Eric Hutchinson

Hey another week in the books.

Here are all the posts and reviews from the last week:

Jess reviewed American Dollar’s A Memory Stream for your weekly fix of post-rock.

Chad VanGaalen’s album Soft Airplane is awesome. Tons of feedback + disagreement for giving the album a 4.25 out of 5… Was I too harsh?

Coko profiled Cori Green a local R&B artist.

Matt covered The Dutchess and The Duke’s She’s the Dutchess and He’s The Duke. I love the photo he uses.

Josh reviews Eric Hutchinson’s popular Sounds Like This.

I reviewed Okkervil River’s The Stand Ins. A little bit of a miss but they are still one of my favorite bands.

Joe covers The Ready Set. Judging from his picture, they man could eat some more junk.

Adrian covered Scars on Broadway’s self titled release. For you System of A Down fans.

I reviewed the Stars’ Sad Robots EP. Solid little disc you can get on Itunes or on tour.

Lu reviews The Swear’s Hotel Rooms and Heart Attacks.

Christian covered The Verve’s Forth. People say a lot of great things about The Verve but outside of Bittersweet Symphony, I haven’t really heard many other songs.

Young Sensation’s Kitty Magic EP is a nice little EP.

Reminder: Metro Station contest ends next week!

Friend, Zack reviewed the Virgin Festival finally.

New around the blogosphere and such and such:
Jenny Lewis’ album was streaming on her myspace. Release date is Sept 23rd.. I can’t wait, I’m in love with her. To be honest I didn’t check out Rabbit Fur Coat since my ex said it sucked…she listens to Britney Spears now so I took some great advice! Snob’s Music (from Toronto) gave it a 5.5.

Metallica’s Death Magnetic hit stores with some good reviews. I still hate their stance on P2P etc. Hopefully one of our writers will pick this up (hint hint: Adrian).

Kanye West was arrested for “having issues” with the paparazzi. He also managed to post 10 posts during the same day *cough* ghost writers *cough* on his blog. Hot Biscuits burned Kanye West saying the only time he’s acceptable is when is not on a track and links to an instrumental track of Love Lockdown…hilarious.

Coldplay is somehow on the new guitarhero. Bands like Interpol long deserved to be on there but come on Coldplay… who really rocks on pretending to play a Coldplay riff*?

Captain Melody loves the new Emiliana Torrini album. I personally would take Lykke Li over her… maybe because Lykke Li is so hot (yes I’m shallow).

About two years ago, I was sitting on a plane to Florida about to tear my hair out when my sister tosses me her headphones and tells me I have to listen to “this guy Eric Hutchinson”. Since I didn’t have anything better to do I took her word for it and listened. I was immediately transformed into a Hutchhead and to this day I cannot stop listening to Eric Hutchinson who was just recently plucked from obscurity and signed to Warner Brothers Records. When infamous celebrity blogger Perez Hilton “discovered” Hutchinson and wrote about the singer on his website, the spotlight was thrust upon him and his album “Sounds Like This” peaked at #9 on iTunes. You can also buy his album from his official website and listen to more of his music on his MySpace page. Now, Hutchinson is singing and touring his way to the very top of the Mt. Everest that is the music industry. It’s about damn time someone gave him some recognition.

“Sounds Like This” is like a diamond in the rough. If Archimedes were listening to Eric Hutchinson when he stepped into the bathtub, he would yell “Eureka!” over this album, not the water. Each song is uniquely different from the one before and after it. For example, in the song/personal favourite “You Don’t Have to Believe Me”, the different instruments create a fun, upbeat song that complements the tongue-in-cheek lyrics.

When his acoustic guitar and soulful voice blend together, the result is a catchy pop/rock song that is easy-listening for anyone. His first single “Rock & Roll” is a reggae-tinged song that you just can’t help but to sing along. The sixth track on the record (that will hopefully be the next single because it’s amazing) is simply titled “Oh!”. This song’s lyrics will actually make you laugh out loud. Well, I did. Although the majority of his songs are playful finger-snappers, there are a few that show Hutchinson’s serious side such as “Back to Where I Was”, with lyrics like “New life decides to come through the front door/And makes us wish we’d shown respect before/Though I don’t have a choice/I resolve to regain my voice”.

After two EP’s, this album is the product of a fair amount of hard-work and dedication that is evident in each song. It is rare that one comes across an artist that seems to have this innate ability to sing, play and perform as well as Eric Hutchinson does. I would know, I’ve watched all of his YouTube videos.

Eric Hutchinson – All Over Now.mp3

Eric Hutchinson – Rock & Roll.mp3

Eric Hutchinson – Please.mp3