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SpeakSonic album reviews: Dropkick Murphys, Kidz Bop 23, 2013 Grammy Nominees & Destiny’s Child

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Dropkick Murphys–the punk rock band who delivered the Celtic chant “I’m Shipping Up to Boston”–are back with their eighth studio album Signed and Seal in Blood and it’s more of what fans are used to hearing from them. It seems like Kidz Bop has been going on forever just like its cousin Now That’s What I Call Music… but that’s for a good reason: even in its 23rd incarnation it manages to sell extremely well as its young target demographic eats it up. The Grammys air tonight; why not sample some of this year’s nominees in the award show’s compilation album. Destiny’s Child is back with Love Songs, their own compilation of romantic tunes that features one brand new track “Nuclear.”

SpeakSonic delivers with this week’s bite-sized album reviews.

SpeakSonic album reviews: Wiz Khalifa, Bruno Mars & T.I.

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Wiz is back in the rap game with his latest release O.N.I.F.C. Though his commercial hip-hop marketability cannot be questioned, what can be said about the actual substance of his rhymes? Can Bruno Mars live up to his widely successful debut album Doo-Wops & Hooligans with this year’s Unorthodox Jukebox? Spoiler alert: If you were impressed with his lead single “Locked Out of Heaven” you will surely enjoy the rest of the 80s synth pop-rock that flows from the talented crooner. T.I. has already proven he can perform at the top of the rap game. How does his eighth studio album Trouble Man: Heavy is the Head stack up against his previous efforts?

SpeakSonic delivers with this week’s bite-sized album reviews.

SpeakSonic album reviews: Aerosmith, Christina Aguilera, Kid Rock & Alicia Keys

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The month of November saw many artists return from musical hiatus. Aerosmith released Music from Another Dimension!, their fifteenth studio album and first to feature a new collection of songs since their 2001 effort Push to Play.  Christina hopes to bounce back from her 2010 bust Bionic with Lotus, an album that features her fellow judges from reality competition series The Voice Cee-Lo Green and Blake Shelton. How does Kid Rock’s latest Rebel Soul fare against his previous records? Is Alicia Keys back in the game with Girl On Fire after taking a three year vacation?

SpeakSonic delivers with this week’s bite-sized album reviews.

SpeakSonic album reviews: Owl City, Minus the Bear, Matchbox Twenty, Imagine Dragons, P!nk, Deadmau5 & Muse get scored

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The time has come again to get up to speed on the latest album releases. SpeakSonic delivers with this week’s bite-sized album reviews. And they are…

Owl City – The Midsummer Station

Minus the Bear – Infinity Overload

Matchbox Twenty – North

Imagine Dragons – Night Visions

P!ink – The Truth About Love

Deadmau5 – album title goes here

Muse – The Second Law

SpeakSonic album reviews: Zac Brown Band’s ‘Uncaged’, Joss Stone’s ‘The Soul Sessions’ & Yellow Card’s ‘Southern Air’

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Zac Brown Band is back; does Uncaged stick to country roots or does it bring the genre to new heights? Joss Stone’s second volume of Soul Sessions is a self-reflecting effort that will please fans, but is it for everyone? Yellowcard released their eighth studio album Southern Air; do any of the tracks live up to their popular 2003 hit “Ocean Avenue?”

SpeakSonic delivers with this week’s bite-sized album reviews.

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If you haven’t noticed, [experience-it-all] has undergone some cosmetic changes, including a fresh new logo up top and a revamped sidebar that makes navigating coverage simpler and faster. The sidebar also features a new section called Partner Blogs; recently I teamed with SpeakSonic so that I can feature the site’s bite-sized album reviews right here at experience-it-all.com. The concept is simple, really. On a regular basis SpeakSonic will review newly released albums in 200 words or less and I will inform you when new ones go up. So without further ado…

A relatively new destination, SpeakSonic currently has three album reviews up: Maroon 5’s Overexposed, Justin Bieber’s Believe, and Usher’s Looking 4 Myself. Click the links to read the informed reviews and don’t forget to bookmark SpeakSonic and check back for more album reviews soon.