This Week In Music: 6/4-6/10

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

Gaza Strippers: From the Desk of Dr. Freepill – full throttle
Samiam: Whatever’s Got You Down – middle road
Matthew Sweet: Sunshine Lies – classic Sweet
Sleater Kinney: One Beat – strong chorus’
Redd Kross: Show World – lost treasure
Tindersticks: Curtains – dark richness
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime – heady brilliance
Stereolab: Not Music – catchy kitsch
Soul Asylum: Hang Time – energetic ‘Mats-lite
Public Image Ltd.: This Is PiL – welcome return
Garbage: Not Your Kind Of People – moderately successful
Hot Snakes: Suicide Invoice – punk gem
Watershed: Twister – midwestern power-pop
Alive: No Token Vol. 3 compilation – strong diversity

This Week In Music (4/23-4/29)

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

Radio 4: Gotham! – uneven dancepunk
Pete Townshend: Deep End Live! – interesting takes
Superchunk: Cup of Sand – mixed bag
Sloan: The Double Cross – more awesomeness
Genesis: Foxtrot – still cooking
Samiam: Astray – melodic punk
Tiara: B-Sides & Rarities – unknown gems
Hot Snakes: Automatic Midnight – angular anger
The Go! Team: Thunder, Lightning, Strike – unabashed fun
The Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips and Heady Fwends – mostly forgettable
Jack White: Blunderbuss – missing riffs
The War On Drugs: Future Weather EP – interesting grooves
Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments: Bait & Switch – DIY punk
Brad: United We Stand – strong effort
Nathan Westwood: Piano Bed – delicate charms
Winger: In the Heart of the Young – poppy metal
Quiet Riot: Condition Critical – follow-up failure
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: Mojo – bluesier Petty
Moviola: The Year You Were Born – jangly lo-fi
Counting Crows: Underwater Sunshine (or what we did on our summer vacation) – dull covers
Struck By Lightning: True Predation – predictably screamy
Torche: Harmonicraft – blazing brilliance