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Shukar Collectivenew

A collision of deeply historical-sounding Romanian music and dubby, glitchy electronics, Urban Gypsy is a record that takes a while to wrap your head around.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-15-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Shukar Collective, Urban Gypsy

Javier Garcíanew

Javier García's second album abandons pop polish for a much more substantial and adventurous palette.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-15-2005 | Reviews

Tags: 13, Javier García

Seven Outnew

When it comes to Las Vegas, here's something to remember: Elvis Presley ruined everything by making youth culture the defining barometer of popular music.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-15-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Various Artists, Live From Las Vegas

For almost 15 years, this arena-rock band has been one of the 800-pound gorillas of the Japanese music scene, selling out huge venues across the country. Ever heard of 'em? Unless you're an anime fan or some unreconstructed Nipponophile, probably not.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-15-2005 | Reviews

Tags: L'Arc-en-Ciel, Live in USA

Flying High Againnew

It would be both inaccurate and unfair to describe the sensation engendered by this new Hawke record as "nostalgia," but one can't help but be overwhelmed by past glories.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Hawke, Love Won Another

Touched by the Crimson Kingnew

Jon Schaffer and Hansi Kürsch are two guys who take their shit way seriously, so it's not surprising that this collaboration is far from your typical haphazard supergroup trainwreck.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Demons & Wizards, Touched by the Crimson King

Hope A Little Hardernew

Hitting most of the right notes in mostly the right order, there's no reason for this new album from Hopewell to be as anemic and disappointing as it is.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Hopewell, Hopewell & the Birds of Appetite

City Calls Revolutionnew

As "psychedelic" music in the United States and Europe gets more and more nostalgic, leave it to a Japanese trio – with grindcore roots, no less – to poke a lysergic stick in the genre's third eye and make it run around the room screaming.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: City Calls Revolution, Green Milk From the Planet Orange

Back From Extinctionnew

It's difficult to imagine a group that more perfectly represents the zeitgeist of the post-hardcore/pre-grunge slacker underground of '80s noise-rock than Dinosaur Jr.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dinosaur Jr.

Awaken the Guardiannew

A three-disc reissue of Fates Warning's 1986 album reminds metalheads that brains and brawn weren't mutually exclusive in mid-'80s metal.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Awaken the Guardian, Fates Warning

Global Summitnew

There are pop stars who are rich and famous. And then there's Khaled, a Moroccan-born singer who has moved beyond merely being "popular" and into something more along the lines of "omnipresent."

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 07-14-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Khaled, Ya-Rayi

The Dis-Meisternew

Vast Aire's latest LP, made in collaboration with DJ Mighty Mi, finds the charismatic MC spanning decades in minutes, assuming the voice of a series of anonymous personas: from a jobless jazz-era drummer to a Vietnam draft-dodger.

Orlando Weekly | Makkada B. Selah | 06-28-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: hip-hop, rap, Cannibal Ox, The Workover, Vast Aire