AltWeeklies Wire
Generation Gapnew
If you're over the age of 22, have a mortgage, don't have a MySpace profile or enjoy standard "singing" in your music, Mason isn't for you.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
01-17-2006 |
Reviews
Dance the Blues Awaynew

This new album of remixes is good, clean, unspectacular, booty-wiggling fun, but Beck without the blues just doesn't feel like Beck.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Sam Eifling |
01-10-2006 |
Reviews
Weather or Notnew
In 2005, South Florida music was a little bit of paradise and a little bit of purgatory.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
01-10-2006 |
Music
Tags: yearinreview2005
Diaspora Jammin'new
In 2005, the global-fusion trend reaped a bountiful harvest of outernational sounds that threatened to overshadow domestic releases in terms of musical innovation, if not pop-cultural magnitude.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Eric K. Arnold |
01-03-2006 |
Music
Freestyle Fellowshipnew

A variety of bands best known for their live shows also made magic in the studio last year.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
01-03-2006 |
Music
Declaration of Independencenew
Def Jux reasserts its status as this decade's most artistically vital and commercially viable independent hip-hop label.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Sam Chennault |
12-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Subtropical Spinnew
While the songs on Trina's third album are rife with tribulations, Miami's diamond princess remains completely nonplussed. She leaves no room for the blues.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Makkada B. Selah |
11-15-2005 |
Reviews
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
What It Means to Miss New Orleansnew

Musicians in the city of blues and jazz have always played as if each day was its last.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
John Nova Lomax |
09-13-2005 |
Music
Payola on the Cheapnew
Bribing DJs used to be expensive, but now mere trinkets will do the trick.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Brett Sokol |
08-09-2005 |
Music
Mississippi God Damnnew
The North Mississippi Allstars grew up with Southern music history. Now they're making it.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
07-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Fiddle Ma Nizzlenew
This duo goes where hip-hop has never gone before: the orchestra pit.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Mosi Reeves |
07-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Roots Run Deepnew
Thirty years into the game, Steel Pulse is beating stronger than ever.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Makkada B. Selah |
07-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: African Holocaust, Steel Pulse
Soul Sistersnew
The two artists who make up neo-soul duo Floetry met on the basketball court in their native England.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
06-07-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Stuff of Legendsnew
Going through some hard times led John Ralston to write more music, and that led to two new albums: the just-released Needlebed and There's Always an Ambulance Around the Bend, to be issued this summer.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
04-25-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews