This Week In Music: 9/10-9/16

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Quasi: When the Going Gets Dark – mixed variety
Rocket From The Crypt: Paint As a Fragrance – quality introduction
Cabaret Voltaire: The Crackdown – dance variant
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Orange – flavorful blues
Mudhoney: Under a Billion Suns – sludgy grunge
Robert Pollard: We All Got Out of the Army – more meandering
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: No Old Guy Lo-Fi Cry – no go
Jon Brion: Paranorman Soundtrack – playful fun
It Was Made in Northeast Ohio Compilation – time capsule
Trixter: Trixter – catchy pop-metal
Juliana Hatfield: How to Walk Away – mature pop
Nuggets of American College Rock 1987: interesting archive
Sloan: Pretty Together – varied styles
The Twilight Singers: Live in Amsterdam, 11-28-06 – ripping live

This Week In Music: 7/9-7/15

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Peter Gabriel: Up – anti-commercial brilliance
Cabaret Voltaire: Code – dancy darkness
Yngwie Malmsteen: The Seventh Sign – expert wankery
Mudhoney: Since We’ve Become Translucent – slowed punk
Jetboy: Feel The Shake – barroom dirty
Mercury Rev: Snowflake Midnight – innovative soundscapes
Sloan: Parallel Play – some filler
David Usher: Strange Birds – melodically challenging
Pretty Boy Floyd: A Tale of Sex, Designer Drugs, and the Death of Rock n Roll EP – quick sleaze
Radio Birdman: Radios Appear – primitive beats
Sleater-Kinney: The Woods – psychedelic punk
Cinderella: Still Climbing – satisfying diversity
Butch Walker: Sycamore Meadows – intimately intense
Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome – peak Parliament
The Posies: Failure – uneven output
Saigon Kick: Devil in the Details – bizarre oddities

This Week In Music (4/30-5/6)

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

Redd Kross: Neurotica – kitsch pop
Ministry: Dark Side of the Spoon – auto pilot
Kix: Blow My Fuse – acceptably derivative
Rush: Feedback – uninspired retreads
Mudhoney: Here Comes Sickness – Best of BBC Recordings – raw bursts
Juliana Hatfield: Bed – quirky pop
Funkadelic: Hardcore Jollies – glorified demos
The Desert Sessions: Volumes 3 & 4 – true stoner
Robert Pollard: The Crawling Distance – psych-rock gems
The Jim Carroll Band: I Write Your Name – new-wave poetry
L.A. Guns: Cocked & Loaded – hair/glam classic
Medicine: Her Highness – blissed-out trippiness
Slaughter: Stick It to Ya – superior musicianship
Stereolab: Margerine Eclipse – groovy Frenchness
Survivor: Greatest Hits – montage heavy
Tindersticks: Can Our Love… – mellow weirdness
Monster Truck 005: Singles – indecipherable noise-rock

This Week In Music (3/19-3/25)

This week in music listening, featuring patent-pending two-word reviews:

For Love Not Lisa: The Lost Elephant – interesting afterthoughts
Drive Like Jehu: Drive Like Jehu – spikey hardcore
Fountains of Wayne: Fountains of Wayne – smart powerpop
Funkadelic: Funkadelic – missing songs
House of Heroes: House of Heroes – original emo
Mudhoney: Mudhoney – proto grunge
Peter Gabriel: Untitled 2 (Scratch) – less engaging
Ace Frehley: Ace Frehley – special spaceman