CD Reviews: Jeff Giles Archive
Chris Isaak Mr. Lucky |
The Lonely Island Incredibad |
Beastie Boys Paul’s Boutique (20th Anniversary Edition) |
- AC/DC
Black Ice --2008
- PETER BRADLEY ADAMS
Leavetaking --2008
- ADELE
19 --2008
- ALKALINE TRIO
Agony & Irony --2008
- B.B. KING
One Kind Favor --2008
- ERIC BACHMANN
To the Races --2006
- BARENAKED LADIES
Barenaked Ladies Are Men --2007
Snacktime! --2008
Talk to the Hand: Live in Michigan --2007
- BEASTIE BOYS
Paul’s Boutique (20th Anniversary Edition) --2009
- WALTER BECKER
Circus Money --2008
- BEYONCÉ
I Am...Sasha Fierce --2008
- THE BLIND BOYS OF ALABAMA
Down in New Orleans --2008
- MICHAEL BOLTON
A Swingin’ Christmas --2007
- THE BROKEN WEST
I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On --2007
- CHRIS BROWN
Exclusive --2007
- JACKSON BROWNE
Time the Conqueror --2008
- BRUCE HORNSBY/CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE/JACK DEJOHNETTE
Camp Meeting --2007
- BUCKCHERRY
Black Butterfly --2008
- LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
Gift of Screws --2008
Live at the Bass Performance Hall --2008
- SOLOMON BURKE
Like a Fire --2008
- T BONE BURNETT
The True False Identity --2006
- BUTCHER THE BAR
Sleep at Your Own Speed --2008
- JONATHAN BUTLER
Live in South Africa --2007
- MARIAH CAREY
E=MC2 --2008
- TODD CAREY
Watching Waiting --2007
- VANESSA CARLTON
Heroes and Thieves --2007
- MARY CHAPIN CARPENTER
The Calling --2007
- CARLENE CARTER
I Fell in Love --1990/2007
- CARY HUDSON
Bittersweet Blues --2006
- PETER CASE
Let Us Now Praise Sleepy John --2007
- CASSETTES WON’T LISTEN
Small-Time Machine --2008
- CAT POWER
Jukebox --2008
- TRACY CHAPMAN
Our Bright Future --2008
- CHICAGO
Stone of Sisyphus (Chicago XXXII) --2008
- CHRIS TRAPPER
Songs from the Middle of the World --2008
- CITIZEN COPE
Every Waking Moment --2006
- MARC COHN
Join the Parade --2007
- LLOYD COLE
Antidepressant --2006
- RY COODER
My Name is Buddy --2007
- MATT COSTA
Unfamiliar Faces --2008
- COUNTING CROWS
New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Musical Hall Feb. 6, 2003 --2006
New Amsterdam: Live at Heineken Musical Hall February 6, 2003 --2006
- CHRISTOPHER CROSS
A Christopher Cross Christmas --2007
- CROWDED HOUSE
Farewell to the World --2007
- JUSTIN CURRIE
What Is Love For --2007
- MILEY CYRUS
Breakout --2008
- DAN BAIRD AND HOMEMADE SIN
Dan Baird and Homemade Sin --2008
Fresh Out of Georgia Live Like a Satellite --2007
- DARYL HALL & JOHN OATES
Live at the Troubadour --2008
- DAVE MATTHEWS & TIM REYNOLDS
Live at Radio City Music Hall --2007
- DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO
Everything That Happens Will Happen Today --2008
- DESTROY THE HEART
Destroy the Heart --2007
- DIDO
Safe Trip Home --2008
- MIKE DOUGHTY
Golden Delicious --2008
- DR. JOHN AND THE LOWER 911
City That Care Forgot --2008
- THE DUHKS
Migrations --2006
- ROBBIE DUPREE
Time and Tide --2008
- EAGLES
Long Road Out of Eden --2007
- MITCH EASTER
Dynamico --2007
- JOHN EDDIE
John Eddie --1986
- THE EELS
Useless Trinkets: B-Sides, Soundtracks, Rarities, and Unreleased 1996-2006 --2008
- ELTON JOHN
The Captain & the Kid --2006
- TOMMY EMMANUEL
The Mystery --2006
- ENIGMA
A Posteriori --2006
- THE EPOCHS
The Epochs --2008
- ERYKAH BADU
New AmErykah Part One --2008
- THE FELICE BROTHERS
The Felice Brothers --2008
- FICTION FAMILY
Fiction Family --2008
- THE FINALS
Plan Your Getaway --2006
- LIAM FINN
I’ll Be Lightning --2008
- TIM FINN
Imaginary Kingdom --2006
- JEREMY FISHER
Goodbye Blue Monday --2007
- FLOBOTS
Fight with Tools --2008
- ROBBEN FORD
Truth --2007
- ROBERT FORSTER
The Evangelist --2008
- GIL RAY
I Am Atomic Man! --2006
- VINCE GILL
These Days --2006
- GLASVEGAS
Glasvegas --2009
- GNARLS BARKLEY
The Odd Couple --2008
- NINA GORDON
Bleeding Heart Graffiti --2006
- AL GREEN
Lay It Down --2008
- PATTY GRIFFIN
Children Running Through --2007
- SAMMY HAGAR
Cosmic Universal Fashion --2008
- ANTHONY HAMILTON
The Point of It All --2008
- EMMYLOU HARRIS
All I Intended to Be --2008
- HEART
Dreamboat Annie Live --2007
- JOE HENRY
Civilians --2007
- HERB ALPERT AND THE TIJUANA BRASS
Whipped Cream and the Other Delights Rewhipped --2006
- PETER HIMMELMAN
My Green Kite --2007
The Pigeons Couldn’t Sleep --2007
- THE HOLD STEADY
Stay Positive --2008
- BRUCE HORNSBY
Intersections: 1985-2005 --2006
- IAN MCLAGAN AND THE BUMP BAND
Never Say Never --2009
- INDIGO GIRLS
Poseidon and the Bitter Bug --2009
- IRON & WINE
The Shepherd’s Dog --2007
- CHRIS ISAAK
Mr. Lucky --2009
- DAN ISRAEL
Turning --2008
- JACKOPIERCE
Promise of Summer --2008
- JANET JACKSON
Discipline --2008
- JAMES
Hey, Ma --2008
- JAMES TAYLOR
Covers --2008
- BONEY JAMES
Shine --2006
- JAY-Z
American Gangster --2007
- JEM
Down to Earth --2008
- JILL CUNNIFF
City Beach --2007
- JOHN HAMMOND
Push Comes to Shove --2007
- JOHN LEGEND
Evolver --2008
- JOHN MELLENCAMP
Freedom’s Road --2007
- JOHN OATES
1000 Miles of Life --2008
- THE JONAS BROTHERS
A Little Bit Longer --2008
- RICKIE LEE JONES
The Sermon on Exposition Boulevard --2007
- TOMMY KEENE
In the Late Bright --2009
- KEITH SWEAT
Just Me --2008
- KEN WILL MORTON
Kings of Coming Around --2006
- KENNY G
Rhythm & Romance --2007
- ALICIA KEYS
As I Am --2007
- CHAKA KHAN
Funk This --2007
- RILO KILEY
Under the Blacklight --2007
- MARK KNOPFLER
Kill to Get Crimson --2007
- SONNY LANDRETH
From the Reach --2008
- DANIEL LANOIS
Here Is What Is --2008
- ANNIE LENNOX
Songs of Mass Destruction --2007
- LEVON HELM
Dirt Farmer --2007
- JENNY LEWIS
Acid Tongue --2008
- LEONA LEWIS
Spirit --2008
- LIFE ON MARS
Life on Mars --2006
- LITTLE FEAT
Join the Band --2008
- LOCAL H
Twelve Angry Months --2008
- LISA LOEB
Camp Lisa --2008
- NILS LOFGREN
Wonderland --1983/2007
- THE LONELY ISLAND
Incredibad --2009
- LOUISE SETARA
Still Waters --2006
- LYLE LOVETT AND HIS LARGE BAND
It’s Not Big, It’s Large --2007
- NICK LOWE
Quiet Please...The New Best of Nick Lowe --2009
- LUCINDA WILLIAMS
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road --2006
- RAUL MALO
You’e Only Lonely --2006
- FRED MARTIN AND THE LEVITE CAMP
Some Bridges --2006
- MARYKATE O'NEIL
1-800-BANKRUPT --2006
- MATES OF STATE
Re-Arrange Us --2008
- JOHN MAYER
Continuum --2006
Where the Light Is: Live in Los Angeles --2008
- FERGUS MCCORMICK
I Don’t Need You Now --2008
- MICHAEL MCDONALD
Soul Speak --2008
- SARAH MCLACHLAN
Mirrorball: The Complete Concert --2006
- HILARY MCRAE
Through These Walls --2008
- MEDESKI, MARTIN & WOOD
Let’s Go Everywhere --2008
- JOHN MELLENCAMP
Life Death Love and Freedom --2008
- MENOMENA
Friend and Foe --2007
- MARCUS MILLER
Marcus --2008
- MOE.
The Conch --2007
- MANDY MOORE
Wild Hope --2007
- VAN MORRISON
Keep It Simple --2008
- MUDCRUTCH
Mudcrutch --2008
- ALEX NACKMAN
Still-Life Moves --2008
- KATE NASH
Made of Bricks --2008
- NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK
The Block --2008
- RANDY NEWMAN
Harps and Angels --2008
- NICKEL CREEK
Reasons Why (The Very Best) --2006
- NORAH JONES
Not Too Late --2007
- SALIM NOURALLAH
Snowing in My Heart --2008
- SALIM NOURALLAH AND THE POLAROIDS
Pleasantry Lane --2006
- TED NUGENT
Love Grenade --2007
- THE OFFSPRING
Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace --2008
- MARYKATE O’NEIL
1-800-BANKRUPT --2006
- ONEREPUBLIC
Dreaming Out Loud --2008
- JOAN OSBORNE
Pretty Little Stranger --2006
- P!NK
Funhouse --2008
- PAUL THORN
A Long Way from Tupelo --2008
- POP ALICE PEACOCK
Who I Am --2006
- ALICE PEACOCK
Who I AM --2006
- DAN PENN
Junkyard Junky --2008
- KATY PERRY
One of the Boys --2008
- MADELEINE PEYROUX
Bare Bones --2009
- ROBERT PLANT
Nine Lives --2006
- STEVE POLTZ
Traveling --2008
- PURE PRAIRIE LEAGUE
All in Good Time --2006
- Q-TIP
The Renaissance --2008
- QUEEN + PAUL RODGERS
The Cosmos Rocks --2008
- R.E.M.
Accelerate --2008
- RA RA RIOT
The Rhumb Line --2008
- RAY LAMONTAGNE
Gossip in the Grain --2008
- AMY RAY
Didn’t It Feel Kinder --2008
- RECKLESS KELLY
Reckless Kelly Was Here --2006
- FIONN REGAN
The End of History --2007
- VERNON REID AND MASQUE
Other True Self --2006
- RICHARD JULIAN
Sunday Morning in Saturday’s Shoes --2008
- ROBBIE ROBERTSON
Robbie Robertson --1987
- ROBYN
Robyn --2008
- CARRIE RODRIGUEZ
She Ain’t Me --2008
- ROGER JOSEPH MANNING, JR.
Catnip Dynamite --2009
- RONNIE LANE
Just for a Moment --2006
- ROOMFUL OF BLUES
Raisin’ a Ruckus --2008
- THE ROOTS
Rising Down --2008
- MATTHEW RYAN
From a Late Night High-Rise --2006
Matthew Ryan vs. the Silver State --2008
- RAPHAEL SAADIQ
The Way I See It --2008
- THE SADIES
In Concert, Vol. 1 --2006
- PETER SALETT
In the Ocean of the Stars --2008
- SCOTT MILLER AND THE COMMONWEALTH
Citation --2006
- RYAN SCOTT
Smoke & Licorice --2008
- PETE SEEGER
At 89 --2008
- RON SEXSMITH
Exit Strategy of the Soul --2008
- MARTIN SEXTON
Seeds --2007
- SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS
100 Days, 100 Nights --2007
- SHAW/BLADES
Influence --2007
- SHE & HIM
Volume One --2008
- DUNCAN SHEIK
Whisper House --2009
- MICHELLE SHOCKED
To Heaven U Ride --2007
- CARLY SIMON
This Kind of Love --2008
- SIMPLE PLAN
Simple Plan --2008
- JESSICA SIMPSON
Do You Know --2008
- SLY & THE FAMILY STONE
Reissues --2007
- BRITNEY SPEARS
Blackout --2007
Circus --2008
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
Magic --2007
Working on a Dream --2009
- BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WITH THE SESSIONS BAND
Live in Dublin --2007
- THE STAPLE SINGERS
The 25th Day of December --2007
- MAVIS STAPLES
We'll Never Turn Back --2007
- STEVE LUKATHER
Ever Changing Times --2008
- STEVE MARTIN
The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo --2009
- STOLL VAUGHAN
Love like a Mule --2006
- THE SUBDUDES
Street Symphony --2007
- SUGARLAND
Love on the Inside --2008
- GREG SUMMERLIN
All Done in Good Time --2007
- KEITH SWEAT
A Christmas of Love --2007
- KELLY SWEET
We are One --2007
- TAYLOR SWIFT
Fearless --2008
- T-PAIN
Thr33 Ringz --2008
- JAMES TAYLOR
One Man Band --2007
- THE TERMS
Small Town Computer Crash --2006
- THE BIRD & THE BEE
Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future --2009
- THE HOLMES BROTHERS
State of Grace --2007
- THE PUSSYCAT DOLLS
Doll Domination --2008
- CHRIS THILE
How to Grow a Woman from the Ground --2006
- TEDDY THOMPSON
A Piece of What You Need --2008
Up Front and Down Low --2007
- CHRIS TRAPPER
Hey You --2006
- U2
No Line on the Horizon --2009
- UNTIL JUNE
Until June --2007
- USHER
Here I Stand --2008
- VARIOUS ARTISTS
Big Blue Ball --2008
Big Change: Songs for FINCA --2007
Catch and Release --2007
Causes 1 --2007
Dark Was the Night --2009
Endless Highway: The Music of the Band --2007
Johnny Cash Remixed --2009
Love Train: The Sound of Philadelphia --2008
Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace --2008
- VERNON REID & MASQUE
Other True Self --2006
- LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III
Recovery --2008
Strange Weirdos: Music From and Inspired by the Film “Knocked Up” --2007
- MARTHA WAINWRIGHT
I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too --2008
- RUFUS WAINWRIGHT
Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall --2007
- JOE WALSH
The Definitive Collection --1997
- JENNIFER WARNES
Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen, 20th Anniversary Edition --2007
- WAS (NOT WAS)
Boo! --2008
- THE WEEPIES
Hideaway --2008
- KANYE WEST
808s & Heartbreak --2008
- MATT WHITE
Do You Believe --2006
- CHRIS WHITLEY & JEFF LANG
Dislocation Blues --2007
- KELLY WILLIS
Translated from Love --2007
- ANN WILSON
Hope & Glory --2007
- BRIAN WILSON
That Lucky Old Sun --2008
- STEVE WINWOOD
Nine Lives --2008
- WILLIE WISELY
Wisely --2008
- PETER WOLF
Long Line --1996/2007
- THE WOOD BROTHERS
Loaded --2008
- DWIGHT YOAKAM
Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. (Deluxe Edition) --2006
- JORDAN ZEVON
Insides Out --2008
- WARREN ZEVON
Excitable Boy --1978
Stand in the Fire --1980