AltWeeklies Wire
To One's Own Elf Be Truenew
Elf Power's Back to the Web departs into droning, hypnotic territory.
  
    Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  
    Mosi Reeves  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: Elf Power, Back to the Web
  Oh Snap!new
K-Rab, the new musical movement's leading producer, snaps back.
  
    Creative Loafing (Atlanta)  |  
    Mosi Reeves  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: 30318 Project, K-Rab
  An Old Chestnutnew
Even attenuated by age and obscured by primitive recording, Tolliver's charms more than rival the polished virtuosity of most modern re-enactors.
  
    Style Weekly  |  
    Peter McElhinney  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: Now and Then, Speedy Tolliver
  Burning Sagenew
The Exchange Session works because these very different musicians meet each other halfway, resulting in something that sounds like an oxymoron: accessible experimental jazz.
  
    Style Weekly  |  
    Mark Richardson  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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  A Big No, No, Nonew
These 11 tracks are filled with polished guitars, structured arrangements, sing-song rhythms and an overall sense of lethargy -- and it's not just because the tempos have eased.
  
    Style Weekly  |  
    Hillary Langford  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: Show Your Bones, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  Tiga Goes Popnew
This Montreal-based DJ performs vocal duties on his new disc.
  
    NOW Magazine  |  
    Benjamin Boles  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: Tiga
  Transit Zonenew
Faun Fables have an existential subway dilemma.
  
    NOW Magazine  |  
    Tim Perlich  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: Faun Fables
  Puttin' the Hella in Coachellanew
 
    
    This year's festival was filled with music, sunburn,  and a "theatrically craptastic" performance by Madonna.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Alie Ward  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
    Music
  
  Accident at Seanew
Unicorns become Islands.
  
    L.A. Weekly  |  
    Margaret Wappler  |  
    05-04-2006  | 
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    Tags: Islands
  Sort of Haphazardnew
Blood on the Wall pick up bits and pieces from four decades of rock.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Gene Armstrong  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: Blood on the Wall, Awesomer
  Collective Farmnew
The Essex Green pool their influences and talents.
  
    Tucson Weekly  |  
    Annie Holub  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: The Essex Green, Cannibal Sea
  Raw Nervenew
The Baltimore femcee looks to build on her undgerground buzz.
  
    Baltimore City Paper  |  
    Jess Harvell  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: Shellbe RAW, The Soundtrack
  Bright Knight of the Analog Soulnew
The characters that inhabit Vanderslice's music are not him -- but, then again, maybe they are.
  
    San Francisco Bay Guardian  |  
    Duncan Scott Davidson  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: John Vanderslice
  High-School Confidentialnew
With a new album, Marcus Rubio makes his teen-chamber-pop move.
  
    San Antonio Current  |  
    Gilbert Garcia  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
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    Tags: Marcus Rubio
  Moonlighting on Music Rownew
Actors John Corbett and Rick Moranis try their Hollywood hand at country music.
  
    Nashville Scene  |  
    Katie Dodd  |  
    05-03-2006  | 
    Music