AltWeeklies Wire
Bearable Lightness
When an album's title is its only major misstep, well, that's something to be happy about.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Dempsey |
11-03-2006 |
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Under Pressure
Banks doesn’t exactly make good on his promise to "make" some of the fine producers he's unearthed.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
11-03-2006 |
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Tags: Lloyd Banks, Rotten Apple
The Mook of Love
Saturday Night Wrist is no disaster, but it definitely shows what happens when a talented frontman decides that it’s time to assuage his own boredom.
Washington City Paper |
Joe Warminsky |
11-03-2006 |
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Tags: Deftones, Saturday Night Wrist
Greasepaint and Suffering
My Chemical Romance still excels at pop-punk, but everything about The Black Parade calls for more imagination than it displays here.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Richardson |
11-03-2006 |
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What It Takes
This album charges right into unfiltered Southern soul, and its target audience may need a few listens to digest it.
Washington City Paper |
Michael J. West |
10-20-2006 |
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Cogito Ergo Summit
Mastodon makes toast of other metal bands.
Washington City Paper |
Christopher Porter |
10-20-2006 |
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Tags: Mastodon, Blood Mountain
Ready to Buy
Combs wasn't always this lame.
Washington City Paper |
Chris Richards |
10-20-2006 |
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Tags: Diddy, Press Play
Stations of the Bossnew
The Hold Steady get lit, literate.
Washington City Paper |
David Dunlap Jr. |
10-13-2006 |
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Active Voicenew
At 76, Coleman still sparkles.
Washington City Paper |
Brent Burton |
10-13-2006 |
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Tags: Ornette Coleman, Sound Grammar
The Wild, the Innocent, and the iPod Shuffle
We look to the Killers for thrills, not wisdom, and more often than not, Sam's Town delivers.
Washington City Paper |
Mark Richardson |
09-29-2006 |
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Tags: The Killers, Sam’s Town
Shag-a-dull-ic
When you're barely outselling Paris Hilton, you've got trouble.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
09-29-2006 |
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Tags: Jessica Simpson, A Public Affair
My Art Belongs to Daddy
Beyonce fields a new team but comes up short.
Washington City Paper |
Sarah Godfrey |
09-29-2006 |
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Unclear on the Concept
M. Ward's Post-War has a concept problem: The war he's singing about isn't over.
Washington City Paper |
Justin Moyer |
09-22-2006 |
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Empire Strikes Out
Empire sounds as if it were composed on a pub napkin when the band was on bacchanalian auto-pilot during five spare minutes between a drunken brawl with Liam Gallagher and a failed pass at Kate Moss.
Washington City Paper |
Aaron Leitko |
09-22-2006 |
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Seven the Hard Way
Carter's death only makes his and Grammer's blues more transcendental.
Washington City Paper |
Pamela Murray Winters |
09-18-2006 |
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