AltWeeklies Wire
Walking Around the Issue
The Walkmen's sweater-rock is too polite.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Walkmen, A Hundred Miles Off
Foucault's Pabulum
His Americana may be bland, but it goes down smooth.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ghost Repeater, Jeffrey Foucault
Rich and Fatuous
Coke hasn't ruined Mike Skinner's career, but it's blown his latest album.
Washington City Paper |
Andrew Beaujon |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
No Happy Endingsnew
Greg Dulli is unapologetically lugubrious and melodramatic, and he doesn't seem to care about being liked -- that's a unique combination, and a dangerous one.
Tags: Powder Burns, The Twilight Singers
White-Belt Powernew

The Rakes are catchy as heck, though the drivel of artsy lyrics and dance-club beats are about as worn out as those stupid haircuts.
Tags: Capture/Release, The Rakes
Funk Fundamantalsnew
Orthodox Funkateers will kneel down before giving it up and turning it loose.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
05-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Hutspot, Lefties Soul Connection
Tradition and Subtraction
Like the best folk, old and new, this is the perfect intersection of this world and another.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Pleased to Meat You
Ritter is proudly carrying the Meat Loaf legacy into the new century.
Washington City Paper |
Mario Correa |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Josh Ritter, The Animal Years
Hippy Hippy Fake
The Black Dove never gets past conjury and into natural magic.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
The Stuff That Dreams are Made Ofnew
Jolie Holland's out with her third and best album.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tedium Reignsnew
It's curious that Blackberry's follow-up is such an overcooked bore, replacing the former album's raw passion with a tedious, affected maturity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jonathan Garrett |
05-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Powder Burns, The Twilight Singers
A Wise Return to the Darknew
Four years after the Black Heart Procession strayed off-course with the Latin-infused Amore del Tropico, the group is again drifting in a sea of familiar melancholy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
05-11-2006 |
Reviews
Should be a Household Namenew
Lyrical depth gives Field of Crows added worth.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
05-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Darden Smith, Field of Crows
Provocative and Politicalnew
Living with War channels the war-weary mentality.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
05-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Neil Young, Living With War
Drive Me 'Crazy'new
Cee-Lo and Danger Mouse have grand pop ambitions.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
05-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Gnarls Barkley, St. Elsewhere