Articles by Michael Edwards

London Philharmonic Orchestra

The Greatest Video Games Music

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2011

The popularity of orchestras performing music from videogames has reached the point where even the London Philharmonic Orchestra is jumping...

Babybird

The Pleasures of Self Destruction

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2011

Things have come full circle for Stephen Jones (aka Babybird). Back in his early days, he made wonderful lo-fi albums of peculiar songs wit...

Billy Joel

Piano Man: Legacy Edition

PUBLISHED Nov 8, 2011

The criteria for an album getting the deluxe two-CD reissue isn't immediately obvious anymore because pretty much every album that's more t...

And So I Watch You From Afar

Gangs

PUBLISHED Nov 5, 2011

It would be far too easy to throw Irish band And So I Watch You From Afar into the nebulous post-rock category simply because they make ins...

Lie To Me: The Complete Third And Final Season

PUBLISHED Nov 2, 2011

Lie To Me didn't stand a chance. During its time on air, it was routinely dropped during sweeps and bumped to mid-season, demonstrating the...

Holmes

Covers

PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2011

It seems like there's a time in every band or performer's life when they decide to record a collection of covers, and now is that moment fo...

The Walking Dead: The Complete First Season Special Edition

PUBLISHED Oct 28, 2011

Just in time for the return of The Walking Dead, Anchor Bay has decided to dust off the first season, since the version they rushed out bac...

Benni Hemm Hemm

Skot

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2011

After the wonderful melancholy of last year's Retaliate, the upbeat pop demonstrated repeatedly by Benni Hemm Hemm comes as a bit of a shoc...