Rain Drops On Garden

Jim Farber of the New York Daily News attended Rain’s first of two sold-out shows at the 5,000-seat Theater in the Garden on Thursday night. Farber writes, “Rain has often been compared to Usher and Justin Timberlake. But his music sounds less like their current work than their dated songs from the ’90s. If Rain really wants to make it here, he’ll have to toughen his style and hire a hipper producer, on the order of Scott Storch or The Neptunes. Should his handlers bring this off, however, there’s no reason Rain can’t make girls of every race scream.”