November/December 2005


Features
Where the Green Herb Grows
Stevie Wonder
Capote
Black Dice
Dandy Warhols
Nada Surf with Say Hi to Your Mom

Dolly Parton
Freddy Fender and Flaco Jimenez

John Mayer
Broken Social Scene w/ Feist
Green Day
t.A.T.u.
Ornette Coleman
Hip Hop Highlights


Interviews
Esinchill and King Beef
John Fogerty
Paula Frazer

Alex Cuba
Meshuggah

Columns
Homegrown: Sleep in Fame
The Fatty: Katana-Ya Ramen

Lost and Found #6: Combat Rock
The Rant: The Spirituality of Commerce
Lost and Found #7: The Residents


CD Reviews

Cage - Hell's Winter
Slug and Murs - Felt 2: A Tribute to Lisa Bonet

Colossus - West Oaktown

1349 - Hellfire

Dismember - Massive Killing Capacity

Hate Eternal - I, Monarch

Biff Rose - The Thorn in Mrs. Rose's Side / Children of Light

Charo - Charo and Guitar

Richie Cole and the Alto Madness Orchestra - Back on Top

Aiden - Nightmare Anatomy

The Briefs - Steal Your Heart

The Tossers - The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Hot Rod Girls Save the World

Aerosmith - Rocking the Joint

(International) Noise Conspiracy - Armed Love

The Rakes - Retreat
Buddy Guy - Bring 'Em In
Great Big Sea - The Hard and the Easy
Lightning Bolt - Hypermagic Mountain
Chris Pierce - Static Trampoline
The Blasters - 4-11-44
The Juliana Theory - Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat
The Tom Russell Band - Raw Vision
They Might Be Giants - They Got Lost
Readyville - Readyville
Pelusa - Where You Were Before
Alex Budman and the Contemporary Jazz Orchestra - Instruments of Mass Pleasure

Conrad Herwig - Obligation

Herlin Riley - Cream of the Crescent

Cannonball Adderley - Money in the Pocket, Domination

David Axelrod - The Edge: David Axelrod at Capitol Records 1966-1970

Jazzanova - Blue Note Trip

Nancy Wilson - Guess Who I Saw Today: Nancy WIlson Sings Songs of Lost Love; Save Your Love For Me: Nancy Wilson Sings the Great Blues Ballad

Prince Far I - Silver & Gold 1973-1979
Sound of the World
Wawali Bonane - Resolve
Plena Libre - Evolucion
Inde-Rajasthan - Musiciens Profesonelles Populaires
Rough Guide to the Balkan Gypsies

Bento - Absent Without Leave
CocoRosie - Noah's Ark
Headlights - The Enemies EP
Dirty Three - Cinder
Daby Balde - Introducing Daby Balde
David Krakauer & Socalled With Klezmer Madness! - Bubbemeises: Lies My Gramma Told Me
Abdel Gadir Salim & Emmanuel Jal - Ceasefire
Monguito - Lassissi Presente: Monguito El Unico in Curacao
Ion Petre Stoican - Romania (Songs From A Bygone Age Vol. 1)
Heptones - Unreleased Night Food & Rare Black Ark Sessions

DVD Reviews  
The Dick Cavett Show: Ray Charles Collection/John & Yoko Collection
The X-Files: Colonization

The Best of Art Linkletter's Kids Say the Darndest Things

Layer Cake

Kingdom of Heaven

An Angel at My Table

The Wages of Fear

Suicide Girls: The First Tour

Me and You and Everyone We Know

Nobody Knows/Mad Hot Ballroom
The Warriors
The Carter Family
The Sixties: The Years that Shaped a Generation
Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst
Heights

Arrested Development: Season Two
The Holy Girl
Sun Ra: Live at the Palomino / East and West Berlin
New Order: ITEM

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock
War of the Worlds
Fantastic Four
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Lars von Triers The Kingdom: Series One
The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill
The Sound of Music
Lady Sings the Blues
Festival!
Cream: Farewell Concert / Royal Albert Hall
Hammett

The Beat That My Heart Skipped
Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics
George Harrison & Friends: The Concert for Bangladesh
Best of the Beatles
Buddy Boy