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daily dos
wed 6/27/2007
Jack White of The White Stripes will play iconic rocker Elvis Presley in a new film called "Walk Hard" due out in December of this year.
Enrique Iglesias, Mala Rodríguez, The White Stripes, Queens of The Stone Age and Mandy Moore.
the music press
tue 6/19/2007
- Enrique Iglesias’ eighth LP Insomniac is "an album that comes exquisitely polished but perhaps stretching itself too far,” according to the BBC. Cinema Blend Music is less subtle: “The album is essentially divided between the corny and the dirty, with a few awkward crossovers in between, but a few factors remain consistent – it’s sexy, it’s corny and it’s uninspired.”
- Spanish female rapper Mala Rodríguez's Machete Music debut, Malamarismo, which includes appearances by Julieta Venegas, Tego Calderón and Cuban rapper Mahoma, "demonstrates [Mala's] desire to be original, which has opened her up to pull from new influences,” according to La Nueva España newspaper. Spanish blog Tocando Las Puertas Del Cielo is disappointed with the album’s lack of social critique and calls it “malamalísimo.”
- The White Stripes' highly anticipated sixth release Icky Thump “positively swarms out of the speakers” and pushes the Detroit rock band's sell-by date “further off than ever,” according to the Guardian U.K. Webzine PopMatters commends the duo for “learning to expand the sounds in their musical repertoire while retaining the focus, power, energy and consistency that made their best work.”
- Stoner metal heavyweights Queens Of The Stone Age released Era Vulgaris, an album All Music Guide declares “the best rock & roll record yet released in 2007 – and the year sure needed the dose of thunder that this album provides.” The New York Times is equally enthralled: "Queens of the Stone Age don’t just riff through their new songs; they push and pull, spar and gnash, buzz and scream and hurl chords back and forth across the stereo field to dizzying effect.”
- Mandy Moore takes a break from acting and returns to music with Wild Hope, an album that “incorporates enough country, rock and pop sensibilities to satisfy any ear,” according to Billboard.com. Slant Magazine adds that Moore’s greatest asset is her “appreciation for the good ol’ fashioned singer-songwriter ethic, not to mention a desire to distinguish herself from her teenybopper past.”
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