AltWeeklies Wire
Unfiltered Footagenew
For all the Dolls' rawness, these unscripted snapshots fail to coalesce into a story or something more meaningful because of the lack of narration.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: New York Dolls, All Dolled Up
Musician Revives His Mississippi Rootsnew
This year marks a milestone for the former Squirrel Nut Zippers Jimbo Mathus. He's releasing his first album on his new label of the same name.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jimbo Mathus, Knockdown South
Blurring the Linesnew
Call Bishop Don a band of dilettantes. The guys dip their toes into a variety of forms to cadge together a sound reminiscent of an old bar band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bishop Don, Flowers from the Devil
Light and Airynew
While not designed for all climates and moods, American Analog Set forges music of subtle, unassuming beauty.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: American Analog Set, Set Free
Band Discusses Image With Black Dialoguenew
Akrobatik says his band turned being from Boston to their benefit, taking the time to grow their sound rather than waiting to be discovered by Jay-Z or Russell Simmons.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris parker |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Perceptionists
Album Loosely Traces Life and Love of Hip-Hopnew
MC Slug's self-deprecating women troubles are as much pose as autobiography, which if missed can be as damaging to your appreciation of his rhymes as taking Morrissey's dour woe at face value.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
10-20-2005 |
Reviews
Band Seeks Inspiration in the Backwoodsnew
Like the futuristic novel from which the guys take their name, Bear vs. Shark is an "age-appropriate" spectacle seeking to ramp up entertainment values like gas prices.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bear vs. Shark, Terrorhawk
Band Has Not Progressed Very Far Stylisticallynew
The album is as heavy and tight as any of the group's releases since the first album, but it's also not a departure.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
09-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Obituary, Frozen in Time
Musician's Work Characterized as Warm, Organic Soundnew
Everything Ecstatic changes the pace dramatically and emerges as a distinctly more beat-driven affair. Stuttering percussive clatter implodes against blissful, slowly morphing textures like a Diebold safe dropped into a pond, rippling with deep grooves.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
09-15-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Everything Ecstatic, Four Tet
Two-Disc Epitomizes Strengths, Weaknessesnew
Neither the tunes nor the lyrics can quite sustain the quieter presentation, however. It's intriguing, and Dave Grohl sings surprisingly well, but it's hardly memorable.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Foo Fighters, In Your Honor
Vans Warped Tour Attracts the Ladiesnew
Though punk rock is as much of a boys club as a sports bar, its commercial renaissance has attracted the fairer sex -- at least for this year's Vans Warped Tour.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
07-28-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Band Finds its Apotheosis on Latest Albumnew
Working a shoe-gazer vibe that echoes acts like Ride and Lush, lead vocalist Jason Martin outfits the velveteen textures with strings and percolating electronics, crooning over gilded hooks and drummer Frank Lenz's bubbling backbeat.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
05-12-2005 |
Reviews
Reticent Pinback Delivers More Sophisticated Popnew
Pinback is pop, but its approach is by no means craven, cloying or simple. The band's finely detailed, indie-pop sensibility recalls Built to Spill.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
05-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Pinback, Summer in Abaddon
Like His Dad and Granddad, Hank Williams III Does It the Hard Waynew
Hank Williams III's drawl carries with it the unmistakable echo of his granddaddy, the first Hank Williams. And like his father, and friends such as David Allan Coe, Hank is an iconoclast who bleeds rebel red.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
03-24-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
