AltWeeklies Wire
Album Review: Matt Pond's 'The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand'new
Matt Pond rebrands himself with radiantly optimistic new release.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
02-21-2013 |
Reviews
The Best Music of 2011new
The top 20 releases of 2011 in no particular order
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu, Jason Ferguson and Justin Strout |
12-29-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Best Music of 2011
Arty Jokers Aren't Above Making Good Songsnew
Created mostly by member Mark Hosler, the latest album by longtime culture-jamming art pranksters Negativland is more outlandish than mischievous.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Negativland, Thigmotactic
Boston's Other Great Punk Band Comes Into Its Ownnew
Unless they suddenly turn rap or something jarringly divergent like that, Street Dogs will always be compared to fellow Boston boys Dropkick Murphys. Both bands epitomize the same Southie tough-guy aesthetic, both proudly espouse the proletariat ethos and both express it through chanting anthems cut from the same fists-and-pints street punk cloth.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: State of Grace, Street Dogs
Orlando Indie Giants Mumpsy Sing Canary's Songnew
It's possible that no other indie band in Orlando packs as much potential as Mumpsy. Named after a cat in a children's book, they're the union of industriousness and talent, a recipe that's recently been paying off.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-26-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Mumpsy, Cat & Canary
A Sudanese Refugee Finds Solace in Hip-Hopnew
It's difficult to remember that there was a time when rap carried weight as an eye-opening glimpse into a marginalized existence. Rising Sudanese rapper Emmanuel Jal is ushering in a return of this edge in a more global and urgent way than ever.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-05-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Emmanuel Jal, Warchild
The Baby-faced Wunderkinds of Black Tidenew
With their major-label debut, Miami's baby-faced heavy metal savants Black Tide have produced an introduction that should provide the critical mass needed to unleash the hurricane that's been stirring Florida’s music scene for the past few years.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
05-22-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Black Tide, Light from Above
Yip-Yip Adds Organic Instruments to Their Simplistic Electronicanew
But in their playful, kitschy take on modernism, the real thrust remains the analog synthesizers, which are still aimed at pumping their artificial funhouse with some of the most absurd, scurrying dance music made today.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
02-11-2008 |
Reviews
No Age's Noise Pop Truly Delivers the Noisenew
The shoegaze haze on Weirdo Rippers can float for minutes before a salient rhythm or melody punches through to shake off the gauze.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
09-04-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: No Age, Weirdo Rippers
Fog is Almost Beyond Genrenew
Seldom does a trip to the edge feel as intuitive and natural as in this stirring and forward-thinking work.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
08-21-2007 |
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