AltWeeklies Wire
The Music Industry's Festival Warsnew
San Diego's Street Scene is part of the industry's newest turf battle.
San Diego CityBeat |
Troy Johnson |
09-19-2007 |
Music
An All-Star Tribute to Ella with True Crednew
Fifteen of Fitzgerald's favorite standards are honored here by some of the best performers in the pop and jazz world.
Phoenix New Times |
Niki D'Andrea |
09-19-2007 |
Reviews
Manu Chao's Global Soundtrack Rolls Onnew
In many ways Chao's strongest album to date, La Radiolina is also his most electrified and may disappoint fans accustomed to the stripped-down acoustic style of his first two offerings.
Tags: La Radiolina, Manu Chao
Terence Blanchard Returns to a Classic Soundnew
In this wrenching album, the jazz trumpeter emerges from a long electric phase that followed his late-'80s collaborations with Donald Harrison and informed the soundtracks he wrote for Spike Lee.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-19-2007 |
Reviews
Kafani Takes to the Rap Game Strictly for Scrillanew
Kafani thinks and talks fast -- in phone conversations he demands to get things "fast, like, ASAP." And he wants his money fast.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kafani, Money is My Motivation
'Kala' is a Party Record with a Point of Viewnew
Arular struck just the right balance of radical politics, innovative production and round-the-way appeal for critics and clubgoers to go apeshit, and this follow-up follows suit.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
09-19-2007 |
Reviews
Insect Warfare's Grindcore is More Cathartic Than Flipping the Birdnew
Great stuff, especially if you've been harboring a deep-seated grudge against a coworker or family member.
Houston Press |
Chris Gray |
09-19-2007 |
Reviews
The Late Big Robert Smith Had a Voice Like a Foghornnew
This is a solid Texas blues disc that recalls those Sunday-evening soirees and Blue Monday jams over on Dowling Street or down in Sunnyside that, sadly, are rapidly slipping into Houston's past.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
09-19-2007 |
Reviews
High on Fire Helped Make Mastodon a Superstarnew
Now the Oakland metal trio may be poised to do the same for itself.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
My Man-Crush on 50 Centnew
50 is fond of eye contact, french fries, action movies, suggestive hand gestures.
Houston Press |
Ben Westhoff |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: 50 Cent
Brooklyn's Dub Master Releases a Smash Solo Discnew
Ticklah vs. Axelrod is so good that it warms you one minute and gives you the chills right afterward.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Cunningham |
09-19-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Ticklah, Ticklah vs. Axelrod
Aliens Head to the Outer Limitsnew
Members of The Beta Band create a new other-worldly band.
Chicago Newcity |
Duke Shin |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: aliens
Iron & Wine Pets 'The Shepherd's Dog'new
Living essentially in the middle of nowhere seems to serve a songwriter like Sam Beam quite well.
Chicago Newcity |
Tom Lynch |
09-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Iron & Wine
The New Pornographers Issue a 'Meh' Albumnew
The joyfully erratic sounds present in their earlier Mass Romantic, Electric Version, and, to some degree, Twin Cinema are, on first listen, surprisingly absent.
Baltimore City Paper |
Allison Levin |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Challengers, The New Pornographers
Common and UGK Offer the Best Rap Releases So Farnew
Common's Finding Forever and UGK's Underground Kingz are "albums" in the true sense of the word: a group of consistent, thematically cohesive songs.
Baltimore City Paper |
Brandon Soderburg |
09-18-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: UGK, Underground Kingz
