With his debut solo album, Cigarettes and Gasoline, in stores now, former Tonic singer/songwriter Emerson Hart has the most added single at radio this week with the unforgettable “I Wish The Best For You.†The song is the follow up to the “gracefully earnest, almost anthemic first single†(USA Today) “If You’re Gonna Leave,†a Top 20 Hot AC radio hit. The album has been met with waves of acclaim,…
A Beat Of Our Own #1 / $1 / :20 / 32M / misenplace2@hotmail.com / This is the introductory issue of A Beat of Our Own, and it is pretty evident. Jared’s opening to the zzine says that ey has done zines in the past, but this issue just does not seem to have much in the way of hooks to catch onto readers. The collage style of this magazine…
The world’s best-selling multi-artist album series, NOW That’s What I Call Music!, rings in the holiday season with the digital release debut of two of its multi-platinum holiday collections, NOW That’s What I Call Christmas! Vol. 1 and NOW That’s What I Call Christmas! Vol. 2, and the digital return of last year’s NOW That’s What I Call Christmas! Vol. 3. All three of NOW’s festive 36-track holiday collections are…
V/A – Christmas Number Ones / 2007 Universal / 17 Tracks / http://www.ilovethatsong.com/numberones / As one can conceivably glean from this CD, these are the songs that have reached number 1 on the chart during the Christmas season. This means that there are tracks from Elton John, Dolly Parton, the Jackson 5, Louis Armstrong, and Bing Crosby on this album. To keep the cost down of the disc, the album…
“This is a CD of my favorite home demos from ’92 to ’07 featuring a lot of never heard before songs, a few covers, a few songs from my unfinished rock musical “ Songs From The Black Hole†and my original demo for “Buddy Holly†– Rivers Cuomo A true treasure chest for Weezer fans & fans of great modern rock songs – 18 songs in total. One last, but…
I realize that this issue is old, and that Anne has a new issue out, but I felt that I should write another review of this zine to rteplace the one that was eaten when the host that I was placed on went down permanently. This zine is an excellent one, mainly related to body image and other feminist issues, and it just really is interesting to see how someone…
Triumphant return to flooded home/studio met with hope for brighter future When Hurricane Katrina’s flooding in the Lakeview neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana claimed Rob Clemenz’s home and business in August 2005, he had to put his money where his mouth is…so to speak. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and…
Johnny Cash – Christmas 1976 / 2007 Shout Factory / 50 Minutes / http://www.johnnycash.com / http://www.shoutfactory.com / I really have to applaud Shout! Factory for releasing something like this. Every time one of these television specials or long forgotten releases is given new light, that is one less item that will be lost to sands of time. Who knows how many different shows, performances, and similar materials have been lost…
Northwest singer Patti Hall won “Breakthrough Country Artist of the Year” at the New Music Awards at Hollywood’s Avalon Theatre. Presented by New Music Weekly Magazine, the award program honors radio stations, programmers and recording artists. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer tech, and gaming culture since 1998. With over 25 years…
FINISHED! Thanks all for entering. NeuFutur Magazine and Cornerstone Promotion have teamed up again, this time to give away a signed copy of Paul Oakenfold’s “Greatest Hits And Remixes” to the winner and a regular copy of “Greatest Hits And Remixes” for the runner up. The rules behind this contest are very simple – just either comment this post or email editor@neufutur.com with a contact or address and we will…
The Bacterial Mad-Scientist / :5 / 8S / PO Box 24894, Detroit, MI 48224 / Throughout my time reviewing zines, I have gotten my fair share of small, poorly-drawn comics. Not to say that all of them are necessarily bad, and The Bacterial Mad Scientist is one of those examples in which the style can be childish, using stick figures and hand-written thought balloons to convey the story, but it…
James Taylor – One Man Band / 2007 Hear Music / 19 Tracks / http://www.jamestaylorweb.com / James Taylor has been in the music industry for nearly 40 years. It is no surprise, then, that the music that is present on “One Man Band†is some of the most mature and strong of eir career. What “One Man Band†is is not a new album, but is rather an audio and…
If Brand New, As I lay Dying, and Les Miserables joined forces, Ice Nine Kills would be the shining result. With epic choruses, Jazz like interludes, and an unmatched sense for brutality, INK’s new CD “The Burning,” is set to raise the bar in the current post hardcore scene. myspace.com/iceninekills – Signed to Red Blue Records – #1 downloaded band on Purevolume.com in US SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as…
Away With All Cars / $2 / :30 / 32M / B.M. Jed, London, WC1N 3XX / The first thing that is striking about the cover of “Away With All Cars†is that it has absolutely nothing to do with the content that Mr. Social Control writes about. I suppose one could stretch it into a commentary on the fetishization of automobiles in society, but like I said, it is…
EARTH – The Bee Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull – February 2008 Earth’s latest incarnation has arrived. After re faceting some old gems for greater illumination on Hibernaculum, the band returns one again to it’s continuing evolution. Where Hex… reveled in dark Satanic twang and austere American beauty, The Bee Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull finds Dylan Carlson and the band growing into a harder, more rock and…
Alvin and the Chipmunks, the #1 kids musical act of all time, make their videogame debut this holiday with Alvin and the Chipmunks, boasting a soundtrack that will appeal to kids and kids at heart. Featuring a wide range of chart-topping hit songs originally written by Run-DMC, REM, Culture Club and Blink-182 and performed by the Grammy(R) Award winning Chipmunks in signature Chipmunk style. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as…
Atrophy Zine #11 : Toystore Handcuffs (PO Box C-11, New Rochelle, NY 10804) One of the few personal zines in the pile to review for this time, Atrophy #11 is Colin’s look back at the earliest days of his love life. Starting off at the tender young age of 14, Colin goes point by point through all of his romances, and all of the journal entries that accompanied those times.…
Seminal Industrial ensemble, Germany’s Einsturzende Neubauten vaults 62 spots up the CMJ Top 200 national radio charts to #67; the strongest showing they’ve had in a decade. The new album, “Alles Wieder Offen” has been getting great press galore, another sampling of which I include below. SargeantJohn Sargeant, writing on NeuFutur as Sargeant, is the founder and editor-in-chief of NeuFutur Magazine, where he has covered independent music, PC hardware, consumer…
Champaign, IL trio Headlights will release its second album, Some Racing, Some Stopping on Feb. 19, 2008 on their hometown label, Polyvinyl Records. The band has built a devoted following by touring non-stop since the band formed in 2004. However, after all this touring, much of it just as a three-piece, the band members have learned that they cannot do it alone. This time they will be joined by Nick…
Lazuright – you may think, what the hell is that? Well, it’s just a band name. You may think they sound very American! But as a matter of fact, this band comes from the very heart of south Germany. To be precise from Tuttlingen – a small town in the middle of nowhere! In 2004 they record their first album. It’s a home recording session, far away from any studio…