Neon Reviews: Tokio Hotel – Humanoid

If you’re not yet familiar with Tokio Hotel, let me break it down for you. Glam-style makeup complete with mile high hair? Check. German? Check. Dedicated following of angst ridden teenage emo fans? Check. Since 2001, the German foursome, fronted by androgynous hair product enthusiast Bill Kaulitz, has been pumping out their own brand of [...]

Neon Reviews: Paramore – Brand New Eyes

The problem with having a massive hit on pop radio and the TRL  (before MTV terminated the critically ill music video countdown show) when you’re a rock band like Paramore striving for credibility is music fans outside of your dedicated bubble suddenly think you’re one of those acts — a band put together to cater [...]

//Neon Reviews: Demi Lovato – Here We Go Again//

Demi Lovato promises her sophomore album Here We Go Again will feature a more soulful, mature artist. It hasn’t even been a full year since the singer/actress released her debut album Don’t Forget. So what could she have gone through in that short amount of time to end up with enough material for a new, [...]

//Neon Reviews: Jordin Sparks – Battlefield//

For American Idol winners, their first albums are normally viewed more as a test product than their “babies.” Sure, it’s a dream for them to release an album, and no doubt they’re excited about it, but the album is essentially the vision of herds of songwriters, producers, and Idol execs. When (if) they’re lucky enough [...]

//Neon Reviews: The Pros And Cons Of Disney’s Princess Protection Program Starring Demi Lovato//

Disney Channel rolled out their newest original movie tonight (June 26), the Demi Lovato and Selena Gomez fronted Princess Protection Program. Although Neon Limelight is all about the music, we couldn’t help catching the latest DCOM and sharing our view. The fact that both girls are also singers completely justifies us in doing this as [...]

//Neon Reviews: Gavin DeGraw – Free//

Gavin DeGraw is a believer in the saying that less is more — well, at least now he is. That’s the approach he’s taken to his stripped down third studio album entitled Free which comes not even a full year after the release of his decidedly more rock-oriented self-titled sophomore album.
Perhaps quietly admitting to the [...]

//Neon Reviews: Keri Hilson – In A Perfect World…//

Interscope Records may have given her a record deal as soon as they got word of her as she raps in the intro to her debut album, but it’s been a struggle for Keri Hilson to make the transition from your favorite artists’ songwriter behind the scenes to the artist in the forefront.
Keri was not unfamiliar with being [...]

//Neon Reviews: Kelly Clarkson – All I Ever Wanted//

Catchy hooks? Check! Addictive melody? Yes! Dynamic vocals? Also there. All are the ingredients for the successful return to Pop music for the original American Idol, Kelly Clarkson.
Clarkson abandoned the world of light, mainstream goodness for a darker, edgier Rock turn on her 2006 release My December, much to her labels dismay. After the album [...]

//Review Bits: Gavin DeGraw – Stay//

For his third studio album, Gavin DeGraw set out to make an album that goes back to the basics, that strips away the barriers between the raw magnetism of the music and the listener’s ears.
A two-week long jam session in a New York studio with producer Camus Celli resulted in Free, a collection of  10 songs exhibiting [...]

//Neon Reviews: Lily Allen – It’s Not Me, It’s You//

It sounds like a friendly little ditty. The sonic atmosphere echoes like a hop-scotching children’s tune, but the lyrics are brazenly adult. “So you say it’s not OK to be gay/Well I think you’re just evil…F*ck you. F*ck you very, very much,” sings British songbird Lily Allen in the sweetest tone with only a hint of [...]

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