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Youth Lagoon – 'Wondrous Bughouse'new

Scary good.
Orlando Weekly |
Robert Miller |
03-21-2013 |
Reviews
Reawakened Affection For My Bloody Valentine's Signature Soundnew

Album Review: My Bloody Valentine's MBV.
Orlando Weekly |
Joshua Nye |
02-28-2013 |
Reviews
Tags: My Bloody Valentine
Album Review: Matt Pond's 'The Lives Inside the Lines in Your Hand'new

Matt Pond rebrands himself with radiantly optimistic new release.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
02-21-2013 |
Reviews
Album Reviewsnew

A place to Bury Strangers, Guantanamo Baywatch and Kate Miller-Heidke.
Orlando Weekly |
Reyan Ali and Bao Le-Huu and Justin Strout |
06-28-2012 |
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Album Reviewsnew

The Bombay, Rec Center, Royal Thunder.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson, Justin Strout and Jared Oates |
05-31-2012 |
Reviews
Ceremonynew

Review: Hardcore band Ceremony's Zoo.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
05-31-2012 |
Reviews
Tags: Ceremony
The Best Music of 2011new

The top 20 releases of 2011 in no particular order
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu, Jason Ferguson and Justin Strout |
12-29-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Best Music of 2011
Fire and Painnew

Blues-soul lady-in-waiting Kaleigh Baker makes a strong claim to the throne.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
08-15-2011 |
Reviews
Obits Keep it Simple on Sophomore Albumnew

Obits is a wonderful band precisely because they aren't trying to reinvent the wheel. The guiding motto of the band's sophomore album, Moody, Standard and Poor, seems to be: "Rock has been rolling along perfectly well for many years, thank you very much, and we don't need to muck it up with a bunch of extraneous bullshit."
Orlando Weekly |
Nicholas Hall |
04-06-2011 |
Reviews
Mirror Pal: The Band Who Would Be Kingnew
We Are confirms the indie rock group's spot at the top.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-19-2009 |
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Orlando's Prince of Peculiar Nails His Sound with Help from a Friendnew
Idiosyncratic local musician and former Heathen Sean Moore's latest effort strips away every crutch from his melodic arsenal and bravely stands on its own, enveloped by gorgeous digital amplification, while the narrative builds.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
05-21-2009 |
Reviews
Arty Jokers Aren't Above Making Good Songsnew
Created mostly by member Mark Hosler, the latest album by longtime culture-jamming art pranksters Negativland is more outlandish than mischievous.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: Negativland, Thigmotactic
Boston's Other Great Punk Band Comes Into Its Ownnew
Unless they suddenly turn rap or something jarringly divergent like that, Street Dogs will always be compared to fellow Boston boys Dropkick Murphys. Both bands epitomize the same Southie tough-guy aesthetic, both proudly espouse the proletariat ethos and both express it through chanting anthems cut from the same fists-and-pints street punk cloth.
Orlando Weekly |
Bao Le-Huu |
07-31-2008 |
Reviews
Tags: State of Grace, Street Dogs
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 |
Reviews
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 |
Reviews
Tags: Mumpsy, Cat & Canary