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Solo Release Shares Qualities With Filmnew
Tension and mystery lurk beneath this album's suspiciously calm surface. Alto-saxist David Sanborn adds a tough, slightly skewed quality to his musical love affairs, usually submerged under a lipstick-styled sheen.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
07-22-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Closer, David Sanborn
DJ Language Speaks Universallynew
Language resurrects the approach where a club acts as a polyglot of musical genres that challenge patrons without forgoing the funk.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
07-22-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Wasn't That Just Yesterday?new
Rhino's release of a seven-disc collection of 130 songs from the previous decade makes the young nostalgic.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Various |
07-22-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Third Album is a Musical Blendnew
Stacey Earle and husband Mark Stuart create the kind of smart, intimate, lived-in version of Americana that's an endangered pleasure these days.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Small Sins and Good Old-Fashioned American Indie Rocknew
Canadian writer and producer Thomas D'Arcy has assembled a strikingly intimate yet sonically expansive debut in Small Sins.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Consistent Painnew
The members of Jet By Day proclaim themselves to be purveyors of "heavy-indie-Southern rock" and indeed, they deliver something like that. It's heavy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Laurel Snyder |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jet By Day, The Vulture
Soundtrack Could Better Represent Area in Filmnew
There's nothing wrong with Mike Jones, Lil Scrappy, Trillville, Boyz N Da Hood and many other current rap stars. But since the film is based in Memphis, it would be nice for the soundtrack to better represent the area's artists.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Ronda Racha Penrice |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Various Artists, Hustle & Flow
Album More Mood Piece Than Joy Ridenew
Another Day on Earth bears little resemblance to the deconstructed glam and off-kilter art funk that characterized Brian Eno's '70s rock albums. Instead, it sounds as if Eno took his ambient recordings from the '80s and '90s and crafted songs on top of them.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Andisheh Nouraee |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Another Day on Earth, Brian Eno
Remastered Nuggets Mix With Quality Tracksnew
Even though the size of the women's underwear tossed on stage at a typical Tom Jones show has increased since the start of his 40-year career, old tight pants has stayed at the top of his sexually charged game.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
07-07-2005 |
Reviews
Caesars Borrow Something Old, New and Bluenew
Formed in 1995, the polished Swedish garage-rock quartet, the Caesars, motored through Scandinavia under the names the Twelve Caesars and Caesar's Palace before finding an American home through New York-based label Astralwerks.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
07-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ceasars
Dinosaur Jr. is Back On the Scenenew
After a 15-year long feud, Dinosaur Jr.'s original lineup lets its deep wounds heal.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
07-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dinosaur Jr.
Sleater-Kinney's Trek From Riot Grrls to Power Trionew
Words like "raw," "explosive" or even "heavy" describe Sleater-Kinney's seventh album, The Woods.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sleater-Kinney, The Woods
The Ying-Yang Twins Unite Their Image and Atlanta on New Albumnew
Ying Yang Twins' new goal seems to be to show that determination can overcome almost any disadvantage.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
06-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Final Fantasy Music Leaps From Game Console to Live Concertnew
Final Fantasy is the first video game to spawn symphonic concerts from its music, incorporating a full orchestra and a chorus, plus three video screens showing scenes from the games and live-cam shots from inside the orchestra itself.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
06-27-2005 |
Concerts
Comets on Fire Bring the Ruckusnew
Like the Mars Volta (another band constantly associated with mind-alteration), Comets on Fire's sound is the distillation of a wealth of knowledge about music and an idea of the boundary-less plane it can inhabit.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Nikhil Swaminathan |
06-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
