AltWeeklies Wire
Puking Up Political Tofunew
Dirty hippies need to stand way back, as Travis Ryan's viciously vegetarian grindcore band may appeal to your dietary sensibilities but will likely leave you trembling in fear for your life.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-06-2006 |
Reviews
Our Little Undergroundnew
In a perfect world, one wouldn't have to explain the Jesus and Mary Chain -- but in a perfect world, their albums wouldn't have been out of print for nearly a decade.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-06-2006 |
Reviews
Not to Be Overlookednew
Pamuk is best known for one controversy -- his continuing campaign for recognition of the Armenian genocide has made him a pariah to many in Turkey.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-06-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Orhan Pamuk, The Black Book
Mostly Standards, Done With Easenew
This eight-CD Complete Prestige Recordings from 1990 covers all five years of Davis' work for Prestige with the Quintet.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-29-2006 |
Reviews
A Postmodern Heart Attacknew
Senor Coconut was a German living in Chile in the late 70s -- his blend of electronic futurism, mindless pop, disco bump and lush exotica either sounded completely ridiculous or completely revolutionary.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-29-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Senor Coconut, Yellow Fever!
Concise and Mind-Blowingnew
What makes this compilation exceptional is a marvelously written and meticulously researched set of liner notes along with a realistic perspective on a somewhat deified music scene.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Too Much Hype?new
While the Pets bash out furious musical architecture, the question is raised: How does a group so visceral and raw, so young and sonically violent, so goddamned aggressively fun garner the sickening level of hype bestowed upon BYOP?
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Be Your Own Pet
A Hyperliterate Piss-Take?new
The story that Jason Roberts (who, not surprisingly, is a contributor to McSweeney’s) tells is apparently a true one.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-22-2006 |
Nonfiction
Ease and Intensitynew
Having worked together for more than a decade, these two have established a formidable improvisational dialogue.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Prepare to Lose Your Mindnew
When an album simultaneously reminds you of the intro to Iron Maiden's "Phantom of the Opera" and one of the sonic explosions that occur inside John Coltrane's "Jupiter," you're dealing with an album that's unique indeed.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Lazy Classificationnew
There's little about the sound of Gold & Wax to qualify it for the "world music" tag that it will inevitably be slapped with.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gigi, Gold & Wax
iPod Overloadnew
Rather than getting attention with a single-track album, all Cardinale has done is ensure that their music never gets played on anyone's iPod.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
A Myspace Influence of Techno Trashnew
Tigarah sounds exactly how M.I.A. would sound if she were a Japanese college student, rather than an expat South Asian with a radical-insurgent dad.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-22-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Tigarah
The Viking of Sixth Avenuenew
This new 36-track compilation highlights the artist's own cosmological reality.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
04-13-2006 |
Reviews
Resists Categorizationnew
Raz Ohara mutters to himself in that put-on way that rappers and soul singers use to pretend they're being spontaneous.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
04-06-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Raz Ohara, The Last Legend
