Tickets for B.B. King's April 10 Boulder Theater show go on sale Dec. 6 at 10 a.m. There was a lot more action this week with concert announcements, including Scott Weiland's gig at the Gothic Theatre February 2, KBPI's Birthday Bash with Slipknot, Coheed & Cambria and Trivium March 3 at the Denver Coliseum, Railroad Earth's two-day run at the Ogden Theatre on April 3 and 4, and B.B. King's April 10 show at the Boulder Theater.
Welcome to another edition of Sound Bites, our economy-sized album reviews. This week, Nick Hutchinson weighs in on two recent national releases from Shemika Copeland and Seth Walker after the jump.
Eminem
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(Shady/Aftermath/Interscope)
The haters have been laying for this one, and there's no denying that Eminem has provided them with plenty of ammunition. Devoting an entire album to his drug problems and rehab struggles invites accusations of solipsism (yeah, yeah, it's a hip-hop tradition, but let's stay on point), and his out-of-date pop-cultural references to everything from Silence of the Lambs to Jessica Simpson suggest that he's about as current as music-master Dr. Dre's lar