AltWeeklies Wire
Solo Debuts for Drummies
O'Reagan's solid songwriting and willingness to play with sound help his album avoid alt-country cliche.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
07-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim O'Reagan
Shtick Shift
Though previous Smog albums have hardly shied away from darker subject matter, Another Fine Day just seems to cut a little deeper.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
07-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Fine Day, Golden Smog
Flash Forward
Oneida's long strange trip toward focus seems to have finally come to a close.
Washington City Paper |
Aaron Leitko |
07-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Happy New Year, Oneida
Body Politics
Lif's latest is thematically scattershot and packed with easy targets.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
07-07-2006 |
Reviews
Petal to the Metal
Patton still hasn't quite lost the surfer swagger that made him a pioneer of the worst genre ever to chest-beat its way out of the Golden State: rap-metal.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
06-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Peeping Tom
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
Everybody Yurts
The great accomplishment of this 52-minute-long disc is how well the spaces are filled.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-26-2006 |
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
Wall That Jazz
Mahanthappa and Iyer divide their disc nicely between East and West.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
06-16-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Tyde, Three's Co.
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
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
Stark Raving Madrigal
This is more Seeger than Dylan, more purist than progressive.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
06-02-2006 |
Reviews
I, Jonathan
Art Brut is totally smart, totally stoopid, or both.
Washington City Paper |
Shannon Zimmerman |
05-26-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Art Brut, Bang Bang Rock & Roll
