Yahoo! Music
Following the acquisition in 2001 by Yahoo! of launch.com, the online website was rebranded as Yahoo! Music. It provides a variety of music services, including internet radio, music videos, news and artist information.
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The Strokes: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, March 2002
IN THE END, it boils down to a simple rollcall of facts. ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, May 2002
AFTER GENRE-DEFINING albums by Roots Manuva and Skinnyman, up steps Tony Olabode, aka Tony Rotton (after Johnny Rotten apparently), aka Blak Twang for a slice ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, May 2002
CAN IT BE mere coincidence that the fourth Eminem album hits the streets in the same week that the third series of Big Brother begins ...
Morrissey: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2002
IN THE END, it takes the final song of the main set, 'Speedway', to sum up Morrissey in 2002. The man who has nothing but ...
Richard Ashcroft: Astoria, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2002
HE'S A CURIOUS beast, the Sensitive Lad. From a distance he's indistinguishable from your regular lad, all bravado and cheap lager, still dressed in the ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2002
YOU OFTEN hear the invisible when you go to see Sigur Ros live. As the bowed white noise fades into an eerie serenity or the ...
Bruce Springsteen: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, October 2002
AT FIRST, it sounds like boo-ing, as if the twelve thousand capacity crowd has suddenly turned against America's unofficial poet laureate. ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2003
AS A single, Madonna's 'American Life' is both a clever cultural statement and a crushing disappointment. ...
Marilyn Manson: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, June 2003
THE CABARET is excellent, of course. You come expecting a hilariously over the top gothic freakshow, choreographed by the ghost of Cecil B. DeMille and ...
Nick Cave: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, June 2003
AT EXACTLY twenty seven minutes past eight, the polite but firm announcement is made. "Nick Cave will take the stage in three minutes." ...
Mis-Teeq: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, October 2003
THE BEST bits, as with their often startling appearances on daytime radio, are when they mutate suddenly. ...
Radiohead: Earl's Court, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, November 2003
"Computers are useless. They only give you answers" – Pablo Picasso ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, March 2004
FOR ANASTACIA, the three years since her second album Freak Of Nature confirmed her as the owner of the biggest set of lungs in pop, ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, March 2004
MAKE NO MISTAKE, when it comes to R&B, Usher Raymond is a pro. His dedication to his art could never be questioned. ...
Liz Phair: An Extraordinary Interview with Liz Phair
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Yahoo! Music, 25 April 2004
WHEN FIERCELY independent and outspoken singer-songwriter Liz Phair first emerged in 1993 with her watershed debut album, Exile In Guyville – a lo-fi, track-by-track response ...
Jay Z, R Kelly: R. Kelly & Jay-Z: Unfinished Business
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, October 2004
R. KELLY AND JAY-Z. Whichever way you cut it, it's an odd pairing. ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, November 2004
THE RESPONSE in the bar afterwards is split clearly along the gender lines. Robert and his male friend are in raptures. What a voice! Such ...
Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes: Lightning Bolt/Wolf Eyes: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, December 2004
A FULL TWENTY four hours after the fact, Yahoo Music is still feeling dizzy with nausea. A mere four hours afterwards, our ears are screaming ...
The Pogues: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, December 2004
BECAUSE HE'S A true poet, we'll always forgive him. With lesser mortals, you'd gaze upon a man staggering and swaying, mumbling his words and randomly ...
Missy Elliott: The Cookbook (Atlantic/Goldmind)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 2005
IN HER nine year career, Missy Elliott's barely put a foot wrong. And she's not about to start with album number six. ...
Bright Eyes: I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning/Digital Ash In A Digital Urn
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, January 2005
SOMETIMES YOU can be too darn talented for your own good. Regularly described as a "boy genius", 24 year old Conor Oberst – doe-eyed self-obsessive, ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, March 2005
IT’S COMMON FOR bands to grow up in public these days, but rarely in the space of a single record. ...
Mariah Carey: The Emancipation Of Mimi
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2005
IN TRUTH, there's nothing more entertaining than watching a celebrity having a breakdown. ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, May 2005
YOU COULDN'T MAKE them up. An American-Armenian four piece based in LA who feed eye-bulging political fury through Dead Kennedys-style anarcho punk, crunching riff-heavy thrash ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, May 2005
WHAT'S IN A NAME? If Howdy! suggested a flash of cheerfulness that meant well but was gone in a second, then Man-Made deliberately slows everything ...
Orange Juice: The Glasgow School (Domino)
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, July 2005
THERE'S A TOUCHING sense of karma to the release of this album. Having made a small fortune from their typically prescient signing of Franz Ferdinand, ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2005
IMAGINE BRITPOP never happened. No Pulp, no Longpigs, no exuberant resurgence in literate guitar pop. ...
The Rolling Stones: A Bigger Bang
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2005
WHAT DO WE expect of the Rolling Stones in 2005? Musical progression? Originality? You may as well wish for change from Mount Rushmore. To expect ...
The Shortwave Set: The Debt Collection
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2005
AS ONE DOOR closes, another opens. When the Beta Band announced their dissolution late last year, it seemed that a particular brand of dreamy, lo-fi ...
Goldfrapp: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, October 2005
SHE LOOKS LIKE a dying android. As played by Prunella Scales. And not just any dying android as played by Prunella Scales either. She's the ...
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, October 2005
WHEN MS DYNAMITE'S debut album was dismissed by some critics in 2002 as "tiresome finger-wagging", it seemed the erstwhile Niomi McLean-Daley was getting a rough ...
Son Of Dork: Welcome To Loserville
Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, November 2005
Dear Shareholders, FOLLOWING THE concerns raised (see minutes passim) about the discontinuation of the Busted product and the underperformance of the Fightstar spinoff, we’re delighted to ...
Take That: Never Forget: The Ultimate Collection (RCA)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 28 November 2005
SADLY, POP BANDS NEVER come to a happy end. And the bigger the band, the more painful the split. ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, December 2005
THE BLOKE in the audience isn't impressed. "Where's CocoRosie then?" he shouts. "Who the fuck are you?" Just about visible to the crowd on ground ...
Paolo Nutini: These Streets (Atlantic)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, June 2006
LOVE OR LOATHE the likes of James Blunt and David Gray — and by all accounts there are plenty on both sides of that particular ...
Gnarls Barkley: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, 6 July 2006
DRESSED IN red knee socks, black shorts and untucked white school shirt and glistening from fifty minutes of belting out melted funk anthems at full ...
Christina Aguilera: Back To Basics (RCA)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 14 August 2006
OF COURSE, the downside to success is that all those people who really do know better suddenly become reluctant to say "No". Even when they ...
Yo La Tengo: Bush Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2006
IT'S A SIGHT that's familiar to any long-term Yo La Tengo fan. Ira Kaplan – a small, intense, wirey-haired man, apparently cryogenically frozen in his ...
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson: Adelphi Theatre, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, November 2006
YOU KNOW YOU'RE going to cry at a Brian Wilson concert, it's just a matter of when. Sometime during the last-ever UK rendition of Pet ...
Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan: Shepherd's Bush Empire, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, January 2007
AT TIMES, it's like spying on a first date. She's blond, Scottish, nervous, terminally shy, deals with her jitters by keeping totally silent for twenty ...
Amy Winehouse: Astoria, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, February 2007
OF COURSE, she looks spectacular. Even dressed down in a blue polo shirt and jeans, like she's just nipping to the shops for a pint ...
Lily Allen: Somerset House, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, July 2007
AT ONE POINT towards the end, bless her, Lily Allen looks like she's going to cry. She's been bouncing through her sweet, slightly skanking version ...
Review by John Doran, Yahoo! Music, 13 July 2007
THE ART WORK for Interpol's third album Our Love To Admire is a series of photographs taken from New York City's Natural History museum, depicting ...
Comment by Phil Sutcliffe, Yahoo! Music, 16 July 2007
THAT PRINCE CHAP, he does like to lob a spanner in the music-industry works. It's record shop chains he's upset this time. They're calling him ...
Sia: Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, January 2008
FROM THE knowingness of her third album's title, to its resurgent positivity and rediscovered humour, it's clear that things are looking up for dysfunctionally seductive ...
The White Stripes: 93 Feet East, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, February 2008
JACK WHITE just doesn't know what to do with himself. ...
Erykah Badu: New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, March 2008
IN 1997, from out of nowhere, Erykah Badu delivered one of the most significant albums of modern R&B. ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, March 2008
CALL IT DENIAL if you like, but sometimes you have nothing to gain and a hell of a lot to lose if a band you've ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, April 2008
MARIAH CAREY is famous for many things, but until now, being depressing wasn't one of them. ...
Portishead: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, 17 April 2008
PEOPLE WHO don't like Portishead sneeringly dismiss them as dinner party music, something the sickening middle class stick on in the background while they discuss ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, 23 June 2008
THERE WAS A POINT where Ashanti Douglas could do no wrong. Following a string of guest spots providing the melodic charm to Ja Rule and ...
Live Review by Ian Watson, Yahoo! Music, September 2008
THEY'VE BEEN AWAY for so long…almost ten years in fact. And, strangely, the break seems to have done Swervedriver the power of good. While some ...
Review by Dan Gennoe, Yahoo! Music, May 2009
AS MOVES GO, Ciara enlisting Justin Timberlake to help take her from niche R&B starlet all the way to the top of the charts was ...
Bruce Springsteen, Leonard Cohen: "Hello, Cleveland!"
Comment by Phil Sutcliffe, Yahoo! Music, 12 June 2009
COMMUNICATION WITH a large audience is a tricky business. ...
Review by Angus Batey, Yahoo! Music, 16 November 2009
FIRST THINGS FIRST: yes, the cover art is awful. She isn't the only artist to bang on a bit too much for some people's tastes ...
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