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Woodbine: "Woodbine"
The U.K. trio's beautiful, hallucinatory pop songs are the stuff the most fascinating, strangest dreams are made of.
By Murray Jason Nov 15, 2002
Glenn Gould: "Goldberg Variations"
A new box set offers the ingenious 1955 interpretation of Bach's odes to God that turned Gould into a star, and the remarkably different version he recorded in 1981 out of contempt for the former.
By Andrew Cline Nov 12, 2002
Sigur Ros: "( )"
On their majestic new album, the Icelandic rock orchestrators use maybe a dozen syllables in a made-up language. Fans vote on the translation.
By Dan Kois Nov 6, 2002
Racebannon: "Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In"
Racebannon's baffling, blistering concept album is the story of an average artist who sells his soul to the Devil to be reborn as Rhonda Delight, the perfect fusion of sex and sound.
By Ross White Nov 5, 2002
T. Raumschmiere: "Anti"
On his latest offering Berlin-based Marco Haas issues a dose of sparse and gritty yet driven electronic dance music.
By Kyle Wills Nov 1, 2002
MC Paul Barman: "Paullelujah!"
On his sophomore album, the New Jersey rapper delivers a hilarious concoction of erudite lyrics and crude sexual fantasies that has even himself wondering how he can be "so smart and so stupid at the same time."
By Dan Kois Oct 29, 2002
Ron Sexsmith: "Cobblestone Runway"
On his fifth full-length offering, melancholy troubadour Sexsmith ventures into the land of tasteful loops and textures.
By Marshall York Oct 28, 2002
Ivy: "Guestroom"
New York's Ivy play Steely Dan, Serge Gainsbourg, the Cure and others on this collection of cool, melodic pop tune remakes.
By Charlotte Walton Oct 25, 2002
Love Life: "Here Is Night, Brothers ..."
Baltimore's art-goth quartet Love Life's second album teeters on the brink of dark, twisted operatic rock and full-blown demonic surrealism.
By Murray Jason Oct 18, 2002
The Soft Boys: "Nextdoorland"
Twenty-two years after their classic LP "Underwater Moonlight," the Brit-pop quartet around Robyn Hitchock are as sardonic, romantic and multilayered as ever and even take a jab at Bush's war on terror.
By Murray Jason Oct 14, 2002
Music preview: Doug Martsch
On his first solo release, "Now You Know," Built to Spill singer Martsch goes back to basics, exhibiting his self-taught slide guitar style on a spare, beautiful record.
By Dan Kois Oct 9, 2002
Music preview: Future Bible Heroes
On "Eternal Youth" Claudia Gonson, Stephen Merritt (Magnetic Fields) and Christopher Ewen craft delightfully over-the-top nu-disco songs tossed with witty pop aperçus.
By Dan Kois Oct 7, 2002
Music preview: Asylum Street Spankers
Making musical references that are all over the map, the Spankers sing clever and wickedly funny lyrics about things the band members love: sex, drugs and music.
By Charlotte Walton Oct 4, 2002
Music preview: Neko Case
On her latest album, "Blacklisted," alt-country chanteuse Case hangs vivid lyrical images over spectral guitar lines. Listen in.
By Dan Kois Oct 2, 2002
Music preview: The Paybacks
On "Knock Loud" the Detroit garage band combines high-energy rock with lyrics that are disarmingly compassionate and profoundly desperate. Listen in.
By Anthony York Oct 1, 2002
Music preview: Pulp
No band in the world combines acid intelligence and expansive rock bathos with such sublimity. Their new album, "We Love Life," proves it. Listen in.
By Michelle Goldberg Sep 30, 2002
Music preview: Ladytron
On "Light & Magic," U.K.-based Ladytron deliver '80s electro designed as much for nightclubs as fashion shows. Listen in.
By Stephen Weiss Sep 25, 2002
Music preview: Mr. Lif
The fast-talking rapper's album "I Phantom" is the first hip-hop record after 9/11 that's explicitly critical of the current administration. Listen in.
By Dan Kois Sep 23, 2002
Music preview: Shemekia Copeland
Young blues singer Copeland teams up with blues piano legend Mac "Dr. John" Rebennack on her new CD "Talking to Strangers." Listen in.
By Mark J. Miller Sep 20, 2002
Music preview: Hot Club of Cowtown
On their lastest CD, "Ghost Train," the Hot Clubbers play impeccable Western swing and early string jazz tunes that rocked American dance halls in the 1930s. Listen in.
By Charlotte Walton Sep 19, 2002
Music preview: Spoon
On "Kill the Moonlight," the Austin, Texas, band Spoon play minimalist rock that's too driving and danceable to be "art rock" yet too eccentric to be anything but. Listen in.
By Murray Jason Sep 16, 2002
Music preview: Karrin Allyson
On her latest album, "In Blue," vocalist Allyson slides effortlessly through blues classics by Bobby Troup, Bonnie Raitt, Max Roach, Joni Mitchell and others. Listen in.
By Max Garrone Sep 13, 2002
Music preview: Liars
The Liars' debut is a dirty, disorderly dance-punk record crammed with ear splitting vocals and throbbing bass lines. Listen in.
By Kevin Johannesen Sep 12, 2002
Music preview: Aimee Mann
Mann's latest album, "Lost in Space," is a collection of sardonic ballads that further defines her as a monologist for the lost and broken. Listen in.
By Dan Kois Sep 11, 2002
Music preview: Mecca Normal
The Canadian avant-garde folk duo's tenth album, "The Family Swan," pairs deliriously intense vocals with sublime guitar work. Listen in.
By Murray Jason Sep 4, 2002
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