AltWeeklies Wire
Body Politics
Lif's latest is thematically scattershot and packed with easy targets.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Blood Fret & Tears
Brett Sparks' bipolar disorder is to the Handsome Family's music what champagne is to Lawrence Welk.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Johnny Cash's Final Journeynew
Cash was an expert at finding and composing songs that got into the human spirit, and there are plenty on two new releases from the Cash archives: Personal File and American V: A Hundred Highways.
Boston Phoenix |
Ted Drozdowski |
06-28-2006 |
Reviews
Vested Disinterest
Despite their clothes, the ’Heads don’t really care about being nerdy anymore.
Washington City Paper |
Aaron Leitko |
06-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: News and Tributes, The Futureheads
Pretension Headache
The Drift offers no release from its monolithic depression.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
06-12-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Scott Walker, The Drift
Rebel Bellesnew
No other performer has been as vilified as the Dixie Chicks were for speaking out -- and they do not apologize on Taking the Long Way.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
06-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
Rather Exhilaratingnew
The best band in the universe do their Brecht thing with hooks.
The Village Voice |
Robert Christgau |
06-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sonic Youth, Rather Ripped
One Step Beyonce
The production on A Girl Like Me is often better than the vocals, but Rihanna doesn't let the tracks outshine her.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Rihanna, A Girl Like Me
Crazy in Like
Jay-Z keeps creating clones of his beloved, hoping to get it right with each new iteration.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Christina Milian, So Amazin'
Pure Post-Postpunk for Then People
You may very well be able to judge a record by its smiling bohemians gathered-'round-a-campfire cover.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Feathers
Meandering Toward Outlawismnew
It doesn't take a Billboard bachelor's to figure this isn't going to get much play on country radio stations still slingin' ass-kickin' anthems about colors that don't run produced by assholes who can't sing.
Houston Press |
Robert Wilonsky |
05-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Dixie Chicks, Taking the Long Way
The Simian Line
This sounds as if it's coming to you live from a boom box located at the far end of the local tube station.
Washington City Paper |
Shannon Zimmerman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Field Music
Folk Re-Revivalnew
This comes across somewhere between Springsteen's stab at his own Basement Tapes and a boozy, carnal wake.
Boston Phoenix |
Charles Taylor |
05-25-2006 |
Reviews
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
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
