AltWeeklies Wire
Trail Mix
I'm a Mountain travels a decidedly dustier path than Harmer's previous record: Out are the drums, synths, and ambient guitars; in are the banjos, mandolins, and fiddles.
Washington City Paper |
Mario Correa |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: I'm a Mountain, Sarah Harmer
Gone in Sixty Seconds
Scott Herren has distanced himself even further from the hip-hop of his early work, diving headlong into glitchy bleeps, bloops and splats.
Washington City Paper |
Anne Marson |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Prefuse 73, Security Screenings
All the Rage
BORIS' new disc, which gets a domestic release in a matter of weeks, sports its share of 70s-centric, stonerific hard rock.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: PINK
I Am Irony Man
There's little that's progressive or expansive an album that owes most of its prerelease buzz to hair-metal aficionado Chuck Klosterman.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: The Sword, Age of Winters
Early to Bedlam, Early to Rise
By the time you've finished this review, Arctic Monkeys will have broken up.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-03-2006 |
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Communication: Breakdown
As much as it extols pandemonium, this album always feels tightly controlled, its disarray always a little too contrived.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
03-03-2006 |
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Davey From the Block
Though the festivities can get distractingly self-congratulatory on screen, it's hard to begrudge Chappelle the success of what he calls the greatest day of his career.
Washington City Paper |
Josh Levin |
03-03-2006 |
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Lady of the Housecoat
Madea may be a big momma, but she's no Big Momma.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
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Beach Slap
Affable, synthetic and 100 percent girly, this beach-blanket renovation of The Little Mermaid boasts a virtually unknown cast and a plot so flimsy that merely to recount it is to kill it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Aquamarine, Elizabeth Allen
Pulling Up Lame
Let's just say that Paul Walker is the best thing about Running Scared -- it's that bad.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Running Scared, Wayne Kramer
Donner Paltry
If keeping the action fast and unrelenting makes for an exciting ride, well, it also makes for a rather unbelievable one.
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Richard Donner, 16 Blocks
Butt Seriously
Largely redundant, the only thing Lovett really adds to the post-Stonewall mythography is to remind us how attractive men's bodies actually were in the 70s, before the plague.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Tags: Gay Sex in the 70s, Joseph Lovett
Courting Rituals
No one in front of or behind the camera in this film seems able to imagine a better outcome for a young black man from the projects than realizing those dreams of a Bentley and a Rolex and a shoe with his own name on it.
Washington City Paper |
Louis Bayard |
03-03-2006 |
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Thieve La France
Seen now, this movie looks much fresher than it probably did in 1960.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-24-2006 |
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Sucker Punch
In addition to being MTV-fast and CGI-savvy, the film offers a blend of cynicism and moralism that American viewers should find entirely familiar.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Jenkins |
02-24-2006 |
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