Reviews

Dylanesque singer-songwriter charts new route to pop greatness with two distinct and startling albums.

Lifeless second album coming soon to a thirtysomething TV drama soundtrack near you.

A 4-disc set containing Meet the Beatles, The Beatles Second Album, Something New, and Beatles '65.

The follow-up to 2001's All Is Dream.

Official release for GLP's immediate post-Buffalo work

Sometime bartender, midwife and reverend, O'Connor's true calling may lie as a remarkable interpreter of song. Though recent years have found her adding dewy vocal harmonies for Andrew Bird's Bowl Of Fire (and Mavis Staples), her solo debut is long overdue. A brace of impressive originals—"My Backyard", "Tonight"—are whispers of classic honky-tonk, but she truly shines on covers of James (Squirrel Nut Zippers) Mathus' "Bottoms" and "Nightingale", twisting each into the kind of lovelorn ballad Alison Krauss would kill for.

Rewarding diversion into Krautrock, plus bonus live CD

Incredible String Band banjoist wanders up the garden path

Bono and the boys reunite with Steve Lillywhite for that difficult 14th album

Brian Wilson And The Story Of Smile. David Leaf's documentary on the legend.