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Shukar Collectivenew
A collision of deeply historical-sounding Romanian music and dubby, glitchy electronics, Urban Gypsy is a record that takes a while to wrap your head around.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Shukar Collective, Urban Gypsy
Javier Garcíanew
Javier García's second album abandons pop polish for a much more substantial and adventurous palette.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: 13, Javier García
Seven Outnew
When it comes to Las Vegas, here's something to remember: Elvis Presley ruined everything by making youth culture the defining barometer of popular music.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
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L'Arc-en-Cielnew
For almost 15 years, this arena-rock band has been one of the 800-pound gorillas of the Japanese music scene, selling out huge venues across the country. Ever heard of 'em? Unless you're an anime fan or some unreconstructed Nipponophile, probably not.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-15-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: L'Arc-en-Ciel, Live in USA
SV Mach-IInew
The first new Son Volt full-length in seven years boasts exactly one original member: Jay Farrar, the band’s founder, frontman, and songwriter. Still, the album rocks like a rock band, sounding more like vintage Son Volt than solo Farrar.
Illinois Times |
Rene Spencer Saller |
07-15-2005 |
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Touched by the Crimson Kingnew
Jon Schaffer and Hansi Kürsch are two guys who take their shit way seriously, so it's not surprising that this collaboration is far from your typical haphazard supergroup trainwreck.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
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Hope A Little Hardernew
Hitting most of the right notes in mostly the right order, there's no reason for this new album from Hopewell to be as anemic and disappointing as it is.
Orlando Weekly |
Jason Ferguson |
07-14-2005 |
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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 |
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Third Album is a Musical Blendnew
Stacey Earle and husband Mark Stuart create the kind of smart, intimate, lived-in version of Americana that's an endangered pleasure these days.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Michael Andrews |
07-14-2005 |
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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
Small Sins and Good Old-Fashioned American Indie Rocknew
Canadian writer and producer Thomas D'Arcy has assembled a strikingly intimate yet sonically expansive debut in Small Sins.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Jon Garrett |
07-14-2005 |
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Consistent Painnew
The members of Jet By Day proclaim themselves to be purveyors of "heavy-indie-Southern rock" and indeed, they deliver something like that. It's heavy.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Laurel Snyder |
07-14-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Jet By Day, The Vulture
The Case of the Closetnew
R. Kelly gets crazy in his longest sonic soap opera yet.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
07-13-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: R. Kelly, TP.3 Reloaded
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
All That Jazznew
This quartet of self-proclaimed surrealists who profess disinterest in the "obvious" produces a music that eschews categorization. Some call it broken beat, and others call it acid jazz or nu-jazz.
Miami New Times |
Makkada B. Selah |
07-11-2005 |
Reviews
Tags: Brazilian Girls
