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Zap Mama: A Ma Zone

In the search for the next soul savior, it's tempting to lazily stay on American soil. Sure, soul music is inherently American, and recent discoveries such as Maxwell, Macy Gray, and D'Angelo are welc
Gary Lucas: Improve The Shining Hour

Guitar whiz Gary Lucas is better known for his collaborators than his solo work, which is understandable considering his high-profile stints with Nick Cave, Captain Beefheart, and Jeff Buckley. But hi
Lou Reed: Perfect Night: Live In London

Lou Reed's live albums are bound to be a crapshoot: Like Bob Dylan, Reed has a habit of radically reworking his material in concert—often songs revered in their original form—and the results can be al
Atmosphere: Lucy Ford

Half comedy, half tragedy, Atmosphere's Lucy Ford suggests what Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP might have sounded like had Eminem worked through his homophobia, violence, and misogyny in therapy, read m
The Ghastly Ones: A Haunting We Will Go-Go

You may associate White Zombie's Rob Zombie with many things: ass-stomping metal, movie-monster theatrics, conspiracy-theory sci-fi lyrics that teeter between goofy and really goofy. But fun? While th
Galaxie 500: Copenhagen

Since minor indie legend Galaxie 500 broke up in 1991, the Rykodisc label has re-released all three of its languorous, jittery, melodic pop albums, plus a complete disc of singles and miscellany. Thes
Ol' Dirty Bastard: N***a Please

In a genre in which larger-than-life, questionably sane eccentrics are about as much of a novelty as unwashed male virgins at an Insane Clown Posse concert, Ol' Dirty Bastard (a.k.a. Big Baby Jesus, a
Barbara Manning: 1212

San Francisco-based singer/songwriter Barbara Manning may not be one of the most prolific artists in the world, but she constantly pulls off new tricks in her solo work and in the bands she has been a
Fu Manchu: The Action Is Go

Fu Manchu, the band, has little in common with Fu Manchu, the stoic, goateed criminal mastermind of film-series fame. Instead of thinking up world-domination schemes, the band swaggers, hollers, and g
Mono: Formica Blues

When Portishead released its self-titled sophomore album last year, it seemed like little more than a retread of the band's debut, without as many hooks. But that album is a triumph of innovation when
The Vandals: The Quickening

Punk rock doesn't get much faster or sillier than The Vandals, nor does any piece of music beg to be taken less seriously than a new Vandals record. It's been this way for ages, and the new The Quicke
Uzeda: Different Section Wires

If Uzeda is, as some have termed it, "the Itallian Shellac," that must make vocalist Giovanna Cacciola "the female, non-guitar-playing Steve Albini." It's not the best comparison in the world, but it
The Heads: No Talking, Just Head

Okay, you've got three musicians who used to be in one of the greatest groups of all time. The band, Talking Heads, has long since broken up. What do you do? If you're The Heads, you recruit a revolvi
Soul Asylum: Candy From A Stranger

For a little while, Soul Asylum was a gratifying rock 'n' roll success story: After many years spent blasting out unpretentious Midwestern rock at smoky clubs across America—not to mention an ugly exp
Green Day: Warning

At this point, it's absurd to affix the word "punk" to any description of Green Day's music: Its best-selling 1994 breakthrough Dookie had a lot more to do with pop hooks than fuck-all sneering or fak
Sarah McLachlan: Surfacing

It's been four years since the release of Sarah McLachlan's most recent studio album, the huge-selling Fumbling Towards Ecstasy. In that time, she's spent years on the road, taken time off to mentally
Half Japanese: Bone Head

Half Japanese songs seem simple: Most of them consist of a single guitar-led riff embellished with odd lyrics. But a more thorough listen reveals that the music isn't so simple after all, and that Jad
Boards Of Canada: Geogaddi

One of electronic music's most fully realized acts, Boards Of Canada quietly created its own aesthetic universe on 1998's Music Has The Right To Children, an unassuming album built around hardwired he
Nashville Pussy: High As Hell

Most trends in popular music ultimately do more harm than good: Even if the standard-bearer hits on something special—like, say, Nirvana—the genre du jour almost invariably devolves, producing awful c
Groovie Ghoulies: Re-Animation Festival

Musically, Groovie Ghoulies is a Frankenstein's monster of influences. Its members have the pop sensibilities of Cheap Trick, the punk swagger of Ramones, and the horror-show theme of Misfits firmly l

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