AltWeeklies Wire
Reduce, Reuse, Recyclenew
Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer vents on latest album.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Artimus Pyle, Artimus Venomus
So Bad it's Goodnew
Latest Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute album ranges from bad to OK.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Two Madmen With Intuitive Creativitynew
Neither Chris Goss or Jeordie White are quick to conform to any predetermined sonic expectations.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Goon Moon, Licker's Last Leg
The Gorillas Get Less Challenging and Less Abrasivenew
As metal continues to get smarter and smarter, it seems that Sleepytime Gorilla Museum just keeps getting dumber and dumber.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
06-07-2007 |
Reviews
Finding Her Voicenew
Singer Patty Griffin breaks away from "quiet songs" with this brash, vibrant album.
San Antonio Current |
Chris Parker |
06-06-2007 |
Reviews
James Blood Ulmer: Blood and Pietynew
With six covers on Bad Blood in the City culled from the rich, muddy history of rural Southern blues, Ulmer's pedigree as a down-home swamp dog could easily pass examination.
Hot Chip & Spank Rock Attempt to Answer 'What is Hip?'new
Both groups have toeholds in the international dance-music marketplace that are likely to be strengthened by their newly recorded DJ sets.
Baltimore City Paper |
Michaelangelo Matos |
06-05-2007 |
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Battles Drops a Pivotal Expermental Rock Opusnew
If the band parlays its critical-darling status into Conan/Letterman show-playing notoriety, we could be witnessing the (re)opening of the American music-fan mind to the degree of which we haven't seen since the Ford administration.
Matthew Dear: Poised to Break Out of the Techno Ghetto?new
The transition from techno producer to singing/lyric-writing techno producer is rarely attempted, never mind executed with competence -- but Asa Breed finds Dear furthering his songcraft within the genre, his flat, sometimes stilted voice complementing his low-slung, artfully spare techno.
Tags: Asa Breed, Matthew Dear
Cephalic Carnage: Extreme-metal Madmen par Excellencenew
The eleven songs here constitute a jolt of aural anarchy, served straight up.
Tags: Cephalic Carnage, Xenosapien
Ozzy's An Icon Past His Primenew
There are few surprises and even fewer decent tunes on Black Rain, but Oz can still sing his ass off.
Tags: Ozzy Osbourne, Black Rain
Linkin Park Seems Awfully Insecurenew
Minutes to Midnight is stuffed with take-us-seriously gestures, including the presence of producer Rick Rubin and liner notes that couldn't be needier if they'd been written by Sally Field.
Tags: Linkin Park, minutes to midnight
Perry Farrell Fancies Himself an Intergalactic Prophetnew
But the music on Ultra Payloaded sounds more like the work of a hippie magpie with a penchant for chaos and excess.
NOW Magazine |
Sarah Liss |
06-04-2007 |
Reviews
Surrender, Monkeysnew
The French are different, Charlotte Gainsbourg even more so.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
06-01-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: 5:55, Charlotte Gainsbourg
Christopher Beeson's Evolutionnew
The former Demi-Dryer frontman's moving on with a great new CD and a great new band.
Tucson Weekly |
Annie Holub |
05-31-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: My Heart Is Like a River, Quincy
