The album’s title references a German expression that, when loosely translated, means “the spirit of the age”; as the album unfolds, it leaves the listener with no questions as to how Billy Corgan and his Pumpkins feel about the current state of things.
Much like the band’s previous albums, Zeitgeist has its share of over-dubbed vocals, twangs and pangs, but it just works. Right from the get-go, the album’s first track, “Doomsday Clock,” showcases Corgan’s post-apocalyptic vocals and lyrics, which picks up right where Pisces Iscariot and Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness left off… and quite damn well too.
The band’s vocalist and resident wunderkind, Billy Corgan, has done various other projects – a side-project/band called Zwan and a solo record (The Future Embrace) – over the years since the band’s stellar debut album Siamese Dream, but it appears that all of his supposedly waywardly chosen paths have led him back to the pumpkin patch.
For Smashing Pumpkins zealots, Zeitgeist is the album they have been waiting for. In fact, forget comparing this album to any of its predecessors, as it defies consanguinity with its own sound. More simply put, just listen to the words from “Tarantula,” the album’s first single, and you will find Mr. Corgan’s words to be true…”A million watts of sound can’t compare.”
Tracks That’ll Give You The “Geist” of It
“Doomsday Clock”
“Bleeding The Orchid”
“Tarantula”
“For God and Country”
Interpol – “Our Love To Admire” (Capitol)
By Anthony A. Choman
“The Heinrich Maneuver” Music Video
During a summer that has been dominated by international acts, such as Bjork, Amy Winehouse, and Paul McCartney, it is nice to know that four guys from New York can still bring it.
Our Love To Admire is Interpol’s third studio album and is amongst the top albums to come out during these dogged days.
Despite the band’s not exactly being “indie”” anymore, everything that has got them thus far is on this album, from their gloom-slutted vocals, post-punk chords and choruses. In particular, the best two tracks on the album without a doubt are “Pioneer to the Falls” and “Heinrich Maneuver.”
The mournfully-positive pinings from vocalist Paul Banks, alongside the layered licks of Daniel Kessler and the rhythmic soundscapes of Sam Fogarino (drums) and Carlos Dengler (bass), are what make “Our Love To Admire”” one hell of an album. Interpol is bigger, better and just flat out badder than on their previous releases.
Interpol delivers with an undeniably solid body of work that proves that these NYU alumni belong amidst the advanced classes at the school of rock. “Our Love To Admire” is an album that reminds you at once of why you have liked this band in the first place, and then transcends all your known musings about the band while it takes you traipsing down the rabbit hole.
As for answering any questions about their lyrics and newfound inspiration, the band stated in a recent interview that it is best to leave “the interpretation to the listener. I mean, you shouldn’t watch a movie for the first time listening to the director’s commentary!”
“Show me the dirt pile/And I will pray that the soul can take/Three stowaways/And you vanish with no guile/And I will not pay/But the soul can wait/I felt you so much today”
Sunny Delight Sci-fi flick Sunshine warms an otherwise frigid Summer by Phillip Valys
Director Danny Boyle dared to reinvent the horror wheel with 2002’s 28 Days Later by trotting out next-gen Speedy Gonzales zombies (as opposed to the sluggish, arms-outstretched ones courtesy of George Romero). Here, Boyle blends shades of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Alien into his latest small-budget sci-fi yarn Sunshine.
Nevertheless, the plot-heavy (yet plausible) Sunshine concerns a team of astronauts who have volunteered to propel the spacecraft Icarus II toward a dying sun that is been crippled by a substance called “dark matter.”
The eight-man crew must detonate a Manhattan-sized nuclear bomb to reignite nuclear fusion in its core, then, well, likely sacrifice themselves to salvage an Earth that”s been plunged into perpetual winter. Along the way, physicist Capa (Cillian Murphy) opts to sidetrack the mission by rescuing the original inhabitants of Icarus I, the failed first ship charged with discharging the bomb.
Sunshine’s semi-powerhouse cast (Chris Evans, Michelle Yeoh) are constantly thrust into catacombs of gloomy dread aboard this one-way ticket deathtrap of a ship. It is an expertly woven and infectious atmosphere that Boyle crafts, such as the scenes where astronauts have nightmares of falling face-first into the sun’s blazing corona. A former passenger of the Icarus I crew maniacally screaming the will of God only adds to the gloomy surroundings characters are forced to endure.
In this respect, Sunshine triumphs at juggling not only believable science, but tackling the controversial hot button subjects that plague our day. Now that’s sizzling!
Sunshine opens in wide release next Friday, July 20.
Trailer for “Sunshine”
