AltWeeklies Wire
The Ghost in the Consolenew
The Kills' Jamie Hince hunts down Sly Stone's Flickinger mixing board.
Colorado Springs Independent |
Kara Luger |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Kills
Kick Out the Jam Bandsnew
Alan Sparhawk and Mark Kozelek form a supergroup -- minus the incessant wanking.
Tucson Weekly |
Jarret Keene |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Retribution Gospel Choir
Keepin' It Realnew
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings keep old-school funk alive.
Tucson Weekly |
Gene Armstrong |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Valuable Cultural Reference is Revealednew
The group's growth from a primitive band of proletariat hooligans into a biting and mechanical art monster is encapsulated in this collection.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ex, Singles. Period.
Singer Sounds Like She's From Southnew
Shannon McNally’s literate, evocative lyrics and black-coffee voice examine matters of the heart from a fresh, intelligent perspective that renders all geographical references insignificant.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Geronimo, Shannon McNally
Album Boasts Unadorned, Early Hip-Hop Spiritnew
The Find feels like a trip back to a time before crack and guns got out of control in urban America, when rappers were still wearing smiles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ohmega Watts, The Find
Band Rebounds After a Series of Setbacksnew
The BoDeans' latest release and second double live album, Homebrewed, was recorded at Milwaukee's historic Pabst Theater, and it's their first for Back Porch Records, a roots-rock label that's also based in the beer-centric River City.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Homebrewed, The BoDeans
Band Transitions From Scabrous Punks to Balladeersnew
Scotland's Idlewild has inadvertently reinterpreted American indie rock, as only a band that's on the outside looking in can.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Idlewild, Warnings/Promises
DJ Hits the Road with New Tools, Tunes and Tweaksnew
Z-Trip is hitting the road with new tools, tunes and tweaks in an attempt to not only strengthen his DJ reputation, but also reintroduce himself as a producer, showcasing material from his recently released Shifting Gears full-length.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: DJ Z-Trip, Shifting Gears
World's Biggest Little Band Angles for 15 More Minutesnew
Awww shit, London's Bloc Party has groupies to haul around their stuff and they get to go to Vice parties? The foursome must be blowin' up.
Dig Boston |
Luke O' Neil |
09-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Bloc Party
Putting the Ego in Alter Egonew
Kool Keith doesn't mess around, proclaiming himself the number one producer in the land and the most powerful artist in hip-hop.
Dig Boston |
Chris Farone |
09-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cold as Icenew
Rappers Huggie Brown and Alphonzo Cowper deconstruct an early-'90s classic about a group of Los Angeles gangbangers who flee to St. Louis to escape the heat on them.
Riverfront Times |
Ben Westhoff |
09-06-2005 |
Music
Through the Danger Zonenew
Kenny Loggins and Jimmy Messina saw the '80s differently. On their reunion tour, the duo finally meets halfway.
Dallas Observer |
Sarah Hepola |
09-05-2005 |
Concerts
Every Track a Money Shotnew
It’s impossible to imagine a band more devoted to excitement, more single-minded in its pursuit of satisfaction, more successful in replicating the arousal/gratification cycle without becoming monotonous.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
09-02-2005 |
Reviews
Scotch Guardnew
Alasdair Roberts talks about his folk preservations, modern revisions and new collection of centuries-old death ballads.
Columbus Alive |
Stephen Slaybaugh |
09-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
