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Yin and Yangnew
Tortoise's streamlined instrumental post-rock jams are the yin to Bonnie Prince Billy's rural and lyric-driven yang.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-26-2006 |
Reviews
Song Remains the Samenew
Though talk of Buddhist philosophy sneaks into this musician's debut recording, it comes less from his personal faith than it does from planting his secular tongue firmly in his cheek.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-19-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Basement Tapesnew
A box set from Fonotone Records captures the sounds of an era gone by.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-12-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Various Artists, Goodbye, Babylon
Brakhage Homagenew
Recorded at a memorial benefit for experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, this is Sonic Youth at its best -- lost in its own hazy head space somewhere along the sonic journey from strings to pedals to amps to the ether.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Mostly Unswervingnew
This fifth full-length emerges after three years in the void, with a competent and slightly darker hue, balancing atmospheric subtleties with mammoth crescendos and chest-pounding passion.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
01-05-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Milemarker, Ominosity
Band Passes Through Valley of Shadowsnew
The rusty cogs are turning and a new Bauhaus full-length is lurking on the horizon, but it's still a ways off.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bauhaus
Quartet Mostly Colors Inside Linesnew
The group's improvisational bouts are guided by an ever-present sense of melody and structure. Improvisation does play a large role in the quartet's material, but it's always kept in place by established structural parameters in each song.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
10-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Festival Quartet
A Jolt of Lifenew
The Marsh is less about unleashing sweaty acrobatics than it is about attaining the feelings of radical self-expression and magical mystery of the '70s rock attitude, not a rigidly defined sound.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
09-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Marsh
Valuable Cultural Reference is Revealednew
The group's growth from a primitive band of proletariat hooligans into a biting and mechanical art monster is encapsulated in this collection.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ex, Singles. Period.
Debut Album is Instrumental Blissnew
Thunderous washes of melancholy elevate the music from pop to an operatic soundtrack guided by churning and chugging guitars that swell with desolation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
08-25-2005 |
Reviews
Passing the Test of Timenew
The more things change, the more they stay the same, and Repeater sounds better now than ever.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
08-18-2005 |
Reviews
Chris Lopez Polishes a Muddy Legacynew
The reluctant local music fixture and founder of the now-defunct Rock*A*Teens has long radiated a modest and artistically frazzled presence in his hazy songs. Now he reveals humbly brilliant songwriting on his solo album.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
08-18-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dinosaur Jr. is Back On the Scenenew
After a 15-year long feud, Dinosaur Jr.'s original lineup lets its deep wounds heal.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
07-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dinosaur Jr.
Minutemen Documentary Celebrates the Life of Fallen Punk Iconnew
The list of interviewees for this 90-minute documentary reads like an '80s punk A-list, including Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth, Ian MacKaye of Minor Threat and Fugazi, Greg Ginn and Henry Rollins of Black Flag, and several others.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
04-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Strum and Jangle Isn't Easily Forgottennew
A collection of singles and non-album tracks that encapsulate the group's most essential and obscure material released throughout the '90s, this link in Panoply's evolutionary chain harvests bleak rhythms and searing sonic scuffs in one definitive document of disjointed parallels.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
04-07-2005 |
Reviews
