Tag Archives: Electronica

What’s my problem? Our own Blogcritic Pieter K has created one of the great electronic albums of the last year (released last October) and I am just now telling you about it. Everything All the Time is a panoramic vision of electronica, centered on the skittery rhythms of drum and …

The best tribute album I have heard in a very long time (better than Making God Smile, even) is dedicated to …. Lee Hazlewood. Lee whom, you may well ask? Producer, songwriter, artist, label owner, Hazlewood was an original Cosmic Cowboy, best known for his work with Duane Eddy and …

Poor Bryan, another wife has furrowed an unauthorized hoe: Rock star Bryan Ferry and his wife, Lucy, were divorced Friday after 21 years of marriage. The High Court Family Division granted Ferry, 56, and the former Lucy Helmore, 42, an uncontested divorce. The couple, who married in June 1982 and …

The great punk/funk pioneer bassist Dave Allen has not been idle since veering from the public eye, founding the terrific but overlooked World Domination label, and now pushing the cutting edge artist development-marketing monster, Overland Entertainment. Allen was a founder and the rhythmic heart of one of the most important …

Yoko Ono is 70 – wow. This time around the carousel of fame, the club crowd has embraced her idiosyncratic caterwauling: A few weeks after her 70th birthday, Yoko Ono took the microphone in a throbbing downtown disco over the weekend, doing that warble thing that inevitably unravels into orgasmic …

We are very excited to introduce Blogcritics Radio. We have a super cool new streaming audio player provided by Andromeda, and we are going to feature one outstanding indie artist at a time for an entire week. Just click here to bring up the player, then click on the green …

Our picks for the Best New Artist of 2002: 1) Norah Jones 2) Avril Lavigne 3) The Streets 4) Interpol 5) Josh Groban

Our picks for the Electronic Album of 2002: 1) 18 by Moby 2) When I Was Cruel by Elvis Costello 3) Shine by Operatica 4) Original Pirate Material by The Streets 5) Come With Us by the Chemical Brothers

Just in time to laugh at the Grammys, The Critiquees (“Cri-teek-ees”), the Blogcritics.org music awards for 2002 are here! Results are based upon a poll of our critics and readers. If you want to stock up on the best of 2002, you could do worse than snapping these babies up …

Ah gee, another New Order “Best-Of” collection. What is this now – their third or fourth? I’m gonna be upfront about this: any New Order disc purporting to be the creme de la creme that does not include “Temptation” (the “Oh, you’ve got green eyes/Oh, you’ve got blue eyes” song) …