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REVIEW: Pearl Jam “Backspacer” Rocks Target Stores, Bores Fans

Published September 24th, 2009 by Karen

Backspacer

Pearl Jam

2009

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Recommended if you like:
Guitar Hero, 90s kitsch, Target

The fact that Pearl Jam’s new album is being retailed almost exclusively by Target stores opens the band to endless ridicule and accusations of being sell-outs.

However, potential critics don’t need to use the weak “sell-out” argument because the album speaks for itself: it sounds like a band trying too hard to prove that it is still a rock band, with lackluster results. (On the plus side, it’s also the band’s shortest album, clocking in at just 37 minutes.)

It’s not easy being the last of a species, and grunge dinosaurs Pearl Jam know this better than anyone. The Seattle rockers have Continue reading »

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Free mp3: Jarvis Cocker’s Latest is More Elvis, Less Blur

Published June 10th, 2009 by Karen

Further Complications
Single: "Angela"

Jarvis Cocker

2009

MusicVixen Rating:

Recommended if you like:
Elvis Costello, Pulp, Joe Jackson

Free MP3: Jarvis Cocker—“Angela”

As the leader of Pulp, Jarvis Cocker rose to the top of the Brit-pop heap after battling Blur and Oasis through the ’90s British invasion redux. In recent years, Pulp has been put on the shelf and the lanky singer with the acid tongue has ventured out on his own.

On the lead track from his latest album Further Complications,  Cocker’s eponymous ode to Angela (”She’s nearly 23/ making $4.15 an hour”) has less in common with Pulp’s ’90s Brit-pop showdown and more to do with the fuzzy pub-rock of a hungry young Elvis Costello. It’s not as cringe-inducingly clever as the Pulp classic “Common People,” but what is? Continue reading »