Second time round, Avril Lavigne does it again by paving the way for a new album with a single that's laced with her willful, youthful plainness. From her former first single, 'Complicated', this time she offers 'Don't Tell Me', a track presented in the trademark Avril sound - a clear voice over a mid-tempo rock base. Musically, Under My Skin is no far cry from her debut album, 'Let Go', but fortunately, and quite logically, this album tracks Avril's growth through the past 2 years and reveals a darker, more mature Avril. She doesn't quite get under our skin, but hey, we figure this 19-year-old still has chances aplenty to rock on.
MusicianChicks RuleFriday, 06 February 2009 | Daisy Blaze
MTV was playing several videos featuring female artists and their bands. First it was Alanis Morissette, then came Jewel, then Garbage. No, MTV wasn't running a special on women in rock.
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ReflectionsGOP Music today, a silver lining for the unthinkable?Monday, 21 September 2009 | Keith KirchnerLionel Ritchie looms on the giant video screen, stalking a blind woman who, yes appears to be making a very basic clay sculpture of the former Commodore vocalists' head as a sign that it's OK for him to go ahead and kiss her...
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Sounds likeELIOT LIPP Tacoma Mocking BirdWednesday, 19 November 2008 | Alex R
I never really had any plans to visit Tacoma, Washington. And now after reading Eliot Lipp's depressing one sheet, which paints a dreary picture of his hometown, where it's always raining and has an exceptional high suicide rate, I know I never... Click to Continue...
Sounds likePUBLIC ENEMY He Got GameTuesday, 18 November 2008 | Keith Kirchner
LISTEN-In 1987, it was the end of the world as we knew it, and Chuck D wasn't in love. The good news is that some 10 years later it's still the end of the world as we know it, and Chuck D's still not in love. On He Got Game, Public... Click to Continue...
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MTV was playing several videos featuring female artists and their bands. First it was Alanis Morissette, then came Jewel, then Garbage. No, MTV wasn't running a special on women in rock.
A few days later I was standing in the checkout line at the...
Lionel Ritchie looms on the giant video screen, stalking a blind woman who, yes appears to be making a very basic clay sculpture of the former Commodore vocalists' head as a sign that it's OK for him to go ahead and kiss her...
