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The Beach Boys: 15 Big Ones/Love You

The end of a decade brings with it all sorts of end-of-an-era implications that popular culture only seems to reinforce, and with each new decade, symbols of the previous period self-destruct or disap
Rex: 3

It's no secret that more and more bands are discovering the power of quiet music: From the spare, plodding beauty of Low to the lush, melodramatic earnestness of Red House Painters, it's become a loos
The Foetus Symphony Orchestra Featuring Lydia Lunch: York

Jim Thirlwell (aka Foetus) has pretty much ceased to surprise, since he's been riding the same nihilist train since the early '80s. The sense of despair expands geometrically throughout York, a concep
Fairport Convention: Meet On The Ledge: The Classic Years (1967p;1975)

In the end, however great his work during other periods might be, Bob Dylan's greatest contribution to music will probably come from his mid-'60s run of classic albums beginning with Bringing It All B
Tarbox Ramblers: Tarbox Ramblers

Years later, folk archivist Harry Smith's willingness to freely combine blues, gospel, Appalachian, and other varieties of music on his Anthology Of American Folk Music remains one of the collection's
Roky Erickson: Never Say Goodbye

Texas drug laws of the '60s can best be described as draconian, and that's being generous. Consequently, when 13th Floor Elevators singer and acid-head Roky Erickson was arrested for possession of mar
Fila Brazillia: Jump Leads

A ubiquitous presence on the remix/mix-disc circuit, Fila Brazillia is a British duo with an identity as gauzy and diffuse as its music. Best known for last year's downtempo anthology Another Late Nig
Various Artists: The Oliver Stone Connection

The Oliver Stone Connection follows The Tarantino Connection in a series of CDs featuring prominent directors discussing the music in their work, along with songs and score material from their films.
Toad The Wet Sprocket: Coil

Over the course of six albums, Toad The Wet Sprocket has carved out a respectable niche as a tight, crisp, jangly, earnest little modern-rock band. Hits like "Fall Down, "All I Want" and "Walk On The
The Sea and Cake: The Fawn

After a suprisingly long 18-month wait between records, the usually prolific Chicago supergroup The Sea and Cake has released its fourth album, and like its predecessors, The Fawn deserves permanent r
Fluf: Waikiki

Over the course of four albums, the San Diego band Fluf hasn't done an awful lot to modify its sound: Just about every song in its recorded history is a thick, blustery rock anthem marked by surging,
The High Llamas: Snowbug

Sean O'Hagan, the man behind The High Llamas, has a neat trick: He can make music eerily reminiscent of that made by The Beach Boys in the years following the groundbreaking Pet Sounds album. Unfortun
Susana Baca: Eco De Sombras

Virginia Rodrigues' 1998 debut Sol Negro was a thing of rare beauty. Brought to the world's attention by fellow Bahia, Brazil, native Caetano Veloso, she possesses a voice of astounding purity, lendin
Haino Keiji, Greg Cohen & Joey Baron: An Unclear Trial: More Than This

Improvised music is invariably meant for live consumption, where the give-and-take between musicians is laid bare for all to hear and the ephemeral nature of the playing is intrinsically linked to tha
Man...Or Astro-Man?: Live Transmissions From Uranus

If you're the sort of masochistic, monastic,self-deprivation-loving, or fun-hating person who only owns one Man…Or Astro-Man? album, then Live Transmissions From Uranus is the one to buy. Man…Or Astro
Monkey Mafia: Shoot The Boss

With its confrontational title and cover art portraying police as riot-ready fascists, you might expect Monkey Mafia's Shoot The Boss to be the product of Germany's Digital Hardcore fringe. But instea
A Tribe Called Quest: Beats, Rhymes and Life

The cover should be your first clue: There she is, that same red and green painted lady that's been around since 1991's The Low End Theory. And inside? Pretty much the same low-key, jazzy grooves and
Various Artists: Island 40 Volume 2: 1964-1969 Rhythm & Blues Beat

Though it's difficult to imagine, ska and reggae may never have come to the world's attention—or would at least have taken radically different paths—were it not for the Island Records label, which wil
Master P: Gameface

Once the gold-teeth-sporting, Rolex-flaunting embodiment of Southern rap's limitless commercial potential, Master P increasingly seems adrift. A few years ago, the No Limit name slapped onto a garish,
Kate & Anna McGarrigle: The McGarrigle Hour

Much of the joy of folk music is derived from each player's place in an ever-flowing continuum: Folk is less about progress than revisiting and reinterpreting material from the past. That said, Kate &

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