Allmusic

...on the music scene:" Pitchfork Media, PopMatters and Stylus Magazine, and online reviews by Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly and Allmusic. Measures of "blog chatter" were captured on the website Technorati. The weekly change in...

In this article: New York University, Amazon.com, The Beatles, Stern School of Business, User-generated content, Entertainment Weekly, Technorati, and Stylus Magazine

is a service of music guide, owned by All Media Guide. Allmusic was founded in 1991, by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine as a guide for consumers. Its first reference book was published the following year. AMG on the Internet...

In this article: Michael Erlewine, All Media Guide, World Wide Web, Windows Media Player 11, Windows Media Player, Gopher, and Itunes

...is a freshness of spirit to all these songs, like the artist is just starting out instead of being 30 years into a career." And Allmusic.com observed, Maybe the guy who sang 'Someday Someway' is gone for good, but the edgier artist who has...

In this article: Marshall Crenshaw, Wayne Kramer, Four, NEW YORK, Trademark, Guitar Hero, Allmusic.com, Uncut magazine, and Judith Owen

...Costello produced (and then swept away bassist and vocalist Cait O’Riordan, much to the bitterness still of many Pogues fans). From the AllMusic Guide: “(‘Rum’) captures all the sweat, fire, and angry joy that was lost...

In this article: The Pogues, Shane MacGowan, Steve Lilywhite, Rum, Elvis Costello, Trademark, AllMusic Guide, Robert Christgau, and Kirsty MacColl

..."Boy I've Been Told. " Maybe Jackson knew that, and was happy to let it go. Curiously, the Jackson/Anka writing credit is absent from the Allmusic entry for Safire's second album. To wit, did you see the GQ cover story on Jackson a couple...

In this article: Michael Jackson, This Is It, Sony, Safire, Heal the World, and Iowa

...addition to its commercial success, it has come to be described by many Jazz critics as the greatest jazz album of all time. Writing in AllMusic, Stephen Thomas Erlewine noted: "Kind of Blue isn't merely an artistic highlight for Miles...

In this article: Kind of Blue, Miles Davis, George Russell, So What, Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Wynton Kelly, NPR, and Bill Evans

...saints - committing petty thefts in their youth and entangling themselves with the mob - they largely "kept their problems to themselves," Allmusic.com notes. As the "Jersey Boys" narrator explains, the Four Seasons' fans were not the...

In this article: Four Seasons, Jersey Boys, Beach Boys, Bob Crewe, Brian Wilson, Bob Gaudio, British Invasion, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, and Rag Doll

...for 18-year-old Michelle, whom he'd met in a San Francisco club while touring in the early '60s, according to the band's biography on Allmusic.com. The band's lead male singer, Denny Doherty, later had an affair with Michelle; she was forced...

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...in 2008. Picked up by indie standard-bearer Saddle Creek Records, home to Bright Eyes and Cursive, it was reissued in July. Allmusic.com called the record "an unpretentious collection of amiable indie pop tunes filtered through the...

In this article: Cursive, The New Pornographers, Edmonton, Allmusic.com, Skybox, Wes Anderson, and Saddle Creek Records

...- as well as a hint of hometown R&B influence - without ever sounding derivative, dazed or confused. Outlets such as PopMatters and Allmusic.com have referenced Spoon and The New Pornographers in describing the band's sound, and the...

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