With his new album "Get Guilty" under the guise of A.C. Newman, Carl Newman takes a break from his main gig with The New Pornographers. Although it's easy to make a statement like none of the songs on the album would sound out of place on a New Pornographers album, but that actually wouldn't be true...

Man, I love it when a band brings the music! Not just the hard driving rhythms, the catchy melodies, or the dynamic conveyance of emotion through dramatic time changes. I love it when a band brings the music with pure passion, an edgy resentment for the status quo, and a bag full of fun! Water is Ri...

Dex’s "Flat Duo Jets", the original kings of stripped down lo-fi 1950’s guitar and drums, disbanded a decade ago and “The White Stripes� and “The Black Keys� might have thought the two man band crown was up for grabs but Dex’s back with a fuller if mellower sound on his new disc "Ruins...

I don't remember when I first heard that Joyce DiDonato was planning a Handel CD. I do know that it was a very, very long time ago, and that I have been waiting for it ever since. This sort of anticipation cuts both ways. Theoretically, the reward is sweetened by its having been so long withheld...

I was looking through the sports CDs at Book-Off a few weeks ago and came across this amazing one... TOKYO BIG6 ~Sounds of 神宮�場 �京六大学野�編~ (Tokyo Big 6 ~Sounds of Jingu Stadium Tokyo Big Six Baseball League~ link to amazon.co.jp in Japanese) Basically, this is a CD of the marc...

Man, this one caught me off guard. I'd heard of Boston's Street Dogs before. Seen some discs lying around somewhere, but never had the chance to have my heart ignited by 2,400 lbs of Bostonian raving Irish dynamite before. With my chest wall exploding in 90 different directions, bursting from the Do...

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Allegro (1947) is one of the most important and historic musicals that most people have never heard of. It was R&H's third show, after Oklahoma and Carousel , and came out shortly after their only musical written directly for the movies, "State Fair,&...

Ever since Paul Collins joined us on the Ripple Radio Show, we've just been buzzing about powerpop. Nothing quite like the instant pick-me-up of some big chords, banging drums, all wrapped up in a song more infectious than the SARS virus. So, along those lines, we're bringing you another cavernously...

Most loyal waveriders will already know how I feel about this monstrous platter of devastating old school metal. The anticipation had all been snatched away the moment I included this disc on our year end Best of Heavy Rock List. What may surprise you, however, is how this juicy disc made it onto th...

Although Spring Awakening recently closed on Broadway, it was certainly one of the more interesting and ambitious shows to tread the boards over the last few seasons. Some found it overly depressing and pretentious, but there was no denying the power of the story, the dynamism of Michael Mayer's...