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Recent Reviews
Bonnie Prince Billy - Bewarebuy this
Chances are, if you've walked into our Capitol HIll store in the past month or so, you've had about a 5% chance of hearing Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's "Lie Down In the Light". It works out to about once a day. We like it a lot. So when his new album, "Beware", came out, naturally there was a dilemma. How do we listen to his new album while remaining true to "Lie Down" without listening to Bonnie "Prince" in a fashion that can only be called obsessive? The solution? Become obsessed. I could listen to the twangy dulcet tones of Will Oldham's countrified rock arrangements and male-female vocal duets all day long. In fact, I have. There are a number of reasons for this besides the two already mentioned. Foremost among them are Oldham's lyrics. He writes about love in a way that is refreshingly goofy yet still poignant. He sings on "You Don't Love Me" (on "Beware") "You say you like my eyes only / Or just the way I giggle / Sometimes you like the smell of me / Or how my stomach jiggles / You don't love me / That's alright / Cause you cling to me / All through the night". He's not writing about a love that is fantasized or over-dramatized; he's writing about that thing he has going on that's not quite working but is still really nice and, you know what, that its not working might be what is really nice about it. This approach to love songs is pervasive throughout "Lie Down In the Light" and "Beware", and, accompanied by Ashley Webber (from Black Mountain) and Jennifer (not Koppelman) Hutt, respectively, is accentuated by male-female duet dynamics. The end results are songs that sound like they are written by someone who is in love all the time and totally loves it. Makes my heart all warm. - PHIL
Yeah Yeah Yeah's - It's Blitzbuy this
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' polished their third full-length with a slick, synthesized shimmer, which might turn off some who really appreciated Nick Zinner's wiry guitar sounds (you'll have to trudge through half the album to get your fix on "Dull Life" and "Scheme and Fortune"). But the band's new direction is certainly one that will draw more in than the number of those who are turned away. The catch-factor is off the charts and Karen O has never sounded lovelier than on "Runaway." It's Blitz is epic. Yeah. - TRAVIS RITTER
Boom Across The World
Josh at a music festival in Balboa Park, San Diego.
For years, we here at Sonic Boom Records have been referring to ourselves as a "world renowned record shop." Now we want to prove it and only you, the faithful consumer, can help us do it. That's why we are asking you to send in pictures of yourselves or your music-loving friends sporting our fashionable t-shirts in exotic locales. The pyramids! Atlantis! The Great Wall of China! Disney World! The polar ice caps! If you are somewhere exciting and wearing your Sonic Boom gear then we want to see it! The best pictures will be featured on our website in new "Boom Across the World" section along with hot pictures of famous rockers flying the Sonic Boom flag. Internet-fame is only a photograph away!
Boom Across the World
