New Music This Week

Madonna’s combination of great pop sensibility, overt sexuality and controversial concerts & videos made her the biggest star in the world. We all know and like at least one Madonna song — go on, admit it. Her latest album, The Confessions Tour is a live album from her Confessions On A Dance Floor tour, where she reworked her 80s pop hits. The Madonna tunes we grew up hearing get are updated for a new generation. If you need more music that makes you shake your behind, there’s Ultra Dance 8 — perfect for people you can’t make it out to Ibiza this year. Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s latest, 10 Days Out… Blues From The Backroad has more of a down-home, Southern-fried boogie - but it’s no less danceable.

The annual compilation CD of Grammy nominations came out, too. If there’s a hit song you heard on the radio & liked, it’s probably on this album. Just realize that a lot of songs you heard & hated might be on here, too. (On a side note, it’s nice to see the Grammy people giving Imogen Heap and KT Tunstall some recognition; we’ve liked them for a while now.) A new compilation by Echo & The Bunnymen is out - More Songs To Learn & Sing collects their most recent work. It’s perfect for people who can’t get enough dreamy, experimental post-punk. A new Grateful Dead album just came out. It’s a live recording of their 1976 New Year’s Eve show in California — a show fans say was one of their best ever. Definitely worth picking up if you’re in the mood for a throwback to the hippie days.

This entry was posted by A.Rehak on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 12:12 pm