Brad Webber

Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off (Epic) (STAR)(STAR) The second entree in Front 242's 1993 musical menu forges no thematic link to last summer's "06:21:03:11 Up Evil," save the Belgian duo's trademark...

Janet Planet: Who Can Say (India). Janet Lynn Heimerman-Janet Planet when she takes the stage at Brandy's Lounge in the Milwaukee suburb of Wauwatosa, Wis.-belts out a solid repertoire of...

Richard Barone Clouds Over Eden (Mesa) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Like his pal Jules Shear, ex-Bongos singer Richard Barone is an exponent of a thriving Greenwich Village sound. Resonant lyricism prods at the...

The Connells Ring (TVT) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) This North Carolina college band is the musical cornerstone of TVT Records, a label better known for its reissues of old television tunes. The ensemble's...

Ramsey Lewis: Sky Islands (GRP). Pianist Ramsey Lewis bolstered the Chicago jazz scene in the '60s with his trio, scoring with "The In Crowd" and the looney "Hang on Sloopy."...

Jeannie Tanner: Any Time Any Where (JNM). Singer and multi-instrumentalist Jeannie Tanner roars with the confidence of a pop-music diva. Spunky and street-smart, she peddles somewhat pedestrian lyrics (most self-penned...

Curve Cuckoo (Virgin) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) On "Cuckoo," Curve's second full-length release, Toni Halliday delivers a feminist manifesto on the title song, cooing "my mind was bigger than world, my choice was...

Ocean Blue Beneath the Rhythm and Sound (Sire) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) To find contemporaries of Echo & The Bunnymen you needn't cross the Atlantic. With its third LP, Hershey, Pa., quartet the...

Concrete Blonde Mexican Moon (Capitol) (STAR)(STAR)(STAR) Religion is the cornerstone of Concrete Blonde's "Mexican Moon," and the concept album lashes along angrily with such titles as "Jonestown" and "Jesus Forgive...

The Devlins Drift (Capitol) (STAR) 1/2 Dublin-based brothers Colin and Peter Devlin-lead vocalist and strings czar, respectively, in the band plugging their surname-try too hard to be like U2 and...