Word: rocke
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sure enough, Hugh Hefner agreed. After driving up the driveway of the estate and giving my name to a talking rock that I didn't particularly think screamed sexy, I approached a construction sign that read PLAYMATES AT PLAY. I was entering the world's most expensive frat house...
...hard for anyone to live up to his own legend, and Brian Wilson is in the unusual position of having to cope with two. As the composer and producer for the Beach Boys, he is responsible for some of the most ethereal and sophisticated pop of the classic-rock era, as well as some of its most purely joyful and (we must be honest) embarrassingly goofy. A recent four-CD boxed set annotated his masterpiece, the Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds, with countless versions of the original 13 tracks as well as just-let-the-tape-roll session outtakes...
Unfortunately, Wilson's parallel legacy is as one of the most troubled and eccentric rock stars of his era--which, given the profession and the era, is saying something. It was only a few years ago that he seemed to have finally emerged from nearly a quarter-century's worth of debilitating mental illness. (He refused to get out of bed for long stretches of the late '60s and '70s, and in the '80s and early '90s he put his emotional and professional life in the 24-hour-a-day care of a man who was not, perhaps, the most...
...audience responded well to the new music, which displays Sebadoh's established and evolving sound, a sound which is sure to bring joy to all you indie-rock junkies who still resent their MTV cross-over...
Around for almost a quarter-century now, XTC is a rock band entirely impossible to pigeonhole. Though they are reputed to be an incredibly quirky but talented pop band, their songs sound like they have emerged from an entirely different era. This is proven no better than on XTC's first new studio album in seven years, the excellent Apple Venus, Volume 1. The easiest comparison that can be made on this record is to The Beatles, at whose Abbey Road Studios part of this album was recorded. The smattering of horns and strings on "River of Orchids," the jaunty...