AltWeeklies Wire
A Hormone-Charged Hazenew
This is what Le Tigre would sound like had they skipped current-events class to smoke in the bathroom and make out behind the bleachers.
Tags: Morningwood
Bugged Outnew
Last month it was revealed that Sony Music BMG had been covertly installing spyware on its CDs in order to combat music piracy -- here are some of the anti-piracy ideas they rejected.
Slick Dancehall Monotonynew
Former water polo star Sean Henriques reinvented himself as Sean Paul and became dancehall's urban-crossover poster child, but success may have gone to his head.
Houston Press |
Eric K. Arnold |
01-10-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Sean Paul, The Trinity
Music to Cover Your Eyes Tonew
Houston's Nick DiFonzo has one of the world's finest collections of bad album covers.
Houston Press |
John Nova Lomax |
01-10-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dance the Blues Awaynew
This new album of remixes is good, clean, unspectacular, booty-wiggling fun, but Beck without the blues just doesn't feel like Beck.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Sam Eifling |
01-10-2006 |
Reviews
Weather or Notnew
In 2005, South Florida music was a little bit of paradise and a little bit of purgatory.
New Times Broward-Palm Beach |
Jonathan Zwickel |
01-10-2006 |
Music
Tags: yearinreview2005
Learning to Be Patientnew
Goapele's major label debut arrives six months late and right on time.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Change It All, Goapele
Live After Deathnew
The posthumous projects that keep on coming out beg the question: Is Tupac overrated?
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
01-09-2006 |
Music
Tags: Tupac Shakur
Sugar in the Rawnew
This Oakland blues diva specializes in bawdy, bombastic and ebullient showmanship.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sugar Pie DeSanto
For the Recordnew
While 67,518 discs were released in 2005, these were the 10 that really mattered.
Notes From Undergroundnew
Two decades on, Denver's Little Fyodor is still strange, witty and putting out geeky art-punk.
Westword |
Jason Heller |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Little Fyodor
Airborne Againnew
After losing one of its founding members last fall, Planes Mistaken for Stars regroups and takes flight.
Westword |
Tuyet Nguyen |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
No Napsnew
After leaving Atlantic Record, the Nappy Roots aren't sleeping on their independence.
Westword |
Michael Roberts |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Nappy Roots
Past and Presentnew
The music on this North Carolina band's debut captures the feel of a half-century ago while dealing with the day-to-day difficulties of the here and now.
Dallas Observer |
Darryl Smyers |
01-09-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Stillhouse, Through the Winter
New Order Comin' Upnew
Cleveland's Whitechapel admits its influences, creating a sound that's more like classic New Order than any New Order albums from the last decade.
Cleveland Scene |
D.X. Ferris |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Whitechapel
