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They Still Sound Streetnew
This better, stronger, faster version of Slick & Rose goes forward into a big, bad music industry with a new sense of self-confidence.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carlton Hargro |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Slick & Rose, The Winter Spells
Perhaps the Band Should Find Some New Hobbiesnew
U2 may not have the power to change the world with its music, but it still has the power of its celebrity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
11-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: U2
She Makes Dreams Come Truenew
Fantasia's strings of life weren't always so sweet as her gorgeous high notes.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
11-17-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fantasia, Free Yourself
His Take on Swing Is Contemporary and Retronew
Traditional covers from Ellington, Gershwin and "Fats" Waller swing freshly, and Ray Noble's "Cherokee" features a breakneck virtuosity.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
11-10-2005 |
Reviews
Band Discusses Image With Black Dialoguenew
Akrobatik says his band turned being from Boston to their benefit, taking the time to grow their sound rather than waiting to be discovered by Jay-Z or Russell Simmons.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris parker |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Perceptionists
Performance Artist Takes Lunar Adventurenew
Space and NASA provide The End of the Moon its ostensible subject matter, but as is the case with Anderson's other performances, the album ultimately explores life in America.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alex Rawls |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Less Is Morenew
Broadcast is adept at combining aspects of retro pop with futuristic pops, which makes the comparison of Tender Buttons' static-basted machine beats and scuffed synth melodies with Alphaville -- featuring a mecho-organic computer at its heart -- all the more appropriate.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: broadcast, Tender Buttons
A Punk-Only Doctrine Morphs into the Electronic Dancenew
There's nothing on Juan Maclean's album Less Than Human to suggest a once-doctrinaire punk is behind it.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Alex Rawls |
11-10-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Juan Maclean, Less Than Human
Modest Gains Are Hardly Worth Praisenew
While a definite improvement over their poisonous introductory EP, Lions' modest gains are hardly worthy of praise, let alone the absurd hyperbole that inevitably attaches to any band that suffers a Wilco-esque major-label wipeout.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Duo Puts Out Strong, Promising Debutnew
Fronted by the coed duo of Flora Reed and Philip Price, Massachusetts' Winterpills play melancholy indie-pop in the vein of Elliot Smith on their 10-track, self-titled debut.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cory Byrom |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Winterpills
Band Pushes Unique Style of Bizarro Metal to Logical Endnew
Catch Thirty-Three outdoes all of the band's recent efforts, even topping last year's stellar I EP, which, with its one 20-minute song, hinted at where the band was heading.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Cory Byrom |
11-04-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Meshuggah, Catch Thirty-Three
This Quiz is B-A-N-A-N-A-Snew
Gwen Stefani ain’t this reviewer's hollaback girl so here's a quiz instead of an interview.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jamie Allen |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Folk Musician Looks at Past, Present and Dylannew
Now 64 and a new grandma, Joan Baez appeared recently in No Direction Home, the Martin Scorsese documentary about Bob Dylan, with whom Baez had a romantic and artistic collaboration in the early '60s.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jeff Kaliss |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bowery Songs, Joan Baez
Hasidic Reggae Artist Doesn't Playnew
Hailing from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, Matisyahu is a Hasidic reggae artist who rocks a mic the way he rocks a yarmulke: tight and straight from the dome.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
11-04-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Matisyahu, Live at Stubb's
Quintet Walks Softly, Carries Big Hooknew
Few tracks jump out, but every song beckons you back to discover its layered pleasures, often oblique lyrical nuances and understated melodic charms.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
