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The Chemical Brothers: Come With Us

After serving seven years as heirs to a throne that didn't exist, The Chemical Brothers' Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons have found themselves with little to gain and even less to lose. They made a game of
Morcheeba: Who Can You Trust?

Morcheeba operates in the much the same stylistic vein as Portishead: Samples and spare female vocals are subtly laid over languorous beats to create a sound that's simultaneously haunting and stylish
Elliott Smith: Figure 8

Elliott Smith resides in a fascinating pop-cultural place: He's a painfully shy critics' darling with indie-rock cachet, but he's also taken a bow on the Academy Awards stage while standing between Tr
Comet: Chandelier Musings

Considering how little time it's been in existence, the Texas band Comet has drawn 1) a lot of praise, and 2) a lot of comparisons to elegant, slow-moving pop bands like Low and Bedhead. The first res
Thingy: Staring Contest EP

The apparently defunct San Diego band Heavy Vegetable made two great albums (The Amazing Undersea Adventures Of Aqua-Kitty And Friends and Frisbie) that pulled together a remarkable melange of infecti
Kahimi Karie: K.K.K.K.K.

Kahimi Karie is a superstar in her native Japan, an icon of fashion with a little-girl voice. Close friends with Scottish songwriter Momus and musical collage artist Cornelius, Karie combines the form
Royal Crown Revue: The Contender

With the retro-swing craze entering the first phase of critical backlash, bands are clamoring for position in the we-got-here-first sweepstakes. After all, why should Brian Setzer, Royal Crown Revue,
Sebadoh: Harmacy

It used to be, when Sebadoh put out an album, that you'd have to wade through a dozen sloppy, unproduced indie-punk songs to find the refined but awkward pop gems that singer Lou Barlow was born to pl
Cat Stevens: Buddha And The Chocolate Box

You wouldn't know it from its vengeance-driven justice system and two-million-strong prison population, but America loves redemption and forgiveness, especially where its entertainers are concerned. F
The Lovin' Spoonful: Greatest Hits

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
Peter Gabriel: Up

The best R.E.M. album since Automatic For The People, Up establishes a mood of hope-tinged, disillusioned introspection with its first track, and doesn't stop moving from there. Opening with the most
Schleprock: (America's) Dirty Little Secret

Early on in Schleprock's major-label debut, we learn that the current twentysomething generation needs an anthem, and that these alienated youngsters "ain't got no heroes." This Schleprock band clearl
Snoop Dogg: Da Game Is To Be Sold, Not To Be Told

For a brief period following the massive success of Dr. Dre's vastly influential The Chronic, but before the release of his comparatively underwhelming debut Doggystyle, Snoop Dogg was the biggest rap
Confrontation Camp: Objects In The Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear

The first time a rapper got the notion to front a rock band, the result was Ice-T's Body Count, an act better remembered for the controversy it created than the music it produced. Still, if you look a
The Isley Brothers: It's Your Thing: The Story Of The Isley Brothers

Plenty of acts deserve box sets, and even more are capable of filling them, but few actually require them in order to capture a sense of their scope. Indisputably, one such act is The Isley Brothers,
Grace Jones: Private Life: The Compass Point Sessions

Grace Jones is too often dismissed as an Amazonian model-cum-musician construct, an image-based brand rather than a creative talent. To a certain extent, that description is accurate, but there's more
Various Artists: Chess Soul: A Decade Of Chicago's Finest

Best known for sealing in amber the most remarkable talents of the Chicago blues scene's early days—before the scene became an exhausted cliché and fodder for celebrity-owned theme restaurants—the Che
Swingin' Utters: A Juvenile Product Of The Working Class

Just what, you may ask yourself, is the juvenile product of which the title speaks? The best educated guess would be the band itself, as it seems to fancy itself a working-class American version of a
Hovercraft: Experiment Below

Most jam-rock bands are horrible, because they don't know when to solo and when to cooperate. Worse, they don't know when to shut the fuck up. Exception: Hovercraft. This trio creates heavy acid-freak
Old 97's: Too Far To Care

Lots of people are trying their hand at country music these days, and some of them are pretty good. But Old 97's is on top of the neo-twang heap, not because it's the most genuine, or because it's pai

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