1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

When Jack White quit the Go to launch his White Stripes, he was probably leery of pure nostalgia, since this Detroit group's only ambition is to pass for an obscure '60s garage band. Still, singer Bobby Harlow and company are very good at their craft, mixing cheesy psychedelic rave-ups and callow love songs to make a big, fun sound that requires no knowledge of history.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

With a gift for creating troubled, realistic characters, gloomy San Francisco songwriter John Vanderslice excels at evoking a simmering dread, and Emerald City may be his most unsettling work yet.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

What happens when one of the best SoCal punk bands to protest the God-fearing, warmongering Reagan '80s sticks around long enough to write about an even bigger mess?

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

Judging from his album titles, Ulrich Schnauss always seems to be leaving or long gone. The sounds matched the sentiment on the Berliner's first two releases, 2001's Far Away Trains Passing By and 2003's A Strangely Isolated Place -- gracefully melancholic electronica with too much soul to be relegated to sushi-restaurant background music.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

James Chapman's first long-player sounds like it was recorded the way Cybill Shepherd was filmed for the '80s TV show Moonlighting -- through gauzy cloth and serenely backlit.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

Login or Register to rate this item.

Still hoping Robert Pollard has another Bee Thousand in his dusty, song-filled attic?