This Week In Music: 9/17-9/23

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

Radio 4: Stealing of a Nation – average dancepunk
Ministry: The Last Sucker – pummeling rhythms
FireHouse: Hold Your Fire – plentiful riffs
ZZ Top: La Futura – couple gems
Vandenberg: Vandenberg – quality debut
Rush: Hemispheres – difficult ambition
Stereolab: Refried Ectoplasm (Switched on Vol. 2) – mixed bag
Superdrag: The Fabulous 8-Track Sound of Superdrag – urgent rock
Ben Folds Five: The Sound Of The Life Of The Mind – welcome return
Robert Pollard With Doug Gillard: Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department – matured songwriting
Minus The Bear: Infinity Overhead – better Bear

This Week In Music: 6/25-7/1

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

Butch Walker: Rise & Fall of Butch Walker & The Let’s-Go-Out-Tonites – seventies-ish pop
Van Duren: Idiot Optimism – seventies-ish singer/songwriterism
Pete Townshend: The Iron Man: A Musical – huge mistake
Robert Pollard: Lord of the Birdcage – poetic interpretations
Vandenberg: Heading for a Storm – lightweight metal
Throwing Muses: Throwing Muses – surprising rock
Ryan Smith: Waiting – midwestern PostalService-esque
Rush: Grace Under Pressure – electronic overload
Dead Can Dance: Anastasis – moody darkness
Royal Thunder: Cvi – soulful metal
Genesis: Genesis – Collins best