AltWeeklies Wire
Knope Problemnew
Singer/songwriter Gaby Moreno plays outside the box.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trivium Has Quickly Risen to Heavy Metal's Top Tiernew
Trivium's new album, Shogun, has been hailed as one of 2008's most anticipated metal releases.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Mudhoney Gets Floridiannew
It has been quite a long time since Mudhoney graced the state of Florida, but the band's decade-plus absence from the state was not intended as a slight.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-12-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Be Your Own Pet Meets the Sophmore Cursenew
With Get Awkward, the band's songs are still bracing and efficient and singer Jemina Pearl is still an unhinged, full-throttle screamer who's unashamed to make a shouted "WHOOO!" part of a chorus.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Be Your Own Pet, get awkward
The Mad World of Miami's Torchenew
The blistering guitar work, the sludge-thick riffs, the hulkingly muscular rhythm section, even the hooks that eschew anthemic power for melodic effectiveness, make a listener feel like a meerkat in the middle of a mammoth stampede: It’s coming, it’s fast, and it will crush you.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-22-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Meanderthal, Torche
The Quiet Expatnew
Fugazi's Joe Lally finds his muse in the boot.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-25-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Lally, Nothing is Underrated
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
A Whole New Worldnew
The Flaming Lips finally return to Orlando.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
04-16-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Flaming Lips
Comforts of Homenew
Ben Bridwell and Band of Horses find peace in the Carolina Lowcountry.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-13-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Band of Horses
Reluctant Rocker v. the Machinenew
A finally content Travis Adams speaks about newly formed band, Inkwell, the bad feelings surrounding flameout of My Hotel Year, and the many ways he got lost with music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Inkwell
Flying High Againnew
It would be both inaccurate and unfair to describe the sensation engendered by this new Hawke record as "nostalgia," but one can't help but be overwhelmed by past glories.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Hawke, Love Won Another
Back From Extinctionnew
It's difficult to imagine a group that more perfectly represents the zeitgeist of the post-hardcore/pre-grunge slacker underground of '80s noise-rock than Dinosaur Jr.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dinosaur Jr.
Global Summitnew
There are pop stars who are rich and famous. And then there's Khaled, a Moroccan-born singer who has moved beyond merely being "popular" and into something more along the lines of "omnipresent."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Altered Realitynew
Orlando's New Roman Times is an indie-rock band in a city not known for indie-rock. Yet.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: New Roman Times
