August 2005

Features
75 Degrees, the Last Great Hip Hop Band
High Sierra 2005
Beck Live in SF
Thomas Mapfumo, Download Only
Superman and Metropolis
Tracy and the Plastics at the Bottom of the Hill
The Resurrection of Son Volt
The Marvelous Missy Elliott
Willie Nelson melds country and reggae
Remembering Off the Wall
Bonnaroo 2005
BFD 2005

Interviews

2 School Teachers and the DJ Project
Dope Game
Live 105's Aaron Axelson

Columns

Homegrown: The Jim Yoshii Pile-Up
Lost and Found #4: The New Tweedy Brothers
The Rant: The Rolling Stones and You
Lost and Found #3: Screaming Lord Sutch
The Rant: Opera Stars Singing Jazz

CD Reviews
Kreem & Gulzar - Paheli Soundtrack
Bar Bhangra
Nortec Collective - Tijuana Sessions Vol. 3
Compay Segundo - El Compadre Again
Out of Cuba - Latina American Music Takes Africa by Storm
Salif Keita & Kante Manfila - The Lost Album
Baby Jaymes - Ghetto Retro
Murs (and various artists) - Walk Like A Man DVD+CD
The Three Melancholy Gypsys - Grand Caravan to the Rim of the World
Buckshot & 9th Wonder - Chemistry
Boom Bap Project - Reprogram
Public Enemy - Rebirth of a Nation
Brand New Sin - Recipe For Disaster
Horna - Envaatnags Eflos Solf Essgantaavne
Impaled Nazarene - Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces
Bering Strait - Pages

Blue Highway - Marbletown
Hot Apple Pie - Hot Apple Pie
Shooglenifty - Radical Mestizo
Bill Charlap – Bill Charlap Plays George Gershwin: The American Soul
Wynton Marsalis – Amongst The People: Live At The House Of Tribes
Euge Groove - Just Feels Right
Kelley Johnson - Music is the Magic
Gerald Cannon - Gerald Cannon
Jamie Saft Trio - Astaroth: Book of Angels Vol 1.
Tommy Flanagan Trio - Montreaux '77
Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker - Town Hall, NYC June 22, 1945
Jimmie Dale Gilmore - Come on Back

John Doyle - Wayward Son

 

DVD Reviews  
Hoxsey: When Healing Becomes A Crime
Downfall/ Gray Matter/ Gunner Palace
John Cleese’s Wine For The Confused
Cry-Baby
Kung-Fu Hustle
The X-Files Mythology, Volume 2: Black Oil
The Twilight Zone, The Definitive Edition: Season 2

Jaws: 30th Anniversary Edition
Errol Morris’ First Person
The Upside Of Anger
Crazed Fruit/ Sabu
The Bushido Blade
Never Let Go/ The Naked Truth/ What’s New Pussycat?/ The Blockhouse
House Of Bamboo/ Panic In The Streets/ Hustle/ Wire In The Blood: The Complete First Season
Chicago Blues Reunion - Buried Alive In The Blues
A Night In Havana: Dizzy Gillespie In Cuba
X: Live In Los Angeles
The Flaming Lips - The Fearless Freaks
Femi Kuti - Live At The Shrine
MC5 - Kick Out The Jams
The Spencer Davis Group - Gimme Some Lovin’