Prince

By Maura Saturday night, Prince threw open the gates at Minneapolis’ Paisley Park for what he called “The Last Jam Of 2009.” Tickets were cheap–only $40, and $31.21 for members of his online fan club LotusFlow3r—and there was also a coat and canned-food drive for the Minneapolis area’s less fortun...

The subject of his recording contract with Warners Brothers comes up, as does the topic of Prince’s work — he speaks about Prince in the third person. Whether or not Prince the recording artist is finished, consigned to the bunker of history, is unclear. He says several times that the body of...

 FL The good news is that Lotusflow3r is the best Prince album since 2004's Musicology. It's his most guitar- and rock-oriented in years — perhaps ever — and includes a few songs that deserve consideration for the upper echelon of the Prince canon. ...

Artist: Prince Album: MPLSoUND Review: Leaving aside the Super Bowl halftime show and the assless pants, Prince is like Woody Allen: They're both reclusive, sex-obsessed gen­iuses who release new material relentlessly and without any ­regard to the law of diminishing returns. Princ...

these days, even a really good Prince song usually reminds the listener of a better, earlier one.” And Rounding out the collection is Elixir, which mustered a two-star rating. “Prince has touted Elixer as a quiet-storm album in the Sade mode, ... Low, low Prince Philadelphia Inquirer

Hmm a Prince fan for 25 years and Purple Rain is your favorite record? That makes me skeptical because every generic "Prince fan" says Purple Rain is their favorite. The new Prince album(s) are great. Check them out. I totally disagree! ...

No, Beware, the Louisville singer-songwriter’s seventh album under the Bonnie “Prince” Billy moniker, is fully entrenched in twangy, back-country Appalachia, casting its roots firmly in – well – roots music. Oldham is folk, to put it plainly. ...

There is the album cover, pitch black excepting a profile drawn in white, cast in stark relief and reduced in caricature to the skull of a Cro-Magnon man: a large-brained but primitive individual with hair that rises like wisps of steam from the top of ...

By Eric Nowels His last album, 2007's Planet Earth, was bundled for free with Sunday papers in London (the first single, "Guitar," was a Verizon exclusive). It's something of a shame that this is the only thing the album is remembered for because it was as good -- as distinctly Prince-like -- as he's sound...

By Maura Johnston ONE-LISTEN VERDICT: The ever-reclusive Prince invited a few people from Los Angeles radio station Indie 103.1 to talk about his new material, which he's looking to release sans major-label involvement, and that chat resulted in four songs debuting this afternoon on the Steve Jones-ho...

 OH - Rather than a traditional soundtrack, Batman is a Prince album; a party album, featuring mostly dance music laced with sound bites of dialogue from the ...

By The Other Chad In 1989, Prince released his soundtrack to Tim Burton's blockbuster movie Batman. Music critics generally viewed the album as a disappointment. His fan base largely dismissed it as merely marking time. Nearly twenty years later, it is high time for reappraisal. The past decade-plus of mos...

By Chris Molanphy Far as I'm concerned, this means Purple Rain topped the Rolling Stone '80s poll, because they totally cheated in slotting the Clash's late-'79 London Calling at No. 1. There's no excuse for this--London Calling totally reads as an end-of-the-'70s record, not an augury of the sound of the '...

By Donald Gibson Among the best concerts he has attended include Tom Waits, David Bowie, Aretha Franklin, U2, Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Paul McCartney, B.B. King, Prince, Bob Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, Simon & Garfunkel, Tina Turner, The Police, St...

Sure, it's good to be King. But it must be kinda nice to be Prince these days too. Sure, it's good to be King. But it must be kinda nice to be Prince these days too.

By Tony Sachs and Sal Nunziato Prince - "Planet Earth" The early press on the new Prince release is the usual overhype. 'What Prince fans have been waiting for ... Back to the classic sound ... He's baaaaack." We're Prince fans. We know a lot of Prince fans. And we speak for all rational Prince fans when we say, this is NOT what we've be...

By Marty Dodge With this release Prince did his best to annoy the entire record business in one go. He released the CD in the UK free with the purchase of the Daily Mail on Sunday. This is the complete album not just highlights or some other con. People wonder why he did it; I suspect that it might be the fourteen n...

By Chris Willman The set list included a handful of obvious hits ("Purple Rain," with Costa wailing the first verse, and "U Got the Look," with no duet partner), relative obscurities ("Sssh," "Get on the Boat"), one cover (Gnarls Barkley's "Crazy"), one cover of a Prince cover ("Nothing Compares 2 U"), a...

By Janine Macdonald In essence, it is Prince well… being Prince and that’s when he is at his best. I’m the first to admit I would prefer to listen to Purple Rain, or even Diamonds And Purples, but this album is more than a decent attempt by the Purpled One. Tracks not to miss: “Beautiful, Loved And Blessed”, “Black S...

By Janine Macdonald Prince took another step towards his comeback last year with the release of 3121. Although he'd stayed out of the spotlight for a period of time, musically he never really left. He still continued to churn out album after album throughout the 90s until 2000, obligating his contract with War...