Dread Zeppelin's years on the Cleopatra label (from 2000 on) are covered on Re-Led-Ed; The Best of Dread Zeppelin, a fair collection that can be your second purchase of this limited band. The group's cheeky combination of reggae, Led Zeppelin tunes, and an Elvis impersonating frontman really rocked on their 1990 debut, Un-Led-Ed. Since then, synths and sequencing have made them dreamy and clever, not what everybody looks for in a novelty party band. With electronics and the absence of ...   [ read more ]

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Deja Voodoo is Dread Zeppelin's first album for Cleopatra, and it finds them trying to expand their sonic palette to include bits of hip-hop, techno, and lounge jazz. Pile that on top of the band's still-intact hybrid of Led Zeppelin, Elvis, and reggae, and the results are bizarre indeed. It's admirable that Dread Zeppelin is trying to push their sound forward this far into their career, and the decision to return almost exclusively to Zep material (following experiments with less spec...   [ read more ]

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On Bar Coda it's business as usual for Dread Zeppelin, meaning it's mostly mystical Zeppelin songs, sung by an Elvis impersonator and "inna reggae stylee." Little has changed in the band's Presley meets Marley meets Page and Plant world, save a winning effort to rally against the too-slick and sterile feel of some more recent albums. Here the band is much looser than usual while in the studio and duplicating everything that's great about their live shows. There are more humorous ad-...   [ read more ]

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