AltWeeklies Wire
Inverse Americananew
While the fluid collective of Chicago musicians known as Pinetop Seven has never exactly produced the happiest music around, this is their darkest and most moving record to date.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Pinetop Seven, The Night's Bloom
Funky Stewnew
The best thing about Belize City Boil Up isn't the fact that it shines a light on a woefully underdocumented (and equally underappreciated) music scene.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
A Rustic Personality Returnsnew
Although it's been 35 years since Vashti Bunyan last recorded an album, it doesn't sound as if a day has passed between that first disc (Just Another Diamond Day) and the new Lookaftering.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Vashti Bunyan, Lookaftering
A Playful Spiritnew
This full-length debut from Swedish ambientologist Henrik Jonsson is perplexing for a number of reasons.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
10-27-2005 |
Reviews
Explosion of Energynew
Greg Cartwright and the Reigning Sound prep their aggressive, dynamic style.
Tucson Weekly |
Linda Ray |
10-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Home for Orphans, Reigning Sound
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
Quartet Mostly Colors Inside Linesnew
The group's improvisational bouts are guided by an ever-present sense of melody and structure. Improvisation does play a large role in the quartet's material, but it's always kept in place by established structural parameters in each song.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
10-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Festival Quartet
Band Preserves the Lascivious Live Behavior of Frank Zappanew
Project/Object began as a simple annual get-together in a basement and has since become an ever-evolving tribute to the huge multi-faceted back catalog and undeniable weirdness of the late Frank Zappa.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mike Andrews |
10-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Project/Object
Georgia Native Debuts Nine-Minute Piecenew
"Irrational Exuberance" is hardly simple. It's a wild ride for the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra through musical changes, surprises, and virtuosic, multilayered streams and flurries of sound.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
10-27-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Guitar Anti-Heronew
Marc Ribot strings tangled links between punk and everything else.
Baltimore City Paper |
Lee Gardner |
10-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mark Ribot
Hot Stuff, Coming Through!new
Boston's Post-Apocalyptic Halloween Iron Pour will feature lots of fire, a courtyard full of art students, a Japanese prog-freak band and 100 pound pots of 3000 degree molten iron.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
10-26-2005 |
Concerts
D&B VIP gets back on the tracksnew
Dominic Angas is one of the most respected and longest-contributing producers in drum & bass. Here, he explains why he dropped his long-time electronic partner.
Dig Boston |
Andy Barrett |
10-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dom & Roland
Go, Go!Team, Go!new
The Go!Team explains why gibberish is cool, and just how they follow no trends and all trends.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
10-26-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Smart Assesnew
Despite published reports to the contrary, Bloodhound Gang frontman Jimmy Pop is a gifted writer, performer, and producer.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
10-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Reznor's Edgenew
Nine Inch Nails' auteur Trent Reznor's first output after a drawn-out dance with heroin reveals a newfound sense of purpose.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
10-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
