AltWeeklies Wire
Your Favorite Is On This CDnew
Let's not beat around the bush: All-Time Top 100 TV Themes is a great fucking CD.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Carlton Hargro |
09-01-2005 |
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Second Release Features Rich Harmoniesnew
It's a bluegrass/old-timey album every bit as deserving of the cross-generational adulation received by O Brother's soundtrack.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Home to You, The Peasall Sisters
Two-Disc Epitomizes Strengths, Weaknessesnew
Neither the tunes nor the lyrics can quite sustain the quieter presentation, however. It's intriguing, and Dave Grohl sings surprisingly well, but it's hardly memorable.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chris Parker |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Foo Fighters, In Your Honor
Album Works Nicely Within Pop Conventionsnew
Blitzkrieg Pop, T. Raumschmiere's second album, is much more listenable and varied than the 2003 debut Radio Blackout, a clanging beacon for the German techno capital that rarely sleeps in the pursuit of the groove.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
09-01-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Blitzkrieg Pop, T. Raumschmiere
Music's Inner-Workings Heard Well in Recordingnew
It's a spontaneous-sounding rendition, with a good stereo separation that happily allows the music's inner workings to be well heard.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Mark Gresham |
09-01-2005 |
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Album is Old-School Kewlnew
Every MC Chris song is an anthem for a person you never wanted to be but always were. It's for the person you always have been, but now don't mind being thanks to [adult swim] shows including "Aqua Teen Hunger Force."
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-01-2005 |
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Quartet Returns to Give Thanksnew
There are plenty of moments across Sigur Ros' catalog that could be described as hanging in mid-air, but not particularly playful. Yet Takk (Icelandic for "thanks," a word Sigur Ros signs to any autograph) is like a series of little children's stories to the band.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tony Ware |
09-01-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Learning Vervenew
West isn't just the most peculiar hip-hopper rocking the radio dial right now, he’s cutting his own idiosyncratically rudderless path to pop.
Baltimore City Paper |
Bret McCabe |
08-31-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Kanye West, Late Registration
Field of Screamsnew
John Brannon's howl, equal parts primal power and melodic reach, has ripped air for nearly 25 years, first with hardcore pioneers Negative Approach, then with blues-punkers Laughing Hyenas, and now with the steamrolling quartet Easy Action.
Baltimore City Paper |
Marc Masters |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Glasgow’s Best Band Is Growing Up So Fast!new
While Sons and Daughters proclaim a fondness for that suddenly very popular first wave of post-punk, their sound is far more raw, aggressive and surly than today’s coiffed roster of ripoffs -- forget Chairs Missing, this is chairs smashing.
Dig Boston |
Michael Brodeur |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sons and Daughters
Brit-Poppers a Little Bit Literatenew
Idlewild's Roddy Woomble discusses that undefined point where a song becomes something more than a sequence of impulses.
Dig Boston |
Luke O'Neil |
08-31-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Idlewild
Dead Poets Societynew
After rapper ThankGod was killed, some have wondered if his position at the center of Cleveland's hip-hop scene was his undoing.
Cleveland Scene |
Joe P. Tone |
08-30-2005 |
Music
Missy's Recipe for Funnew
Missy Elliott is one of the few artists whose videos are still considered events. They are gleeful, frantic, and full of delicious visual puns and quirky effects.
Miami New Times |
Sam Chennault |
08-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Endangered Songbirdsnew
The Wrens majestically reemerged in 2003, after surviving a near-decade of depression, debacle and disaster.
Houston Press |
Rob Harvilla |
08-29-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Slick Countrynew
Young Jeezy's major-label solo debut is a chrome-shiny opus -- but he sounds more real on countrified bounce than on citified crunk.
Baltimore City Paper |
Makkada B. Selah |
08-29-2005 |
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