Joshua Klein

The Frames Burn the Maps For years, Ireland's The Frames have been hailed as the next big thing, but the group--more Pixies than Pogues--hasn't yet left much of a mark...

Blur guitarist Graham Coxon's departure demonstrated that singer Damon Alburn couldn't quite carry the weight of the band on his own. Coxon's subsequent solo career continues to show that he...

As any number of child performers will tell you, hitting it big before you're out of high school isn't all it's cracked up to be. Witness country prodigy LeAnn Rimes,...

As much as critics and music fans clamor for originality, the truth is that frequently neither know what to do with it once they hear it. Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird is...

Super Furry Animals Songbook: The Singles Vol. 1 Especially in recent years, Super Furry Animals have proven to be exemplary album artists, each disc a cohesive start-to-finish tour de force....

Mercury Rev The Secret Migration Once the Flaming Lips' even less-disciplined sister band, Mercury Rev has grown into one of the most redoubtable producers of mysterious and beautiful sounds, part...

Magnolia Electric Co. Trials & Errors Jason Molina's low-key indie folk earned him a fan base, but it wasn't until he changed his band's name from Songs: Ohia to Magnolia...

Marianne Faithfull Before the Poison Marianne Faithfull's famous friends and infamous past means she'll always be painted as the grand dame of darkness and debauchery. Yet Faithfull doesn't shy away...

The Waifs A Brief History ... Live Maybe it's their isolated Western Australia stomping grounds, but the Waifs' music boasts a lonely campfire quality even the best wandering raconteurs rarely...

The Fiery Furnaces "EP" Last year's weird, whimsical "Blueberry Boat" made the Fiery Furnaces both the toast of the indie set and the target of an inevitable backlash. To the...