Mike Bennett reviews the latest from The Bees, Zucchero, Joy Zipper, A Cars Tribute, Outrageous Cherry and Alva Star. Mike also presents capsule reviews of releases by The Marlboro Chorus, Rich Serafin, Statuesque, Prizeapart, The O.A.O.T.'s, Men In Fur, Humbert, Boyracer, Your Team Ring and The Dutch Elms. Mike also has his CD-R of the Month.

Gary Glauber reviews the latest from Steve Barton, Built Like Alaska, Grenadier, Jude Johnstone, A Cars Tribute, Tim Cullen and The Dotted Line.

Kurt Sampsel provides us with his Top Ten Garage/Psychedelic Reissues of 2004.

James Baumann reviews the latest from Pernice Brothers, Magnapop, The Mendoza Line and Watershed. John Borack reviews Various Artists: This is Rock 'n' Roll Radio, Volume 1. We also have a Best of 2004 list from Bill Klutho.

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Another Chapter From My Unpublished Rolling Stones Book

by Michael Lynch

Here in Fufkin last October, I featured a chapter from my unpublished Rolling Stones book, written for the most part in 1994. This book would have taken an album by album look at the band (through 1970's Get Yer Ya Yas Out), discussing each track separately and giving any and all information there was to give about it. Unable to raise publishers' interest, I simply stored the project on a floppy and filed it away for years.

Well, when I presented a chapter here concerning their first album, England's Newest Hitmakers - The Rolling Stones, I said that if I received positive feedback, I'd someday present another chapter. Well, I did indeed receive some warm comments, which I thank you all for...so, in keeping my promise, here is the intended chapter on the second American Rolling Stones album, 12X5, released on London Records in October 1964.

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Geek Factor: Obscure Great Recordings: Lost in the Grooves by Kim Cooper and David Smay

by Mike Bennett

How many of you are unmitigated music geeks? A person for whom each obscure album that gets a glimmer of praise becomes a new holy grail, becomes an excuse (not that you need one, really) to go to every second hand shop within a 150 mile radius or endlessly surf the net, because you MUST have this slab of bliss? More importantly, you...

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So Much Music, So Little Time

by Kevin Mathews

No time to chat…extremely late with this column, with the "so little time" aspect catching up with me, so this one's gonna be shorter than usual. Though, I've heard that size isn't everything…

Blurb-O-Rama: The Next Generation

Third Dimension Permanent Holiday (Parasol)
This Swedish quartet does a convincing approximation of post-90s British rock. You know, where the melodies are ethereal, the instrumentation electronic and the beat is always danceable. Thus, the catchy "Mondaymachine" recalls Blur, the melancholy...

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Further Observations From a Jangly Musical Fan

by Eric Sorensen

January was a month of climate extremes - ranging from the mid-60s in the early part of the month to a succession of snowstorms at the end of the month. The latter weather circumstances certainly made me appreciate the stack of new discs next to my home stereo. In addition, I was able to attend two very different music shows this past month. My favorite Tempe, Arizona-based band, the Gin Blossoms, played to a 650-person crowd at the State Theater. Lead singer Robin Wilson introduced several new numbers and mentioned a forthcoming album (I love this band, but I'll believe in a new album when I see it!) The audience sang along to every tune from their New Miserable Experience album and the handful...

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Radio, Schmadio Part Four: A Shameful Curveball

by Alan Haber

I was all set to get going on a piece talking about the two satellite radio providers, XM and Sirius, when the following bit of news came across my desk. It is news that will knock your socks off, folks-news that will further muddy the path for present and future broadcasters.

According to the Associated Press, and as reported in the Washington Post Express, there are House and Senate bills pending that, if passed, could raise the maximum indecency fines from $32,500 to up to the whopping, obscene figure of $500,000. That's half-a-million dollars for...

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Remember the Cheepskates?

by Gary Pig Gold

I certainly do. In particular the first time I ever saw them perform, on the stage of some otherwise nondescript club in Hoboken circa 1989. They brazenly encored that fitful, fateful night with a powerfully popping rendition of Whitney Houston's "How Will I Know" (or was it some ABBAsong?), and it was there and then I fully realized there was more - much more - going on here than merely met the ear.

Indeed...

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