Fountains of Wayne, 'Out of State Plates' (Virgin)
By Keith Harris 07.19.05 3:00 AM
Glib little show-offs that they are, power-pop whizzes Adam Schlesinger and Chris Collingwood surround the expected covers (a moody version of Britney's "...Baby One More Time") and novelties (the self-explanatory "I Want an Alien for Christmas") on their rare-and-unreleased two-disc compilation with smart original leftovers, many of which meet melodic expectations with thri
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System of a Down, 'Mezmerize' (American/Columbia)
The best Armenian-American Gypsy-riffing pinko-metal band ever!
By Keith Harris 07.07.05 3:00 AM
System of a Down's breakthrough album, Toxicity, hit stores on September 4, 2001, and within eight days, the "selfrighteous suicide" mentioned on hit single "Chop Suey!" had a meaning the band never could've anticipated.
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Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
By Keith Harris 08.31.04 3:00 AM
Steve Earle
The Revolution Starts
Now
Artemis
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David Banner, 'Mississippi: The Screwed and Chopped Album', 'MTA2: Baptized in Holy Water' (SRC/Universal)
Southern-rap don gets slow and low(brow).
By Keith Harris 04.13.04 3:00 AM
David Banner is hardly the first college kid to wallow in ugliness as a tribute to his humble upbringing. But few have crafted so fond and foul a grotesquerie as the University of Maryland grad student’s 2003 debut, Mississippi: The Album.
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Iggy Pop, 'Skull Ring' (Virgin) ; David Bowie, 'Reality' (Columbia)
Punk uncles avoid embarrassing selves, us.
By Keith Harris 11.10.03 4:00 AM
Iggy Pop may be a perpetually writhing mass of sinew onstage, but no one has ever accused him of busting his ass in the studio.That's not entirely a bad thing -- 1999's gruesomely introspective, jazz-inflected Avenue B proved that he could be less interesting when he put his back into it than when he didn't try at all.
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