Rare Birds
Canada's Nihilistic Spasm Band and Amsterdam's Clusone 3 span the world of song-based improv on new releases. [05-17-99]
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Mixed Media
Squarepusher's new "Music Is Rotted One Note" is as close to a collective improvisation as one person is capable of recording on his own. [12-14-98]
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Garageland
Rhino Records has reissued the classic 1972 garage-rock compilation "Nuggets" -- reminding us of every band from Nazz to the Barbarians. [10-26-98]
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Grrrl Talk
Former Bikini Killer Kethleen Hanna reinvents herself as Julie Ruin and vows to make feminism pay off. [09-28-98]
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Heavy Funk
Two double-CD compilations revive funk-king James Brown's career after he'd left the vanguard but before he became a self-parody. [07-13-98]
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Stand They Did
There is a black country tradition, and country music crosses the boundaries associated with it more easily than you'd think. [06-15-98]
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Masked Man
Singer/songwriter Momus is coming out of obscurity and touring the US. [03-02-98]
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The "Naked" Truth
If you own the entire Ben Folds Five discography up to this point, almost nothing on "Naked Baby Photos" will be new to you. [01-12-98]
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The Big Noises of Early '98
"Long-awaited" will be the term you'll hear used to describe major albums most often in 1998. [01-05-98]
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Dialectical Immaterialism
Have Chumbawamba's politics shriveled in the limelight? [12-08-97]
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Bush League
Bush's "Deconstructed" doesn't work as rock, it doesn't work as dance music, and it especially doesn't work as remixes. [11-24-97]
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