Tag: reviews
member name: sarah e.
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March 28, 2007 02:10 PM EDT --
You can tell that American Idol really has become the monster that it is by the caliber of guests they manage to recruit. Remember the days of Barry Manilow and Motown songwriters none of the contestants . . .
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January 31, 2007 10:54 AM EST --
Despite her ranking as one of the great American songwriters of the latter half of the twentieth century (she was admitted to the Songwriters Hall . . .
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February 07, 2007 09:46 AM EST --
This week’s installment of “Single of the Week” brings us a song from an English balladeer that has already hit the top of the iTunes single chart. It was #1 . . .
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February 08, 2007 10:05 AM EST --
I have a general rule of sorts about cover songs, and it proves that I’ve spent far too long thinking about them. For the most part, I find . . .
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March 14, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
I begin this week's Single of the Week column with great news! Apparently iTunes felt a little guilty about last week, and decided to make . . .
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March 21, 2007 11:45 AM EDT --
It can be hard, coming to new music when you're feeling cranky and under the weather. Michigan is currently living up to its reputation and changing seasons every other day, and I've got the sinus . . .
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March 28, 2007 10:58 AM EDT --
Sometimes I feel like iTunes is reading this column. I realize that sounds like I think iTunes is a sentient being, and if it were true it would also imply that this column has a lot more power than it . . .
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March 07, 2007 12:58 PM EST --
Zzzzzzz...oh, sorry. You caught me sleeping through this week's Single of the Week. Let me just wipe up that drool spot...there.
As you might be able to guess, this week's single didn't exactly . . .
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May 29, 2007 11:07 PM EDT --
Everyone loves a good romantic album; but it's rare when the album has a great romantic story to back it up. David Martin's Something In Your Eyes is, at least as far as music rag gossip goes, . . .
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January 31, 2007 10:35 AM EST --
Hello all, and welcome to “Single of the Week.” Because this is the first edition of the column, let me begin with a brief . . .
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February 14, 2007 11:06 AM EST --
This week’s installment of the Single of the Week brings us the newest single from Borne, an Australian version of Coldplay, who were themselves an English version . . .
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May 22, 2007 11:57 AM EDT --
I've always been a sucker for a good travel song-"Six Days on the Road", "Midnight Train to Georgia", "500 Miles", all of them. Even better is a good travel album, where . . .
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February 21, 2007 08:55 AM EST --
I have a confession to make. Truth be told, I don’t listen to a lot of hip hop. More than that, I don’t feel comfortable really . . .
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February 28, 2007 03:25 PM EST --
There’s a genre of music I like to call “Nostalgia Rock”—the kind of song that doesn’t sound like it was inspired . . .
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March 23, 2007 04:12 PM EDT --
A few weeks back, iTunes had as its Single of the Week a free download of James Morrison’s “You Give Me Something.” In my review of the single (available at http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474976904988), . . .
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July 18, 2007 11:12 PM EDT --
There are many great things about living one's life as a volunteer. The amenities aren't one of them. I live in a co-op with a couple hundred people, all fighting for a piece of the same internet . . .
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September 12, 2007 01:17 PM EDT --
There's very little difference, at heart, between the classicists and the rockers; all trade in passion and intimacy, with the idea that music can move and exalt. Too often to classical compositions . . .
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April 04, 2007 10:28 AM EDT --
I hope you'll forgive me a bit of a tangent before we delve into this week's single. I'm feeling a bit philosophical at the moment. Don't worry, I'm not going to bog this down with . . .
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April 27, 2007 11:37 AM EDT --
Until I was 25, I never thought much about the realities of American health care. I was under my parents insurance, and, despite the fact that I was a sick kid who was in and out of doctor's offices . . .
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June 27, 2007 09:58 PM EDT --
Summer Single Series #8: Sausalito Summernight, Diesel (198??)
The Summer Single Series is back and now based in Los Angeles, CA. Where better to celebrate the summer . . .
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