AltWeeklies Wire
The Forgotten Citynew
Thanks to decades of Latinization and overdevelopment, the period between Miami's Art Deco glory and its glammy Miami Vice resurrection is often forgotten.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-09-2006 |
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Diverse, But Reductionistnew
The Latin music "explosion" has been years in the making, but only recently has the momentum shifted from occasional chart incursions toward a full-fledged presence on the pop-culture menu.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-02-2006 |
Reviews
The Currency Of Soundnew
The conceit with which Hypatia Lake approaches its music proves to be vexing.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-02-2006 |
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Sweet Young Thingnew
It's hard to remember that the "Seattle sound" used to be exciting -- these days, "grunge" is equal parts epithet and punch line.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-02-2006 |
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Tags: Mudhoney, Under A Billion Suns
A Touch of Geniusnew
Everything Warren Defever does is creative iconoclasm, and occasionally he hits on pure excellence -- like on Detrola.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-23-2006 |
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Tags: Detrola, His Name Is Alive
A Lack of Visionnew
The British producers Gary Hughes and Andrew T. Mackay put together a project in Bombay that incorporates a 28-piece string section into their gauzy, downtempo lounge music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
02-16-2006 |
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Tags: Bombay Dub Orchestra
Afro-Funknew
From the vintage-looking, low-budget album art to the vintage-sounding, low-budget grooves within, Daptone's modus operandi has been to evoke the thrill of finding ancient, obscure funk, without the messy waiting-around-for-30-years that the real thing requires.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Budos Band
Psychedelia Revivednew
The fine folks at Shadoks once again shine a light on a group that was obscure in the late '60s psych scene and is completely unknown today.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Time, Before There Was...
Feminine and Hostilenew
Libby Schaub is the type of girl who can drink everyone under the table while intentionally saying just the wrong things to the redneck at the bar, and her band is So I Had to Shoot Him.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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A Cultural Stewnew
Algerian singer/songwriter Souad Massi -- with her soft-focus beauty and acoustic guitar-based songs -- may, at first impression, seem like a sort of Middle Eastern Sarah McLachlan.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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Another Kind of Dissatisfactionnew
If there's such a thing as laissez-faire funk, this reissue of Hot Chip's 2004 album proves that these London electro-weirdos excel at it.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
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Tags: Hot Chip, Coming On Strong
Turkish Undergroundnew
If you've heard of Turkey's psychedelic rock scene, you might think that Erkin Koray was its alpha and omega.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Glass Gets Emotionalnew
Ten years ago, the world from American eyes seemed prosperous and peaceful; to revisit the potential of nuclear horror via an Allen Ginsberg poem would have been nothing more than a reminder of how scary things had been.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-17-2005 |
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An Adventurous Voyagenew
There's absolutely no need for contemporary reggae artists to be making songs with titles like "Dread Inna Babylon" or "Sensimellia," unless, of course, they're updating one of the dozens of earlier songs that carried those exact titles.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-17-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dr. Israel, Patterns of War
Can You Dig It?new
Yes, this disc has just been reissued, to coincide with the recent director's cut DVD and the completely awesome video game. Now, granted, The Warriors was no Fast Times, but it was a fairly dark movie. And, unsurprisingly, this soundtrack -- remastered or not -- still sounds as inappropriate as it sounds out-of-date.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
11-17-2005 |
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