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The Ladybug Transistor: The Albemarle Sound

The Ladybug Transistor is from Brooklyn, but you wouldn't know it from the new The Albemarle Sound: It sounds like the work of a band out of some forgotten pocket of music's past. Though conversant wi
Ric Ocasek: Troublizing

Since the dissolution of The Cars in the mid-'80s, the prominence of frontman Ric Ocasek as a solo artist has declined in direct proportion to his rise in importance as a producer for such bands as We
Various Artists: Roots Of Reggae Volume One: Ska

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
Matthew Sweet: Blue Sky On Mars

It took a few albums for Matthew Sweet to become a commercial success, but 1991's Girlfriend was a worthy star vehicle: Complicated but catchy, diverse but accessible as a whole, the album was one of
Ex-Action Figures: Ex-Action Figures

Ex-Action Figures is a pop band, and its music is what pop is about. It's as hook-laden and quirky as pop should be, and it invites you to jump around the room exactly the way pop music should. The st
Gus Van Sant: Gus Van Sant

With a four-track recorder purchased for his first feature film (the strangely unavailable Mala Noche), director and novelist Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, Drugstore Cowboy) also recorded a couple
Freestylers: We Rock Hard

It's an irony at odds with conventional wisdom: In more than 20 years of existence, the greatest contributions rap has made to music have been compositional rather than lyrical. The rise of hip-hop on
Jon Langford: Skull Orchard

Jon Langford is a Mekon, a Waco Brother, and a Welshman. This is his first solo album, and he's using it to address the decaying state of his particular British principality. In doing so, he's assembl
Favez: A Sad Ride On The Line Again

"We tried to make the following songs as slow and depressing as we could," write the members of Favez in the liner notes to the often breathtaking A Sad Ride On The Line Again, the best album to be re
The Lemonheads: Car Button Cloth

The Lemonheads (and frontman Evan Dando in particular) faced a huge backlash after the release of 1994's Come On Feel The Lemonheads and the media overload that followed. And though Dando didn't handl
Lullaby For The Working Class: I Never Even Asked For Light

When the Nebraska band Lullaby For The Working Class released its full-length debut, Blanket Warm, last year, the group was almost invariably pigeonholed along with the vast number of "No Depression"
Deathray: Deathray

Every summer needs at least one great power-pop record like Weezer's self-titled debut, Urge Overkill's Saturation, or Fountains Of Wayne's brilliant Utopia Parkway, any of which can withstand hundred
Pras: Ghetto Supastar

It's been a pretty exciting ride for the members of The Fugees, both together and apart. After 1996's half-masterpiece The Score, the group could have easily devolved into an Arrested Development for
Various Artists: Swing West!: Western Swing

Nashville may be the indisputable home of the country-music industry, but that hasn't always been the case. Of course, any country fan can tell you that being home to the industry isn't the same as be
George Jones: Cold Hard Truth

In the wake of a near-death experience that announced to the world his fall from the wagon, it might have been inevitable that George Jones' first album for Asylum, arriving 40 years after his first s
Richard Pryor: ...And It's Deep, Too!

Richard Pryor was one of the funniest and most fearless comedians of the last century, his keenly observed takes on the human condition (particularly scatological and racial matters) influencing every
Neil Hamburger: Left For Dead In Malaysia

It says something sad about the current state of stand-up comedy that three of the smartest, funniest, and most inventive stand-up albums of the past decade were not the work of a dynamic, hard-workin
Orbital: The Middle Of Nowhere

Before dubious acts like The Prodigy put a face to electronic music, Orbital was playing huge venues worldwide on the basis of music alone. Brothers Paul and Phil Hartnoll were early ambient-techno pi
Seven Mary Three: Orange Ave.

For all the talk of "alternative music" and "modern rock" in the post-Nirvana world, an awful lot of successful new bands have had massive hits that baldly recycle the sounds of bad '70s AOR and worse
Various Artists: Hip Hop For Respect

One of the frustrating things about Ego Trip's irreverent but affectionate Book Of Rap Lists is that many of the songs it lovingly commemorates never made the transition from vinyl to compact disc. To

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