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‘Music’ Articles

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Retro Music Review: The Thomas Crown Affair

Retro Music Review:  The Thomas Crown Affair

Looking for a sexy way to spend Valentine’s Day with the object of your lust?  Check out this review originally published in March of 2000.  We’re not responsible for any unplanned pregnancies. He plans the perfect evening. They’ll start with dinner and cocktails, and then a movie — at his place. She accepts. She arrives [Continue]

Last Minute Christmas Music Ideas

Last Minute Christmas Music Ideas

A repost of our favorite Christmas albums of all time. [Continue]

Music Review: Freematik iMatik – Music Made on an iPhone

Music Review: Freematik iMatik – Music Made on an iPhone

So you just got your new iPhone. What’s next? If you’re like the Techno DJ Tom Freeman aka Freematik, you make a new album (iMatik) with beats, synths, and samples generated from the iPhone. Freematik used apps for the iPhone to create beats and synths, and to collect and manipulate samples. He also found an [Continue]

Music Review: Gorillaz – Plastic Beach

Music Review:  Gorillaz – Plastic Beach

Freakin’ fantastic, fresh funky fun might be the best description of Plastic Beach the new album from the cartoon band Gorillaz.  Plastic Beach features performers that can bring the funk including Snoop Dogg,  Mos Def, and De La Soul.  The fun comes from the clever musical wit of Gorillaz co-founder Damon Albarn and the way [Continue]

Free Coldplay Live Album

Free Coldplay Live Album

To celebrate the last night of the Viva Tour, Coldplay is giving away live MP3 recordings from the tour so fans can “recreate” it themselves.  From Twitter: coldplay Tonight, Coldplay play the final show of the Viva tour. Download the free live album to recreate it where you are http://bit.ly/LRLRLalbum I don’t know how long [Continue]

Music Review: Spoon – Transference

Music Review:  Spoon – Transference

Spoon’s latest album Transference has everything I like about Spoon. It features Britt Daniel’s cool vocals, and the band’s pop infused indie rock sound with sometimes funky dance beats.  The question it seems is what is this album all about? Meriam-Webster defines transference as “the redirection of feelings and desires [Continue]

Music Review: The Great City by The Revere

Music Review:  The Great City by The Revere

The Revere - The Great City is Tolkienesque musical journey across a dreamland. The journey starts at an inn where the travelers meet an old man who will lead them to the great city. Along the way they encounter beauty, terror, and even some giants. [Continue]

General Larry Platt – Pants on the Ground

General Larry Platt – Pants on the Ground

Simon said it would be a hit, and it is! “Pants on the Ground” by General Larry Platt has been professsionally produced and is now available on iTunes and Amazon. This song tells todays youth the hard truth. “You’re lookin’ like a fool with your pants on the ground.” Listen up America! [Continue]

Music Review: Vampire Weekend – Contra

Music Review:  Vampire Weekend – Contra

Contra – the latest release from Vampire Weekend is a poppy, fun, lighthearted, and whimsical musical experience that will satisfy Vampire Weekend cravings of both new and existing fans. This album sounds like it could be the second disk to their previous self titled release. [Continue]

Bad Lieutenant – Never Cry Another Tear

Bad Lieutenant – Never Cry Another Tear

“New Order is back. Um, where’s Peter Hook’s bass? Is this Electronic? Wait, there’s a voice that doesn’t belong.  Who is this?” Except for the lack of Peter Hook’s distinctive bass, and a  voice that at first seems out of place on  Never Cry Another Tear, the debut CD from Bad Lieutenant, I would swear [Continue]

Music Review: Rube Waddell – Greatest Hits

Music Review:  Rube Waddell – Greatest Hits

I can’t help but think Rube Waddell’s music is some of the best damn “beer and a shot” music I’ve ever heard. While listening I can think of nothing better that I would like to do than get stinkin’ drunk, puke on my shoes, and start all over. Unfortunately, I am no longer physically capable of performing such feats (at least [Continue]

Original Music Review Archive

Part one of our plan to open the Big Beef and Beer restaurant was to start with a website.  The plan, sketched on a napkin on a hot June night in 1999 at the Spy Bar, said that the site should include music reviews.   We dug the original music reviews up and posted them for [Continue]

Music Review: Mike Filipek – Come On In!

Music Review:  Mike Filipek – Come On In!

In order to expand the boundaries of pop-rock, popularity is usually required. Mike Filipek and his debut CD, Come On In!, are worthy of the admiration and jubilation of the music hungry masses. Consequently, if Mike can get the exposure he deserves and desires, he may just expand the pop-rock genré, and Big Beef and Beer will be proud to say [Continue]