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Three 6 Mafia's Long-delayed New Album Exploits Memphis Crimenew
But while grounding their music in the city's crime epidemic, Three 6 Mafia don't actually put much thought into the topic, particularly what it might be like to be the victim of the criminality they glorify.
The Memphis Flyer |
Chris Herrington |
06-27-2008 |
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Motley Crue's Latest is a Conscious Effort to Return to '80s Glory Daysnew
Saints tries hard to sound tough and succeeds about half the time, but the Crue used to be much better when they didn't have to constantly remind people how dangerous they were.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Josh Bell |
06-27-2008 |
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'Lie Down in the Light' is Will Oldham's Most Countrified Disc Yetnew
There's a subtle, laid-back twang throughout, arriving via fiddle, banjo, pedal-steel guitar, organ, clarinet (?!) and, above all, the old-world voice of Ashley Webber, who proves a better singing partner for Oldham than the more heralded Dawn McCarthy did on 2006's The Letting Go.
Las Vegas Weekly |
Spencer Patterson |
06-27-2008 |
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Weezer's Red Album: Vacuously Tolerablenew
The group's latest CD may be OK when played on a crappy boombox at a pool party; otherwise, it makes a great coaster.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
06-26-2008 |
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Tags: Weezer, Weezer (The Red Album)
The Careful Dynamics of Shearwaternew
Like any great album, the subtleties on Rook are what make it mesmerizing.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
06-26-2008 |
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Tags: Rook, Shearwater
David Berman Finds Comfort in the Twangnew
If Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is any indication, David Berman's fortunes are improving. Compared to 2005's knotty, uneven Tanglewood Numbers – which arrived on the heels of an extended period wherein the poet and Silver Jews frontman grappled with medical and substance-abuse problems – it's relatively frisky and oblique.
Orlando Weekly |
Raymond Cummings |
06-26-2008 |
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Orlando Indie Giants Mumpsy Sing Canary's Songnew
It's possible that no other indie band in Orlando packs as much potential as Mumpsy. Named after a cat in a children's book, they're the union of industriousness and talent, a recipe that's recently been paying off.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
06-26-2008 |
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Tags: Mumpsy, Cat & Canary
Nachtmystium Unsettles Black-Metal Formulas on its New Albumnew
In the same way that no one thinks of Ride the Lightning as just a thrash album or Remission as just a metalcore album, on Assassins the riffs are so fierce and the choruses so memorable that it doesn't matter what flavor of metal it is. It's just metal.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-26-2008 |
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Modey Lemon Drops 'Season of Sweets' After an Extended Breaknew
Three years have passed since Pittsburgh's spaced-out, punk-blues trio last released a proper studio album. It's a startling drought for a band that released its first three albums in a span of four years. But singer/guitarist Phil Boyd says the sabbatical was exactly what Modey Lemon needed.
San Diego CityBeat |
Scott McDonald |
06-25-2008 |
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Fleet Foxes Tears Back the Centuriesnew
In their quest to fuse pre-rock 'n' roll sounds with indie-rock sensibilities, Fleet Foxes don't simply settle for 20th-century American Music 101. Rather, their time-travel extends all the way back to the Black Plague.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Todd Lavoie |
06-25-2008 |
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Tags: Fleet Foxes
'Lookout' Brings a New Plot Twist to the Silver Jews Saganew
Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea is an ecstatic experience in the literal sense, an often joyous, crisp rock album that leaves David Berman poised on another precipice, ready to start another chapter or, should he desire, a new book altogether.
C-Ville Weekly |
Brendan Fitzgerald |
06-25-2008 |
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Flogging Molly Fans will Love the Brazen Headsnew
While many write off Irish folk-rock and Celtic punk as a musical flash in the pan already grease-fired, there's a musical prowess and cultural authenticity to the Brazen Heads' music that commands the listener's attention.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
06-24-2008 |
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The Allen Oldies Band Unleash Summernew
With this characteristically delirious tribute to the fast-disappearing, vintage (mostly) American rock and roll of the early '60s, Hill and his tightly anarchic band do nothing to disgrace any of those positions.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
06-24-2008 |
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Where Hip-hop Wentnew
Gold: New Jack Swing, a genre overview, and and What Does It All Mean?, the collected works of cut-up pioneer Steinski, tell the story of rap going beyond itself.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
06-24-2008 |
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Stop Trying to Make Alanis Morissette's Latest 'Jagged Little Pill, Part 2'new
The thing is, Flavors of Entanglement is a breakup album, but it's not, y'know, raw like Pill. Its anger is contained, matured. Ripe and self-possessed.
Philadelphia Weekly |
Caralyn Green |
06-23-2008 |
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