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Light and Airynew
While not designed for all climates and moods, American Analog Set forges music of subtle, unassuming beauty.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: American Analog Set, Set Free
New DVD Showcases More Music-Video Auteursnew
Despite the varying qualities of its new editions, the Directors Label series remains an essential guide to charting the ambitions -- both failed and realized -- of the music video industry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
12-01-2005 |
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Inappropriate and Out-of-Datenew
The Warriors suffered the fate of a few other movies that should have had good soundtracks: They fell victim to the Eagles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jason Ferguson |
11-23-2005 |
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Music Remains Young, Dumb and Full of Cumnew
The sound is stripped, and Danko wants you stripped, too, you learn from the hyperbole in the forked-tongued, wolf-whistle lyrics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-23-2005 |
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Tags: Danko Jones, We Sweat Blood
Something Doesn't Quite Translatenew
Dolly Parton is such an icon in the music business that she can get away with just about anything, but this collection of "classic" '60s and '70s tunes is a bit much.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
11-23-2005 |
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Tags: Dolly Parton, Those Were The Days
Chronicle of a Street Poetnew
Born to Run is a resonating chronicle of a street poet defiantly roaring past born to lose. Stay gold, Bruce. Stay gold.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-23-2005 |
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Older Performance Fun Way to Remember Hernew
Love Cher and want to see some Chippendale-worthy dancers in liquid leather? This 1991 concert from Las Vegas resort the Mirage hits the spot.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
11-23-2005 |
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His Take on Swing Is Contemporary and Retronew
Traditional covers from Ellington, Gershwin and "Fats" Waller swing freshly, and Ray Noble's "Cherokee" features a breakneck virtuosity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
11-10-2005 |
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Modest Gains Are Hardly Worth Praisenew
While a definite improvement over their poisonous introductory EP, Lions' modest gains are hardly worthy of praise, let alone the absurd hyperbole that inevitably attaches to any band that suffers a Wilco-esque major-label wipeout.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
11-04-2005 |
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Duo Puts Out Strong, Promising Debutnew
Fronted by the coed duo of Flora Reed and Philip Price, Massachusetts' Winterpills play melancholy indie-pop in the vein of Elliot Smith on their 10-track, self-titled debut.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cory Byrom |
11-04-2005 |
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Tags: Winterpills
Band Pushes Unique Style of Bizarro Metal to Logical Endnew
Catch Thirty-Three outdoes all of the band's recent efforts, even topping last year's stellar I EP, which, with its one 20-minute song, hinted at where the band was heading.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cory Byrom |
11-04-2005 |
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Tags: Meshuggah, Catch Thirty-Three
Quintet Walks Softly, Carries Big Hooknew
Few tracks jump out, but every song beckons you back to discover its layered pleasures, often oblique lyrical nuances and understated melodic charms.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
10-27-2005 |
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Mountain Music is Not Deadnew
In Love What You Do, the six "brothers" mix together all the stylings of country, bluegrass and mountain music with sprinklings of rock, gospel and punk to create something that is held together by sheer enthusiasm.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Al Kaufman |
10-20-2005 |
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This is Indie Pop Done Rightnew
Bright Ideas, the first Portastatic album to be recorded with a stable band is arguably its best, but certainly its most focused release.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
10-20-2005 |
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Tags: Portastatic, Bright Ideas
Album Loosely Traces Life and Love of Hip-Hopnew
MC Slug's self-deprecating women troubles are as much pose as autobiography, which if missed can be as damaging to your appreciation of his rhymes as taking Morrissey's dour woe at face value.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
10-20-2005 |
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