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Timo Maas: Loud

Timo Maas rose from obscurity to godhead status with his remix of Azzido Da Bass' "Dooms Night," a wildly praised genre mash-up that was adopted as an anthem by movements as far afield as trance and t
Green Day: Nimrod

It's amazing how little time it took for the Berkeley-based pop-punk band Green Day to plummet from godzillion-selling superstardom to the point where folks are muttering the word "has-been." Like Hoo
Sinéad O'Connor: Faith and Controversy

Not long after the release of her powerful 1987 debut, The Lion And The Cobra, trouble began to surround Sinéad O'Connor. Some of that trouble has been of her own creation, some not, but her career ha
The Go-Betweens: The Friends Of Rachel Worth

Last year, The Go-Betweens released a collection of early material drawn from the late '70s dubbed The Lost Album. It was the first "new" release from the Australian band since 1989, when the mostly a
Squirrel Bait: Squirrel Bait

Squirrel Bait is a fondly remembered band of Louisville teens who made two appropriately brief recordings before flaming out in late 1986. The group's urgent, abrasive-yet-melodic, post-Husker Du punk
Various Artists: In His Own Sweet Way: A Tribute To Dave Brubeck

With the occasional exception, people just don't buy jazz records in large numbers anymore; consequently, labels are less likely than ever to take risks on players who, talented or not, just may not r
Various Artists: Kurtis Blow Presents The History Of Rap Vol. 1: The Genesis

These three CDs, assembled and annotated by pioneering rapper Kurtis Blow, attempt, with varying degrees of success, to provide a history of rap music from its origins in the early '70s through the en
Joel R.L. Phelps: The Downer Trio EP

Silkworm has seen loads of critical acclaim for albums like last year's Firewater, its first recording after singer Joel R.L. Phelps left the group to embark upon a solo career. But that band's best w
Juliana Hatfield: Beautiful Creature

In the early '90s, thanks to Guns 'N Roses and Bruce Springsteen, it briefly looked like releasing two albums simultaneously would become common practice among artists with enough material to fill two
Poole: The Late Engagement

Alaska Days, the 1995 debut album by the Virginia band Poole, contained some of the decade's most exhilarating and woefully overlooked pop music. Breathless and shimmering, Alaska Days was devoid of t
Various Artists: The Philly Sound: Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff

While Detroit and Memphis, by way of Motown and Stax, dominated the sound of soul music in the '60s, the sound of the pre-disco '70s came from Philadelphia. Most of the artists responsible for the smo
Yatsura: Slain By Urusei Yatsura

The members of Yatsura appear at first to be a pretty unremarkable bunch of indie-rockers. They're ugly, they're from Scotland, and they sing too many songs about being in a band. Those facts notwiths
Make Up: I Want Some

In many ways, the seven-inch single is the ideal medium through which to experience Washington, DC's Make Up. Not only does the vinyl format pay tribute to the classic soul sides and obscure Nuggets t
Movietone: Day And Night

Bristol, England's Flying Saucer Attack has spawned some odd spin-offs, from the space-rock, jungle and drum-and-bass of Matt Elliott's one-man Third Eye Foundation to the ever-shifting sounds of bass
Various Artists: The Songs Of Jimmie Rodgers: A Tribute

Jimmie Rodgers has been called The Father Of Country Music, and while that's high and accurate praise, it doesn't quite cover the scope of his work. Collaborating with, among others, Louis Armstrong,
Dave Alvin: Public Domain: Songs For The Wild Land

As one of the leaders of the Los Angeles band The Blasters, Dave Alvin was a driving force in the then-insurgent roots-rock movement. In the case of The Blasters, "roots" referred to the earliest days
Future Bible Heroes: Memories Of Love

It would be presumptuous to say that Stephin Merritt, the prolific frontman of Magnetic Fields and Future Bible Heroes, is the consummate master of modern pop. After all, he's not doing anything terri
Jason Falkner: Can You Still Feel?

Their music doesn't sound much alike, but it's fair to compare Jason Falkner to one of last year's most deserving critical darlings, Rufus Wainwright: Both build from a foundation of classic, timeless
George Martin: In My Life

Recent weeks bring the release of two albums that give the term "vanity project" a bad name. George Martin achieved fame as The Beatles' producer, overseeing nearly all of the band's albums. In the ye
Howe Gelb: Hisser

Giant Sand was never much of a band. It was more of a musical co-op, with various players and eccentric personalities checking in and out of the colony. Giant Sand's one constant has always been enigm

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