AltWeeklies Wire
Musician Revives His Mississippi Rootsnew
This year marks a milestone for the former Squirrel Nut Zippers Jimbo Mathus. He's releasing his first album on his new label of the same name.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jimbo Mathus, Knockdown South
Bringing Real Music to the Toddler Crowdnew
Dan Zanes had a kid and went searching for music for her. When he couldn't find the updated 21st century folk music that was in his head, he made his own.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Al Kaufman |
12-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dan Zanes, Social Music
She Should Be Played on Phonographnew
Listening to this album is like going to your grandmother's country home, sitting on her front porch swing and staring up at her in awe as she and a few friends recount tales of their lives with the use of fiddles, piano, banjo and guitar.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Al Kaufman |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Blurring the Linesnew
Call Bishop Don a band of dilettantes. The guys dip their toes into a variety of forms to cadge together a sound reminiscent of an old bar band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Bishop Don, Flowers from the Devil
Light and Airynew
While not designed for all climates and moods, American Analog Set forges music of subtle, unassuming beauty.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: American Analog Set, Set Free
New DVD Showcases More Music-Video Auteursnew
Despite the varying qualities of its new editions, the Directors Label series remains an essential guide to charting the ambitions -- both failed and realized -- of the music video industry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
12-01-2005 |
Reviews
Blood on the Wall Isn't As Dark As You Thinknew
Brother and sister team Brad and Courtney Shanks -- two of the three points that support the Blood on the Wall triangle -- know all about complementary genes and nostalgia.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
12-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Blood on the Wall, Awesomer
Indie Rapper Cleans Up and Spits Out New Albumnew
Cage eliminated the misogyny, braggadocio, battle-rap nonsense. He wanted to stay away from all the pretension and just make honest, real music.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mosi Reeves |
12-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Cage, Hell's Winter
Inappropriate and Out-of-Datenew
The Warriors suffered the fate of a few other movies that should have had good soundtracks: They fell victim to the Eagles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jason Ferguson |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Music Remains Young, Dumb and Full of Cumnew
The sound is stripped, and Danko wants you stripped, too, you learn from the hyperbole in the forked-tongued, wolf-whistle lyrics.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Danko Jones, We Sweat Blood
Something Doesn't Quite Translatenew
Dolly Parton is such an icon in the music business that she can get away with just about anything, but this collection of "classic" '60s and '70s tunes is a bit much.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dolly Parton, Those Were The Days
Chronicle of a Street Poetnew
Born to Run is a resonating chronicle of a street poet defiantly roaring past born to lose. Stay gold, Bruce. Stay gold.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Older Performance Fun Way to Remember Hernew
Love Cher and want to see some Chippendale-worthy dancers in liquid leather? This 1991 concert from Las Vegas resort the Mirage hits the spot.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
11-23-2005 |
Reviews
Band Passes Through Valley of Shadowsnew
The rusty cogs are turning and a new Bauhaus full-length is lurking on the horizon, but it's still a ways off.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bauhaus
Reflections on a Legacynew
My earliest recollections of Deacon were from the crazy nights at Tortilla's on Ponce de Leon, where at midnight the eatery was called "the Mudd Shack," a coffeehouse for underground performance artists who just didn't fit into the local rock clubs.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
James Kelly |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Deacon Lunchbox
