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Monte Negro Creates the Blueprint for Rock Radionew
Tight, melodic and absolutely unafraid to meld multiple guitar-driven styles into the creation of a unique sound, the bilingual Monte Negro pushes beyond the soft expectations of both rock en Espanol and mainstream rock.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cicatrix, Monte Negro
Airiel Edges Away From Swooning Showgazenew
A gleaming mark of clarity, and the noisy washes of guitar surrounding it, serve as an unapologetic announcement that The Battle of Sealand is going to owe a lot to the Scene That Celebrated Itself.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
08-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Airiel, The Battle of Sealand
The Attack Gets Back to Basicsnew
Ex-Spitvalves, My Hotel Year members find joy in the band's punk-rock simplicity.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
08-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Attack
Suphala Gently Subverts Coffeehouse Background Musicnew
Blueprint is instantly appealing, but with a deceptive amount of substance.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-19-2007 |
Reviews
The Hitchcockian Take on 'The Omen'new
Joshua illustrates that smart, willful, bloodthirsty children should be more terrifying than any monster -- too bad this flick falls short.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: George Ratliff, Joshua
'Paprika': Narcissistic and One-sided Discoursesnew
Even when you're able to see someone else's dreams rendered well, they're still pretty boring.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-17-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Paprika, Satoshi Kon
Various Artistsnew
With so much (deserved) attention focused on the Afrobeat and highlife music that came out of Lagos in the ’60s and ’70s, it’s easy to assume that Nigeria was the only country on the continent that was churning out those slinky, sweaty grooves.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Various, Bokoor Beats
The Nels Cline Singersnew
There are still no vocalists in the Nels Cline Singers, and the third disc from the guitarist’s latest group project again proves the much-belabored point that you don’t need a microphone to get your point across
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-05-2007 |
Reviews
Howard Hello/Greenessnew
Put together as a fund-raiser for Children’s Musical Education in St. Augustine, the sonic collision of the gauzy, warm-toned digital swoon of Howard Hello and the full-frontal math-rock attack of Greenness doesn’t seem to make sense.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-05-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Howard Hello/Greeness, Split LP
Rasputina Adds a Shocking Amount of Modernitynew
Sounding less like the corseted vampires that have been invoked by their previous releases, the band emerges on their first independently released studio album sounding like a cross between Sleater-Kinney, the White Stripes and, well, corseted vampires.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Oh Perilous World, Rasputina
'Ratatouille': Skews to Jokes-for-all-agesnew
Unless your kids like to watch the Food Network or have a thing for the pudgy neighbor from The King of Queens, it's unlikely they'll connect with Bird's latest.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Brad Bird, Ratatouille
'Evening': WASP-y Constriction and Spiritual Decaynew
When chick-flick cliches are utilized in a literary fashion by such a strong ensemble, those same elements make this a substantial and engrossing film.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-28-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Lajos Koltai, Evening
Sweden Knows its Pop Musicnew
Without the talents of Swedish producer Max Martin, it's quite likely that the world would have been spared most of the hits of the 90s tween-pop craze.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-21-2007 |
Reviews
A True Collaborationnew
It's ironic that it took a minimal-minded musician like Christian Fennesz to wake the mighty Ryuichi Sakamoto from his creative slumber.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Cendre, Fennesz Sakamoto
The Return of Wheatnew
These prodigal indie-pop pioneers are back nearly four years after their disastrous major-label flirtation.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-14-2007 |
Reviews
