Rolling Stone (p.66) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the wistful 'Homeland Refugee,' a Woody Guthrie-ish folk rock lament for the New Depression."Spin (pp.78-79) - "[I]t feels utterly right....Mining poetry from the everyday, 'Free the Wind' and 'Love's Own Chains' offer homespun observations on affairs of the heart."22.36579
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Q (9/94, p.98) - 3 Stars - Good - "...the sound is familiar to anyone who enjoys the more ruminative side of R.E.M.--unsurprisingly, since Michael Stipe is the producer..."Uncut (p.110) - 5 stars out of 5 - "[The album] sees him peering out of his spyglass at human frailty writ large and helpless..."Alternative Press (1/93, p.55) - "...A chronicler of unusual situations and observances, Chesnutt is what used to be called a storyteller..."Option (Jan-Feb/93, p.85) - "...Chesnutt's rudimentary guitar style and biting lyrics remain....another triumph..."11.85947
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Carefully, perfectly, beautifully built occult horror follows the roadmap of the early '70s and '80s Indie Screams with reverent precision and the occasional, wise reference to the cannon."Box Office "[West] has come up with a period pastiche that mimics the low-res vibe and look of early-1980s horror....And he's done so with more shiver than splat."New York Times "[W]riter-director Ti West shrewdly uses our entire sense memory of horror movie experiences to bring his seen-it-all audience to a jittery state of unnerving, shoe-dropping anticipation."Los Angeles Times "[P]alpably unnerving....Director Ti West has faithfully fashioned a throwback to classic occult horror films of the '70s and '80s."USA Today "From the opening statistic about documented instances of devil-worship, West aims for a mix of the plausible and the ridiculous..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "West stretches the suspense to an almost ludicrous extent, so that every clink and clomp makes you absolutely mental..."Movieline Theres wit but never a wink in this smartly shot production, which pays homage to the 1980s without fetishizing the era. -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "This film may provide an introduction for some audience members to the Hitchcockian definition of suspense: It's the anticipation, not the happening, that's the fun."Chicago Sun-Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The performances are as genuine as the film's style, especially from Donahue as the adorable and typical 80s teen..."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOUSE keeps you guessing which way the sneaky plot is going, all adding up to a satisfying shocker."Empire "Shot on exquisitely shaded 16mm....THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL's main section is pleasurably nerve-racking, an extended soak in gothic atmosphere."Sight and Sound11.35745
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Carefully, perfectly, beautifully built occult horror follows the roadmap of the early '70s and '80s Indie Screams with reverent precision and the occasional, wise reference to the cannon."Box Office "[West] has come up with a period pastiche that mimics the low-res vibe and look of early-1980s horror....And he's done so with more shiver than splat."New York Times "[W]riter-director Ti West shrewdly uses our entire sense memory of horror movie experiences to bring his seen-it-all audience to a jittery state of unnerving, shoe-dropping anticipation."Los Angeles Times "[P]alpably unnerving....Director Ti West has faithfully fashioned a throwback to classic occult horror films of the '70s and '80s."USA Today "From the opening statistic about documented instances of devil-worship, West aims for a mix of the plausible and the ridiculous..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "West stretches the suspense to an almost ludicrous extent, so that every clink and clomp makes you absolutely mental..."Movieline Theres wit but never a wink in this smartly shot production, which pays homage to the 1980s without fetishizing the era. -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "This film may provide an introduction for some audience members to the Hitchcockian definition of suspense: It's the anticipation, not the happening, that's the fun."Chicago Sun-Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The performances are as genuine as the film's style, especially from Donahue as the adorable and typical 80s teen..."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOUSE keeps you guessing which way the sneaky plot is going, all adding up to a satisfying shocker."Empire "Shot on exquisitely shaded 16mm....THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL's main section is pleasurably nerve-racking, an extended soak in gothic atmosphere."Sight and Sound11.35745
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4 stars out of 5 -- "Carefully, perfectly, beautifully built occult horror follows the roadmap of the early '70s and '80s Indie Screams with reverent precision and the occasional, wise reference to the cannon."Box Office "[West] has come up with a period pastiche that mimics the low-res vibe and look of early-1980s horror....And he's done so with more shiver than splat."New York Times "[W]riter-director Ti West shrewdly uses our entire sense memory of horror movie experiences to bring his seen-it-all audience to a jittery state of unnerving, shoe-dropping anticipation."Los Angeles Times "[P]alpably unnerving....Director Ti West has faithfully fashioned a throwback to classic occult horror films of the '70s and '80s."USA Today "From the opening statistic about documented instances of devil-worship, West aims for a mix of the plausible and the ridiculous..." -- Grade: B+A.V. Club "West stretches the suspense to an almost ludicrous extent, so that every clink and clomp makes you absolutely mental..."Movieline Theres wit but never a wink in this smartly shot production, which pays homage to the 1980s without fetishizing the era. -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "This film may provide an introduction for some audience members to the Hitchcockian definition of suspense: It's the anticipation, not the happening, that's the fun."Chicago Sun-Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "The performances are as genuine as the film's style, especially from Donahue as the adorable and typical 80s teen..."Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "HOUSE keeps you guessing which way the sneaky plot is going, all adding up to a satisfying shocker."Empire "Shot on exquisitely shaded 16mm....THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL's main section is pleasurably nerve-racking, an extended soak in gothic atmosphere."Sight and Sound11.35745
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"The new WHEN A STRANGER CALLS is enjoyable..." Sight and Sound11.33142
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"...[Malkovich] seizes the chance to camp it up....The film's slightly lunatic tone also suits Nicolas Cage's acting style..." Sight and Sound "...Fast, funny and robustly acted..." USA Today "...The actors are appealing....[A] renegade action fantasy....[With] nonstop climaxes..."Entertainment Weekly "...[A] thrill ride....[Cage] neatly embodies the noble hero....His charismatic performance gives the film the center..." New York Times "...Malkovich has the charisma to hold the plot together, with another of his dry, intellectual villains..." Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the excellent cast looking like they're having the time of their lives as the criminals' escape creates more and more carnage." Ultimate DVD11.29107
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"...[Malkovich] seizes the chance to camp it up....The film's slightly lunatic tone also suits Nicolas Cage's acting style..." Sight and Sound "...Fast, funny and robustly acted..." USA Today "...The actors are appealing....[A] renegade action fantasy....[With] nonstop climaxes..."Entertainment Weekly "...[A] thrill ride....[Cage] neatly embodies the noble hero....His charismatic performance gives the film the center..." New York Times "...Malkovich has the charisma to hold the plot together, with another of his dry, intellectual villains..." Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the excellent cast looking like they're having the time of their lives as the criminals' escape creates more and more carnage." Ultimate DVD11.29107
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"...[Malkovich] seizes the chance to camp it up....The film's slightly lunatic tone also suits Nicolas Cage's acting style..." Sight and Sound "...Fast, funny and robustly acted..." USA Today "...The actors are appealing....[A] renegade action fantasy....[With] nonstop climaxes..."Entertainment Weekly "...[A] thrill ride....[Cage] neatly embodies the noble hero....His charismatic performance gives the film the center..." New York Times "...Malkovich has the charisma to hold the plot together, with another of his dry, intellectual villains..." Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] the excellent cast looking like they're having the time of their lives as the criminals' escape creates more and more carnage." Ultimate DVD11.29107
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"...Twisty and compelling....Intriguing mystery, sultry atmosphere, sharp performances, and a number of muscular dramatic scenes..." Variety "Watching John Travolta ease into a role is always a pleasure..." Rolling Stone "...Mr. Travolta again carries a film with enjoyable ease..."New York Times "...THE GENERAL'S DAUGHTER is a well-made film with a lot of good acting....It is populated by edgy performances..." Chicago Sun-Times11.27743
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Magnet (p.60) - "'Lazy Bones' and 'Looking Out' are at once mellow, reserved and fluttery..."CMJ - "Prime yourself with some Steppenwolf, the Doors, Deep Purple and Jefferson Airplane...and you'll be ready to travel WEST."Q (Magazine) (p.119) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] fantastically heavy and unusually consistent set of melodic Kraut psychedelia."Mojo (Publisher) (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "The good news is clarity becomes them, offering the Shjips' hallmark rhythmic snap a heightened impact..."Uncut (magazine) (p.105) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Wooden Shjips have spent their entire career refining one idea, whittling it back to its barest bones....More rock music should be this reduced and addictive..."10.3227
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Spin (11/99, p.193) - 6 out of 10 - "...BRAND NEW YEAR [is] a set of odds and ends from the past few years of their shoulda-been-contenders career....Even if the song remains the same, the Bottle Rockets tell stories you want to hear..."Q (4/00, p.87) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[They] clearly have much to offer....being steeped in rock's rich heritage....although vocalist/songwriter Brian Henneman can out-howl the competition, he'll also croon when a song demands it. Good stuff."9.771248
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "This is the sound of a man in love with his record collection - and that makes it music to the ears."8.421917
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Dirty Linen (p.90) - "Hiatt mixes old and new in proportion so that you get a good dose of the material that made you buy a ticket to the show, and also a look at the newest body of work he is on the road supporting."8.415298
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Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Earles knows these songs intimately -- some of the greatest in the folk-country canon -- and delivers them with the ease of breathing, mostly unadorned."Spin (p.86) - "[H]e does his idol justice on this vibrant covers set, delivering supersonic bluegrass and starry-eyed ballads with the same thoughtful finesse."Entertainment Weekly (p.59) - "On his latest album, Steve Earle, who remains Van Zandt's foremost disciple, gives 15 favorites the kind of carefully considered settings they deserve..."Billboard (p.34) - "Throughout, Earle's shape-shifting voice inhabits the songs just like Van Zandt's own colorful characters inhabit them..."Q (Magazine) (p.132) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] dream album, full of devotion, care and spirit as he gently caresses new nuances out of even the much-covered and revered 'Pancho & Lefty,' and adds sinister new layers to 'Marie'..."Record Collector (magazine) (p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "This is an album of subtlety and reserve, which allows the original emotional intent of the music to speak for itself."Uncut (magazine) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Van Zandt could be both masochistic thrill-seeker and gentle poet, and Earle know his subject from the outside in."8.411928
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Rolling Stone (p.77) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t impacts just like any other Steve Earle record -- lyrics first....[With] two fine love songs to Earle's wife, harmony-singing Allison Moorer...."Spin (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s he shows on 'Days Aren't Long Enough' and 'Sparkle and Shine,' the man can still write a damn pretty love song."Entertainment Weekly (p.105) - "SERENADE is awash in unexpected grace notes....A love letter to his new home." -- Grade: B+Uncut (p.106) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Layering acoustic and electric guitars over vaguely hip hop beats, much of it sounds like Earle taking stock of his new home and nodding his approval....It's all invigorating, wonderful stuff."Magnet (p.93) - "[T]he most convincing songs on WASHINGTON SERENADE are about love, devotion, messing up, and simply wanting to be heard."8.401053
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Q (9/00, p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...[They] don't get all shy about the simple therapeutic joys of rocking out, happily acknowledging their debt to Jason & The Scorchers in particular....the broken down balladry of 'Lumberlungs', especially, being a small dark gem..."Uncut (10/00, p.90) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Twelve alcohol-tinged songs infused with remorse, regret, humour and the tightest damn guitar section this side of Crazy Horse..."No Depression (9-10/00, p.115) - "...Authentic roadhouse rawk....recommended to anyone in search of musical spirit..."8.399474
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Entertainment Weekly (p.p.75) - "[E]nriched by roadhouse rhythms and her distinctive whiskey-soaked voice....It's still vintage Rickie..." -- Grade: BQ (p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he eight-minute 'I Was There' showcases her still extraordinary space-pixie vocal chops. Boldly different."Uncut (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "SERMON's musical crudeness gives it a powerful immediacy. Strangely accessible and highly addictive, it's her best work in three decades."No Depression (p.119) - "Jones' new songs are quite literally private prayers. It takes the coalescence of her still astonishingly expressive voice and a sympathetic, locked-tight band to transform those confessions."Mojo (Publisher) (p.104) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "At times primordial, hallucinatory and sweetly self-examining..."8.397217
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Entertainment Weekly (3/1/02, pp.80-81) - "...conjures atmospheric hoodoo...sung-spoken vocals have never sounded so bone-dry, so yearningly romantic, so viciously sarcastic..." - Rating: A-Q (4/02, p.136) - 4 out of 5 stars - "...All narrated by a sensitive, adenoidal wiseguy with a harmonica and a home studio...the songs impart the kind of lost-highway mystery David Lynch used to do so well..."8.393663
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No Depression (p.126) - "Whether personal or public in his expressions, Easton has done what good writers and singers always do: give voice to what most genuinely need voicing."8.393663
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Rolling Stone (p.70) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e turns out loose melodies amid nimble bar-band grooves..."Entertainment Weekly (p.97) - "[With] a cache of Kinks-worthy melodies...[including] the gorgeous 'The Real World,' and 'You're Asking Me,' which could almost be a lost tune from the late '60s."Blender (Magazine) (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "When it comes to writing beautiful, wistfully nostalgic tunes, no one can top former Kinks frontman Ray Davies."Harp (magazine) (p.93) - "WORKING MAN'S CAFE is sharper and more direct, a reaching back to Davies' most biting social commentary and the pointed wit of prime Kinks days."Paste (magazine) (p.71) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "Electric guitars crank for 'Peace In Our Time' and arpeggiate for 'Imaginary Man.' Horns add punch to 'Morphine Song.'"8.393663
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Dirty Linen (p.59) - "[T]his release shows Domino backed by a marvelous band and full horn section, and he sings each and every song as if it were for the first time."8.390758
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Rolling Stone (p.60) - 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "[F]leshed out with choice modern and vintage offerings from Lucinda Williams, Kitty Wells and Tejano pioneer Linda Mendoza."Entertainment Weekly (p.67) - "[R]elative newcomer Ryan Bingham is the soundtrack's real scene-stealer..."Billboard (p.33) - "'Fallin' & Flyin' finds Bridges and Farrell joining forces for an effortlessly tuneful honky-tonk gem..."8.389305
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[H]e runs through a selection of his best-known numbers and some Bob Wills tunes, picking up a fiddle himself for the latter."8.379136
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Q (5/95, p.100) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...Chesnutt appears baffled but not displeased by his growing semi-celebrity, which is fortunate since this brazen, full-sounding tour-de-force promises something approaching stardom."Dirty Linen (2-3/96, p.83) - "There's so much to listen for lyrically that Chesnutt would be interesting no matter what the musical content, but the music is quite solid, and again, unique....a disarming country influence, and a quirky, almost avante-garde one..."Melody Maker (5/6/95, p.35) - "...an uncharacteristically consistent collection, both musically and emotionally. Whereas, before, Vic seemed to feel obliged to relieve his bleakness with glimpses of light relief. Here, happily, he's stark staring sad..."8.379136
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Rolling Stone (3/6/03, p.71) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Songs that are doubly blessed - with memorable musical nuances and a novelist's sense of humanity..."Dirty Linen (06-07/03, p.89) - "...Easton's style varies from folk to pop by way of folk-rock....both beautiful and wistful..."8.379136
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Rolling Stone (6/7/01, p.116) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...A great record....like a road map of Americana from one of its most traveled lights, encompassing roadhouse rockers...and old-school country laments..."Entertainment Weekly (3/9/01, p.83) - "...Finds the king of ripsaw vocals exploring every greasy corner of his roadhouse sound, from the sly Texas 'tonk and swamp boogie to Memphis moaners and elegant uptown blues..." - Rating: B+Q (7/01, pp.112-3) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Raucous saloon stomps....all come kicking and screaming from life: knees-up to breakdown. McClinton's a dazzling plain-spoken lyricist too....Common Man as earthy genius."CMJ (4/23/01, p.19) - "...McClinton keeps the faith, and he's rarely sounded better."No Depression (3-4/01, p.112) - "...A set of strong, evocative, room-warming originals..."8.379136
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Q (5/01, p.106) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Glosses up his small-town sensibilities with a lo-fi production and added muscle from Wilco....The work of a small-town raconteur with a big heart."Magnet (4-5/01, p.73) - "...A Tweedy-like pop genius....tales of longing and lost love....a supremely talented songwriter..."Mojo (Publisher) (4/01, p.92) - "...Showcases an attractive, memorable, singer-songwriter..."8.379136
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Rolling Stone (No. 982, p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...McClinton [is] a rootsy national treasure...."Down Beat (p.70) - 4 stars out of 5 - "McClinton combines powerful singing with musical intelligence on a dozen good-to-excellent songs..."Dirty Linen (p.88) - "McClinton's unrestrained verve allows him to keep making rollicking records, even in his mid-60s....[The songs] communicate his youthful, irascible spirit."8.379136
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Uncut (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] boasts dreamy psych-laments, titanium-heavy riffola, and a relentless urgency..."CMJ (p.5) - "They summon some snake-crawling swagger, but their bread and butter are the John Lennon-on-and-on hook jobs we expect England to grace us with every eight months or so."No Depression (p.131) - "IF WE CAN'T ESCAPE is just a big old glorious and unabashed guitar-rock pop record."8.379136
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Dirty Linen (p.68) - "In traditional pass-the-guitar fashion, each artist takes a turn at the microphone...Yet not surprisingly, they find common ground in themes of heartbreak, faith, and defiance during the album's 14 cuts..."8.379136
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