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Esoteric Offeringnew

Rats! is no gateway drug into the mind of Gogogo Airheart, but a solid offering for those who are already there.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Chad Radford | 03-09-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Gogogo Airheart, Rats! Sing! Sing!

Brisbane Bopnew

Australia's The Grates get ready for their close-up.

NOW Magazine | Tim Perlich | 03-09-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: The Grates

A Psychoactive Messnew

Retail Detail is awash in fragmented rhythms that jitter like synapses making all the wrong connections -- stoner kids pay good money for this quality of hallucinogenic product.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Chad Radford | 03-09-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Retail Detail, Untied States

Bringing World Music to Atlantanew

As metro Atlanta struggles to get a handle on the wide scope of its cultural diversity, Maya Hoover will try to convey that Ladino is not a typo.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Mark Gresham | 03-09-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Maya Hoover

For Unlawful Col. Knowledgenew

Despite its unique sound, Col. Knowledge's new album hasn't sold particularly well.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Mosi Reeves | 03-09-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Col. Knowledge & The Lickity-Splits, Fall in Love All Over Again With ...

The New Crop of DJsnew

The new millennium's DJ vanguard, like New York's James F!@#$%^ Friedman, has more in common with sommeliers than chefs.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Tony Ware | 03-09-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Go Commando, James F!@#$%^ Friedman

If You're Happy and You Know Itnew

Only in New York could a tentative-sounding indie act that's still wet behind the ears be crowned as the latest best thing since sliced bread by a phalanx of bored bloggers, college radio jocks and music critics.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Mosi Reeves | 03-09-2006 | Music

Tags: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah

Behind the Musicnew

Beth Orton lets her music slowly emerge from her psyche.

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) | Mosi Reeves | 03-09-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Beth Orton, Comfort of Strangers

Sludgy Hard Rocknew

J Mascis returns to his first love -- the drums.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 03-09-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Witch

The Forgotten Citynew

Thanks to decades of Latinization and overdevelopment, the period between Miami's Art Deco glory and its glammy Miami Vice resurrection is often forgotten.

Orlando Weekly | Jason Ferguson | 03-09-2006 | Reviews

Tags: Various Artists, Eccentric Soul: The Deep City Label

New Funk Traditionalists

Atlanta's Entropy reach full expansion.

Charleston City Paper | T. Ballard Lesemann | 03-08-2006 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Atlanta, Crawl, entropy

No Fun

Had Wilco not gotten "important," A.M. would be one of those fantastic, overlooked 90s rock albums you could buy used for next to nothing -- and maybe it would be more fun if it were.

Charleston City Paper | Emerson Dameron | 03-08-2006 | Music

Tags: Wilco, Jeff Tweedy, A.M., Nels Cline