Album A Day: Katy Perry – One of the Boys

Artist: Katy Perry Album: One of the Boys Release Date: June 17, 2008 Percentage Dip in IQ After Hearing this Album: 15 I’m trying to come up with a good excuse for why One of the Boys continues to take up valuable hard drive space on my laptop. The only justifiable reason I’ve got is [...]

New Black Eyed Peas: Energy Never Dies, But Some Braincells Might

I have to give credit where credit is due; The Black Eyed Peas are positively adept at crafting earworms that, no matter how juvenile and mind-numbing they might be, get stuck in your head relentlessly. On their fifth studio album The E.N.D. (Energy Never Dies), that winning formula comes through once again. While The E.N.D. [...]

Album A Day: Beyoncé – Dangerously in Love

Artist: Beyoncé Album: Dangerously in Love Release Date: June 22, 2003 Amount of Shame TJ Feels For Listening to This Album: None Whatsoever Because I’m usually so ashamed of my music tastes… For all the good that Dangerously in Love presents, and trust me, there’s plenty, Beyoncé’s solo debut feels unusually uneven and uncertain of [...]

New Music: Jay-Z, Rob Thomas, Green Day

Today saw the release of Jay-Z’s first new piece of music from The Blueprint III, due out September 11 through Atlantic Records, marking Hova’s first release without the Def Jam label strapped to it. “D.O.A. (Death of AutoTune)” is Jay-Z’s verbal renouncement of the programming tool that’s more or less responsible for every paycheck T-Pain [...]

Album A Day: Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill

Artist: Alanis Morissette Album: Jagged Little Pill Release Date: June 13, 1995 Think whatever you want about Alanis Morissette and her career in the late 90′s to the present, and there’s more than enough evidence to suggest a fall from relevancy (her last significant chart appearance was in 2002 with “Hands Clean”, at #22. “Everything” [...]

Album A Day: Sarah McLachlan – Fumbling Towards Ecstasy

Artist: Sarah McLachlan Album: Fumbling Towards Ecstasy Release Date: February 15, 1993 Who Knew: That Sarah McLachlan had more substance to her than that droopy “I Will Remember You” song? To answer the question above, I sure as hell didn’t. And with that I welcome you to a week of women who rock, roll, hip, [...]

Album A Day: Pixies – Surfer Rosa

Hey Everybody, TJ here. I’m down in Washington, DC this weekend, and I’ll have limited computer access (if any). Matt from Zekebud is going to take over the blogging element of today’s Album A Day while I hold down the listening during my weekend off. I’ll be back sometime on Sunday to return to my [...]

Album A Day: Blue Collar – Vincent

Blue Collar are a Philly-based punk rock band (they now go by the name Victory in Numbers presumably to distance themselves from the awful comedy troupe of the same name), and Vincent is their debut record, named for a fallen member of the band. Ther music is a relentless musical attack that puts hardcore punk [...]

Album A Day: Brand New – The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me

Artist: Brand New Album: The Devil and God are Raging Inside Me Release Date: November 21, 2006 You’ve gotta hand it to Brand New. They’ve released three albums since 2001, and each album sounds vastly different from its predecessor. If you told me that the emo-punk outfit that snuck into the Modern Rock charts with [...]

Musical Performance: Pearl Jam (06/01/09)

Here’s the video for “Got Some”, the new Pearl Jam song played on Conan the other night, since it won’t work when I try to embed it. Enjoy. Video Recaps | Full Episodes | Webisodes