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Burning Hearts

Into the Wilderness

(Shelflife)   www.shelflife.com   Fan s of this terrific Finnish band were probably hoping for more than a four song EP, but hey, four is better than none. It has been two years sinc more...

Marianne Faithfull

Horses and High Heels

(Naïve Records)   www.mariannefaithfull.org.uk   Marianne Faithfull's 1979 Broken English may be as influential an album to come out of Britain's punk revolution as any - and it more...

The Modeens

Get With The Times EP

(Zobal Global)   www.themodeens.com   Roll over, Dick Taylor, and tell Gerry Roslie the news. Straight outta Tucson, by way of stints in NYC and L.A., are The Modeens, whose moderne more...

Juno Reactor

Inside The Reactor

(Metropolis)   www.metropolis-records.com   Most remix albums are mixed bags of hit and misses. Some remixes fail to capture the essence of the original track while others are noisy, more...

Ugly Stick

Pick Up the Hatchet

(Hovercraft)   www.hovercraftpdx.com   If you haven't heard of this band hailing from tiny Delaware, Ohio don't worry, hardly anyone else outside of their home state did either. But more...

Velvet Monkeys

Everything is Right

(Instant Mayhem)   www.instantmayhem.com   Before guitarist Don Fleming became the producer du jour for early ‘90s alt.rockers, not to mention the leader of his own post-Nirv more...

Father's Children

Who's Gonna Save The World

(Numero Group)   www.numerogroup.com   Collectors are well-acquainted with the sheer thrill of discovery that Chicago's Numero Group has provided in its eight-year existence; with it more...

Long Ryders

Native Sons: Deluxe Reissue

(Prima)   www.sidgriffin.com   Although common wisdom has typically pegged the Long Ryders - who formed in L.A. in '82 and during their initial five-year tenure operated at the foref more...

Eberhard Schoener

Flashback

(MIG)   http://www.mig-music.de   German keyboardist/composer Eberhard Schoener already had two decade's worth of recordings and work in classical music behind him when he released F more...

Man Man

Life Fantastic

(Anti-)   www.anti.com   Philadelphia's Man Man have spent the better part of the decade and its three principle lo-lo-fi albums jumping from Zappa to Beefheart to Sun Ra and back ag more...


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