Joshua Klein

Talking Heads "Brick" Talking Heads' 2003 boxed set "Once in a Lifetime" was one of the most inconveniently overpackaged and pointless sets in recent memory. Anyone who wanted three discs...

Broken Social Scene "Broken Social Scene" Canada's "Broken Social Scene" (right) is an indie-rock blob that keeps expanding, sucking in more and more members. The group's self-titled third album credits...

My Morning Jacket "Z" The Louisville group's entire sound gets updated on its fourth album, with mixed results. The opener, "Wordless Chorus," is space rock that sounds like Neil Young...

Neil Young "Prairie Wind" Recorded in Nashville as Young was being treated for a brain aneurism, this disc shows the singer at his gentlest and most accessible--not unlike 1992's "Harvest...

Big Star "In Space" The last proper Big Star album was 1974's pioneering "Radio City." The creative forces of this lineup seem to be pulling in different directions. Original Big...

Elbow "Leaders of the Free World" Singer Guy Garvey and crew have mostly dropped the art-rock pretensions of their first two albums, offering something akin to funky sci-fi folk. There's...

The Band "A Musical History" While much of The Band's best leftovers found their way onto reissues of individual albums, this new boxed set--five CDs and a DVD--digs up a...

Devendra Banhart "Cripple Crow" King of the freaks and the furry face of the new folk movement, Devendra Banhart's proudly eccentric, so much so that he probably thinks it's the...

Wolf Parade "Apologies to the Queen Mary" With production by Modest Mouse's Isaac Brock and a recent tour with Arcade Fire, it's no shock that Canada's Wolf Parade comes off...

Ali Farka Toure & Toumani Diabate "In the Heart of the Moon" Mali's Ali Farka Toure has long been an easy entree into African music, given the close similarity of...