Joshua Klein

The 101ers "Elgin Avenue Breakdown (Revisited)" Pop culture lore has it that punk came out of nowhere to raze the old establishment, when in fact acts such as The Clash...

"Hide and Seek" Fox, $29.98 WHO'S IN IT: Robert De Niro, Dakota Fanning, Famke Janssen. RECAP: Robert De Niro plays a tortured psychiatrist in this cliche thriller, saved by Dakota...

Teenage Fanclub "Man-Made" Back in 1992, Spin magazine named Teenage Fanclub's "Bandwagonesque" the best album of the year, ahead of more obvious contenders such as Nirvana's "Nevermind." Rolling Stone responded...

Saint Etienne "Tales from Turnpike Highway" Saint Etienne's relentless sophistication and English pop culture references have left the band a cult draw in the States, even if that cult rabidly...

Longwave "There's a Fire" New York's Longwave has toured non-stop since its first album to make a name for itself, but to keep that name, the band needed to put...

Dwight Yoakam "Blame the Vain" Yoakam helped inaugurate country's traditionalist movement years ago, and now that most of mainstream country is mired in arena rock trappings, the time seems right...

Annie "Anniemal" With her breathy, thin delivery, Annie Lillia Berge Strand (Annie for short) could be any anonymous European dance queen. But the hip Norwegian pop crush has bigger and...

The Dead 60s "The Dead 60s" Lately, every last corner of the UK post-punk scene has been mined by young bands searching for a new old sound--that's been the modus...

Billy Corgan "TheFutureEmbrace" Billy Corgan combines his interests in shoe-gazer music, electronica and new wave for this solo bow--his trademark guitars blurred until they resemble keyboards, but his distinctive vocal...

Redwalls "De Nova" It's ironic that Deerfield, Ill.'s great rock 'n' roll hopes the Redwalls have been tapped as the next big thing, considering so much of the disc sounds...