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The Lovin' Spoonful: Greatest Hits

If you heard a collective gasp a few months back, it was probably just music fans reacting to the announcement that this year's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees include The Lovin' Spoonful. While
Damien Jurado And Gathered In Song: I Break Chairs

Two phrases on the cover of Damien Jurado's new album point to a change in direction: First, it's credited to "Damien Jurado And Gathered In Song," implying the presence of something sonically meatier
Rocket From The Crypt: RFTC

Scream, Dracula, Scream!, Rocket From The Crypt's most recent album, ambitiously tried to pack a heavy sonic punch into every song. The result was a record with some strong points, but which wasn't pa
Tito & Tarantula: Hungry Sally & Other Killer Lullabies

Tito is Tito Lariva of the Plugz and Cruzados, as well as the man who played Ramon in the David Byrne film True Stories. Tarantula is a bunch of other musicians, including former Oingo Boingo drummer
L7: The Beauty Process: Triple Platinum

L7 is a virtual household name, thanks to its Lollapalooza prominence, heavy promotional hype, and status as one of the biggest all-woman rock bands around. The problem is that L7's albums have never
Guided By Voices: Mag Earwhig!

Contrary to rumors, Guided By Voices did not break up following the lukewarm public reception to last year's Under The Bushes, Under The Stars and the simultaneous release of solo albums by bandleader
Green Velvet: Whatever

With "Flash," a classic single that's become a ubiquitous mix-disc standard for DJs of all stripes, Chicago-house poet Green Velvet painted a rich sociological portrait of the rave scene's love-hate r
The Roots: Illadelph Halflife

Philadelphia's The Roots hit it big last year with Do You Want More?!!!??!, an album that, much like the Fugees' The Score, won loads of acclaim for its revolutionary use of—gasp!—live instruments. Ho
Sun Ra: Pathways To Unknown Worlds/Friendly Love

Ever since Evidence Records began reissuing his myriad releases on CD, the veil of mystery surrounding eccentric visionary jazz man (and self-proclaimed spaceman) Sun Ra has slowly eroded. In some way
Morrissey: Maladjusted

Despite predictions to the contrary, it was eccentric lead singer Morrissey rather than brilliant guitarist Johnny Marr who found success following the breakup of The Smiths in 1987, and for a few yea
Tuscadero: My Way Or The Highway

When Tuscadero's The Pink Album first came out, it seemed an awful lot like insincere kitsch: With its cutesy, bouncy pop—and its cover art, which was designed to look like a grade-school notebook—the
Mike Watt: Contemplating The Engine Room

Punk icon and rugged individual Mike Watt has done something genuinely strange and original: With Contemplating The Engine Room, he's created a nautical/autobiographical punk-rock opera. Against all l
Various Artists: Fresh Tracks

Every region of the country has numerous bands that are big in a given area, but obscure outside a small web of college towns and hometown haunts. Each sells a few thousand records, draws respectable
Various Artists: Roots Of Reggae Volume Two: Rock Steady

Begun by The Specials and other Two-Tone Brits in the early '80s, and continued today by everyone from The Mighty Mighty Bosstones to No Doubt, the so-called "ska revival" has been in progress for so
Downset: Do We Speak A Dead Language?

The music of Downset, like that of fellow hardcore rap-metallers Rage Against The Machine and Biohazard, is plagued by a fundamental contradiction: Sure, the music appeals to 15-year-old hammerheads,
Ron Sexsmith: Whereabouts

The genius of singer, songwriter, critical darling, Toronto resident, and Elvis Costello favorite Ron Sexsmith lies in his rare, well-conceived mixture of the awkward and the opulent. He's not afraid
Jonathan Richman: Surrender To Jonathan

Check out this cover! Jonathan Richman—after 20 albums spanning children's songs, Spanish-language music and a stab at country—has recorded an entire album of pirate music! Of course that's not true:
Bill Rieflin: Birth Of A Giant

It's sad to say, but Ministry has become industrial rock's portrait of Dorian Gray. While the group continues its spiral toward irrelevance, musicians once associated with it continue to surprise with
Brian Wilson: Smile

Titling an album Smile begs comparison to the fabled, impossibly ambitious, never-released Beach Boys project of the same name. And the Twin Cities alt-country band The Jayhawks may just be that audac
Octant: Shock-no-par

It's hard to top the gimmick behind the side project Octant: Satisfact's Matt Steinke and Mocket's Tassy Zimmerman created virtually all of the music on Shock-no-par using their assortment of homemade

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