AltWeeklies Wire
City Calls Revolutionnew
As "psychedelic" music in the United States and Europe gets more and more nostalgic, leave it to a Japanese trio – with grindcore roots, no less – to poke a lysergic stick in the genre's third eye and make it run around the room screaming.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Back From Extinctionnew
It's difficult to imagine a group that more perfectly represents the zeitgeist of the post-hardcore/pre-grunge slacker underground of '80s noise-rock than Dinosaur Jr.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dinosaur Jr.
Awaken the Guardiannew
A three-disc reissue of Fates Warning's 1986 album reminds metalheads that brains and brawn weren't mutually exclusive in mid-'80s metal.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Awaken the Guardian, Fates Warning
Visual Overloadnew
How much would you pay for a poster advertising a recent rock show? Ten bucks? Twenty? Think again. A new era of rock poster appreciation has arrived, and with it, an entirely bizarre sense of economics.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Art
Tags: visual arts
Not-So-Fantastic Fournew
The entire picture is a vulgar parade of hackwork FX, extreme sports, potty humor, bad WJRR rock and cheesecake shots.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Tim Story, Fantastic Four
Dark Waternew
This well-made remake of Hideo Nakata's Japanese ghost story unfortunately shares too many essential details with a whole host of not-so-well-made movies: embattled but valiant mom, endangered kid, mournful dead girl and water, water everywhere.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Dark Water, Walter Salles
Wedding Crashers Crashesnew
A dick-swingin' standout in a field of flaccid mainstream comedies, the hoped-for runaway hit Wedding Crashers actually has enough honest laughs to fill a 90-minute picture. Too bad it runs closer to two hours.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: David Dobkin, Wedding Crashers
Global Summitnew
There are pop stars who are rich and famous. And then there's Khaled, a Moroccan-born singer who has moved beyond merely being "popular" and into something more along the lines of "omnipresent."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Roman Holler Daynew
Whether or not you consider yourself in the market for an Italian Mean Girls with a stronger political slant, filmmaker Paolo Virzì has taken the concept about halfway down the road to genuine revelation.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Before a Fallnew
Just as certain music critics will go gaga over the most pedestrian pop if it's sung through a mouthful of bad British teeth, so is the mediocre psychodrama My Summer of Love.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Cheeseburger in Purgatorynew
Maybe you can't fight city hall and maybe you can, but the rousing documentary McLibel proves that you can at least stand up to Mayor McCheese and live to talk about it.
Orlando Weekly |
Steve Schneider |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Franny Armstrong, McLibel
The Dis-Meisternew
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
Introspective Etherealitynew
Mia Doi Todd deals out lush, flowery folk on her fifth album.
Orlando Weekly |
Dominic Umile |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Manzanita, Mia Doi Todd
New Flight of Fancynew
Biirdie flies from Florida to L.A. (with a stop at Daniel Lanois' house) to get back to square one.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Biirdie, Morning Kills the Dark
The Thing That Should Not Benew
Metal gods Judas Priest return on the wings of an "Angel."
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
03-09-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Judas Priest, Angel of Retribution
