Dropping In

Dropping In Review

Reggae/Rock from San Diego, CA.

Eighteenth Street Lounge Soundtracks - Jet Society

Eighteenth Street Lounge Soundtracks - Jet Society Review

Falling loosely under the rubric of the '90s lounge/exotica craze--specifically the revival of interest in bossa nova, samba, and Brazilian-inflected jazz-funk styles--this CD culls a consistently interesting set of tracks from a widespread network of musicians and record labels. Although some of the artists actually hail from Brazil, others are spreading the good word from France, Italy, and even Norway. Portugal's Nortesul Records starts the collection with a delicately beautiful song from singer Teresa, and the perfect balance of solid groove and chanteuse vocals hits a peak with the Tom y Joyce track "Vai Minha Tristeza", one of several tracks from performers associated with France's Yellow Productions. Italy's Nicola Conte's "Bossa per Due" combines organ, guitar, and wordless singing with a little sitar and synthesizer, swooping into a breezy four minutes. Also from Italy, representing the Irma Records stable, the Cordara Orchestra presents the CD's title track, a gently melancholy instrumental that has early '70s sit-com written all over it--you can just see Jack Klugman or Mary Tyler Moore having a pensive walk in the park after some minor and not irreversible emotional defeat. Overall, the mix of rhythmic complexity, emotional cool, and a slightly kitschy sensibility will satisfy aficionados and may pleasantly surprise newcomers. --Bob Bannister

Zootime

Zootime Review

The Mystery Jets embody British pop at its most invigoratingly weird. Already, previous singles have seemed like dispatches from some starry-eyed parallel universe where Syd Barrett never dropped out but played on with Einsturzende Neubauten, where the irresistible pop of Dexy's can happily co-exist with the Krautrock explorations of Can, and where the most forbidding musical forms of the past, like prog rock, are gleefully reinvented in the smash-and-grab spirit of the present. With "ZooTime", be prepared to have your life forever enriched by a band relentless at breaking boundaries and enlightening one's soul with much of their own.

Wild Blue Yonder

Wild Blue Yonder Review

Wild Blue Yonder by Flat Duo Jets

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Do Ya

Do Ya Review

The time of waiting is almost over. after a couple of years of honing songs to make them the best rock tracks possible, the screaming jets are about to release their seventh album "do ya". "do ya" is without doubt one of the best albums of the screaming jets' career - it's aussie rock at it's greatest. Recorded and produced in australia and the united states. "do ya" (and the first single of the same title) has all the passion and rock nuance the screaming jets have become known for, while adding a new edge that fans will be guaranteed to love.

Two Headed Cow

Two Headed Cow Review

"Nobody plays rock `n' roll with as much raw and naked passion as Chapel Hill, NC's Dexter Romweber ... the godfather of this generation's roots-rock guitar/drum renaissance." -- Baltimore City Paper

"Much has been said about rockabilly roots-rocker Dexter Romweber over the years, both positive and negative, and sorting fact from fiction is no easy undertaking. Words like `crazy,' `possessed,' `frenzied,' and `demented' get thrown around quite a bit. But so do words like `authentic,' `visionary,' `genuine,' and `genius' ... What distinguished this band from other retro outfits is that the Flat Duo Jets were not really retro at all. While their music was certainly inspired by the rock-n-roll of the 1950s, one got the feeling that nothing was calculated ... This was the genuine article. This music was alive and well." -- Perfect Sound Forever

"That's no greasy middle-aged man, that's Dexter Romweber, a greasy younger cat from Chapel Hill, North Carolina whose hillbilly guitar and soulful pipes recapture the primitive off-the-cuff brilliance of early rockabilly (as in Jerry Lee Lewis, not the Stray Cats). While other fans of the old stuff simply try to replicate the past, Flat Duo Jets ... somehow become the real thing, displaying nary a hint of nostalgia." -- Trouser Press

Two Headed Cow is a companion piece to the acclaimed documentary released last year. The album contains live tracks recorded in 1986, before the Flat Duo Jet's first full-length album was released years later. Two Headed Cow features seventeen scalding tracks as well as liner notes by Neko Case, director Tony Gayton, and others.

Shaka Rock

Shaka Rock Review

At the heart of every great rock and roll band lie four essential elements: bass, drums, guitars and vocals. That, in its purest essence, is JET. And JET, in their purest essence, have again captured those elements with their third album, Shaka Rock. With their previous releases- 2003's Get Born and 2006's Shine On- JET broke out of their native Australia and established themselves as a multi-platinum, international success story, merging the charisma and energy of classic rock and roll with just enough punk swagger and contemporary flair to create something uniquely theirs. Here at last is a band that's returning the cool to rock and roll.

2009's Shaka Rock reveals new dimensions of JET while never losing the raw roots of Get Born or the grace and melody of Shine On, which together went on to make JET an international band of style and substance.

Review:

CBS Radio
"...Rock explodes out of the gate with big guitars and even bigger ambitions..."

Dirty Sweet

Dirty Sweet Review

Dirty Sweet [EP] Jet Label: Elektra / Ada Release Date: 5/6/2003 1 Take It or Leave It - 2:50 2 Cold Hard Bitch - 4:32 3 Move On - 4:31 4 Rollover DJ - 3:26

Christmas with the Jets

Christmas with the Jets Review

Vinyl Record

Jet Grind Radio Music Sampler

Jet Grind Radio Music Sampler Review

1. Dragula 2. What Lurks on Channel X 3. Improvise 4. Patrol Knob 5. Just Got Wicked 6. Slow 7. Set it Off 8. Hit List 9. Girls 10. Improvise (Instrumental)

Serotonin

Serotonin Review

The Mystery Jets sit around a vast table, upstairs in a plush West London studio. Downstairs in the control room, putting the finishing touches to the third Mystery Jets album, Serotonin, lurks Chris Thomas, legendary producer of Roxy Music s For Your Pleasure, the Sex Pistols Anarchy In The UK, John Cale s Paris 1919 and Pulp s Different Class, of whom the Mystery Jets understandably seem a little in awe. He can hear things that none of us can hear, whispers guitarist William Rees. He s got dog s ears. And he has the best stories, nods lead singer Blaine Harrison. The anecdotes are just unbelievable.

The sound emerging from the studio today sounds infinitely less chaotic, but no less inventive. After stripping away much of the excess on their lovelorn, warmly-received 2008 album Twenty One, Serotonin sees the Mystery Jets mapping out entirely new musical territories with the synthesizer-fueled perfect pop of Dreaming Of Another World and It s Too Late , which begins as an aching soft-rock ballad before unexpectedly heading somewhere infinitely weirder. In the dark, hallucinatory grind of Lorna Doone , you can hear echoes of ELO, 10CC, Fleetwood Mac and Supertramp rubbing up against the band s own idiosyncratic, very British, psychedelic sensibility. Vinyl comes with bonus 7" and poster.