Here's something you might be interested in.
Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
HITnRUN or HITSnMISSES
Our funky hero Prince stumbles on his latest
The artist declares this is an “experimental” album, when really it’s just a manic mess.
As a Prince devotee, I hold the diminutive artist up to colossal standards. While never losing respect for his creativity or willingness to take risks and push boundaries with each new album, I also recognize when his efforts aren’t on the mark. Such is the case with HITnRUN Phase One.
Video:
"HardRockLover"
...off of Prince's latest, HITnRUN Phase One (lyric video)
As the title suggests, HITnRUN is scattershot. The 11-track album opens with “Million $ Show,” a duet with The Voice alum and protégé-of-the-moment Judith Hill, that winds you up with snippets from past hits “1999” and “Let’s Go Crazy.” The song is a mishmash of musical styles, which might serve to explain the artist’s declaration that this is an “experimental” album, when really it’s just a manic mess. Most of the rest follows suit. While you might stumble across a sweet vocal (“This Could B Us”) or incendiary guitar jam (“Hardrocklover”), HITnRUN only offers flashes of Prince’s ability.
The best of the batch is “Fallinlove2nite,” a synth-and-horns-fueled retro dance track that the Purple Wonder debuted last year during his surprising guest appearance on the Zooey Deschanel sitcom New Girl. Other notable songs include club thumper “Shut This Down,” which closes with a sick bass line, and “1000 X’s & O’s,” a love song set to a slinky groove that Prince mined from his storied vault.
All in all, Phase One might have been better titled HITSnMISSES. Here’s hoping Phase Two brings our funky hero back to form.
Album: HITnRUN Phase One
Artist: Prince
Label: NPG Records
Songs: (1) Million $ Show (2) Shut This Down (3) Ain’t About 2 Stop (4) Like A Mack (5) This Could B Us (6) Fallinlove2nite (7) X’s Face (8) Hardrocklover (9) Mr. Nelson (10) 1000 X’s & O’s (11) June
Here's something you might be interested in.
HITnRUN or HITSnMISSES
Our funky hero Prince stumbles on his latest
HITnRUN or HITSnMISSES
Our funky hero Prince stumbles on his latest
The artist declares this is an “experimental” album, when really it’s just a manic mess.
As a Prince devotee, I hold the diminutive artist up to colossal standards. While never losing respect for his creativity or willingness to take risks and push boundaries with each new album, I also recognize when his efforts aren’t on the mark. Such is the case with HITnRUN Phase One.
Video:
"HardRockLover"
...off of Prince's latest, HITnRUN Phase One (lyric video)
As the title suggests, HITnRUN is scattershot. The 11-track album opens with “Million $ Show,” a duet with The Voice alum and protégé-of-the-moment Judith Hill, that winds you up with snippets from past hits “1999” and “Let’s Go Crazy.” The song is a mishmash of musical styles, which might serve to explain the artist’s declaration that this is an “experimental” album, when really it’s just a manic mess. Most of the rest follows suit. While you might stumble across a sweet vocal (“This Could B Us”) or incendiary guitar jam (“Hardrocklover”), HITnRUN only offers flashes of Prince’s ability.
The best of the batch is “Fallinlove2nite,” a synth-and-horns-fueled retro dance track that the Purple Wonder debuted last year during his surprising guest appearance on the Zooey Deschanel sitcom New Girl. Other notable songs include club thumper “Shut This Down,” which closes with a sick bass line, and “1000 X’s & O’s,” a love song set to a slinky groove that Prince mined from his storied vault.
All in all, Phase One might have been better titled HITSnMISSES. Here’s hoping Phase Two brings our funky hero back to form.
Album: HITnRUN Phase One
Artist: Prince
Label: NPG Records
Songs: (1) Million $ Show (2) Shut This Down (3) Ain’t About 2 Stop (4) Like A Mack (5) This Could B Us (6) Fallinlove2nite (7) X’s Face (8) Hardrocklover (9) Mr. Nelson (10) 1000 X’s & O’s (11) June