AltWeeklies Wire
Valuable Cultural Reference is Revealednew
The group's growth from a primitive band of proletariat hooligans into a biting and mechanical art monster is encapsulated in this collection.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: The Ex, Singles. Period.
Singer Sounds Like She's From Southnew
Shannon McNally’s literate, evocative lyrics and black-coffee voice examine matters of the heart from a fresh, intelligent perspective that renders all geographical references insignificant.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Hal Horowitz |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Geronimo, Shannon McNally
Album Boasts Unadorned, Early Hip-Hop Spiritnew
The Find feels like a trip back to a time before crack and guns got out of control in urban America, when rappers were still wearing smiles.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Tamara Palmer |
09-08-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Ohmega Watts, The Find
Every Track a Money Shotnew
It’s impossible to imagine a band more devoted to excitement, more single-minded in its pursuit of satisfaction, more successful in replicating the arousal/gratification cycle without becoming monotonous.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
09-02-2005 |
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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 |
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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 |
Reviews
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
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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Rescued from Obscuritynew
Instead of fighting hippie excess with speed, volume, and a few choice barre chords, the Groovies embraced melody, economy, and reverb-kissed riffs. Also reviewed is Puerto Muerto's Songs of Muerto County.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
08-26-2005 |
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Gospel Doesn't Have to be Watered-Downnew
Marty Stuart and his three-piece band the Fabulous Superlatives cook up a spicy Southern brew, and the album shows that the genre-defying Stuart can do much more than is allowed within country's narrow confines.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
08-25-2005 |
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Debut Album is Instrumental Blissnew
Thunderous washes of melancholy elevate the music from pop to an operatic soundtrack guided by churning and chugging guitars that swell with desolation.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Chad Radford |
08-25-2005 |
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