Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Photo: Cattermole/Getty As the pre-holiday album releases continue their surge, today sees another handful of high-profile new records. Britney Spears’ Circus drops today, as does Akon’s Freedom. Jody Rosen says Akon is “secretly an old-fashioned romantic, and his third album is his most heart-on-sleeve.” Click below for the full reviews of Freedom and Circus, as well [...]
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 25/11/2008
Photo: Wintr/Getty It’s a huge week for new releases, lead by the long-awaited Chinese Democracy and Kanye West’s genre-bending 808s & Heartbreak. Rolling Stone’s Jody Rosen calls 808s a “fascinating” experiment. “With Kanye largely abandoning rapping in favor of digitally altered crooning, his fourth album represents a cultural high-water mark for Auto-Tune, that now ubiquitous pitch-correction...
Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Photo: Getty Pop country phenom Taylor Swift’s Fearless leads the way in this week’s slate of new releases. Jody Rosen calls Swift “a songwriting savant with an intuitive gift for verse-chorus-bridge architecture that, in singles like the surging “Fifteen,” calls to mind Swedish pop gods Dr. Luke and Max Martin. If she ever tires of stardom, [...]
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
... success and critical acclaim. "Lots of R&B dudes promise opulent nights of ecstasy," wrote Jody Rosen for RollingStone.com (October 30, 2008), "but Legend is so classy that these fantasies seem like real journalism. With piano-flecked soul ("This Time"), lite funk ("Green Light") and reggae ("No Other Love"), EVOLVER's tunes and arrangements are as impeccable as the cut of Legend's...
