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Robyn Hitchcock: Uncorrected Personality Traits

Here's the easiest decision the music-buying public will have to make this season—whether or not to buy a collection of 20 amazing songs from Robyn Hitchcock's first nine albums. Hitchcock is, of cour
Howard Zinn: A People's History Of The United States

If you're going to listen to an audio book, do you really want Lisa Scottoline to show you a good crime, or for Patrick Stewart to read A Christmas Carol? Diversion is all well and good, but if you wa
Various Artists: Sweet Relief II: Gravity Of The Situation

Three years ago, a group of tribute-album staples (Matthew Sweet, Soul Asylum, et al) recorded a bunch of Victoria Williams covers to help out musicians with failing health and no insurance. The album
Portastatic: The Nature Of Sap

Portastatic is the brainchild of Superchunk singer Mac McCaughan, who creates its ambling, introspective albums virtually by himself. And like other "bands" with similar one-man arrangements (Palace,
Tim Buckley: Once I Was

Though they only met once, undeniable parallels exist between late-'60s/early-'70s troubadour Tim Buckley and his son Jeff. Both died young (Tim of a drug overdose at 27, Jeff of an accidental drownin
Foo Fighters: The Colour And The Shape

Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl has had to deal with plenty of strife in the past few years: From the death of Kurt Cobain to the recent breakup of his marriage, he's exper
Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions

The relatively recent canonization of saxophonist Ornette Coleman has already erased from the record the long stretch of controversial contention surrounding his career. But if Coleman's pioneering wo
Michael Penn: Resigned

Why, in the name of all that is holy, does Michael Penn take so long to put out a new record? Much of the career momentum that came with his oft-brilliant 1989 debut March had dissipated by the time h
Metallica: Garage Inc.

Metallica's transformation from a cultish metal act into one of the most popular stadium bands of the '90s has been fascinating to witness, though many longtime fans would argue that the progression h
The Rentals: Seven More Minutes

At first, few things would seem less essential than a Weezer side project, but Matt Sharp's debut as leader of The Rentals made the best of its disposability. Slickly produced and dressed in gooey syn
Gravity Kills: Perversion

Despite an alleged decline in the popularity of heavy metal, loads of bands still get rich off musical aggression: From the speedy, hate-filled metal of Slayer to the bile-purging industrial wreckage
Geto Boys: Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly

"Angry white male? Who the fuck you angry at? You should be angry at your motherfucking self!" screams Geto Boys' Willie D on "Eye 4 An Eye," a blistering track off Da Good Da Bad & Da Ugly that epito
Marianne Faithfull: Vagabond Ways

Marianne Faithfull first achieved fame as Mick Jagger's lover/protege in the '60s—a sweet-faced singer who seemed all wrong, and yet all right, to sing the heartbreaking "As Tears Go By"—before disapp
Prince: Emancipation

It's been a scant three months since the release of the poorly received Chaos and Disorder, the album that finally fulfilled Prince's long-standing obligation to Warner Bros. Records, and already the
Various Artists: Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

How's this for a surprise? Return Of The Grievous Angel is a tribute album that not only holds together as a whole, but does justice to its subject. Of course, it helps when the subject is someone lik
Link Wray: Shadowman

Link Wray will always be known as "the guy who wrote 'Rumble'"—and, unfortunately, as "Who?" to most others. Shadowman isn't about to change that sad fact. As the man who made the electric guitar soun
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult: A Crime For All Seasons

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult has been putting out dark, hedonistic industro-dance-rock for nine years now, releasing album after album of debaucherous material with song titles that say it all: "
Love 666: Please Kill Yourself So I Can Rock

The previous physical manifestation of Love 666, American Revolution, was a bigger-than-life noise-fest preaching violent overthrow of everything society holds dear. It was cartoonish, it lacked subtl
Lyle Lovett: Step Inside This House

It's nice to see that Lyle Lovett has the clout to release an elaborately packaged, two-disc collection of little-known country songs by his favorite Texas songwriters. It's even nicer to see folks li
Red Aunts: Saltbox

Red Aunts' national punk-rock breakthrough came in the form of #1 Chicken, a raucous slab of screechy all-girl punk that boasted "14 songs 23 minutes" right on its packaging. Subtlety was hardly the L

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