AltWeeklies Wire
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
Walking Around the Issue
The Walkmen's sweater-rock is too polite.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: The Walkmen, A Hundred Miles Off
Foucault's Pabulum
His Americana may be bland, but it goes down smooth.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
05-19-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ghost Repeater, Jeffrey Foucault
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
Tradition and Subtraction
Like the best folk, old and new, this is the perfect intersection of this world and another.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Pleased to Meat You
Ritter is proudly carrying the Meat Loaf legacy into the new century.
Washington City Paper |
Mario Correa |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Josh Ritter, The Animal Years
Hippy Hippy Fake
The Black Dove never gets past conjury and into natural magic.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
05-15-2006 |
Reviews
Variations on a Theme
Until we get a doom-metal disc that's as malignant as our doom-taunting age, Cisneros and Hakius' conference of doves will have to suffice.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Conference of the Birds, Om
The Terror of History
It's probably fair to suggest that both Eli Roth and Zombi would be nothing without the 70s.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-28-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Surface to Air, Zombi
Playing With Water
He's all Merriam-Webster and fringe references, but Ghostface grounds things with simple themes.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
04-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Ghostface Killah, Fishscale
Heavenly Hash
Sparxxx's rapping proves fairly interesting throughout the album--and not just lyrically.
Washington City Paper |
Andrew Beaujon |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Bubba Sparxxx, The Charm
Hallmark Hippie
Gelb's mix of bent platitudes, loping-limping guitars, and wayward melodies is both wholly sincere and deeply appealing.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Howe Gelb, 'Sno Angel Like You
Hack in Black
Miller's new album is less consistent than his last, but musically at least, a little bit bolder.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
04-17-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Rhett Miller, The Believer
'66 Pickup
Like so much of Hill's early stuff, this disc is distinguished by its dualism -- the tension between its avant-gardist and populist impulses.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
04-07-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Andrew Hill, Time Lines
Sense U Been Gone
Destroyer's Rubies is not only Dan Bejar's best by far, it's also a bona fide masterpiece of opaque genius bullshit.
Washington City Paper |
Michael Little |
03-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Destroyer, Destroyer's Rubies
