AltWeeklies Wire
Jay Reatard Switches Gears for a Less-Than-Spastic Pace on 'Watch Me Fall'new
Jay Reatard's second proper album is a refined pop offering that oozes with three-chord depression and loathing.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
08-25-2009 |
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Attractive Eighties Women's Live Show Humor Doesn't Translate to its Albumnew
It's hard to hate on a group whose mission is to have fun playing deranged, cartoon rock about things that annoy them. But when removed from the atmosphere of a bar, the jokes are good for one listen at best.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
08-25-2009 |
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As a Party Record, '8Dazeaweakend' Can't Be Beatnew
Serving as the soundtrack to Dallas Austin's new film of the same name, 8Dazeaweakend tells the story of a confused, trust-funded Atlanta girl who decides to party her brains out over the weekend before going in to see a psychiatrist on Monday morning.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ben Westhoff |
08-25-2009 |
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Modest Mouse's Latest Compilation is a Surprisingly Solid Offeringnew
No One's First and You're Next is a collection of b-sides and singles that didn't quite make it onto a LP. But the songs aren't just mere outtakes. Included with a couple of new tracks are full re-recordings of the previously shelved tracks, making the album feel far from a group of oddities thrown together.
Interpol's Paul Banks Strikes Out on His Own With an Alter Egonew
Since the album's title finds Banks literally describing his new alter ego for his audience, it's telling that he chooses to link this persona with the album's third track, "Skyscraper," an ambient, acoustic soundscape mostly sans vocals.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
08-12-2009 |
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Magnolia Electric Co.'s 'Josephine' is Somber and Deeply Evocativenew
Josephine finds Jason Molina bound by regret and fits of restless isolation, staring down his ghosts while forging a path of escape through deep shadows and the faraway horizon.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
08-12-2009 |
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Busdriver's Latest Album is Both Playful and Fiercenew
Like an auctioneer on speed, Busdriver's impressively fast rhyming skills help him stack the strange, intriguing Jhelli Beam with a word count generally reserved for major Russian literature.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
08-12-2009 |
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Cobra Starship's Ephemera Has Its Placenew
Hot Mess is a consummate piece of throwaway pop music: vapid and empty, but fun.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
08-05-2009 |
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Tags: Hot Mess, Cobra Starship
Vicious Fun with the Dead Weathernew
Members of well-known decibel-heavy groups constitute the Dead Weather, who have just released a sludgy, nasty and--not shockingly--loud album of excellent blues-rock.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
08-05-2009 |
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Tags: Horehound, The Dead Weather
'The Legend of God's Gun': Spaghetti Trailblazingnew
Whether you're into jazz, film scores or instrumental music in general, this Gun's aim is dead-on.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
08-05-2009 |
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Tags: Spindrift, The Legend of God's Gun
Gallows Shows Off its Unhesitant Death Rattlenew
With Grey Britain, South London hard-core quintet Gallows unleashes a devastating screed against the stupider features of 21st-century English life.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-29-2009 |
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Discovery's 'LP' is Faddish Yet Funnew
Listening to Discovery's LP reminds us that synthpop is the "sound of the aughts."
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
07-29-2009 |
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Sax Ruins Breaks Down Category Wallsnew
Just when you thought nothing more could be done in the jazz-based idiom with a saxophone and a drum kit, along comes Sax Ruins, a deadly duo featuring improvisational sax player Ono Ryoko and Ruins skinsman Tatsuya Yoshida.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
07-29-2009 |
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Why is Jack White Playing the Drums for the Dead Weather?new
It's perplexing that in the Dead Weather, White's current project and the most ubiquitously publicized band of 2009, he's playing ... drums? It feels like a novelty for novelty's sake, like Michael Jordan trying baseball.
Bad Things Happen When Fans Get Behind the Cameranew
Digital democratization of the means of film production has brought us to the point where every subculture on the planet seems to have generated its own documentary. Formlessness and boosterism afflict all of these films to some damaging degree, but Until the Light Takes Us is in a class of its own for wasted cinematic potential.
Chicago Reader |
Cliff Doerksen |
07-27-2009 |
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