The Cure Join The Dots: B-sides And Rarities, 1978-2001 The Fiction Years Elektra By: Eric Greenwood Box sets are always indulgent and scary prospects, as few bands have enough good material to sustain multiple discs much less the four that The Cure covers here with every one of its b-sides and rarities in chronological order, […]

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Ryan Adams Rock N Roll Lost Highway By: Eric Greenwood Hating Ryan Adams is just way too easy, so I decided to try to like him. His embarrassingly impetuous, tabloid-mongering behavior makes him seem like a talentless hack, even though, admittedly, I'd never given his music much of a chance. I'd heard some Whiskeytown and […]

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The Unicorns Who Will Cut Your Hair When We're Gone? Alien8 By: Eric Greenwood My hatred of the Flaming Lips borders on the psychotic, so I am admittedly inherently biased against anything resembling free willy hippie jam pop garbage, which, sadly, is exactly what The Unicorns offer on this overly-hyped mess of a debut. Not […]

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Damon Albarn Democrazy Honest Jon's By: Eric Greenwood Fucking lead singers always have their heads up their asses. It's pretty much universally agreed that Damon Albarn is a twat. And a spoiled one at that. Always has been; always will be. Born of intellectual hippies, Albarn cheekily co-opted the Mod movement with Blur's second album, […]

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