Tears For Fears – Everybody Loves a Happy Ending
It seemed the 1980s were full of lopsided pop duos – and critics delighted in making sport of those duo’s lesser halves, from John Oates to Andrew Ridgeley to Tears For Fears bass player Curt Smith. More...
Tangle Eye – Alan Lomax’s Southern Journey Remixed
Tangle Eye – the New Orleans duo of Scott Billington and Steve Reynolds – take folklorist Lomax’s 1940-1960 field recordings, and place them into electronic settings, melding the raw soul of the More...
Stone Temple Pilots – Thank You
Stone Temple Pilots can’t win for losing – it seems like every time they get the train moving, frontman Scott Weiland gives in to his addictions (and the police) and everything flies off the tracks once More...
The Shadows – The Final Tour DVD
They may look like the squarest chemistry teachers you ever had, but once upon a time the Shadows made the girls cry and the boys seethe with envy and pick up Stratocasters. Well, English boys and girls, that is-the More...
Ron Sexsmith – Retriever
You’d never know it from looking at his boyish face, but Ron Sexsmith is 40 years old – so it’s about time he started sounding on record like the natural that his songs always suggested he was. More...
Rush – In Rio DVD
Man, are these Brazilians happy to see Rush. I mean happy. In person, on film, on video or in my most bizarre fever dream, I have never seen a more excitable audience in all my days (roughly 11,555, if you must More...
Rush – Feedback
For longtime Rush fans, the news must have sounded downright bizarre: the release of covers EP featuring songs from the late 1960s, the days when the members of the trio were developing their staggering chops on More...
Razorlight – Up All Night
This English foursome’s debut has polarized critics on both sides of the Atlantic – some in the U.K. press (never known for understatement) have declared it the year’s best album, an evaluation More...
Radford – Sleepwaker
This second album from the band led by Englishman (and Los Angeles transplant) Johnny Mead is sadly reminiscent of the waning days of the mid-’90s alt-rock boom, when record labels were snapping up faceless More...
Queensryche – Tribe
The return – at least part-time – of guitarist Chris DeGarmo raised high hopes for a return to form for these Seattle prog-rockers. And while Tribe has its moments, they mostly belong to the churning More...
Prince – Purple Rain DVD
In 1984, it seemed as if Prince had simply willed Purple Rain into being, the cinematic manifestation of his full-to-bursting creativity, ambition and hubris. So the most instructive aspect of this two-disc 20th-anniversary More...
Prince – Musicology
See that word “Columbia” up there under the title of Prince’s new album? That’s an important word. Prince’s decision to hitch his wagon once again to a major label indicates a sea change More...
