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Wanda Jackson: The Party Ain't Overnew
This album's music is occasionally too misplaced
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
02-24-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Wanda Jackson
The Go! Team: Rolling Blackoutsnew
Brighton, England's The Go! Team makes a propulsive, kinetic music, drawing together indie-pop, dancehall beats, hip-hop and all manner of samples and screeching guitar noise.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
02-24-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: The Go! Team
Don't Stay in Schoolnew
Young the Giant achieves the dream of high school bands everywhere.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
02-24-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Young the Giant
Deerhoof: Deerhoof vs. Evilnew
Calling the members of Deerhoof musical dilettantes is disingenuous. The San Francisco group's lengthy career may be cultivated on a healthy musical curiosity, but there is nothing superficial or casual about the band's methods or products.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
02-24-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Deerhoof
Hercules and Love Affair: Blue Songsnew
Hercules and Love Affair's Blue Songs is the flowering of the word discothèque, the stringing of it across 57 minutes.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
02-23-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Hercules and Love Affair
Six Strings and 21 Fretsnew
Guitar prodigy Joe Bonamassa is all grown up.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
02-23-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Joe Bonamassa
Ciara: Basic Instinctnew
Ciara is often a pale imitation of Janet Jackson, jiggling athletically in her underwear through a string of music videos. Ciara feels engineered to sell records to men; Janet felt engineered to sell records.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
01-10-2011 |
Reviews
Tags: Ciara
Crash and Bangnew
No Age likes to avoid the straightforward -- and make sure you don't call the music lo-fi.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
01-06-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: No Age
The Autumn Defense: Once Aroundnew
Wilco's John Stirratt and Pat Sansone get to stretch out as multi-instrumentalists in The Autumn Defense, but the band seems to function mostly as a vehicle for expression as songwriters.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
12-30-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Wilco, The Autumn Defense
Robyn: Body Talknew
It's no coincidence that one of the first tracks on Body Talk is "Fembot," a song that comments on the recent vogue of pop starlets re-imagining themselves as cyborg provocateurs -- not by rejecting objectification, but by turning the whole metaphor on its head by overemphasizing it.
Tucson Weekly |
Sean Bottai |
12-30-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Robyn
Freebass: It's a Beautiful Lifenew
Even before the release of this album, the high-concept supergroup behind it had already disbanded.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
12-30-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Freebass
Avey Tare: Down Therenew
The hypnotic, icy and alien Down There is the first solo album by Animal Collective's Dave Portner.
Tucson Weekly |
Michael Petitti |
12-27-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Avey Tare
Listen Up!new
Our critics make their picks for the best albums of the year.
Tucson Weekly |
The Usual Gang of Idiots |
12-27-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: best albums of 2010
The 1900's: Return of the Centurynew
Chicago up-and-comers The 1900s dangle two lures for the listener: gentle, male-female harmonies, and a sweetly bouncing pop groove.
Tucson Weekly |
Eric Swedlund |
12-23-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: 1900's
Bryan Ferry: Olympianew
From its first track, it's clear that with his latest disc, Bryan Ferry is intent on re-creating the intoxicating sound and love-hangover mood of his last studio album.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
12-20-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Bryan Ferry
