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Freaking in Codenew

The Weekly Dig deciphers the playful insanity of indie rockers Mad Man Films.

Dig Boston | Chris Haire | 06-29-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Don Henley, Don Quixote: Whichevernew

The Dirty Projecters wander through the windmills of California, in search of love, wisdom and the "Boys of Summer".

Dig Boston | Michael Brodeur | 06-29-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Dirty Projectors, The Getty Address

Vast Aire's latest LP, made in collaboration with DJ Mighty Mi, finds the charismatic MC spanning decades in minutes, assuming the voice of a series of anonymous personas: from a jobless jazz-era drummer to a Vietnam draft-dodger.

Orlando Weekly | Makkada B. Selah | 06-28-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: hip-hop, rap, Cannibal Ox, The Workover, Vast Aire

Going Undergroundnew

Singer Jamie Stewart prefers baroque answers to pressing problems. A track on Xiu Xiu's upcoming CD describes cannibalizing the commander-in-chief.

Riverfront Times | Andrew Miller | 06-28-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Iraq, Iran, La Foret, Xiu Xiu, Caralee McElroy, genocide in Sudan, President George W. Bush

Hangar 51 Revisitednew

On a flight chartered by Foo Fighters to Roswell, N.M., the UFO-obsessed town where the band was scheduled to perform, passengers got Milky Way bars and alien-themed coloring books.

Boston Phoenix | Jeff Miller | 06-28-2005 | Concerts

Tags: Foo Fighters, In Your Honor

Dubble Trubblenew

Troubled Hubble packs a one-two wallop of great music and an even better live show.

Houston Press | John Nova Lomax | 06-27-2005 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: indie rock, Clem Snide, Making Beds in a Burning House, REM, Troubled Hubble

Rebirth of Slicknew

The reorbiting Digable Planets are "cool like dat" once again. More than a decade after winning a Grammy, the trio makes its comeback.

East Bay Express | Rachel Swan | 06-27-2005 | Music

Tags: Sonny Rollins, Digable Planets, Art Blakey, free-jazz, Grammy, In Living Color

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

Tags: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Dear Friends: Music from Final Fantasy

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

Tags: comets on fire, Field Recordings from the Sun

Spotlight on: Tinsley Ellisnew

Some live double albums are criticized for not whittling the material down to a single disc. Based on the roaring performance of these 11 songs, the album could have gone twice the distance and leaves listeners wanting more.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Hal Horowitz | 06-27-2005 | Reviews

Tags: Tinsley Ellis, Live - Highwayman