Mike also presents capsule reviews of releases by The Quarter After, The Jessica Fletchers, A Salute to Jawbox, Shout Out Louds, Carolyn Mark, Original Cast Recording-Hillbilly Antigone, The Lucksmiths, Donovan's Brain, P. Hux, The Afternoons, Smashing Orange, Dwight Yoakum and Snow and Voices. Mike also has his CD-R of the Month.

Gary Glauber reviews the latest from David Mead, Fountains of Wayne, Fran Smith, Jr., The Cyclones and The Heavenly States.

Michael Lynch contributes a review of The Beatles: The Capitol Albums, Volume One.

Gary Pig Gold reviews the latest from Steve Kilpatrick.


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Old Top Ten Lists

by Mike Bennett

I was digging through some old papers over the weekend. And I found a bunch of musical memories. Old set lists from bands. A list of shows I saw in the summer of 1986. Old college radio station playlists. And two lists of Top 20 albums of the year. Make that four or five, but two from the ‘80s, when I still sent lists to my old radio station for the year end poll.
So how do these lists stack up? Do I have anything to be embarrassed about? Let's take a look. My 1986 Top 20 started pretty well:

1. The Pogues – Rum, Sodomy And The Lash
2. Beastie Boys – Licensed To Ill
3. The Minutemen – Three Way Tie (For Last)
4. Stan Ridgway...

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So Much Music, So Little Time

by Kevin Mathews

Are there only six more months left in 2005? Where does the time go? Look at me already in my mid-forties and I don't feel like a day over 25! Where did the years go? For me, my passion for rock & pop music keeps me young - it keeps me relevant. That's why I believe in pursuing new music constantly. Unlike say, my darling wife, who prefers to live in a musical bubble (i.e. her teenage years) so her car radio is perpetually tuned to the oldies station. Now I love music made in the 70s but I would not want to stay in that place all the time. I mean, five decades of rock to choose from and even more exciting music being released...

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Further Observations From a Jangly Musical Fan

by Eric Sorensen

When it rains it pours! Not the kind of precipitation that comes from the sky, but a surfeit of excellent pop discs that made June the banner month for 2005! And not just a bounty of hum-along pop discs, mind you … but a crop of new releases that are overflowing with jangly, chiming and ringing guitar riffs! There were so many terrific new jangly tunes this month that "Song of the Month" honors will have to be shared by a number of deserving songs. Without further delay, here are the jingly-jangly discs and songs that are keeping me entertained while the temperatures rise and the mid-Atlantic drought continues:

The Quarter After's brilliant self-titled...

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The World is Round: Little Things, Like Mockingbirds

by Alan Haber

I've written before about the music of life, about how events, no matter how seemingly trivial, can affect you like a song with a good, solid hook. During these lazy, hazy, crazy days of summer, my mind is apt to wander, and frequently it pulls up a long-forgotten memory like the one I'm going to relate to you now, a real gas.

Back when I was working in New York City, at one point my office was a couple of blocks from Grand Central Station. There was a Barnes and Noble bookstore just outside one of the entrances; being a book guy, I would often spend my lunch hours...

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