Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson

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

Touched by the Crimson Kingnew

Jon Schaffer and Hansi Kürsch are two guys who take their shit way seriously, so it's not surprising that this collaboration is far from your typical haphazard supergroup trainwreck.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Demons & Wizards, Touched by the Crimson King

Hope A Little Hardernew

Hitting most of the right notes in mostly the right order, there's no reason for this new album from Hopewell to be as anemic and disappointing as it is.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Hopewell, Hopewell & the Birds of Appetite

As "psychedelic" music in the United States and Europe gets more and more nostalgic, leave it to a Japanese trio – with grindcore roots, no less – to poke a lysergic stick in the genre's third eye and make it run around the room screaming.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: City Calls Revolution, Green Milk From the Planet Orange

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.

Awaken the Guardiannew

A three-disc reissue of Fates Warning's 1986 album reminds metalheads that brains and brawn weren't mutually exclusive in mid-'80s metal.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Awaken the Guardian, Fates Warning

Visual Overloadnew

How much would you pay for a poster advertising a recent rock show? Ten bucks? Twenty? Think again. A new era of rock poster appreciation has arrived, and with it, an entirely bizarre sense of economics.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Art

Tags: visual arts

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

Tags: Khaled, Ya-Rayi