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The U.K. trio's beautiful, hallucinatory pop songs are the stuff the most fascinating, strangest dreams are made of.
By Murray Jason
November 15, 2002
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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
November 12, 2002
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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
November 6, 2002
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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
November 5, 2002
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On his latest offering Berlin-based Marco Haas issues a dose of sparse and gritty yet driven electronic dance music.
By Kyle Wills
November 1, 2002
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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
October 29, 2002
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On his fifth full-length offering, melancholy troubadour Sexsmith ventures into the land of tasteful loops and textures.
By Marshall York
October 28, 2002
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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
October 25, 2002
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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
October 18, 2002
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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
October 14, 2002
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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
October 9, 2002
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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
October 7, 2002
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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
October 4, 2002
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On her latest album, "Blacklisted," alt-country chanteuse Case hangs vivid lyrical images over spectral guitar lines. Listen in.
By Dan Kois
October 2, 2002
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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
October 1, 2002
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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
September 30, 2002
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On "Light & Magic," U.K.-based Ladytron deliver '80s electro designed as much for nightclubs as fashion shows. Listen in.
By Stephen Weiss
September 25, 2002
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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
September 23, 2002
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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
September 20, 2002
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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
September 19, 2002
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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
September 16, 2002
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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
September 13, 2002
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The Liars' debut is a dirty, disorderly dance-punk record crammed with ear splitting vocals and throbbing bass lines. Listen in.
By Kevin Johannesen
September 12, 2002
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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
September 11, 2002
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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
September 4, 2002
Woodbine: "Woodbine"
Glenn Gould: "Goldberg Variations"
Sigur Ros: "( )"
Racebannon: "Satan's Kickin' Yr Dick In"
T. Raumschmiere: "Anti"
MC Paul Barman: "Paullelujah!"
Ron Sexsmith: "Cobblestone Runway"
Ivy: "Guestroom"
Love Life: "Here Is Night, Brothers ..."
The Soft Boys: "Nextdoorland"
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